In less than a week, state legislators will be back in their chambers as Gov. Perry has issues a July 1 start day for a special session. That begins the 30 day countdown during which legislators will be dealing with a limited call relating largely to state continuance and funding issues.
The session has only three allowed topics, the main one being allowing the continued existence of the five state agencies in danger of shutting down because of critical legislation that wasn't passed during the regular session. The other two topics relate to allowing TXDOT to continue using different types of financing to keep funding road projects.
While the session is valid for 30 days, if work finishes the session could last a week or even days, depending on how fast legislators want to get back to July 4th plans.
This is Perry's 8th called special session since being in office.
