Covering Texas state agencies, regulatory commissions, and governmental bodies shaping policy across the Lone Star State.
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.
Gary VanDeaver, the former rural superintendent who fought private school vouchers in 2023 who was one of only two House Republicans to vote no when they passed in 2025, will take over the Texas Association of School Boards on Oct. 1.
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.
The council that runs shared computer systems for ten Texas health licensing boards meets Sept. 21 to review the unfinished half of a network overhaul ordered after a 2024 ransomware attack spread from one small board across the system and carried data out with it.
Ranchers and pet owners across parts of three Hill Country and South Texas counties can move animals without state permission again, after the Texas Animal Health Commission released the quarantine zone it drew around the first New World screwworm case found in Medina County.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Sept. 17 that the federal government has approved nearly $12 billion in Medicaid funding for Texas health care providers, ending a months-long impasse with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Texas Parks and Wildlife will open Post Oak Ridge State Park for day use on Sept. 24, letting visitors explore the Lampasas County site on their own for the first time, the agency announced Sept. 17.
The Texas Department of Transportation broke ground this month on a covered pedestrian bridge over the Union Pacific rail corridor in Houston’s East End, a crossing named for a Milby High School student killed on the tracks in December 2024.
Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a formal legal opinion Sept. 17 concluding that school district police departments do not qualify to receive reports of suspected child abuse or neglect under the Texas Family Code.
The Texas Workforce Commission is awarding Texas Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship grants to help employers stand up short-term, paid training programs quickly, the agency announced Sept. 17.
Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into a proposed artificial intelligence data center in Taylor, examining whether the land was deeded more than 25 years ago to be held for public parkland.