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.
Acting Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Kelly Hancock submitted his formal resignation to Governor Greg Abbott after exactly one year of leading the state's primary financial agency.
The southernmost leg of Texas's Permian Basin Reliability Plan — the Howard–Solstice 765-kilovolt line proposed by CPS Energy and AEP Texas — has moved into its proposal-for-decision phase, leaving landowners, conservation groups and the utilities to await an administrative law judge's route recommendation.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States climbed to 29 as of June 30, with a dog in Pecos County becoming the first Texas case in a companion animal, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's confirmed-detections dashboard as reported by Yahoo News and the farm outlet AGDAILY.
Texas school districts paid more than $2.3 billion back to the state in recapture during the 2025-26 school year, with 192 districts writing checks under the "Robin Hood" system, according to figures compiled by the Texas School Coalition and Texas Policy Research.
The Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office (TREO) has released a draft regulatory review proposing the amendment or repeal of 13 rules within the Texas Optometry Board (TOB).
The Texas Department of Transportation and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation have implemented a bi-state data sharing agreement designed to enhance traffic operations, improve traveler information and strengthen coordination across state lines, TxDOT announced in a June 29 news release.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced $113 million in Texas Energy Fund grants to strengthen electric reliability for Southwestern Public Service Company customers in the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, according to a June 30 news release from the governor’s office.
More than 30 members of the Denton–Lewisville Kappa Alpha Psi Alumni Chapter cleaned up a state-maintained road they recently adopted as part of TxDOT’s Don’t Mess with Texas Trash-Off, the agency said in a June 2 feature.
A nearly two-mile stretch of Spur 399 in Collin County is preparing to open new lanes this summer as the project nears its first year of construction, TxDOT said in a June 6 update.
With the 2025-26 school year now complete, Texas has finished the first full year under House Bill 1481, the statewide prohibition on student use of personal communication devices during the school day, and the early assessments from educators, teacher groups, and researchers point in the same general direction: noticeably calmer campuses, with the harder questions about discipline and academic results still unresolved.
One of the largest single data-center projects yet planned in Texas is approaching an operational milestone in a rural county west of Fort Worth.
Governor Greg Abbott announced a nearly $30 million Texas Energy Fund grant to strengthen electric reliability for members of Rita Blanca Electric Cooperative in the northwestern corner of the Texas Panhandle, according to a June 29 news release from the Office of the Governor.