Covering Texas state agencies, regulatory commissions, and governmental bodies shaping policy across the Lone Star State.
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 Legislature has not overridden a governor's veto since 1979.
The Texas Workforce Commission will meet Nov. 10 and vote on two rule packages — but not on a third.
The State Board for Educator Certification will meet Nov. 10 in Austin to decide whether to take up a question it has never answered: whether a reprimand on a Texas educator’s record should ever expire.
The Texas Veterans Commission will meet Nov. 10 in Austin and take up the volunteer panel that scores its veterans grants, three weeks before applications close on a round worth about $31 million.
The Texas Commission on Marriage and Family will meet Nov. 10 in Austin to take invited testimony on whether Texas courts should start from a presumption that children split their time evenly between parents — and to discuss its own abolition, which the law that created it sets for Dec. 31.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission will meet Nov. 10 with almost nothing on its public agenda and a closed-door session on the executive director’s job, a post the agency’s own leadership page lists as vacant.
The Texas Bond Review Board will meet Nov. 10 to begin vetting two toll-road borrowings for 2027 — one covering the turnpikes around Austin, the other Houston’s Grand Parkway.
The Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation’s board will meet Nov. 10 and vote on whether to publish draft 2027 rules for the grant fund that pays for home repairs and housing counseling for the state’s poorest residents — the step that opens them to public comment.
The college requirement standing between a Texas home appraiser and the state’s two highest credentials could disappear within weeks, and nobody in Texas gets a vote on it.
Texas would accept a wider range of identity documents from people applying for or renewing a dental license, under a rule the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners voted Nov. 6 to send out for public comment.
The Texas Real Estate Commission will meet Nov. 9 in Austin and vote on reviving a rewrite of the state’s home inspection standards that it walked away from in August.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) are teaming up on a safe-driving campaign aimed at ending the streak of daily traffic deaths on Texas roads, according to a Nov. 5 TxDOT news release.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., who chairs the Veterans Land Board (VLB), is encouraging Texans to attend flag placement ceremonies at VLB state veterans cemeteries this Veterans Day, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) said in a news release.