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 law says a person who has posted the required bond "shall at once be set at liberty." The state's minimum jail standards set no deadline for doing it.
The Texas Water Development Board votes Thursday on $37.6 million for a small water district west of Fort Worth — the largest single award yet in a federal program aimed at PFAS, the industrial "forever chemicals" turning up in drinking water.
Every other motion the Texas State Board of Pharmacy took up on Tuesday morning passed without a single audible objection — the jurisprudence exam rule, the disaster-closure rules, the records rule, the rule review, the officer elections.
Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission announced Monday that federal officials approved an extension of the deadline for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to apply for replacement benefits for food lost during July’s severe weather and flooding, according to an Aug. 3 news release from the governor’s office.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that Apollo Global Management will establish a new strategic hub in Austin to drive innovation, emerging technology, and the next phase of the firm’s growth, according to an Aug. 3 news release from the governor’s office.
The Texas General Land Office on Monday posted Amendment 22 to the Hurricane Harvey $5.6 Billion State Action Plan for a federally required 30-day public comment period, according to an Aug. 3 news release from the agency.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham sent a cease and desist letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and contractor Barnard Construction after finding that a federal contractor illegally cleared more than a mile of state land, the Texas General Land Office said in a July 31 news release.
Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation into major food manufacturers that market products as heart-healthy despite what his office describes as evidence to the contrary, according to an Aug. 3 news release from the Office of the Attorney General.
The Texas Oil and Gas Association published its July 2026 Month in Review on Aug. 3, a roundup the association said shows how TXOGA continued advocating for the Texas oil and natural gas industry over the past month.
The mechanics are older than the news.
The Texas Water Development Board meets Wednesday morning for a briefing session with nothing on it to vote on.
Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to conduct a comprehensive verification and audit of every data center advancing through ERCOT’s interconnection process — and to finish the audit before any additional data center is approved to move forward.