text_1: "Under David Dewhurst’s leadership, the Texas ""Senate passed an expansion of in-state tuition and free health care to illegal immigrants."
text_2: "Patrick said the Dewhurst-led Senate ""passed an expansion of in-state tuition and free health care to illegal immigrants."" Block that kick. First of all, lawmakers signed off on in-state tuition for undocumented students in 2001--before Dewhurst became lieutenant governor--while the 2005 legislation cited by Patrick largely left the 2001 law intact while focusing on all students getting in-state tuition even if parents move out of state. The proposal regarding free health care for illegal immigrants didn’t launch a program for immigrants, which is what Patrick’s statement seems to suggest. Rather, local governing bodies were permitted to provide (or, it appears, resume providing) non-emergency services to residents regardless of immigration status, an action projected to improve outcomes and head off costly emergency care to which all residents were already entitled per federal law. The Senate proposal also envisioned patients sharing costs."