The Texas House must approve changes to the proposal that were brokered by party leaders. It’s part of a package of bills to ...

The legislation would end lottery couriers and restart the process to hire a vendor to oversee the behind-the-scenes ...

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Sen. Creighton's SB 2972, passed to engrossment Tuesday, reverses the TX 2019 law establishing universities as traditional ...

What this does is remove testing from being the center of gravity for the year the way that it is now,” state Rep. Diego ...

Texas House Bill 128 would restrict such relationships with communities in countries deemed a “foreign adversary,” including ...

One of the likely casualties is a bill that would have transferred tens of millions of dollars in surplus funds from the ...

Texas Senate State Affairs Committee unanimously voted for SB-835, adopting the preferred language of witnesses in favor of ...

A key Senate critic threw a lifeline to the Texas Lottery when he proposed moving its oversight to a new agency instead of ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 29 (SB 29), which had been passed by the Legislature on May 7. The Bill, ...

The proposal would ensure families aren’t torn apart by ideological disagreements over gender identity and sexual orientation ...

Texas' bat population stands to get new protections under a bill moving through the state Legislature. A year after a San ...