Covering Texas state agencies, regulatory commissions, and governmental bodies shaping policy across the Lone Star State.
Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into the American Academy of Pediatrics over concerns that the organization may be promoting childhood vaccines for financial gain, his office announced in an Aug.
The agency that regulates Texas credit unions has been suing the state's attorney general since December 2021 to keep a set of records out of public hands.
The Texas State Board of Dental Examiners moves Friday on rules that would make every dentist, hygienist, dental assistant and dental lab in the state document that it is legally allowed to work here before a license is issued or renewed.
The Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board votes Friday on whether to send out for public comment a rewrite of eleven rules governing appraisal management companies — the firms that stand between a mortgage lender and the appraiser who decides what a house is worth.
The Texas Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners picks a vendor Friday to build a system that tracks whether the state's roughly 20,800 occupational therapists and assistants have done their continuing education — 25 days before a state law requires the system to be running.
The board that governs the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired votes Friday morning on an audit of how the school investigates abuse and neglect complaints against its own staff — then, later the same day, amends the policy that audit examined.
The Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities meets Friday in San Antonio to set the priorities for its next round of grants.
Texas has stopped telling data centers whether they can plug into the state's power grid, and no one has said when it will start again.
The Texas Transportation Commission awarded $955 million for 85 highway improvement projects, advanced a roughly $2.
The Texas Transportation Commission approved more than $154 million in transit funding to help Texans reach jobs, school, medical care, and other essential destinations, the Texas Department of Transportation announced in a July 31 news release.