Legislation is expected to go into effect soon to halt a Chinese company’s plans to build a wind farm in Texas after national security concerns were raised.
Several new pro-Second Amendment bills including constitutional carry and making Texas a “Second Amendment sanctuary” will go into effect in September.
Texas is set to become the next state in the country to allow the carry of handguns without a permit.
The former state supreme court justice will be running against Ken Paxton and George P. Bush in the GOP primary to be the state’s attorney general.
The “quiet conversations” on background checks between the Texas Republican and a Connecticut Democrat have reportedly ended.
In addition to constitutional carry, the Texas legislature passed a number of gun-related bills.
Justice Eva Guzman, who has been a member of the Lone Star State’s top court since 2009, is resigning from her position effective Friday.
Austin-area state Sen. Dawn Buckingham has launched her campaign to be the head of Texas’ General Land Office.
A bill from Sen. Lois Kolkhorst to prohibit businesses from requiring customer proof of a COVID-19 vaccination is awaiting the governor’s signature.
George P. Bush, the grandson of former president George H. W. Bush, officially announced his campaign to be the attorney general of Texas.
The filing purports that Jeff Mateer, the first whistleblower to resign, said under oath that he did not witness the attorney general commit any crime, but that there was only a concern about future crimes.
Though piecemeal legislation was approved to address certain aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, no significant checks on the executive branch were created.
The Texas omnibus election bill has sparked intense partisan debate. Here’s what’s in the final version of the legislation.
A Temple hospital is using the state’s 10-day rule to end life support for Bill Costea against the wishes of his wife.
After calls for a special session to address conservative priorities, Gov. Abbott said he would make the ultimate decision and that any special session would take one issue at a time.
After several of his priority bills died, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is asking the governor to call a special session in June.
Senate Bill 12, which would have allowed censored Texans to challenge social media companies, died after failing to pass the midnight deadline on Tuesday.
The governor is expected to sign a bill passed by the state legislature that would designate Texas as a “Second Amendment sanctuary.”
Texas is set to become the next state with constitutional carry, now only needing the signature of Gov. Greg Abbott.
Though a measure to require legislative approval for major disaster declaration renewals died in the House, it was revived in the Senate as a substitute for House Bill 3.
