Covering Texas state agencies, regulatory commissions, and governmental bodies shaping policy across the Lone Star State.
Texas firefighters would have to spend at least four hours a year actually pulling hose, throwing ladders and working in an air pack — not clicking through modules on a station computer — under a rule change the state’s firefighter advisory committee took up Sept. 24.
Gary VanDeaver, the former rural superintendent who fought private school vouchers in 2023 who was one of only two House Republicans to vote no when they passed in 2025, will take over the Texas Association of School Boards on Oct. 1.
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts has rolled out new fraud-prevention tools designed to strengthen financial controls and safeguard taxpayer dollars across the state's payment systems, according to a Sept. 24 news release from the agency.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Centennial Time Capsule is heading to Caddo Lake State Park, its next stop on a 50-year journey to visit every state park, according to a Sept. 24 news release from the agency.
The Texas General Land Office says volunteers removed nearly 62,000 pounds of trash from the state's beaches during this year's Adopt-A-Beach Coastwide Fall Cleanup, according to a news release from Commissioner Dawn Buckingham's office.
The Texas Water Development Board has released Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Resilience in Texas, a statewide guidance manual meant to help communities evaluate flood mitigation approaches that work with natural processes, according to a Sept. 16 article published by the agency's Texas Water Newsroom.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved penalties totaling $2,092,716 against 44 regulated entities for violations of state environmental regulations at its Sept. 23 agenda meeting, according to a news release from the agency.
The Texas Education Agency has removed its conservators from the Socorro Independent School District after the district completed established exit criteria and sustained its corrective actions, according to a Sept. 23 news release from the agency.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is marking Healthy Aging Month in September by highlighting resources for older Texans and inviting the public to help shape the state's Aging Texas Well Strategic Plan, according to a Sept. 23 news release from the agency.
The Texas Attorney General's Cold Case Unit announced that DNA analysis has conclusively identified recently recovered human remains as those of Jason Landry, a Texas State University student missing since December 2020, according to a Sept. 23 news release from Attorney General Ken Paxton's office.
Public Utility Commission of Texas Commissioner Courtney Hjaltman has been appointed to the Advisory Council to the Board of Directors of the Electric Power Research Institute, according to a Sept. 23 news release from the PUCT.
The nine-member board that writes the ethics rules for Texas marriage and family therapists will meet Sept. 25 to recommend a rewrite that would, for the first time, put a therapist's use of artificial intelligence under the same rule as therapy delivered by video.
The governor-appointed council that writes the state's plan for independent living services meets Sept. 25 and 26 in Georgetown to hear findings on what is and is not working in the current plan — and to vote on accepting the report the same afternoon it is presented.
The three commissioners who run Texas's environmental agency meet Sept. 25 to go straight into closed session.