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 A&M University System regents will meet Aug. 27 to approve an interim provost for the flagship campus in College Station — a campus hire that until last year would not have reached the board at all.
The nine regents who run the Texas State Technical College system meet Aug. 27 in Waco to set tuition and fee rates for the fall of 2027 — more than a year out — and to adopt the system's operating budget for the year that begins Sept. 1.
Texas made itself the gatekeeper for driverless commercial vehicles last year.
Meta launched a marketing campaign built around firsthand accounts from residents and small business owners in Fort Worth, Temple and El Paso, according to an Aug. 25 announcement from the company.
Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Insurance to take a series of actions intended to make property and casualty insurance more affordable for Texans who invest in their homes, according to an Aug. 24 news release from the Office of the Texas Governor.
The Texas Animal Health Commission issued new movement requirements for cattle of Mexican origin bound for Texas, tightening the paperwork and identification standards those animals must meet as New World screwworm spreads in Mexico, according to an Aug. 24 news release from the agency.
The Texas Restaurant Foundation and Garrison Brothers Distillery announced the fifth annual Hye Steaks Cookout, an October fundraiser pairing Texas bourbon and beef to support the people who staff the state's restaurants, according to an Aug. 4 news release from the foundation.
Texas school districts received $1,000 for every teacher who started uncertified and earned a standard teaching certificate, and the state has now told them in writing that they may spend that money on whatever they like.
The three commissioners who run the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will meet Aug. 26 with the air permit for a proposed ammonia plant at Ingleside as the first item on a 63-item agenda.
The five commissioners who govern the Texas Department of Transportation will meet Aug. 26 to approve the state's ten-year road plan, which the department says carries more than $95 billion.
The Texas Oil & Gas Association warned that a State Office of Administrative Hearings recommendation to set aside additional transmission infrastructure in West Texas would put the reliability of the state's electric grid at risk, according to an Aug. 24 statement from TXOGA President Todd Staples.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas called a special meeting Aug. 21 for the sole purpose of taking up two of the giant power lines proposed to carry electricity out of the Permian Basin, moved it into a hotel ballroom to hold the crowd, heard argument from the parties, and then approved nothing, denied nothing and paused nothing.