The legislation would require health care providers to list out full billing statements with itemized charges for patients.
Tarrant County’s representatives in the Texas Legislature have held important chairmanships in past sessions and likely will again.
The Texas GOP has called on House Republican leadership to revoke chairmanships from truant Democrats and establish measures to prevent another quorum break.
State Democrats and Texas Republicans in Congress exhibited the latest clash over an election bill during a congressional hearing.
A Dallas Democrat characterized debating election reform with Republicans as “negotiating with terrorists.”
Under Article IV, Section 14 of the Texas Constitution, Gov. Greg Abbott has the authority to veto bills passed by the legislature.
At least one Democrat on the Texas House Elections Committee expressed disappointment that some of her colleagues were left out.
The list of America's "founding documents" swelled as the night went on, eventually including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
After a long night of deliberation, the state House passed an amended version of the GOP priority election integrity bill.
After passing the House on Thursday, the state's budget will likely now move to a conference committee to hammer out differences between the two chambers' versions.
Deer Park Republican Briscoe Cain made a parliamentary mistake that prevented the committee from hearing testimony on an election security bill.
This week — a look at Texas politics during the week of the Ides of March.
