The Texas constitution limits its Legislature to a 140-day regular session every other year. The final three weeks of a ...

U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday reintroduced the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) ...

State senators unveiled their version of House Bill 2 on May 15. The amended bill, which differs substantially from what ...

Legislation from the Texas House to scrap onerous STAAR testing is promising, but lawmakers continue to ignore core ways to improve public education.

Texas lawmakers are considering a bill to help Lampasas County recover millions lost to a well-intended – but unfunded – veteran tax break.

The House Budget Committee is charging ahead with a key vote on the party’s package combining President Trump’s legislative ...

Senate Bill 1146 would encourage the owners of leases or mineral rights to which abandoned oil and gas wells are attached to ...

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A proposal aimed at reforming “traveling” housing finance corporations could set off a wave of multifamily distress in big ...

The state created “Texas Partnership” charter schools to turn around struggling public campuses, but an Observer ...

Inside a climate-controlled storage unit just outside Houston is an almost identical layout of Jocelyn Nungaray’s childhood ...

South by Southwest could get state funding to help pay costs associated with planning and conducting its annual conferences ...