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Texas Windstorm Insurer Sends Four Recommendations to the Legislature, Including a Plan to Move Coastal Policies to Private Carriers

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association's board voted Oct. 8 to ask the Legislature for four changes in state law when lawmakers return in January 2027: a repeal of a special-judge requirement for lawsuits against the association, public money for storm-resistant construction, repairs to the 2025 law that rebuilt how it pays for a catastrophe, and a redesign of the program meant to move coastal policies to private insurers.

By The Texas Dispatch · Oct 15 · 6 min read

Agencies

New Texas Insurance Rules Give Newborns 60 Days of Coverage Starting Oct. 11

Babies born to Texans in state-regulated health plans will now be covered for their first 60 days, up from 31.

By The Texas Dispatch · Oct 12 · 2 min read

Economy

House Ways and Means to Weigh Deeper Property Tax Cuts and Curbs on Local Debt

The Texas House Committee on Ways and Means will gavel in at 10 a.m. Sept. 15 to take invited and public testimony on whether Texas can cut property taxes further and on how local governments borrow and spend the money those taxes secure.

By The Texas Dispatch · Sep 8 · 4 min read

Business

Senate State Affairs to Examine Prediction Markets, Debanking and Judicial Training Seminars

The Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 15 in Capitol Extension room E1.012 for a second consecutive day of interim hearings, this time on four charges that share a common shape: an industry doing something Texas law did not anticipate.

By The Texas Dispatch · Sep 8 · 4 min read

Health Care

House Human Services Panel to Track New Psychiatric Beds, Rural Foster Pilot and CPS Due Process

The Texas House Committee on Human Services will gavel in at 10 a.m. Sept. 9 in Capitol Extension room E2.012 to take invited testimony on six interim charges spanning the state's foster care system: how three 2025 laws are being carried out, whether families under investigation by child welfare authorities are getting the services and the due process they are owed, and what happens to children after a private adoption closes.

By The Texas Dispatch · Sep 8 · 4 min read

Housing

Bettencourt Names West to Lead Probe of Cities Skirting Texas Housing Laws

One year after three state housing laws took effect, senators heard that the laws are producing homes and that some North Texas cities have written ordinances to blunt them.

By The Texas Dispatch · Sep 4 · 6 min read

Interim Hearings