The Texas Bond Review Board will consider highway mobility bonds, a taxable general obligation refunding and three commercial paper programs — including one that supports cancer research grants — during its meeting on July 28 in Austin.
The Texas Commission on State Emergency Communications will meet Wednesday to set annual 9-1-1 service fees, consider a new five-year statewide strategic plan for emergency communications and potentially select the agency's next executive director.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick on Monday handed four Texas Senate committees a new set of interim assignments, directing them to study online ticket resale, religious liberty, child safety in online games, family-court delays and the shrinking Pecos River before the Legislature reconvenes.
With the state's July 25 certification deadline behind them, county appraisal districts have handed local taxing units their certified 2026 tax rolls — the official value of everything they can tax — and the yearlong property-tax fight now moves from what your home is worth to the rate your city, county and school board set in August.
Administrative law judges on July 24 denied two motions seeking to reopen the record in the disputed Howard-Solstice transmission line case, keeping the proceeding on schedule as they prepare a recommendation for the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
Two of the biggest tests of Texas public education policy arrive within weeks of each other this August, and together they will frame how the state judges its schools heading into the 2027 legislative session.
By Dhiyasri Thirumurugan Every public school restroom in Texas contains toilet paper.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has reopened the Shady Ridge Camping Loop at Cedar Hill State Park, restoring 68 campsites near Joe Pool Lake after a multi-year closure for repairs and renovations, the agency announced in a July 23 news release.
Governor Greg Abbott announced that Diode will not pursue a proposed data center near Cedar Creek Lake in Henderson County after the company determined the project did not meet the Governor’s directives or community expectations, according to a July 23 news release.
Governor Greg Abbott announced more than $114 million in housing tax credits to finance the development or rehabilitation of 70 rental properties across Texas, a move the state says will create or preserve more than 4,400 affordable rental units, according to a July 23 news release.