Much of the attention in the last days of the 86th Texas Legislature was rightly focused on education and property tax reforms, but there was also some significant BBQ news as well. On May 17th, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 2223, known as the “BBQ Bill 2.0,” which sought to clarify language from the first iteration of the BBQ Bill in 2017. We reported last year on Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller’s obsession with barbecue scales. In 2017, it had seemed like the Legislature had relieved Miller of his duties of regulating barbecue scales. But after some back and forth with legislators, Miller asked the attorney general to clarify the Texas Department of Agriculture’s authority to regulate barbecue scales (and other similar scales…View Original PostThe post Texas Legislature to Sid Miller: Back Off the BBQ Joints appeared first on Texas Monthly.