Inside the Texas Legislature -- bills, votes, and committee action from the Texas House and Senate.
In mid-July 2026, a high-stakes legal and regulatory campaign by Texas's top executive and legislative leaders positioned the state at the forefront of the national debate over birthright citizenship and reproductive bioethics.
Texas home insurers earned roughly 22 cents in profit for every dollar of premiums they collected in 2025 — their best year in two decades — according to preliminary financial data reported July 8, even as homeowners pay about 80% more for coverage than they did in 2020.
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As Texas appraisal districts race toward the July 25 deadline to certify their tax rolls, the state's two most powerful Republicans are advancing competing visions for the next round of property-tax cuts, and the gap between them will frame the property tax debate.
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Texas has some of the most permissive surrogacy laws in the country, and on Wednesday the Texas Senate's health panel spent more than two hours of invited testimony — and much of a long public-comment line — building the case that foreign nationals and commercial agencies are exploiting them.
A year and four days after the Hill Country floods killed dozens of campers and counselors, the state officials who now license Texas youth camps told senators Wednesday that the new safety law has teeth.
In early July 2026, the ongoing struggle between state regulators and the rapidly expanding consumable hemp industry returned to the center of Texas public policy.
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