News reporters will again not be allowed on the Texas Senate chamber floor in the upcoming legislative session. The move was first implemented in 2021 as a COVID-19 precaution, but officials say the measure will continue this year.
The secretary of the Texas Senate said Friday that reporters would be barred from the chamber floor, continuing a restriction on the press that began ostensibly as a COVID-19 measure in 2021., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
“There is no floor seating for the press,” she wrote. “The reserved area for the press was moved to the Senate gallery in the southwest corner.”, who presides over the chamber, also did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “Ready access is essential not only for reporters, but for senators who need information be to disseminated to Texans accurately and quickly," he said in an email statement."I hope leadership will reconsider this.”
Reporters are still expected to have floor access in the Legislature’s other chamber, the House of Representatives.
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