Tracking legislative interim hearings between sessions -- committee testimony, interim charges, witness statements, and the groundwork being laid for the next session.
Texas cannot yet tell whether this spring's college graduates found work, let alone whether artificial intelligence is shrinking the jobs they trained for, witnesses told the Senate Committee on Economic Development Sept. 22.
Texas cities are holding $633 million in local hotel tax money they have collected but not spent, a comptroller's official told the Senate Committee on Economic Development Sept. 22.
The Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce will take invited and public testimony July 29 on ERCOT reliability and Senate Bill 6's large-load rules, and on how a fast-expanding network of 765-kilovolt transmission lines will affect Texas landowners.
Before it spent the afternoon fighting over municipal utility districts, the Texas House land committee opened Tuesday by auditing the state's biggest landlord.
The financing engine behind much of suburban Texas got a daylong defense in the Capitol on Tuesday — and a warning from the people who live inside it.
Sen. Paul Bettencourt's committee will hear invited testimony July 28 on curriculum-review and governance changes, campus research security rules and whether the outcomes-based finance formula for junior colleges is holding up.
The longest single stretch of Monday's House committee hearing was not about a law already on the books.
Sen. Joan Huffman's committee will take invited and public testimony July 28 on how public universities report their finances and on what fraud, waste and abuse cost the state budget.
Four mayors and other city officials came to the Capitol on Monday to tell a Texas House committee they are complying with the state's most aggressive housing law passed last session.
Sen. Joan Huffman's committee will take invited and public testimony July 27 on transportation funding, the fast-growing cost of the data center sales tax exemption, the state's rural volunteer fire department grants and the Crime Victims' Compensation Fund.
Rep. Gary Gates' committee will take invited and public testimony on whether the spread of municipal utility districts helps or hurts housing affordability, and will review the General Land Office, School Land Board and Board for Lease of University Lands.
Rep. Gary Gates' nine-member committee will take invited and public testimony on how four new zoning and lot-size laws are working, and on whether trimming city fees and speeding up permits can make homes cheaper.
Sen. Lois Kolkhorst's eight-member committee will take invited and public testimony on foreign exploitation of Texas surrogacy, and on how the state is carrying out new laws on child-abuse records, youth-camp safety and assisted-living emergencies.
Rep. Philip Cortez's five-member subcommittee travels to San Antonio to take invited and public testimony on the transfer of veteran mental-health programs to the Texas Veterans Commission, gaps in legal help for benefits claims, and the remaking of the former Kelly Air Force Base.