TEXAS (The Texas Tribune) -- A Texas House panel on Monday approved a legislative proposal limiting transgender peoples’ use of bathrooms in government buildings, the first time in over eight years the lower chamber has advanced a "bathroom bill."

Senate Bill 8 was passed by the House State Affairs Committee in a 9-3 vote after an amendment that would have removed language aimed at giving the bill legal insulation failed.

Last week, tensions between Texans flared at the Capitol during public testimony Friday on the bill.

CJ Grisham spoke in favor of the restrictions in SB 8, one of the items Gov. Greg Abbott asked legislators to pass during this year’s special legislative sessions. After Grisham spoke, several people attending the House State Affairs meeting booed and hurled expletives

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