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Senator Ellis's 2011 Press Releases
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 December 20, 2011
Senator Ellis Responds to Morton Exoneration
December 8, 2011
Senators Ellis and Davis Request AG Opinion on Tax Break Request That Could Cost Texas Schools Hundreds of Millions
November 17, 2011
Senator Rodney Ellis Responds to DOJ Letter to Texas SOS on Voter ID Law
November 10, 2011
Motor Vehicles Board Approves Buffalo Soldiers License Plate
November 10, 2011
Motor Vehicles Board Votes Down Controversial Confederate License Plate
November 9, 2011
State Senator Rodney Ellis, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, NAACP President Gary Bledsoe, and other elected officials to hold press conference following vote on Confederate license plate
October 31, 2011
Ellis Concerned with Harris County Election Procedures
October 27, 2011
Ellis Asks for Secretary of State for Data on Voter ID
October 26, 2011
Ellis Statement on Confederate Battle Flag Plate Developments
October 24, 2011
Ellis Statement on State Farm Windstorm Controversy
October 20, 2011
Ellis Statement on the Death of Muammar Gaddafi
October 14, 2011
Ellis, Buffalo Soldiers Urge Patterson to Stop Inflammatory, Insensitive, Inaccurate Rhetoric in Push to Create Confederate Battle Plate License Plates
October 13, 2011
Move to Quash Morton Investigation Raises Serious Questions
 October 10, 2010
Ellis Asks State Officials for Answers on Racially-Offensive Place Names
September 21, 2011
Ellis Statement on Execution of Lawrence Brewer
September 15, 2011
Ellis Praises U.S. Supreme Court Intervention in Duane Buck Case
September 15, 2011
Ellis Urges Perry to Intervene in Duane Buck Case
August 31, 2011
Hundreds of New Laws Effective 9/1/11
August 11, 2011
Ellis and Hernandez Luna Kick-Off the Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday
July 29, 2011
Ellis Statement on AG Opinion on Scope of Forensic Science Commission Authority
July 7, 2011
Ellis Statement on Supreme Court Decision on Leal Execution
June 30, 2011
Ellis Statement on Anthony Graves Compensation
June 14, 2011
Statement: Ellis on Senate Passage of Sanctuary Cities Bill
June 13, 2011
Ellis Files Plan to Scrub, Sunset and Repeal Scores of Tax Breaks
June 8, 2011
Ellis, Davis, Lucio File Legislation to Enact Responsible Budget Roadmap
June 3, 2011
Ellis: SB 1 Crushes Texas Schools, Creates More Deficits in 2013
June 1, 2011
Ellis Outlines More Responsible Budget Roadmap
May 31, 2011
Ellis: "We Have Another Chance to Get it Right"
May 28, 2011
Ellis Statement on Passage of 2012-13 Budget
May 26, 2011
Statement of Senator Rodney Ellis on Smoking Ban
May 26, 2011
Ellis: Budget is Terrible for Texas' Present & Future
May 25, 2011
Tier One Bill Passes Senate
May 21, 2011
Ellis Amends TDI Sunset Bill to Help Texas Children Access Health Insurance
May 21, 2011
Comprehensive Exoneree Reform Plan Headed to Governor
May 20, 2011
Education Funding Billions Short of What is Needed and What Texas Promised
May 20, 2011
Ellis: Texas Creating Perpetual Deficit Machine
May 20, 2011
Legislation to Expand Access to Post-Conviction DNA Sent to the Governor
May 18, 2011
Senate Passes Comprehensive Exoneree Reform Plan
May 18, 2011
Senate Passes Texas Citizen Participation Act
May 18, 2011
Eyewitness Identification Reform Passes Senate
May 16, 2011
Senate Votes Against Helping Texas Families
May 13, 2011
Pastor Samuel B. Kyles to Give Senate Invocation Today
May 12, 2011
