August 18, 2026 at 12:04 pm CDT
The Texas Senate Committee on Transportation will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 25 to take invited and public testimony on three interim charges: how the Texas Department of Transportation is spending a fast-growing pot of rail grade-separation money, how the state's driverless-vehicle law is being carried out, and whether Texas is issuing commercial driver licenses carefully enough.
August 18, 2026 at 12:04 pm CDT
The Texas House Permanent Standing Subcommittee on County and Regional Government will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 25 to take invited and public testimony on two interim charges: whether Texas counties can recruit, train and keep law enforcement officers, and whether more counties should be required to run a medical examiner's office.
August 18, 2026 at 10:30 am CDT
Texas community colleges hit the performance targets lawmakers set for them, and the state paid out less than the formula promised.
August 18, 2026 at 9:00 am CDT
Rep. Pat Curry spent much of the House Transportation Committee's Aug. 17 interim hearing asking a question that no state agency wants asked out loud: why does the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles exist?
August 17, 2026 at 6:00 am CDT
The Texas House Committee on Natural Resources will gavel in at 10 a.m. Aug. 24 at Weslaco City Hall to hear invited testimony on the state and regional water planning process, the project types eligible for the New Water Supply for Texas Fund, oversight of the Texas Water Development Board and implementation of a 2025 law on jointly operated water and sewer utilities.
August 14, 2026 at 11:48 am CDT
The Texas House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock will gavel in at 11 a.m. Aug. 18 to take invited and public testimony on three interim charges: implementation of last year's overhaul of the state's farm-lending authority, the long-term resiliency of Texas agriculture, and oversight of the 14 state agencies under the panel's jurisdiction.
August 14, 2026 at 9:07 am CDT
Cartel fuel trafficking generates an estimated $12 billion to $21 billion a year — and some federal investigators now believe it has passed narcotics as the cartels' top revenue stream, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety told the Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security Thursday.
August 13, 2026 at 10:55 am CDT
The Texas House Committee on Public Health will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 20 to hear invited testimony on four interim charges that run from social media's effects on young Texans' mental health to infant mortality, artificial intelligence in medicine and the state's readiness for communicable-disease threats.
August 13, 2026 at 8:30 am CDT
A drone expert opened the first hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security Wednesday with a countdown: "In security terms, today, August 12th is August 12, 2001.
August 12, 2026 at 4:00 pm CDT
Texas oil and gas wells surface roughly 24 million barrels of salty water every day — more than a billion gallons — and the state's plan to turn that waste stream into a water supply now hinges on rules still being written and a jurisdictional boundary two agencies admit they cannot locate.
