Inside the Texas Legislature -- bills, votes, and committee action from the Texas House and Senate.
Gary VanDeaver, the former rural superintendent who fought private school vouchers in 2023 who was one of only two House Republicans to vote no when they passed in 2025, will take over the Texas Association of School Boards on Oct. 1.
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.
The Texas Senate's Business and Commerce Committee meets Wednesday to review the state of the electric grid, and the item that will get the most attention on its agenda is the rulebook meant to keep a wave of new data centers from raising costs and risking reliability.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick on Monday handed four Texas Senate committees a new set of interim assignments, directing them to study online ticket resale, religious liberty, child safety in online games, family-court delays and the shrinking Pecos River before the Legislature reconvenes.
The Texas Senate Committee on Higher Education will hear invited testimony July 29 on the distribution methods for the Permanent University Fund and the newer Texas University Fund, and whether either needs reform as more campuses seek research dollars.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows on Tuesday requested that the State Auditor's Office conduct a performance audit of the Texas Broadband Development Office's administration of its grant program, citing concerns about how the office is distributing billions of dollars in state and federal funds for internet expansion.
In late July 2026, the structural foundation of the Texas public education system faced its most significant legal challenge in a decade.
Two state lawmakers have formally asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas to hold off on a final decision on the Howard-Solstice high-voltage power line — and on every other 765-kilovolt segment of the state's transmission plan — until after the Legislature meets in 2027, arguing the state has not tested whether cheaper alternatives could avoid the lines entirely.
The Texas House Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs committee will hear invited testimony July 30 on foreign-influenced money transmitters, gaps in foreign-agent disclosure, and remote-access technology embedded in Texas critical infrastructure.
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 agencies that run the Texas power grid have told Governor Greg Abbott they need new legal authority to keep the state's data-center boom from raising electric bills and threatening reliability — and, in one recommendation, to stop a hostile foreign government from using a data center to disrupt the grid.
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.