The Texas Department of Insurance has identified a set of actions intended to protect consumers and make property and casualty insurance more affordable for Texans, responding to an August directive from Gov. Greg Abbott, the governor's office announced in a Sept. 16 news release.
The Texas Veterans Land Board has memorialized two Medal of Honor recipients at the West Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Lubbock, the first time recipients of the nation's highest military decoration have been honored at any VLB cemetery, Land Commissioner and VLB Chairwoman Dawn Buckingham announced in a Sept. 16 news release.
The board that licenses Texas teachers votes Sept. 18 on rules that would give a failing teacher-preparation program an extra year before the clock starts on losing its accreditation.
The Public Utility Commission votes Sept. 18 on the rule that decides how data centers and other enormous new electricity users get onto the Texas grid.
The seven people who govern the Texas State Library and Archives Commission have called a special meeting for 8 a.m. Sept. 18 with one item of substance on it: a closed-door session to deliberate the appointment of the agency's director and librarian, the post better known as state librarian.
The nine lawyers who decide who gets a Texas law license meet Sept. 18 at an Austin hotel to hear where the state's efficiency auditors have landed on their agency, and to be briefed again on the exam that will replace the one they give now.
A rule that took effect Sept. 3 erased a 120-hour classroom requirement for the uncertified technicians allowed to operate X-ray equipment in Texas medical offices.
Texas lawmakers have cut school property taxes in three straight sessions and committed roughly $51 billion of the current budget to keeping those cuts in place.
Texas has enrolled more than 368,000 women in its flagship no-cost women's health program.
Every day, Texas oil and gas wells bring roughly 26 million barrels of salt water to the surface — more than a billion gallons.