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Our 2023 Interns
This blog is brought to you courtesy of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work’s Austin Legislative Internship Program. The College selects graduate MSW students to intern at the Texas Legislature during its legislative session every two years. Student interns work as full-time staffers in the Legislature, either as policy analysts with the Texas Legislative Study Group, a caucus of the Texas House of Representatives, or in legislators’ offices.
Here, legislative interns share their unique experiences!
by LaTicia Jeffers, intern in the Texas Legislative Study Group In my previous blog, I shared a piece of my internal journey with you. After it was published, I went back and forth, overanalyzing it and breaking down where people could take things wrong or what I should have said instead to make things flow better. Then. I had to stop. Take a breath. At that very moment, I realized I was doing it again. The same thing that this experience bounced me back in to… I was letting…
by Nzingha Williams-Eugene, intern in the Texas Legislative Study Group Known officially as the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act, but referred to as the Death Star Bill by many around the legislature, HB 2127 passed during Texas’ 88th regular legislative session and was signed by the governor on June 14, 2023. HB 2127 is an expansive “field preemption” bill that will significantly limit the authority of local governments to implement ordinances and regulations that the city or county determines would meet the direct needs of its local constituencies. It will…
by Maristel Aguilar, intern in the Texas Legislative Study Group I have had so much trouble getting myself to write this blog post. This experience has come to an end, so to speak, but the applicability to how it has shaped me as a person is just beginning. There was one day last month where I sat through a House Committee on Appropriations meeting in awe of how something that was supposed to be transparent and understandable by the community was just…not. I needed an escape within the walls of the Capitol,…
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