Tracking legislative interim hearings between sessions -- committee testimony, interim charges, witness statements, and the groundwork being laid for the next session.
One year after three state housing laws took effect, senators heard that the laws are producing homes and that some North Texas cities have written ordinances to blunt them.
A spring on Ryan White's ranch in the Pecos River basin flowed 1,200 gallons a minute until 2014.
Texas sent water-use surveys to 341 data centers this year.
Texas health insurers told a House committee Sept. 1 that state regulations have contributed to employers moving away from the fully insured market.
Three data center companies told a Senate committee Sept. 1 that they cool without fresh water and will pay for rural pipelines.
The state has never published how many Texas homeowners pay nothing in school property tax.
The Texas Workforce Commission spent the first hour of a House hearing Aug. 26 describing a child care program that serves 117,000 families.
The Texas House Subcommittee on Transportation Funding will gavel in at 10 a.m. Sept. 2 at the Solomon P. Ortiz Center in Corpus Christi to take invited and public testimony on how the Texas Department of Transportation divides its money and whether the state raises enough of it.
The Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 2 to take invited and public testimony on a single interim charge covering the Pecos River Basin: falling flows, the interstate compact that governs them, the 1930s special district that stores the water, and the treated oilfield wastewater that companies want to put into the river.
The Texas Workforce Commission spent the first hour of a House hearing Aug. 26 describing a child care program that serves 117,000 families.