Medicaid, Health Reform Bills among those that time ran out on

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AUSTIN --The system is meant to kill legislation.

That's the old line often heard around the Capitol.

And now as the session's end slams the coffin door on a slew of bills, more than a few lawmakers are taking solace in the fact that their dead legislation has plenty of company.

Top on the list of bills that didn't make it across the finish line is, of course, Senate Bill 1811, a broad fiscal proposal that had public school financing tacked on to it. Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, killed it with a filibuster, but school financing has to be addressed and will be taken up in a special session.

In the waning hours of the session, a major Medicaid efficiency bill needed to balance the state budget also ran out of time. So did SB8, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst's big health reform bill, which includes an effort to take control of Medicare and Medicaid from the federal government. Both could be added to the call in a special session.



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