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.
Texas Comptroller Don Huffines signed an executive order banning the use of state grant money to buy or contract for Flock cameras, automated license plate readers and other vehicle-identification systems, according to an Oct. 13 news release from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced $3.7 million in Perkins Leadership Grants awarded to 13 Texas public two-year postsecondary institutions for the development of Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, according to an Oct. 13 news release from the governor’s office.
Gov. Greg Abbott highlighted Texas’ energy leadership and economy during a fireside chat at the University Lands Energy Forum in Odessa, according to an Oct. 13 news release from the governor’s office.
Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to activate state emergency response resources ahead of severe weather, heavy rainfall and potential flash flooding expected to affect portions of West Texas this week, according to an Oct. 13 news release from the governor’s office.
The Texas Department of Transportation has added a Halloween-themed “Phantom” layer to its Statewide Planning Map, giving Texans a way to browse haunted hotels, cryptid sightings, urban legends and other spooky sites alongside transportation projects, TxDOT said in an Oct. 13 news story.
The five-member commission that governs the Texas Department of Public Safety meets Oct. 15 to decide whether to put five rule packages out for public comment, among them the first set of rules telling local police agencies how to take DNA from the sex offenders and terrorist offenders who register with them.
The board that lends and grants state money to Texas farmers meets Oct. 15 to launch the last piece of a grant program it has been rolling out all year, and to decide what a bankruptcy filing noticed on its own agenda means for the $360,000 it awarded a cotton gin in July.
The agency that builds and leases buildings for the rest of Texas government meets Oct. 15 to adopt both of its long-range plans for state property and to pick a builder for a 59-acre public park in Midland.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas meets Oct. 15 on three applications to wire very large electricity customers straight into a single power plant, so that the plant's output is netted against what the customer draws.
The council that gathers public comment for Texas's health and human services agencies meets Oct. 15 on rules governing a 30-bed center for foster teenagers that opened east of Dallas on Sept. 1.
The five-member board that regulates manufactured homes in Texas meets Oct. 15 for the first time since Nov. 10, and will be asked to approve an operating budget with seven fewer positions than the division was funded for in 2025.
Texas water utilities that never told their customers the pipe running into the house might be made of lead will start collecting violations by the end of October, the state’s environmental agency said Oct. 13 — and it does not know, or did not say, how many households were left in the dark.