If you leave the state for temporary purposes, that doesn't automatically mean you lose your Texas residency. In the state statutes, there are some guidelines for maintaining that residency.

Once you come to Texas, you automatically get that feeling that you're striving for excellence.

Texas is not the first state to take this step. Other states have already passed similar amendments, and there has been little if any noticeable impact on private employment laws in those states so far.

Automatically, it would not mean a violation of the treaty,

Texas is a pretty free state.

It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.