Inside the Texas Legislature -- bills, votes, and committee action from the Texas House and Senate.
Of the 1,378 bills and resolutions filed for the 90th Legislature on Nov. 9 and 10, the lead proposals to expand Medicaid and to end school operating taxes on homesteads take effect only if two-thirds of each chamber and then a majority of voters approve them.
The House Subcommittee on Maternal Health, Menopause and Access to Evidence-Based Medicine heard Nov. 6 that Texas state employees can use up their paid parental leave while a newborn is still in a neonatal intensive care unit.
Texas has one of the most aggressive school accountability triggers in the country, and this fall it went off again.
About 1 in 5 Texas newborns, roughly 22,000 babies in 2023, were not automatically enrolled in Medicaid, Diana Forrester of Texans Care for Children told the House Subcommittee on Maternal Health, Menopause and Access to Evidence-Based Medicine on Nov. 6.
Celia Cole has a ratio she repeats whenever someone suggests charity can catch whoever falls out of federal food assistance.
The Texas Legislature has not overridden a governor's veto since 1979.
Every ton of trash buried in a Texas landfill carries a state fee, and the account that collects it ended the last fiscal year with $94.8 million available, down from $154 million a year earlier after the state sent $50 million to hurricane debris removal, according to the annual financial report of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state’s environmental regulator.
The Texas House Subcommittee on Maternal Health, Menopause, and Access to Evidence-Based Medicine will gavel in at 10 a.m. Nov. 6 in Room E2.030 of the Capitol Extension to hear invited testimony on four sets of interim charges: hormone imbalances and endometriosis, women's health programs and rural maternity care, newborn insurance enrollment, and parental leave for state employees.
John Hryhorchuk opened a recent op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman with a line that sounds like it came from a campaign attack ad: Your Texas miracle has become my Texas nightmare.
Early voting opened Monday on a question Texas has spent a decade engineering its way toward.
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.
Babies born to Texans in state-regulated health plans will now be covered for their first 60 days, up from 31.
The reason the Texas House didn't subpoena José Garza had nothing to do with reluctance.
The number came from the regulator herself.