Updated 10:30 a.m. June 18 to include information on the new platform and five legislative priorities.

SAN ANTONIO — The Republican Party of Texas has written its new platform, a long list of policy stances representing the GOP's official views for the next two years.

The platform was written this week in San Antonio, where more than 8,000 delegates met for their 2018 state party convention. On Friday, they spent hours debating it before splitting into groups and voting on the platform, as well as five legislative priorities for 2019.

The delegates approved all 331 platform "planks," or policy stances, and every legislative priority, Travis County Republican Party Chairman Matt Mackowiak told The Dallas Morning News. The party now supports decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana and opposes the removal of any Confederate monuments from Texas soil.

It also softened previous anti-LGBTQ language, removing a statement that homosexuality "is a chosen behavior ... that must not be presented as an acceptable alternative lifestyle" with a broader reiteration of the party's opposition to same-sex marriage and sexual relations.

The party also voted to approve five legislative priorities for 2019, a list of policies they hope lawmakers meeting in January will turn into new state laws. The priorities include support for the so-called bathroom bill (legislation Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick unsuccessfully pushed in 2017 to require people to use restrooms that match their sex at birth), looser gun laws, overhauling the Texas tax code, abolishing abortion and restricting the power of unions to lobby and collect dues.

The platform and legislative priorities list do not have the force of law. But they can shape and influence policymaking. The full 45-page platform document can be read here. Some of the additional party stances include (* indicates a new plank written this year):

Business, economics and government power

Abolishing daylight saving time* and Texas Child Protective Services,* as well as 11 federal agencies including the IRS, the Transportation Security Administration, the U.S. Department of Education and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Repealing the state's "blue laws ," which restrict or prohibit the sale of alcohol in certain areas or at certain times.*

Prohibiting taxpayer dollars from being spent to subsidize the building of stadium for professional sports teams.*

Allowing anyone to opt out of Social Security.*

Opposing Land Commissioner George P. Bush's efforts to "reimagine" the Alamo.*

Protecting all war memorials "including Confederate monuments" from removal or defacement; restoring any monuments that have been taken down "to their historical locations."*

Crime and punishment

Opposing new gun storage rules or "red flag" laws, which prevent people who are perceived to be threats from accessing firearms,* and supporting "constitutional carry," or the right to carry firearms without a permit or license.

Opposing women in military combat positions.

Repealing all hate crimes laws* and supporting the death penalty.

Raising the age of criminal responsibility from 17 to 18 .*

Supporting " a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment ."*

Ending needle exchange programs.

Moving cannabis from the list of Schedule 1 drugs to Schedule 2, and decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana.*

Education

Cutting public funding to charter schools that receive money from foreign entities.

Passing a law prohibiting the teaching of "sex education, sexual health, or sexual choice, or identity in any public school in any grade whatsoever."*

Curtailing the cost of higher education* and denying in-state tuition to non-U.S. citizens.

Requiring schools to spend 65 percent or more of their state funding on the classroom before additional funds are allocated.*

Health