Posted on 05/14/2005 12:57:19 PM PDT by sinkspur
AUSTIN - Texas' cheerleading reform bill -- the one lampooned on late-night comedy shows as governmental lunacy -- appears to be benched for good in the state Senate, with nary a yell or a jump.
The measure was approved in the Texas House on May 3, with supportive lawmakers waving pompoms as the bill moved to the Senate's Education Committee, where the cheering abruptly stopped.
"We will not be hearing it," committee chairwoman Sen. Florence Shapiro said Friday.
"We have some very important work to do in the next two weeks, and that's not one of them," said Shapiro, R-Plano.
Rather than being a "mandate from the state," she said, the problem of students performing suggestive acts should be addressed by parents and school districts. Nicknamed the "booty bill," the proposal would have given the state and school districts more power to punish drill teams, dance groups and cheerleading squads who, during school-sponsored events, performed sexually suggestive acts and dressed too provocatively.
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Hopefully the Texas legislature will still take action on the "Drugstore Cowboy" bill. That is, tourists who buy those 10-gallon hats and $100 cowboy boots and Levis and think they are thus "authentic cowboys" should be heavily fined.
Bump once.
Thanks. I was intending to post this from the Austin paper, but you have it here.
This was a stupid bill to start with, and this "morality legislature" is the biggest waste of taxes we have had in years.
LOL me too! I couldn't WAIT to see what all those old men came up with.
I think it was more than one bump that had those old farts worried.
Haha..........I wanted to see some of those folks "do" the moves on tv so we would be SURE which ones were prohibited............
I may look at the Austin American's website and see it a certain editorial is online. It cracked me up this morning. If it's there, I'll post it on FR.
Dang, so much for my future as a cheerleader cop.
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