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 Public Utility Commission of Texas will meet Aug. 28 to settle the route of a 370-mile power line from San Antonio to the Permian Basin, the first of three high-voltage paths the state approved out of the oil field to reach a decision.
The Texas Southern University regents will meet on Aug. 28 in a special session to replace a 15-year-old tenure policy with one written to carry out a 2023 state law — four days before the state's annual filing deadline.
The University of Texas System Board of Regents meets by telephone Aug. 28 to award tenure to 27 professors at the University of Texas at Dallas — the same 27 names the board already had in front of it two weeks earlier.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 25 that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved a request from the state of Texas for a Fire Management Assistance Grant to support the response to the Ross Fire burning in Palo Pinto and Jack counties.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 25 that Industrial Electric Mfg.
A Texas Department of Public Safety corporal has been named the top commercial motor vehicle roadside inspector in North America, the agency announced Aug. 25, marking the second consecutive year a DPS inspector has claimed the honor.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller mourned the passing of country music icon Dolly Parton on Aug. 25, releasing a statement that remembered an entertainer whose music, faith, generosity and spirit he said touched generations of Americans and earned her a place in the hearts of Texans.
Texas 2036 released a free online tool Aug. 25 that lets school districts and community colleges estimate how much additional state funding they could generate by expanding career and college programs, the nonpartisan policy organization announced.
Texas secured the future of one of its most closely watched regional rail connections Aug. 25 with the signing of an agreement between the Texas Department of Transportation and Amtrak to sustain the Heartland Flyer, the passenger line linking Fort Worth and Oklahoma City.
The five commissioners who govern the Texas Department of Public Safety will meet Aug. 27 to take up the fitness and appearance standards every commissioned officer has to meet — a policy that has not appeared on a posted commission agenda since at least April 2025.
The board that governs the Texas Department of Information Resources will meet Aug. 27 to approve the agency's 2027 budget and the fees it charges — but the item is written to take effect only if state budget writers let the agency carry over money left in its Texas.gov accounts at the end of this year.
The board that runs Texas's prison school district will meet Aug. 27 in Bryan to set the district's 2027 operating budget and decide what to ask the Legislature for in 2028 and 2029.