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By: Camille Pfister With a new conference came a new schedule, school, and guide book. The 2017 District Youth & Government Conference was moved from Austin High School to Hays High School, and this move required a new guide book. This 26-page book was filled with the large scale schedule, [...]

By: Camille Pfister Kayla Frazier, a junior at Cedar Park High School student, proposed a bill to remove all taxes on feminine hygiene products. Ultimately the bill passed. According to “The ‘tampon tax,’ explained,” published by The Washington Post, 43 out of 50 states tax tampons and other feminine hygiene [...]

By Athena McCloud Texas Youth and Government legislation at the district conference passed the bill for the regulation of service animals by Deziree Guerra, Junior at Sam Houston High School.   The bill was passed by the entire committee with only few revisions. The bill would create a regulation that [...]

By Caden Zeigler During the 2017 Youth and Government District Conference, several students recounted interesting and controversial bills that were proposed. Not all of these bills were centered around current events, but some were rather methods of inspiring thoughtful and sometimes comedic debate. “The most interesting bill I’ve seen was [...]

By: Nettie Comerford Freshmen Maria Noonan, Annabel Glass, and Angelica Monrreal from the Ann Richards School Delegation proposed a bill to provide better mental health services to veterans that passed unanimously in the State Affairs forum this afternoon. The bill addresses the need to better educate health professionals in the [...]

By: Aubrey Burgess Jesse Williams, junior, who is part of the Leander High School Delegation, proposed bill 129 which argued that regulations need to be placed on opioid prescriptions in Texas. The bill was not passed. Bill 129 states, “a committee of physicians and pharmacists will oversee the prescribing [...]

By Ben Cousins Today a bill proposed by Brandon Adams was passed proposing that student-athletes should be paid for playing at a collegiate level. In this bill, public and private schools would be required to pay their athletes or risk losing five percent of the federal funding. The act shall [...]

By Brianna Taylor Upon presenting her bill, representative Kayla Frazier from the Cedar Park delegation is well aware of the discomfort in the room. The shifting eyes, the shuffling feet, and the occasional clearing of the throat are all things she is used to witnessing when speaking about her proposal. [...]

By: Chase Wilson With its tumultuous history since its establishment in the early 1960’s, affirmative action has been both praised and attacked as an answer to the racial injustice and inequality that persisted despite civil war efforts and constitutional guarantees throughout our history. On Saturday, Kianna Anderson, a delegate from [...]

By Lightner Callahan Senior Ashleigh McCoy proposed a bill that would provide Texas residents with free community college tuition. Although there was significant opposition, the bill was passed. McCoy’s bill centers around a common aspect of any college - the finances. She has proposed a bill that requires free community [...]

By Nettie Comerford Authors Michael Vasquez (12) and Elena Perales (12) proposed a bill titled War on Drugs this morning at the Texas Youth and Government District competition, that was passed in the State of Affairs forum. Vasquez and Perales propose to end the War on Drugs and develop educational [...]

By Caden Zeigler Today, Nov. 11th, senior Julianna Castillo proposed the bill, “A Resolution to Protect Illegal Victims of Human Trafficking,” which passed and intends to assist the victims of human trafficking with legal aid. “There are… over 600 thousand illegal immigrants being smuggled over the border and they are [...]