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Texas has a form of this. Every state agency (with a handful of exceptions) will automatically be abolished every 5-10 years absent explicit action by the legi

• makomk 9y ago
  Yes, and this resulted in a fairly unpleasant fiasco a few months ago in which the governor of Texas had to call an emergency session in order to renew the Texas Medical Board's existence because a senator had held it hostage in order to try and force through a bill banning trans women from using women's restrooms. (A lot of the national press incorrectly portrayed this as the Texas governor calling an emergency session to ban trans women from women's restrooms. While that was debated as part of the emergency session, it wasn't the goal and the governor made allowing it or anything else to be debated conditional on passing the critical Texas Medical Board renewal - forcing the supporters of the bathroom bill to pass that first and give up their leverage in order to get a bathroom bill vote they would inevitably lose. The national media reporting on this was terrible.)