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.
In early July 2026, the ongoing struggle between state regulators and the rapidly expanding consumable hemp industry returned to the center of Texas public policy.
A year after Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed the Legislature's THC ban, the Texas Senate's health committee spent Tuesday morning assembling the public health case for trying again.
A sheriff, a prosecutor, a defense lawyer and a probate judge sat at the same witness table Tuesday and told the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services the same thing: county jails have become the state's default mental hospital, and the counties are paying for it.
The Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee will meet Tuesday in Austin to hear invited testimony on THC's links to psychotic disorders, mental health emergency detentions and rising health care costs.
Texas is learning to adjust quickly to rapid population growth and increasingly frequent extreme weather.
In late June 2026, the long-term sustainability of the Texas public finance system emerged as a primary point of debate as state leadership proposed a sweeping structural overhaul of the property tax system.
Texas school districts paid more than $2.3 billion back to the state in recapture during the 2025-26 school year, with 192 districts writing checks under the "Robin Hood" system, according to figures compiled by the Texas School Coalition and Texas Policy Research.
Texas senators are reviewing how the state releases violent offenders found not guilty by reason of insanity, after a Travis County judge cleared the man who fatally stabbed a University of Texas student to move from a locked state hospital to a group home.
Governor Greg Abbott used a Tuesday event in Bullard to promote what he calls a "taxpayer empowerment" plan, a five-point package he says would slow local tax increases and deliver lasting property tax relief.
Texas keeps burying material it could sell.
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.