Texas Republicans are urging the governor to add employer vaccine mandates to the call of the special session.
Combined, House Democrats pulled in nearly $650,000 in contributions during the large part of their quorum break in July and August.
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.
The governor’s call for a new special session broadens the legislative options that lawmakers may be able to pass.
Democrats broke quorum by going to Washington, D.C. when the Texas House was scheduled to meet on Tuesday.
Republican lawmakers blasted the quorum bust of House Democrats and say they will “use every resource available” to secure a quorum.
With the addition of White, the Texas Freedom Caucus increased its membership to nine.
This week — Ken Paxton is optimistic about a Trump endorsement, conservative legislators call for special session additions, and a progressive coalition is formed to oppose GOP election reform.
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.
Proponents of a ban on taxpayer-funded lobbying have come up empty for the second session in a row.
A prospective ban on taxpayer-funded lobbying has faced multiple rounds of revisions throughout the 87th Legislative Session.
Legislation giving public charter schools a property tax exemption on leased or purchased property was reconsidered and narrowly passed in the Texas House.
Executive orders have been used more and more at the federal level and a new bill looks to pump the brakes on their deployment in Texas.
The House State Affairs Committee hearing considered a years-in-the-making ban on taxpayer-funded lobbying early Friday morning.
This week — a look at Texas politics this week as committee hearings rapidly heated up.
The House Ways and Means Committee considered two notable property tax-related bills, each amplifying the focus on voter consent for tax increases.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission was at the forefront of coronavirus restriction enforcement last summer.
Though the Freedom Caucus' roster has changed since its inception in 2017, the group enters another legislative session with its founding goal in mind.
Four Republicans will duke it out at the polls on Saturday to see who will fill the currently vacant Texas state House seat in district 68.
Due to exceeding the state's benchmark, counties in South Texas will have business reopening limits rolled back to 50 percent for restaurants and bars will once again close.
