Covering Texas state agencies, regulatory commissions, and governmental bodies shaping policy across the Lone Star State.
When Texas publicly reprimands an educator, the censure is written onto the face of that person’s certificate, and nothing in the board’s disciplinary rules provides for it to expire.
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 Workforce Commission reported that Texas employers added 154,300 nonfarm jobs over the 12 months ending in September, an annual growth rate of 1.1 percent that outpaced the national rate by 0.8 percentage points, according to an Oct. 16 news release from the agency.
Texas Comptroller Don Huffines praised the state’s latest employment figures, which show Texas adding 154,300 nonfarm jobs between September 2025 and September 2026, according to an Oct. 16 news release from the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
The nine-member board that licenses Texas veterinarians meets Oct. 20 to vote on closing roughly 150 complaint files without any disciplinary action, settling 37 more by agreement, and filling its own committee posts.
The three-member Texas Workforce Commission meets Oct. 20 to vote on 643 unemployment appeals and 18 unpaid-wage claims — the last stop inside the agency for Texans who have already lost at a hearing.
The School Land Board, the five-member panel that sets what oil companies pay to drill under land owned by the Texas public school fund, meets Oct. 20 in a specially called session to open the bids from that same morning's online lease sale and to clear 29 applications from operators working the Permian Basin, South Texas and the East Texas fields.
The board of the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation meets Oct. 20 to take the opening step toward a new round of mortgage bonds — the borrowing that pays for the below-market home loans and down-payment grants the corporation offers Texans who cannot clear a conventional mortgage on their own.
The X-ray scanners that Texas jails point at the people they book would come under radiation-safety rules written for them for the first time, under draft rules the state health department sends out for public comment on Oct. 23.
The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) said Commissioner Wayne Christian on Thursday urged Texas lawmakers and regulators to fast-track a clear, efficient regulatory pathway for the industrial reuse of treated produced water, according to an Oct. 15 news release.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent letters to 156 data center developments across the state as part of an ongoing investigation into water use and compliance with Texas law, according to an Oct. 15 news release from his office.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has awarded $226 million in federal funds for 321 electric vehicle charging stations across the state, the agency said in an Oct. 15 news story.
The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) hosted its annual White Cane Day celebration on Oct. 14 at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) in Austin, the agency said in a news release.
Texas Comptroller Don Huffines has signed an executive order requiring contractors and grantees of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts to certify that no part of their work for the state involves discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, according to an Oct. 15 news release from the agency.