Inside the Texas Legislature -- bills, votes, and committee action from the Texas House and Senate.
Texas Senate's General Investigating Committee on the July 2025 Flooding Events will meet concurrently with its House counterpart to consider a report on last summer's deadly Hill Country floods — no public testimony, and the panel may go behind closed doors.
A coalition of 43 Texas legislators has signed an amicus brief urging state utility regulators to delay project-specific decisions on proposed 765-kilovolt (kV) transmission lines until a comprehensive, statewide evaluation of the grid expansion is completed.
During an appearance on the Texas Talks podcast with host Brad Swail, State Representative Mitch Little (R-Lewisville) voiced support for a state-level check on local prosecutors and detailed market-based approaches to address rural attorney shortages.
Texas lawmakers will address public safety concerns in the 2027 legislative session, as well as new areas of focus, including fraud prevention to access to legal services in rural communities.
The Texas Medical Association (TMA) delivered testimony to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services and the House Select Committee on Health Care Affordability offering a policy framework they say would curb rising health care costs for Texas patients and employers.
A coalition of five Texas oil and gas industry associations issued a joint memorandum on June 10, 2026, to state leadership defending the necessity of a massive extra-high-voltage power grid expansion in West Texas, calling recent criticism of the project misleading.
This week, a biological threat long considered eradicated from the United States breached the Texas border, instantly disrupting the stability of the state's agricultural sector and triggering a major regulatory and political response.
Governor Greg Abbott directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to take immediate steps to protect residential electricity customers from the financial impacts of data center expansion in Texas.
This week, the explosive expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud computing infrastructure across Texas emerged as a central point in economic and legislative debates.
State Representative Don McLaughlin (R-Uvalde) issued an urgent call to action following reports that the New World Screwworm (NWS) has been detected one mile from the Texas border.