Lawmakers take bills hostage as session winds down

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Out of 6,700 bills filed, only a dozen have become law and when lawmakers see their bills dying, they take hostages.
A state debate right now: should we send 17-year-old felons to juvenile detention centers rather than state jails as we do now? The argument is they’re not adults yet, with reasoning and impulse control still in development.
But the change comes with a cost. Care for those criminals would shift from the Texas correctional system to individual counties.