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.
Texas Department of Transportation maintenance crews in the Dallas area are steadily expanding the road and bridge work they perform in-house rather than relying on contractors, according to an Aug. 6 story published in the agency's newsroom.
Governor Greg Abbott announced more than $5.6 million in grants to eight Texas colleges and universities through the Nursing Innovation Grant Program, according to an Aug. 7 news release published by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is opening a new trailhead at Honey Creek State Natural Area on Aug. 8, welcoming visitors to a site previously open through guided access only, according to an Aug. 7 news release from the agency.
Governor Greg Abbott announced that data center companies Skybox, Digital Realty, and Mara will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data center development in Texas, according to an Aug. 7 press release from the governor's office.
Governor Greg Abbott touted new Uniform Crime Reporting data showing the Texas crime rate fell for the third consecutive year under his current term, with the statewide rate dropping 13% in 2025, according to an Aug. 7 press release from the governor's office.
Texas Land Commissioner and Veterans Land Board Chairwoman Dawn Buckingham, M.D., introduced the latest installment of the Voices of Veterans Oral History Program, highlighting the service of retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Rich Buickerood, according to a news release from the Texas General Land Office.
The Texas Workforce Commission decides Tuesday whether to open for public comment a rewrite of its own anti-discrimination rules, brought on by Washington's repeal of the requirement that federally funded job programs make an effort to reach people who might not otherwise walk in the door.
Texas families are days away from their first look at how every public school and district in the state performed this past year.
The chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas has called his fellow commissioners and the state's grid operator into a special open meeting this Friday, Aug. 14, to talk through the policy questions hanging over the Permian Basin power-line buildout — while promising that no final decision on the Howard-Solstice line, the biggest piece of that buildout, will be made in the room.
The Texas Real Estate Commission votes Monday on a rewrite of the rules that tell a licensed home inspector what to check in a house — including, for the first time, a written standard for running a camera down the sewer line.
A 13-member state board meets Monday afternoon in Austin to approve the next batch of certified prescribed burn managers — a credential that decides, under Texas law, whether a landowner can be sued when a deliberately set fire gets away.
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards spent the first hour and more of its quarterly meeting Thursday listening.