August 5, 2026 at 6:15 pm CDT
The Texas Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 12 to hear invited and public testimony on two interim charges — how the state should help defend Texas airspace against hostile drones, and how the Department of Public Safety is standing up the homeland security division lawmakers created last session.
August 5, 2026 at 8:00 am CDT
The state panel guiding Texas' biggest election overhaul in years has voted — unanimously — to pump the brakes.
August 4, 2026 at 9:42 am CDT
Texas criminalized election deepfakes before most states had heard the word.
August 4, 2026 at 9:06 am CDT
The Texas Senate Committee on Natural Resources will gavel in at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, to hear from the state's three major natural-resource agencies and take invited and public testimony on two interim charges — the rollout of last session's produced-water and oilfield-waste laws, and the state's defenses against catastrophic wildfire.
July 31, 2026 at 8:00 am CDT
Foreign adversaries are moving money through Texas banks, licensed wire services and the crypto kiosks at neighborhood gas stations — and the federal government cannot keep up.
July 30, 2026 at 9:17 am CDT
Texas is moving to string a new backbone of ultra-high-voltage power lines across the state — and on Wednesday the people whose land sits in the path came to the Capitol in numbers rarely seen for an interim hearing.
July 30, 2026 at 8:27 am CDT
The state agencies that keep the lights on told a Senate panel Wednesday that Texas is planning for a grid nearly double the size of today’s — and that the surge is being driven by an unfamiliar customer: the data center.
July 30, 2026 at 8:11 am CDT
The oldest and largest of the endowments that bankroll Texas’ public research universities was built into the state constitution to benefit two university systems — and on Wednesday the Senate Committee on Higher Education spent much of its day probing whether that century-old arrangement still distributes the money the right way.
July 29, 2026 at 8:30 am CDT
Rep. Matt Shaheen's committee will take invited and public testimony August 4 on the rollout of Senate Bill 2753's integrated voting system and on its oversight of the Office of the Secretary of State.
July 29, 2026 at 8:00 am CDT
The man who wrote Texas’ sweeping higher-education governance law came back to the committee that produced it Tuesday — this time as a witness, not a senator — to report that the campuses he now helps run are moving faster than the statute requires.