Senate State Affairs Committee Passes Texas Citizen Participation Act
May 12, 2011
Ellis: Redistricting Map Doesn't Pass the Smell Test
May 10, 2011
Ellis, Exonerees Urge Quick Legislative Action on Criminal Justice Reforms
 May 10, 2011
Press conference urging prompt legislative action on criminal justice reform bills
May 9, 2011
Senate Finance Votes to Keep Wasteful Tax Breaks
May 9, 2011
Senate Refuses to Accept Responsibility and Regulate College Tuition
May 9, 2011
Exonerees, Ellis to Hold Press Conference Urging Quick Action on Justice Bills
May 3, 2011
Ellis: This Budget is Not Worthy of Texas
May 2, 2011
Senate Passes Apollo Early Start Plan
May 2, 2011
Senate Finance Debates Ellis Plan to Scrub, Sunset and Repeal Scores of Tax Breaks
April 29, 2011
Ellis: We Can Balance the Budget More Responsibly
April 28, 2011
Ellis: Don't Steal Jury Pay, Fair Defense to Balance the Budget
April 26, 2011
Senate Education Committee Passes Apollo Early Start Plan
April 13, 2011
Senate Rejects Ellis Amendment to Sunset SBOE
April 12, 2011
Senate State Affairs Committee Passes Texas Citizen Participation Act
April 7, 2011
Ellis Statement on Initial Senate Rejection of Guns on Campus
April 6, 2011
Ellis: TEXAS Grant Changes Will Widen the Gaps in College Participation
April 6, 2011
Legislation to Expand Access to Post-Conviction DNA Passes Senate
March 31, 2011
Statement of Senator Rodney Ellis on SB 354: Guns on Campus
March 28, 2011
Ellis calls on Senate to Scrub, Sunset and Repeal Scores of Tax Breaks
March 21, 2011
Prior Approval on Insurance Rate Hikes, Post-Conviction DNA Legislation to be Debated Tomorrow
March 16, 2011
Eyewitness Identification Reform Passes Senate
March 8, 2011
Senate Health & Human Services Committee Passes Smoking Ban
March 3, 2011
Senator Ellis Files Casino Gaming Legislation
March 2, 2011
Ellis on Bradley Nomination: It's about performance, not politics or personality
March 1, 2011
Ellis Legislation to Reform Eyewitness Identification Passes Criminal Justice Committee
February 28, 2011
Ellis Urges Senate to Reject Bradley Nomination
February 28, 2011
Ellis Legislation to Reform Eyewitness Identification to be Debated Tomorrow
February 28, 2011
2nd Annual Indigent Defense Summit to be Held in Austin Tomorrow
February 24, 2011
Regarding SB 355, relating to an indoor workplace smoking ban.
February 23, 2011
Statement of Senator Rodney Ellis on State of the Judiciary
February 23, 2011
Senators Ellis, Van de Putte and Representative Castro: Let's Do What Works for Teens
February 21, 2011
Texas Exonerees to Testify on Criminal Justice Recommendations
February 8, 2011
Ellis Files Complete Streets Legislation
February 8, 2011
Statement of Senator Rodney Ellis on State of the State
 February 01, 2011
Regarding a proposed indoor workplace smoking ban. Joined by Rep. Myra Crownover and others.
January 26, 2011
Ellis Laments Passage of Overly-Restrictive Voter ID Law
Janauary 21, 2011
Statement of Senator Rodney Ellis on Voter ID Vote
January 18, 2011
Statement of Senator Rodney Ellis
January 14, 2011
Ellis Files Smoke Free Texas Legislation
January 11, 2011
Senator Ellis and Texas Exoneree Cornelius Dupree to Hold Media Availability
January 7, 2011
Senator Ellis and Representative Turner Welcome Home Cornelius Dupree
January 6, 2011
Senator Rodney Ellis Welcomes Home Cornelius Dupree, Celebrates his Innocence and Urges Legislature to Pass ID Reform Bill
January 4, 2011
DNA Testing Clears Man's Conviction in Dallas After He Served Thirty Years in Prison
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