As part of our Texas Lege preview we talked to Rep. Erin Zwiener: “We’re going to have to fight hard to protect our [LGBTQ] communities.” ErinForYall
Rep. Erin Zwiener's House District 45, spanning most of Hays and Blanco counties, includes some of the fastest-growing communities in the entire country. Since entering the Lege in 2019, Zwiener has been focused on managing that growth while protecting natural areas, establishing the House Caucus on Climate, Environment, and the Energy Industry in 2021.
Often, environmental regulation and local control issues intersect: Cities can put water conservation standards in building codes, which is harder in unincorporated areas."That's critical because most new development in places like Hays County is outside city limits," says Zwiener. Updating infrastructure is essential to resilience. After Winter Storm Uri, the areas that took the longest to restore water service had aging, rural water systems.
Zwiener has also filed bills to make voting easier and elections more fair, allowing student IDs to be used at the polls and limiting campaign contributions to statewide candidates to $5,000 per individual and $10,000 per political action committee .
On climate change legislation, Zwiener says she's"actually really encouraged. Semantics matter a lot less than policy," and Republicans that don't want to say"climate change" still felt the extreme heat of the past summer."There's a lot of excitement around the energy transition, even if not everyone wants to call it a transition."
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