Stephen Simpson
Mental Health Reporter at Texas Tribune
"Sir, this is a *digital* newspaper." | Covering mental health and related policy for the @TexasTribune | A University of Central Arkansas alumnus.
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click2houston.com | Stephen Simpson
Published: May 29, 2025 at 5:00 AMSign up for our NewslettersPublished: May 29, 2025 at 5:00 AMSign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. For a third consecutive time, a bill requiring prisons to have air conditioning has likely died in the Texas Senate. House Bill 3006, by state Rep.
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texastribune.org | Stephen Simpson
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A bill that would have banned minors from having a social media account has missed a deadline to pass in the Texas Senate. House Bill 186, filed by Rep. Jared Patterson, R-Frisco, sailed through the House 116-25 in May, but never received a vote in the Senate several days after a slew of teenagers spoke against it during a Senate committee hearing.
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texastribune.org | Stephen Simpson
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas Senate advanced a bill Tuesday that will expand the conditions eligible for the state’s medical marijuana program, including chronic pain and Crohn’s disease, and allow for smokable products to be sold by prescription. House Bill 46 by Rep.
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texastribune.org | Stephen Simpson
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A bill increasing the amount of money the state spends to attract film and television productions to Texas has been sent to Gov. Greg Abbott after lawmakers agreed to lower what had originally been proposed at the start of the year. Senate Bill 22, filed by Houston Republican Sen.
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ruralnewsnetwork.org | Terri Langford |Yuriko Schumacher |Stephen Simpson
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The number of cases reported in Texas' historic measles outbreak has risen to 728 cases, 10 more cases over the past week. Of those, 94 patients have been hospitalized, and two school-aged children have died since the outbreak began in January. Friday's update still shows the measles outbreak slowing down.
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The Texas House advanced a bill Monday that would expand the conditions eligible for the state’s medical marijuana program, including chronic pain and Crohn’s disease, and allow for prescribed smokable products to be sold by prescription. https://t.co/7CougI4NwN
The measles outbreak that originated in Texas is now the largest single outbreak since the United States declared the disease eliminated in 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://t.co/KuNLu3IL3y
