Inside the Texas Legislature -- bills, votes, and committee action from the Texas House and Senate.
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.
The longest single stretch of Monday's House committee hearing was not about a law already on the books.
Sen. Joan Huffman's committee will take invited and public testimony July 28 on how public universities report their finances and on what fraud, waste and abuse cost the state budget.
Four mayors and other city officials came to the Capitol on Monday to tell a Texas House committee they are complying with the state's most aggressive housing law passed last session.
Sen. Joan Huffman's committee will take invited and public testimony July 27 on transportation funding, the fast-growing cost of the data center sales tax exemption, the state's rural volunteer fire department grants and the Crime Victims' Compensation Fund.
In mid-July 2026, a high-stakes legal and regulatory campaign by Texas's top executive and legislative leaders positioned the state at the forefront of the national debate over birthright citizenship and reproductive bioethics.