Good morning, everyone.

The time is now 10.09 a.m.

on August 4th, 2026, and we will call this meeting of our government of our governmental relations committee to order.

Madam Clerking, please call the roll.

Councilmember Mungia.

Councilmember Alderete Gavito.

Councilmember Mesa Gonzalez.

Councilmember Spears.

Councilmember McKee Rodriguez.

Sorry.

Chair, we have quorum.

Wonderful, thank you.

Well, welcome back from July Recess and super excited for our first IGR committee meeting.

It's going to be a very fruitful first meeting and hopefully a fruitful series of meetings until we pass a wonderful legislative package.

I'll turn it over to Sally.

Sally's gonna give our presentation.

This is our first draft of the state program.

So we are seeking your input on what we're missing, what you'd like to see differently.

Uh and then she'll come back a month from now with uh more refined one for consideration.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jeff.

Good morning, Chairman and Council Committee members.

Let's get started.

Uh, my presentation today is a briefing on the development of the 90th state legislative program.

As you may recall, in my June council meeting, I provided an update on the development of the program.

Um this process uh undertakes uh several months that the GA team and COSA departments and community stakeholders are involved in uh throughout the course of a multi-month process.

That leads us to today.

This is the first opportunity that we will have to be able to hear some feedback from this committee.

Uh please know that this is the first of uh several opportunities that we want to make sure and have with you to be able to get your feedback on the development of the program and what we have so far with these uh recommendations.

Uh by way of background, as you know, the Texas House of Representatives is comprised of 150 members, and the speaker presides over the House.

On the Texas Senate side, there are 31 senators, and the lieutenant governor presides over the Senate.

There are 140 days included in the regular session, and that session begins January 2027.

As you can see here, we are anticipating and tracking that there will be a pivot in the composition of the new legislature in 2027.

We anticipate that election day on November 3rd will bring a turnover in many of the seats as you see here.

Anticipated 24 plus on the House side.

Two of those are part of the San Antonio delegation, and five or more uh senators on the Senate side.

Um, this will eventually reconcile, and we will be closing closely tracking um if any of these members or where the shifts will happen in the membership for the committees of uh the individual uh critical committees that we uh monitor closely as well as our community partners, uh cities and TML to determine the chairmanships uh so that we're able to not just uh track them but also reach out, engage and build those relationships.

Here are a few 90th ledge key dates, as I shared uh in June.

We're working towards the November 9th initiation of bill filing.

This is the opportunity for us to be able to see um if all the discussions during the interim session will materialize into proposed bills and legislation that the members will begin filing, working towards January 12th, the beginning of uh the 90th regular session, and members are able to file those bills through March 12.

So we always look forward to that deadline because that gives us a very clear picture as to all the bills that we will be tracking.

And if you recall from my past presentations, we're looking upwards of eight, nine, maybe even ten thousand bills filed during the regular session.

So we're we're gonna have our hands full again.

No uh anticipated um uh clearer paths for large urban cities or cities uh uh across the spectrum.

We anticipate that there will be uh much of the same as we've seen in the last several sessions as far as a cities having to play um hardball in high level of defense.

Um, the end of the regular session ends May 31st, and the governor has the opportunity to veto any bills through June 20th.

Here's uh some of the background legislative program.

As I've shared before, the program gives the government affairs team and to that extent all the city departments, the IGR committee through your review and approvals, and ultimately council authorization of a council approved state legislative program that gives our team the direction that we need to focus on the priorities and the issues that are important to not just the council, but of course the community, our neighbors and the residents that you represent.

We engage with all our stakeholders and partners to be able to identify, analyze, and advocate and support and of course take the right positions, whether it's in support or opposition in order to protect the community's priorities.

This coordination is not a one-time deal.

We have a broad outreach and engagement, and we communicate closely with city departments, the city manager's office, of course, the IGR committee, the full council, and community partners and stakeholders.

That outreach communication and coordination is ongoing.

There is no pause there, even during the interim session that we're in right now.

Here are the legislative and funding priorities.

You will recognize all four of these.

There have been ongoing and robust discussions with these four areas of the priorities that we're recommending for the 90th program.

As you're aware, there's been extensive investments, not just by the City of San Antonio Bear County, but also partners, and we have identified these as issues of priority, the community that where we have a great deal of support, coordination, and communication.

First one on the list is the South Texas Parkway or the East West State Spur, the Downtown Sports and Entertainment District, flood infrastructure, and of course our utility partners, CPS Energy and SAWS.

Here's a little bit more information digging into the specifics of each of the priorities that we are recommending.

The South Texas Parkway is proposing a multi-lane corridor that connects I-35 and I-37 between 410 and 1604.