Inside the Texas Legislature -- bills, votes, and committee action from the Texas House and Senate.
Texas home insurers earned roughly 22 cents in profit for every dollar of premiums they collected in 2025 — their best year in two decades — according to preliminary financial data reported July 8, even as homeowners pay about 80% more for coverage than they did in 2020.
Rep. Gary Gates' committee will take invited and public testimony on whether the spread of municipal utility districts helps or hurts housing affordability, and will review the General Land Office, School Land Board and Board for Lease of University Lands.
As Texas appraisal districts race toward the July 25 deadline to certify their tax rolls, the state's two most powerful Republicans are advancing competing visions for the next round of property-tax cuts, and the gap between them will frame the property tax debate.
Rep. Gary Gates' nine-member committee will take invited and public testimony on how four new zoning and lot-size laws are working, and on whether trimming city fees and speeding up permits can make homes cheaper.
Tech giant Meta Platforms, Inc. issued a comprehensive regulatory response to the Texas House Committee on Natural Resources, detailing its infrastructure cooling mechanisms and long-term water conservation targets amid heightening state scrutiny over industrial resource consumption.
Texas has some of the most permissive surrogacy laws in the country, and on Wednesday the Texas Senate's health panel spent more than two hours of invited testimony — and much of a long public-comment line — building the case that foreign nationals and commercial agencies are exploiting them.
A year and four days after the Hill Country floods killed dozens of campers and counselors, the state officials who now license Texas youth camps told senators Wednesday that the new safety law has teeth.
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.