The state’s Republican governor signed legislation Wednesday that its sponsor calls the “most significant ban” on higher ed DEI in the...

Phelan announced the formation of a House committee that could set the tone in favor of vouchers ahead of an expected special session on...

State law that limits transgender student athletes’ participation in sports runs afoul of the updated federal civil rights law, which was...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed off on a new law Tuesday that will lower the threshold for local missing child alerts. House Bill 3556 allows law...

Texas preemption bill putting in question local governments ability to create new ordinances. Even just a few minutes outside in this...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law this week banning explicit books in schools. House Bill 900 was part of a session-long push among...

House Speaker Dade Phelan appointed 15 lawmakers to a new education committee on June 12, indicating his support for a potential special...

HB 711 overwhelmingly passed both chambers of the Texas legislature and would allow employers to tier hospitals within a system and steer...

The high court left intact a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act in a case many feared would go the other way. The decision’s...

The 88th Texas Legislature adjourned its regular session on May 29th with the passage of several key healthcare reforms that address...

At the beginning of the year, school leaders across Texas sounded optimistic that lawmakers would dip into the state’s $32.7 billion...

In Texas, some 44,000 adults could lose their food stamps due to changes to the program. Recent changes to the Supplemental Nutrition...

With a $33 billion dollar budget surplus hanging overhead, the regular legislative session started with promises to increase teacher pay...

The Texas Legislature approved HB 2127, the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act, on May 23, 2023, and the bill is soon expected to be signed...

Among the bills lawmakers passed during the regular session are a measure that will abolish the Harris County Elections Administrator’s...

Amid discoveries of 13-year-olds cleaning saws in meatpacking plants and 10-year-olds working in the kitchen at a McDonald's, the Biden...

Say goodbye to paper license plates — just not yet. Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Monday that puts the brakes on Texas’ paper...

Communities statewide have demanded that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality strengthen environmental regulations for concrete...

The Texas legislature handed a number of wins to the growing electric vehicle industry in the state this past legislative session,...

As it has for the past few decades, Texas is still facing a nursing shortage—a problem now severe enough to warrant state lawmakers...

Texas will have the “most consumer-friendly” data privacy law in the nation, says the bill sponsor, state Rep. Giovanni “Gio”...

Bentley's Law, named after one victim's surviving son, would require people convicted of intoxication manslaughter to pay restitution....

Just because Texas governors have the power to call the Legislature into a special session on any topic at any time doesn’t mean they...

Governor of Texas, Greg Abbottreleased six border bill Approved during the 88th regular legislative session at the state capitol. In a...