Two of the biggest tests of Texas public education policy arrive within weeks of each other this August, and together they will frame how the state judges its schools heading into the 2027 legislative session.
Texas health officials open the floor to public comment today on a proposed Medicaid pay increase aimed at the rural hospitals still delivering babies — one of a slate of rate changes the state wants in effect by Sept. 1.
A federal judge in Oregon is about to decide a case that will shape how — and whether — states can require companies to pay for recycling the packaging they sell, and Texas has a stake in the outcome even though it has no such law.
Two state lawmakers have formally asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas to hold off on a final decision on the Howard-Solstice high-voltage power line — and on every other 765-kilovolt segment of the state's transmission plan — until after the Legislature meets in 2027, arguing the state has not tested whether cheaper alternatives could avoid the lines entirely.
The Texas House Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs committee will hear invited testimony July 30 on foreign-influenced money transmitters, gaps in foreign-agent disclosure, and remote-access technology embedded in Texas critical infrastructure.
A new infestation in a Sutton County goat, confirmed July 21, pushed the United States tally of New World screwworm to 42 cases — up from the 41 reported last week, when the parasite reached Starr County on the Rio Grande for the first time — but the more telling number this week is how few of those cases are still live.
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.
The longest single stretch of Monday's House committee hearing was not about a law already on the books.
The two utilities seeking permission to build a 370-mile power line from San Antonio to the Permian Basin asked the judges hearing the case on Monday to reject a landowner coalition's bid to consider new evidence after the hearing ended.