Governor Greg Abbott has never before thrown explicit support behind proposals to ban sex reassignment procedures for children.
Speaker Dade Phelan found himself in the crosshairs of his counterpart across the rotunda after priority legislation faltered at the last minute.
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.
A year after a loophole was triggered allowing property taxes to be increased above the new limits during the pandemic, the state legislature has passed legislation attempting to close it.
State party officials currently are not required to resign their post before running for another political office, but newly-passed legislation would close that discrepancy.
The Texas House gave final approval to legislation restricting localities' use of non-voter-approved spending, intending to cut down on the use of Certificates of Obligation.
This week — a group of Republicans vote to kill the taxpayer-funded lobbying ban, House and Senate bicker over session accomplishments, and the staffer at the center of the lobbyist date-rape drug false allegations resigns.
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.
Ahead of the deadline to pass Senate bills next week, a House committee has moved forward the lieutenant governor’s priority “Star Spangled Banner Protection Act.”
The "opt-in" system would give districts the chance to let home-schoolers compete in UIL activities. The vote was bipartisan.
The constitutional carry bill working its way through the Texas legislature is now headed toward a conference committee to sort out the dispute over the Senate amendments.
The Texas House approved a bill to outline how the state government can handle a pandemic disaster in the future.
