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 nine people who set policy for Texas's public colleges spend Sept. 29 in Waco at a retreat where they are barred from deciding anything — and one of the items on the agenda is a Sunset review that will not reach lawmakers until 2029.
Texas ordered emergency room doctors to learn how to treat sexual assault survivors and collect the evidence that a prosecution later rests on, a requirement that took effect Sept. 1.
The Texas House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock will gavel in at 10 a.m. Oct. 2 in Capitol Extension room E2.012 to take invited and public testimony on invasive species threatening Texas farms and ranches, state programs to expand markets for Texas-grown products, and oversight of the agencies under its jurisdiction.
The three commissioners who run Texas's unemployment and job-training agency meet Sept. 28 with three dockets of benefit appeals stacked on one agenda — several hundred cases in a single sitting.
The board that oversees Texas's 216 local soil and water conservation districts opens its members' annual convention at 7 a.m. Sept. 28 with a vote on whether certain landowners may collect state water-quality money a second time.
The board of the Texas School Safety Center meets Sept. 28 to rewrite its own bylaws, a year after lawmakers changed who sits on it.
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts has rolled out new fraud-prevention tools designed to strengthen financial controls and safeguard taxpayer dollars across the state's payment systems, according to a Sept. 24 news release from the agency.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Centennial Time Capsule is heading to Caddo Lake State Park, its next stop on a 50-year journey to visit every state park, according to a Sept. 24 news release from the agency.
The Texas General Land Office says volunteers removed nearly 62,000 pounds of trash from the state's beaches during this year's Adopt-A-Beach Coastwide Fall Cleanup, according to a news release from Commissioner Dawn Buckingham's office.
Texas firefighters would have to spend at least four hours a year actually pulling hose, throwing ladders and working in an air pack — not clicking through modules on a station computer — under a rule change the state’s firefighter advisory committee took up Sept. 24.
The Texas Water Development Board has released Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Resilience in Texas, a statewide guidance manual meant to help communities evaluate flood mitigation approaches that work with natural processes, according to a Sept. 16 article published by the agency's Texas Water Newsroom.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved penalties totaling $2,092,716 against 44 regulated entities for violations of state environmental regulations at its Sept. 23 agenda meeting, according to a news release from the agency.