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 three members of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will decide Sept. 23 whether people who objected to a seawater desalination plant at Port Aransas get a trial-like hearing, or whether the permit moves toward approval without one.
Six days after its regular September meeting, the Texas Bond Review Board has been called back Sept. 23 to sign off on refinancing the bonds behind state home and land loans for Texas veterans.
The board that hands out Texas's space grants will vote Sept. 23 on setting aside part of a $450 million state fund for something it has never spent the money on — helping land a major NASA or Defense Department facility in Texas.
The Texas Ethics Commission takes up a question about its own power Sept. 23: whether it can fine someone for filing a required financial disclosure late when the commission never sent the notice telling that person to file.
A Texas high school student who earns college credit in a welding, nursing or automotive class will see it add less to a grade point average than the same credit earned in a college history or calculus course, under the first statewide rule the state has ever adopted for how school districts must compute high school GPAs.
A home health aide, hospice worker or personal-care attendant whom state investigators conclude has abused, neglected or exploited a client would have to be suspended by their employer until every appeal is exhausted, under a rewrite of the licensing rules for Texas home care agencies that the Health and Human Services Commission published Sept. 18.
Texas health officials want a handbook they can rewrite at any time, without notice or public comment, to carry the force of law over the agencies that care for Texans who are both deaf and blind.
The Texas Workforce Commission reported Sept. 18 that Texas added 159,400 nonfarm jobs between August 2025 and August 2026, lifting total employment in the state to 14,469,300 positions and holding the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate at 4.4 percent.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is accepting project proposals for its Habitat and Angler Access Program for the 2028-29 fiscal year funding cycle, the agency announced Sept. 18.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Historical Commission have launched a Buffalo Soldiers Heritage Trail website and will mark the debut with a public event at Abilene State Park this month, the agencies announced Sept. 18.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Sept. 18 that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has approved a $7.5 billion reimbursement to Texas for border security costs the state absorbed in recent years.
Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows issued a joint call Sept. 18 for greater oversight of local prosecutors who they say decline to enforce state law, setting up a legislative push over the discretion district attorneys exercise in criminal cases.