Texas would bar a behavior analyst from letting artificial intelligence help write a child’s therapy plan unless the family signed off first — and would forbid the analyst from ever letting the software make the call alone.
Ashley Wall told exactly one person she wanted to write children's books, and he bought a company before she finished the sentence.
Texas Comptroller Don Huffines announced on Sept. 14 the senior leadership team he has recruited to carry out what his office called sweeping reforms at the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists are monitoring a red tide bloom off the Galveston coast that has produced fish kills and prompted reports of respiratory irritation among beachgoers, the agency said in a Sept. 14 media statement.
Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Water Development Board on Sept. 14 to compel major water users, including data centers, to comply with state water use reporting requirements and to impose legal consequences for past and future failures to do so.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Sept. 14 that the U.S. Small Business Administration approved his request to include South-Central Texas communities in the federal disaster declaration covering severe weather that struck the region in August.
Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Workforce Commission announced on Sept. 14 that four Jobs and Education for Texans grants totaling $1,327,075 have been awarded to four West Central Texas schools to expand career and technical education programs.
The Texas Workforce Commission is celebrating Adult Education and Family Literacy Week from Sept. 13 through Sept. 19, using the observance to highlight free programs that help adults build reading, writing, math and English skills, the agency said in a Sept. 14 news release.
By Sam Romain On August 3, Governor Abbott told the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT that no new data center could connect to the Texas grid until the state audits every project in the queue.
The state board created to cut what Texas pays for prescription drugs meets Sept. 16 with roughly $119 million of its $150 million carrying no planned use and the law that created it set to expire next September.