Covering Texas state agencies, regulatory commissions, and governmental bodies shaping policy across the Lone Star State.
Three Texas counties may leave fire sprinklers out of the cells where they lock people up — including a 500-bed jail Liberty County has not built yet — under votes the state’s jail regulator took Nov. 5.
The Texas Legislature has not overridden a governor's veto since 1979.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Aug. 11 that EdgeConneX and Stream Data Centers will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data center development in Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Aug. 11 that Oracle will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data center development in Texas.
Texas 2036 released a report Aug. 11 finding that while Texas invests billions of dollars each year in childcare and early childhood programs, oversight of the system is split across at least five state agencies, leaving no single entity accountable for the system as a whole.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Aug. 11 that $7,746,000 in Funds for Veterans' Assistance grants have been awarded to 28 organizations in the North Texas region, with the funding expected to provide services to an estimated more than 4,900 local veterans.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured an emergency court order Aug. 11 intended to ensure that a child known as baby Gabriel receives life-saving medical care upon his birth, less than 24 hours after his office intervened in a Dallas County parentage case, according to a news release from the Office of the Attorney General.
Two and a half years after a snapped utility pole ignited the largest wildfire in Texas history, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources spent more than three hours Tuesday auditing every layer of the state's wildfire defenses — and heard that the machinery lawmakers built in 2025 is largely on schedule, but that the hardest questions, from powerline liability to who approves a utility's mitigation plan, are already queued up for the next Legislature.
The nine-member board that licenses Texas car dealers votes Thursday on rules meant to make the state's vehicle-records privacy law enforceable against the businesses that hold your name, address and license number.
The commission that decides whose radioactive waste may be buried in West Texas meets Thursday with 20 import applications in front of it — from a Michigan reactor, two Minnesota plants, an Army munitions contractor and more than a dozen others.
The board that licenses Texas engineers and land surveyors takes up a question Thursday that its rules have never squarely answered: when a crew maps the gas, water and electric lines buried under a construction site, is that engineering, surveying, or both?
The nine-member board that governs the Texas School for the Deaf meets Thursday afternoon for two items and nothing else: a year-end evaluation of the superintendent and his goals for the year ahead.
The New World screwworm outbreak that produced 30 confirmed cases in June has slowed to one so far in August.
Two trustees of the Appraisal Foundation drove to Austin on Friday morning to tell the Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board that the profession it regulates is running out of people.