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.
Austin ISD plans to borrow $140 million this fall to cover paychecks until property tax money arrives, after its own budget office told trustees the district finished last school year $86 million in the red — $67 million worse than the deficit the board adopted — and with two campuses now failing long enough to put the district in line for state intervention.
The Railroad Commission of Texas announced Aug. 31 that David Lindley has been named the new director of the agency's Oil and Gas Division, the arm of the commission that oversees exploration and production activity across the state.
The Texas Department of Agriculture and Feeding Texas announced Sept. 1 that they are teaming up for Hunger Action Month, a nationwide September campaign to raise awareness of food insecurity and encourage Texans to support neighbors facing hunger.
The Texas Department of Agriculture said Sept. 1 that its investigators helped law enforcement agencies unravel an alleged organized grain-theft operation spanning multiple Texas counties, leading to the arrests of three men.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Amazon.com Inc. on Aug. 31, alleging the company deceived Texas businesses about how it prices the advertising they buy on its platform.
Texas 2036 released new polling Sept. 1 showing broad support among Texas voters for state action to improve transparency and competition in the healthcare market.
The state agency that licenses every Texas peace officer and jailer votes Sept. 3 on rules creating a certificate an officer would need before administering a polygraph test — either to someone applying for a law enforcement job or to a subject in a criminal investigation.
The Texas Commission on the Arts meets Sept. 3 to award the first and largest round of grants for the budget year that starts Sept. 1.
The board that hands out Texas farm grants and loan guarantees meets Sept. 3 to consider moving money among the pieces of a $100 million program the Legislature built last year.
The Texas housing agency's board meets Sept. 3 to take a first step toward putting work requirements and time limits on the rent vouchers the agency hands out itself.
The state agency that borrows money on behalf of other Texas agencies meets Sept. 3 to authorize two refinancings and to hear a first report on pricing for a cancer-research bond sale of up to $300 million.
The state commission that works against antisemitism and teaches Holocaust history meets Sept. 3 in Dallas to vote on how to divide as much as $300,000 among Texas nonprofits.