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.
Cereals served in school cafeterias no longer contain synthetic food dyes, the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in an Aug. 19 news release, the result of settlements the office reached with WK Kellogg Co. and General Mills Inc. The agreements grew out of a months-long investigation into the safety of certain ingredients in cereal products, followed by weeks of negotiation, according to the release.
The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Aug. 19 it has reached a resolution in the case of an infant identified as baby Gabriel, after the newborn received the medically indicated, life-sustaining care at the center of the dispute.
Texas Comptroller Don Huffines said Aug. 19 he will launch a detailed review of select school districts to determine whether they are spending taxpayer funds responsibly, acting on a formal request Gov. Greg Abbott issued the same day.
Amazon has selected Austin as the site of a new robotics manufacturing facility, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 19.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is seeking public comment on the draft Texas Social Services Block Grant Title XX Intended Use Report, the agency said in an Aug. 19 notice.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is flying radiation-detection sensors aboard its helicopters, a capability the agency highlighted in an Aug. 19 news release marking National Aviation Day.
The Railroad Commission of Texas has a returning leader at its helm.
The 2026 A-F accountability ratings released Aug. 14 look like progress.
The board that governs Texas's state juvenile lockups votes Friday on whether to publish rewrites of two rules at the center of a federal civil rights finding against the agency: how staff may use force on a child, and when a child may be shut alone in a locked room.
The Public Utility Commission has called a special meeting for Friday in a University of Texas hotel ballroom rather than its own hearing room, and put nothing on the agenda but two Oncor applications for what would be among the first 765-kilovolt transmission lines in Texas.
Texas's banking and lending regulators meet Friday to finish one data security rule and launch a nearly identical one, aimed at two of the state's most heavily used small-dollar lenders.
The state board that pays for court-appointed lawyers meets Aug. 21 to decide whether public defender offices must start reporting what they pay their attorneys, and whether counties that file their spending reports late should face a penalty.