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 Department of Public Safety's Criminal Investigations Division executed a series of search and arrest warrants on Aug. 12 targeting an alleged criminal enterprise trafficking in stolen petroleum products, the agency said in a news release.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will open its annual Alligator Gar Harvest Authorization drawing application process on Sept. 1, according to an Aug. 27 news release from the agency.
The Texas House Subcommittee on Transportation Funding will gavel in at 10 a.m. Sept. 2 at the Solomon P. Ortiz Center in Corpus Christi to take invited and public testimony on how the Texas Department of Transportation divides its money and whether the state raises enough of it.
The Texas Department of Agriculture activated two disaster relief programs Wednesday as the fast-moving Ross Wildfire threatened farms, ranches and livestock operations in Palo Pinto and Jack counties.
The Railroad Commission of Texas has adopted a new Public Engagement and Participation Policy that moves general public comment out of open meetings and into a schedule of statewide listening sessions.
Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to create a working group charged with developing a statewide framework for three-year bachelor’s degree pathways, according to news releases issued Aug. 26 by the Office of the Governor and by THECB.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality assessed penalties totaling $2,012,293 against 88 regulated entities for violations of state environmental regulations, the agency announced in an Aug. 26 news release.
The Texas General Land Office has approved $9,500,000 in disaster recovery funds for a wastewater collection system improvement project in the city of Prairie View, Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced in an Aug. 26 news release.
Governor Greg Abbott announced a new 10-year transportation plan with a total projected investment of $138 billion, according to an Aug. 26 news release from the Office of the Governor.
On the morning of Aug. 18, nineteen people were receiving dialysis at Childress Regional Medical Center.
For nearly 21 years, a Texan who registered to speak at a Railroad Commission open meeting was guaranteed a turn at the microphone.
The nine members who govern the Texas prison system will meet Aug. 28 in Bryan, where they vote on installing air conditioning in inmate housing at four units — Briscoe in Dilley, Garza West in Beeville, Lychner in Humble and Sanchez in El Paso.