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| AUSTIN — A test vote in the
House showed strong opposition
Tuesday to a Senate-approved bill
that would allow limited alimony in
Texas, now the only state that bars
alimony.
; ; The bill’s only hope might be a
strong lobbying effort by Texas
women, said Rep. Bob Bush, D-
Sherman, an alimony supporter.
I “I think it’s cultural,” Bush said of
the opposition. “We are the macho-
tnan state, and macho men don’t like
open container laws and they don’t
like child support.”
Texas now allows child support
payments, but not alimony.
“We’re working upstream,” Bush
aid. “But there are some ladies who
comprise part of the populace, so I
have a feeling it’s a fair fight. They
may put enough pressure on these
House members to help me out a
little bit.”
I Also Tuesday, the House tenta
tively approvea measures to allow
longer prison terms for inmates con
victed more than once and to allow
judges to end parent-child relations
in cases where a child’s sibling was
abused by the parent.
Bush drew boos by merely men
tioning “spousal maintenance,” leg
islative jargon for alimony. The Sen
ate plan would allow alimony
payments of up to $1,500 a month,
but only in marriages that lasted at
least 10 years.
“I wanted to test the water on it,”
said Bush, who found it “very chilly.
“That tells me there’s a lot of op
position to voting on it, to even get
ting it out of committee. The House
is discouraging me from proceeding
on it as a high-priority item,” he said,
Belton Rep. Bill Messer won 57-
12 tentative approval for his bill to
allow judges to terminate a parent’s
legal relations with a child if that
parent had criminally mistreated an
other child.
Rep. Smith Gilley, D-Greenville,
fought the bill, which faces another
House vote.
“You don’t convict someone of
robbing a bank in Dallas because he
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iration estina vote to go to the House,
nes willcontiH He said the “War on Drugs” bill
counties. Be Was designed to take dangerous in-
the state isp halants “out of the hands of children
of both couB • • but it takes it out of the hands of
me at 315,01 everybody.”
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timates of inhalant abusers in Texas
ranged from 30,000 in El Paso to
13,000 under-age 21 in Houston to
3,000 minors and adults in San An
tonio.
The problem, White said, was
concentrated among minors in low-
income communities, many of them
predominantly Hispanic.
Glasgow said prosecutors cannot
enforce the 1983 law because it is
vague and ambiguous, but Sen. John
Whitmire, D-Houston, said since the
law was enacted, deaths from inha
lant abuse have declined.
Sen. Cyndi Krier, R-San Antonio,
said no lives had been lost as a result
of inhalant abuse since the law went
into effect, compared with 17 deaths
in the previous year and a half.
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as a “lock up” law, and Whitmire re-
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robbed one in Austin,” said Gilley.
“We’re assuming because a person
has done something wrong he is
going to do it repeatedly. That is not
right.”
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posed that as unreasonable and po
tentially damaging to already
crowded prisons. But Morales, a for
mer Bexar County prosecutor, said
the parole system subverts the deci
sions of judges and juries by treating
consecutive sentences as concurrent.
sponded, “I realize it’s an inconve
nience to merchants, but I submit to
you the greater good is served.”
Glasgow said, “You can’t keep
items under lock and key. How are
you going to do it?”
Whitmire said Glasgow’s bill for
“restricted display” of glue and aero
sol paints would “open the door to
added abuse.
Glasgow said the bill was never in
tended as a “lock up” bill.
Instead, a business would main
tain “controlled” exits from where
glues and paints are sold. Controls
would include store employees near
the area or an electronic device
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“If it ain’t broke, why fix it (the
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Glasgow responded, “It’s broke as
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