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.
The Commission on State Emergency Communications spent more of Wednesday morning on a vote whose outcome was never in question than on any other item on its agenda.
The Texas State Board of Acupuncture Examiners takes up rule review and proposed amendments to 22 TAC Chapter 184, the chapter its rules were moved into only last year, alongside a full licensing and enforcement docket of default orders, agreed orders and cases recommended for dismissal.
Meeting at Fort Concho, commissioners will weigh conservation work on the Alamo Church's west façade, roof probes at the Long Barrack, and an appeal from Bandera County after staff denied a permit to pave part of the courthouse square.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas will consider three proposed behind-the-meter power arrangements for large electricity users, a new demand management framework for data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations, and several major electric utility rate cases during its Thursday meeting.
The environmental commission works through a 62-item agenda in which Marathon's Blanchard Refining appears four times, the roll call of respondents reads like a tour of the Gulf Coast petrochemical corridor, and two watermaster decisions could tighten how water rights are policed in the Sulphur River and Rio Grande basins.When: 9:30 AM CT, Thursday, July 30, 2026Where: TCEQ Campus, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Building E, Room 201S, Austin — and by Zoom (webinar ID 840 8231 5129, access code 396820) or by phone at (346) 248-7799Governing body: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Format: Commissioners' agenda meeting; 62 items Live video: TCEQ webcasts page · TCEQ on YouTubeFull agenda: Posted agenda, July 30, 2026 (PDF) · marked agenda Fifty-two of the 62 items on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's Thursday agenda are enforcement orders, and the great majority are agreed orders — negotiated settlements in which a company accepts a penalty and required corrective actions without contesting the alleged violations.
Governor Greg Abbott announced twenty-four grants totaling more than $5.8 million on July 28 to help graduate medical and nursing schools train physicians and nurses in emergency and trauma care, a move state officials said will expand Texas’ healthcare workforce.
For nearly five hours Tuesday, the Senate’s budget-writing committee tried to answer a question that grows harder the bigger the state budget gets: how much of it disappears to fraud, waste and abuse, and who is supposed to catch it.
Eight weeks into the first New World screwworm outbreak on U.S. soil in decades, the numbers have gone quiet.
The Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation spent more of Tuesday morning on one contested case than on any of the other seven, and the reason had nothing to do with the size of the business involved.
The Texas Transportation Commission will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 30, in Austin to consider authorizing the next procurement step for a major segment of the North Houston Highway Improvement Project, designating additional portions of State Highway 99 as toll roads and discussing the agency's next Legislative Appropriations Request. The commission will meet at the Dewitt C. Greer Building, 125 E. 11th St., in Austin.
The Texas Medical Association is urging parents to make sure their children are current on all required vaccinations before the new school year begins, as the United States faces its highest number of measles cases in more than three decades.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened industry-wide investigations into makers of feminine care and cosmetic products, seeking to determine whether companies misled consumers about toxic chemicals in items such as tampons, lip balm, and lipstick.