Texas House Approves Bill Ending Comptroller’s Endangered Species Duties
![The blind salamander is one of Texas' endangered species. A new bill passing through the House could move Texas' endangered species monitoring duties from the Comptroller to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141107101005im_/http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/files/2013/05/02-100x100.jpg)
Update: HB 3509 passed out of the state House Thursday, the final day for bills to be voted out. Earlier: The Texas House could vote today on a bill that would strip the Texas Comptroller’s office of its endangered species monitoring duties and send the job over to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Advocates [...]