Today SB 835, Trey’s Law, passed the Texas Senate 31-0! This bill prohibits the use of NDAs to silence victims of sexual abuse & assault. Thank you Lt Gov @DanPatrick for getting this bill through the floor so quickly! In Texas we stand with victims, not perpetrators. #txlege pic.twitter.com/FTxlnYcokz

Texas Representative Craig Washington spearheaded the first-ever effort to repeal Texas Penal Code section 21.06, which made "homosexual conduct" a criminal offense. The bill failed in the Texas House 117 to 14,

Texas. More than 20 years later, the Legislature took its first steps to remove that prohibition from the books. On Friday, the Texas House voted 59-56 to approve House Bill 1738, which would remove from state statute the unenforceable 1973 law that bans "deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex.