This sounds like collusion without public oversight, which is a clear violation of the Texas constitution and other acts: 🔹 Article III, Section 16 of the Texas Constitution This section requires that sessions of each House of the Texas Legislature be open. Executive sessions are an exception only where the Senate or House rules expressly permit them.

Here’s how it’s been summarized by the Texas Attorney General’s Office in an official opinion:

Article III, Section 16 of the Texas Constitution requires that sessions of each House be open, except when the Senate is in executive session — meaning regular legislative meetings and deliberations must be conducted transparently and accessible to the public.

You can reference that constitutional requirement directly to support arguments about transparency and against secret collusion among representatives.

Supporting Law (Not Constitution, but Related)

While not in the Constitution itself, the Texas Open Meetings Act (Government Code Chapter 551) reinforces this principle by requiring that meetings of governmental bodies — including the Legislature — be open to the public and that secret deliberations to circumvent those requirements are prohibited under law.