The state's most influential conservative think tank told a Senate panel Sept. 14 that parental controls are not enough and Texas should prohibit social media for anyone under 18 — a mandate, from an organization that usually argues against them.
The organization that runs the power grid for most of Texas told state regulators on Sept. 11 that it will send a survey of roughly 130 questions this week to 461 data center projects waiting to plug in, asking who owns them, where their water and cooling will come from, whether they can supply any of their own electricity, and what financial help they have sought from the communities around them.
The Texas House Committee on Ways and Means meets at 10 a.m. Sept. 15 to take testimony on how local governments spend and borrow, and on whether the Legislature should cap the growth of both.
Texas has withdrawn the increase it sought in its largest Medicaid hospital payment program and cut the rate it pays, telling federal officials on Sept. 9 and 10 that it would hold the program to $9,148,763,142 rather than the $9,254,513,046 it had written into its application — a difference of about $105.7 million that will not reach Texas hospitals this year.
Corpus Christi's city council set its property tax rate on Sept. 8 at $0.599774 per $100 of value — the identical rate it charged last year, to the sixth decimal place.
The board of Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, the third-largest school system in Texas, is scheduled to decide Sept. 14 whether sixteen of its teachers quit without good cause — a finding that would send each of their names to the state agency that can suspend a teaching certificate.
The agency that runs the electric grid for most of Texas began sending formal demands for documents on Sept. 9 to the companies behind the giant power users it has tentatively placed at the front of the connection line, and warned that any one of them that fails to answer completely within 10 business days will be dropped from that line.
Corpus Christi can continue holding back the fresh water it owes Nueces Bay until its reservoirs are half full, Texas environmental regulators decided Sept. 9, affirming a drought emergency order without changing a word.
A Texan who wants to know which Medicaid health plan the state has fined, and for what, can go to the page the Health and Human Services Commission built for exactly that purpose.
Fort Bend County commissioners walked into their chambers on Sept. 10 to adopt a property tax rate of 41.2 cents per $100 of value, the rate printed on their own agenda.