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.
A Texas high school student who earns college credit in a welding, nursing or automotive class will see it add less to a grade point average than the same credit earned in a college history or calculus course, under the first statewide rule the state has ever adopted for how school districts must compute high school GPAs.
A home health aide, hospice worker or personal-care attendant whom state investigators conclude has abused, neglected or exploited a client would have to be suspended by their employer until every appeal is exhausted, under a rewrite of the licensing rules for Texas home care agencies that the Health and Human Services Commission published Sept. 18.
Texas health officials want a handbook they can rewrite at any time, without notice or public comment, to carry the force of law over the agencies that care for Texans who are both deaf and blind.
The Texas Workforce Commission reported Sept. 18 that Texas added 159,400 nonfarm jobs between August 2025 and August 2026, lifting total employment in the state to 14,469,300 positions and holding the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate at 4.4 percent.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is accepting project proposals for its Habitat and Angler Access Program for the 2028-29 fiscal year funding cycle, the agency announced Sept. 18.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Historical Commission have launched a Buffalo Soldiers Heritage Trail website and will mark the debut with a public event at Abilene State Park this month, the agencies announced Sept. 18.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Sept. 18 that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has approved a $7.5 billion reimbursement to Texas for border security costs the state absorbed in recent years.
Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows issued a joint call Sept. 18 for greater oversight of local prosecutors who they say decline to enforce state law, setting up a legislative push over the discretion district attorneys exercise in criminal cases.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission votes Sept. 22 on whether to open for public comment a rewrite of the rules that decide what a bar, restaurant or package store pays when it breaks the law.
The Texas Veterans Land Board will staff a resource table every day of this year’s State Fair of Texas, Land Commissioner and board Chairwoman Dawn Buckingham announced Sept. 18.
Texas regulators cleared ExxonMobil on Sept. 15 to bury 53 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in the rock beneath a farming community southwest of Beaumont, over neighbors’ objections that the nearest house sits less than a mile from a well.
The agency that runs Medicaid, mental health care and food assistance for Texas has told state budget writers it can absorb a 3 percent cut without touching Medicaid — and the line-by-line list attached to that promise eliminates its autism program, eliminates its prescription drug savings program and takes $21.7 million out of women's health.