Commercial casinos are banned in Texas, but a political action committee funded by a Las Vegas corporation hopes to change that.
At the Texas GOP convention, reporters for The Texan talked with elected officials across the Lone Star State.
State code may prohibit an elected official who ran on a platform of eliminating the position he seeks from taking a salary upon assuming office.
This week — Tarrant County legislators spar over redistricting, the Texas GOP chairman announces his re-election bid, and Sen. Brandon Creighton is appointed to chair another committee.
“We are those who distribute taxpayer dollars. We are the ones who pay their salaries. The parents are the ones who pay their tuition.”
Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) filed an amicus brief with 13 of his Republican colleagues supporting the motion for a rehearing.
The eleventh-hour bill authorizes public colleges to issue $3.3 billion worth of debt to finance building and renovation projects.
The committee passed a version without its amendments, most of which were Democratic additions to broaden the pedagogy of America's founding.
The permitless carry bill passed by the House was referred to a new special committee that has a majority of its members publicly in favor of the pro-Second Amendment proposal.
The Texan contacted every Texas state senator for their position on the constitutional carry legislation recently passed by the state House. See their responses here.
Six states have passed laws to let athletes profit from endorsements, and twelve other states have taken up the issue this year.
The Texas Senate expedited legislation ordering the Public Utility Commission to reprice wholesale electricity transactions made during the winter storm blackouts.
