A day after California officials said they are banning state workers from traveling to Texas on official business, an aide to Republican Texas Gov. Gen. Xavier Becerra said Texas and three other states were being put on a list of states that had adopted laws seen by Becerra as discriminatory to the LGBT community and therefore were off-limits for state-sponsored travel. That drew a response Friday from John Wittman, Abbott’s press secretary. "California may be able to stop their state employees, but they can't stop all the businesses that are fleeing over taxation and regulation and relocating to Texas,” Wittman said. Becerra put Texas on the travel-ban list after the governor signed HB 3859 last week.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 23, 2017 19:37 UTC