Covering Texas state agencies, regulatory commissions, and governmental bodies shaping policy across the Lone Star State.
When Texas publicly reprimands an educator, the censure is written onto the face of that person’s certificate, and nothing in the board’s disciplinary rules provides for it to expire.
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 Railroad Commission of Texas has issued its second permit for a deep geopressured geothermal well dedicated to energy storage, approving a well in Galveston County for Quidnet Energy Deployment LLC, the agency announced in a July 30 news release.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has acquired 2,850 acres in Stephens County that will become the Robbie Davis Wildlife Management Area, the agency announced in an Aug. 5 news release.
The Texas Workforce Commission has awarded a $131,530 dual credit grant to Hale Center Independent School District to support career and technical education, the agency announced in an Aug. 5 news release.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is urging drivers and families to make safety a top priority as students return to classrooms across the state, according to an agency news release issued ahead of the new school year.
Attorney General Ken Paxton's office announced that its settlement agreement with Texas Children's Hospital has been fully executed, finalizing a $10 million payment and requiring the hospital to open what the office describes as the country's first detransition clinic, according to an Aug. 5 news release from the Office of the Attorney General.
The first annual report on Texas Education Freedom Accounts is full of big numbers — 274,000 applications, 85,344 funded students, a 121,000-name waiting list the comptroller's office calls the largest in the country.
Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into the American Academy of Pediatrics over concerns that the organization may be promoting childhood vaccines for financial gain, his office announced in an Aug. 5 news release.
The agency that regulates Texas credit unions has been suing the state's attorney general since December 2021 to keep a set of records out of public hands.
The Texas State Board of Dental Examiners moves Friday on rules that would make every dentist, hygienist, dental assistant and dental lab in the state document that it is legally allowed to work here before a license is issued or renewed.
The Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board votes Friday on whether to send out for public comment a rewrite of eleven rules governing appraisal management companies — the firms that stand between a mortgage lender and the appraiser who decides what a house is worth.
The Texas Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners picks a vendor Friday to build a system that tracks whether the state's roughly 20,800 occupational therapists and assistants have done their continuing education — 25 days before a state law requires the system to be running.
The board that governs the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired votes Friday morning on an audit of how the school investigates abuse and neglect complaints against its own staff — then, later the same day, amends the policy that audit examined.