Was refreshed on something last night.
A few years back, the Texas Senate had a rule that required 2/3 of the Senators to vote to move a bill forward - 21 senators.
Then they changed to 3/5 required to move a bill forward - 19 senators.
Currently - there are 19 republican senators. So it takes every one of them to move a bill forward if no democrat wants to. I wish I was listening closer, but apparently there is a republican senator that has his panties in a wad and is pretty much going to refuse to vote to move anything forward. I Think it was Creighton. Due to whatever, the senator is going to lose his chair and possibly vice chair (or not reappointed when the lt gov makes the appointments). So - unless they change the rules, it will take at least 1 democrat to agree to move any bill forward, which means we might have a somewhat clean session - no fricking whining from Goeb etc. However, my friend is also quite concerned that because of this, he'll probably be working in Austin all summer as the governor calls one special session after another.
tldr; bipartisan in austin or nothing is going to happen.