Covering Texas state agencies, regulatory commissions, and governmental bodies shaping policy across the Lone Star State.
Williamson County is asking state regulators for a formal hearing on a proposed taxing district for 108.7 acres about a mile north of Leander, and the state's own lawyers disagree on whether the county is entitled to one.
Twenty student nurses at Hill College finished their pediatrics and childbirth courses without ever caring for a real patient, and the Texas Board of Nursing would not let their graduation papers be signed until they went back and did the hours.
The Texas Medical Association is calling for a minimum age of 21 and new safeguards for online prediction market platforms, warning that the fast-growing betting apps could put Texas adolescents at risk of addiction.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to immediately authorize the use of ivermectin in medicated livestock feed, saying Texas ranchers need every proven tool available to stop the rapidly expanding New World screwworm outbreak.
The Texas Oil & Gas Association published its June 2026 Month in Review on July 1, recapping a month of advocacy on behalf of the Texas oil and natural gas industry.
Acting Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Kelly Hancock submitted his formal resignation to Governor Greg Abbott after exactly one year of leading the state's primary financial agency.
The southernmost leg of Texas's Permian Basin Reliability Plan — the Howard–Solstice 765-kilovolt line proposed by CPS Energy and AEP Texas — has moved into its proposal-for-decision phase, leaving landowners, conservation groups and the utilities to await an administrative law judge's route recommendation.
The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in the United States climbed to 29 as of June 30, with a dog in Pecos County becoming the first Texas case in a companion animal, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's confirmed-detections dashboard as reported by Yahoo News and the farm outlet AGDAILY.
Texas school districts paid more than $2.3 billion back to the state in recapture during the 2025-26 school year, with 192 districts writing checks under the "Robin Hood" system, according to figures compiled by the Texas School Coalition and Texas Policy Research.
The Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office (TREO) has released a draft regulatory review proposing the amendment or repeal of 13 rules within the Texas Optometry Board (TOB).
The Texas Department of Transportation and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation have implemented a bi-state data sharing agreement designed to enhance traffic operations, improve traveler information and strengthen coordination across state lines, TxDOT announced in a June 29 news release.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced $113 million in Texas Energy Fund grants to strengthen electric reliability for Southwestern Public Service Company customers in the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, according to a June 30 news release from the governor’s office.
More than 30 members of the Denton–Lewisville Kappa Alpha Psi Alumni Chapter cleaned up a state-maintained road they recently adopted as part of TxDOT’s Don’t Mess with Texas Trash-Off, the agency said in a June 2 feature.
A nearly two-mile stretch of Spur 399 in Collin County is preparing to open new lanes this summer as the project nears its first year of construction, TxDOT said in a June 6 update.