The Texas Gas Tax Costs the Average Household About $242 a Year, While This Year’s Price Jump Costs About $1,400
The average Texas household pays about $242 a year in state gas tax, a Texas Dispatch calculation from federal data shows.
The average Texas household pays about $242 a year in state gas tax, a Texas Dispatch calculation from federal data shows.
Texas drivers paying about $3.93 for a gallon of gas send the state the same 20 cents they have sent since 1991, and no one but the Legislature can change it.
The Texas Department of Insurance has identified a set of actions intended to protect consumers and make property and casualty insurance more affordable for Texans, responding to an August directive from Gov. Greg Abbott, the governor's office announced in a Sept. 16 news release.
The Texas attorney general's office has begun distributing more than 7 million free eggs to food banks across the state, with more than 1.7 million already delivered, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced in a Sept. 8 news release.Another 5.322 million eggs are scheduled for delivery in the coming weeks, according to the release.
Governor Greg Abbott announced Sept. 2 that the Texas Department of Insurance has reminded insurers that the practice known as price optimization violates Texas law for all TDI-regulated insurance products.
Three things happened in Texas health care on September 1.
Texas has spent three sessions pushing state money into rural sheriff's offices.
Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Insurance to take a series of actions intended to make property and casualty insurance more affordable for Texans who invest in their homes, according to an Aug. 24 news release from the Office of the Texas Governor.
Texas built its growth story on a simple promise: a family could move here and afford a home.
The longest single stretch of Monday's House committee hearing was not about a law already on the books.