With the Senate’s budget coming in at $6 billion more than the House’s, a budget conference committee will likely be needed to resolve the differences.
Infrastructure legislation named a priority bill by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick aims to meet the state’s long-term water needs.
Two years after the blackouts, state lawmakers again have on their plate reconfiguration of the state's main power grid and the market that drives it.
Water development is an issue incredibly fraught with political land mines, but one the state must confront as its population booms.
A new University of Houston poll found that 57 percent of Texans support legislation classifying sex change procedures for minors as child abuse.
Patrick appointed 12 Republicans and one Democrat to chair the Senate's committees, calling them the "best equipped group of senators in Texas history."
The legislation would alleviate the governor's concern that caused him to veto the 2021 bill.
Officials, doctors, and Texas residents testified before the Health & Human Services Committee about the government’s pandemic response.
While bills regarding UIL sports soaked up attention, bills that would have applied to NCAA sports died quietly. The reason remains unclear.
State politicians Rep. Dustin Burrows and Sen. Charles Perry both encouraged passage of the ban. Burrows spoke at the meeting.
After 12 years in the Texas House, Rep. John Frullo chose retirement and now four GOP candidates are vying to succeed him.
The local ban passed by a citywide vote after the council, wary of litigation, rejected it. Now, it's weathered a Planned Parenthood lawsuit.
