This week — updated legislative rankings after the special sessions are released, two GOP candidates jump into a primary race, and the field for a Williamson County House seat grows.
This week — a look at Texas politics during the last full week of the third special session.
Amendments were adopted on the Texas House redistricting plan that could lead to one less Republican seat but shore up GOP support for incumbents.
Combined, House Democrats pulled in nearly $650,000 in contributions during the large part of their quorum break in July and August.
Before new maps are drawn, some challengers are beginning to launch campaigns for competitive state legislative districts across Texas.
The Texas House was close to achieving a quorum as some Democrats direct biting criticisms toward those who have chosen to return to Austin.
This week — a lawmaker files a bill to vacate seats of absent legislators, two Texas legislators are arrested in Washington, D.C., and another GOP challenger jumps into the race against a suburban Democrat.
This week — the lieutenant governor forms a committee to study UT’s conference change, a lawmaker asks Paxton to weigh in on the quorum break, and a GOP staffer challenges a Democrat.
A procedural move preserved the laundry list of "founding documents" added to the bill when it first passed the House.
"Chubbing" and poor calendar placement left this bill without the chance for a vote by the time the clock tolled midnight.
The list of America's "founding documents" swelled as the night went on, eventually including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
A fellow Democrat had killed Dutton's education bill the night before, motivating Dutton to not only lay out the bill again but move it forward.
