Honestly pretty pumped to set up my bill tracking in the Hamlet!!
Can you imagine having little guys running from point A to point B when your bill finally gets reported out of committee?
Beats a whiteboard and a dusty marker any day.
#txlege
People are giving their AI bots offices.
We gave ours a Scottish village.
This is Highland Hamlet.
The villagers are AI agents, and they're building the software behind it: Productivity Sweet.
You can watch them work live here
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We're so thrilled to welcome Nicole to our team!!
We are pleased to welcome Nicole Chen to the HBS Austin office @HB_StrategiesTX as Office Manager. Nicole joins us from the Office of the Texas Comptroller, where she served as Executive Assistant to Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock, with prior experience in the Texas Senate.
Welcome to the team, Nicole.
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Honored to be recognized among some of the best this last week!!
"Our Texas team is one of the most respected groups of lobbyists in the state." - @andyblunt, HBS CEO
Proud moment for the full HBS Texas team — Ky Ash, Myra Leo, Molly Spratt, and Mark Vane — at the @USLege_ai 2025 Best in Government Affairs Awards in Austin, where HBS Texas served as Premier Sponsor. Congratulations to honorees Molly, Myra, and Mark.
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#HBS #TXleg #TexasLobbyist
Molly Spratt, HB Strategies Texas retweeted
HBS Texas Principal @MollyfromTX was spotted doing what she does every day in the Capitol — advocating for people who need a voice.
As Board President of The Arc of the Capital Area, Molly welcomed more than 200 guests to the organization's annual Gold Star Masquerade Gala.
Molly Spratt, HB Strategies Texas retweeted
The #txlege passed 1208 bills this session. They filed 8719 (highest since 1991 last date available). That’s a passage rate of 13.8% (lowest since ‘91). Besides 2023 (15.5% passage rate) the rate is usually around 20% on average. 1/2
I have reached the point in session where I'm waking up at 3am with epiphanies for rider language and amendments, knowing I should write them down, not doing so, and subsequently forgetting my ideas.
Anyone else? #txlege
Molly Spratt, HB Strategies Texas retweeted
We are here in the Johnson Conference Center and ready to show the #txlege what we’ve got!
See y’all at 12 for @AmysIceCreams and robots! 🤖 🍦 🖥️
It's our Super Bowl! Come see some of the greatest minds demonstrate their skills. Ice Cream! Robots! Oh My!
#txlege
The CS4TX Foundation with @weteachcs and the Texas Advanced Computing Center are hosting Code @ the Capitol THIS WEEK!
Over 60 Texas Students are coming to demonstrate their computer science skills and shape the future of CS in our great state!
See you there! #txlege
Enjoyed the @LtGovTX’s keynote today at the Texas Business Forum.
I’m here on behalf of @TXManufacturers, a host of the event, along with @TXOGA and @texaschemistry.
#txlege
IT'S #txlege CHRISTMAS!
(The budgets are out!)
Molly Spratt, HB Strategies Texas retweeted
TAM's Top 10 priorities for the 89th Legislature dropped today. TAM President & CEO Tony Bennett said, “Global competition for advanced manufacturing has never been more intense. Priorities and policy must be laser-focused to keep Texas on top.” #txlege manufacturetexas.org/#top-10
Spending “Session Eve” discussing Women’s Health and barriers that can impact that, including substance use disorder and childcare.
Heather Ormand, CEO of @NexusRecovery, takes the time to discuss the role of recovery and how it impacts Healthy Families in Texas. #txlege
Heather is closing out the Women’s Health Caucus Policy Summit today speaking with @putkids1st and @TXRestaurants.
Kelsey Streufert (@KelseyJErickson) with @TXRestaurants and E4C drops the incredible stat that a year of infant childcare in Texas costs more on average than one year of tuition the University of Texas.
I’ve been using a lot of duck analogies recently.
- water off a duck’s back
- be like a duck: calm on the surface, and paddle like hell
- ducks in a row
- sitting duck
- lame duck
Now mother nature thinks I’m a duck. I cannot swim in business attire! 😭
Molly Spratt, HB Strategies Texas retweeted
Texas manufacturers are excited for forward-thinking water infrastructure policy that supports the growing #manufacturing economy and the high-quality jobs manufacturing projects bring to our State. #txlege #ManufacturingMatters
Will Texas have its 'biggest water session' in history? Here's why a senator says yes.
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I spent hours yesterday fighting with ChatGPT to help me format some information I'm using to gear up for session. Today, I switched over to Google's NotebookLM, and not only is it faster, but it's much more accurate.
My favorite feature so far is its polite way of telling me to reread its outputs.
"Unfortunately, the table I provided cannot preserve hyperlinks [previous conversation]. The data was formatted for easy transfer to a spreadsheet, which does not support active hyperlinks [previous conversation]."
This is adorable 🥹
Today we released the one billionth coastal hatchery-raised fish 🐟
Named BILLIE, this red drum fingerling represents 40 years of managing a sustainable Texas fisheries: bit.ly/1BillionthFish
#1billionfish
#TexasCoast
ALT Hands hold up clear container holding small fish
“It gets serious when you can’t buy an F-150…” says UT President @JCHartzell about the University’s initiatives to rectify the chip shortage that was brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
#txlege