Inside the Texas Legislature -- bills, votes, and committee action from the Texas House and Senate.
The Texas House Committee on State Affairs will take public testimony Wednesday, Aug. 19, on the two biggest fights on the state’s grid — data centers and the proposed 765,000-volt transmission lines — according to the hearing notice posted on the Legislature’s schedule.
The Texas House Committee on Transportation will gavel in at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 17 to work through one of the fullest interim agendas of the month: eight charges that range from the federal crackdown on commercial driver licenses held by foreign drivers to the economic weight of Texas seaports and broad oversight of the state's transportation agencies.
The Texas House Permanent Standing Subcommittee on State-Federal Relations will gavel in at 10 a.m. Aug. 17 to study how two recent federal decisions — the end of penny production and a rewrite of U.S. Postal Service postmarking rules — are rippling into the daily business of Texas local governments and the people who depend on them.
The Texas House Committee on Higher Education will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 17 to take invited and public testimony on three interim charges covering the overall state of higher education in Texas, the rollout of three laws passed last session and the state's patchwork of college and career advising programs.
The Texas Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 13 for the second of two back-to-back hearings, taking invited and public testimony on four interim charges that run from commercial inspections at the state's land ports of entry to the cartel-driven fuel-smuggling economy along the border.
The first annual report on Texas Education Freedom Accounts is full of big numbers — 274,000 applications, 85,344 funded students, a 121,000-name waiting list the comptroller's office calls the largest in the country.
The Texas Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 12 to hear invited and public testimony on two interim charges — how the state should help defend Texas airspace against hostile drones, and how the Department of Public Safety is standing up the homeland security division lawmakers created last session.
The state panel guiding Texas' biggest election overhaul in years has voted — unanimously — to pump the brakes.
Texas criminalized election deepfakes before most states had heard the word.
The Texas Senate Committee on Natural Resources will gavel in at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, to hear from the state's three major natural-resource agencies and take invited and public testimony on two interim charges — the rollout of last session's produced-water and oilfield-waste laws, and the state's defenses against catastrophic wildfire.