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 will add exactly one new open-enrollment charter operator this year, after the State Board of Education signed off on Texas High School for Accelerated Learning, the single applicant the Texas Education Agency (TEA) advanced from a field of 18.
Texas' effort to control who pays for the power that data centers demand reaches two hard markers this month.
A 27-year-old man died at Lake Hawkins in Wood County on July 4, according to an official media statement from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Texas is preparing to fund special education based on how much service a student needs rather than where that student sits, one of the largest structural changes in the state's school-finance system in years, as the Texas Education Agency rolls out implementation guidance for House Bill 2 ahead of the 2026-27 school year.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is accepting applications for its 2026-27 drawn hunt permits program, offering nearly 9,800 permits across more than 60 hunt categories, the agency announced in a July 2 news release.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will host a second round of public meetings in Kerrville and Houston on July 8 and 9 to gather feedback on the Public Use Plan for Bear Creek State Park, the agency announced in a July 2 news release.
With Fourth of July crowds expected at lakes across Texas, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is reminding boaters, paddlers and anglers to clean, drain and dry their boats and equipment to help prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species, according to a July 2 news release.
The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) announced that the Texas Open Data Portal has achieved a major operational milestone, recording a nearly 6,800% explosion in data downloads over the last four years.
Texas health insurers are filing their proposed 2027 marketplace rates this summer after enhanced federal premium subsidies that supported Affordable Care Act coverage for millions expired.
The Texas Medical Association is calling for a minimum age of 21 and new safeguards for online prediction market platforms, warning that the fast-growing betting apps could put Texas adolescents at risk of addiction.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to immediately authorize the use of ivermectin in medicated livestock feed, saying Texas ranchers need every proven tool available to stop the rapidly expanding New World screwworm outbreak.
The Texas Oil & Gas Association published its June 2026 Month in Review on July 1, recapping a month of advocacy on behalf of the Texas oil and natural gas industry.