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 General Land Office posted Amendment 1 to the State of Texas 2021 Winter Storms Action Plan for a federally required 30-day public comment period, the agency said in a Sept.15 news release.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller helped develop the state's first set of nutrition guidelines written specifically for Texans, the Texas Department of Agriculture said in a September 15 news release.The recommendations appear in the annual report of the Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee, a panel created by the Texas Legislature to review current scientific research and recommend ways to improve Texans' health.
The Texas State Securities Board votes Sept. 17 on whether to publish rule changes that would narrow what the brokers and investment advisers it licenses have to tell the state about their own criminal records.
The agency that builds and repairs Texas government's offices votes Sept. 17 on hiring an architect for a new headquarters for the state's three banking regulators, a $52.8 million project that has never before come before its commissioners.
The state pension fund for volunteer firefighters and emergency medical responders holds a special meeting Sept. 17 with a single item of business: authorizing and paying for a 2027 actuarial report.
The council that sits atop Texas' health and human services agencies meets Sept. 17 to hear what a coming federal food-stamp penalty could cost the state.
The board that runs the $226 billion Texas teacher pension fund opens a two-day meeting Sept. 17 with changes to the policy meant to keep the fund on course set for the second day — two months after staff told trustees that policy had been tripped.
Texas utility regulators clear their calendar Sept. 17 for a single case: whether a 180-megawatt data center may sit behind the meter at a West Texas solar farm and have its power use netted against what the panels produce.
The four-member state board that has to sign off before most Texas bonds reach the market meets Sept. 17 to vote on a water borrowing authorized at up to $2.2 billion.
The board that licenses Texas accountants takes up 517 disciplinary cases Sept. 17.
The Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists meets Sept. 17 on a rejected license application and an enforcement case that went to a state hearings judge.
The board that certifies every respiratory therapist in Texas meets Sept. 17 to take up two sets of changes to its own rulebook.