Inside the Texas Legislature -- bills, votes, and committee action from the Texas House and Senate.
Gary VanDeaver, the former rural superintendent who fought private school vouchers in 2023 who was one of only two House Republicans to vote no when they passed in 2025, will take over the Texas Association of School Boards on Oct. 1.
Texas cannot yet tell whether this spring's college graduates found work, let alone whether artificial intelligence is shrinking the jobs they trained for, witnesses told the Senate Committee on Economic Development Sept. 22.
Katrina Pierson was working full time, going to school and raising a child when she told her doctor she was exhausted and something felt wrong.
The Texas House Committee on Culture, Recreation and Tourism will gavel in at 10 a.m. Sept. 30 in Capitol Extension room E2.012 to hear from invited witnesses on the state's young oyster-farming industry, a program that pays commercial fishermen to retire their oyster licenses and the planned move of William B. Travis' "Victory or Death" letter to the Alamo.
On Sept. 30, a Texas House select committee will take testimony on a question no Texas Legislature has formally studied: whether the state can absorb counties that currently belong to New Mexico.
The Texas House Select Committee on Governmental Oversight will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 30 in Capitol Extension room E2.026 to take invited and public testimony on whether Texas could absorb New Mexico counties, how outside groups shape the work of local prosecutors and how local governments spend public money on consultants and nonprofits.
The Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 30 in Capitol Extension room E1.012 to take invited and public testimony on the rising cost of building and paying for transmission lines, the rollout of the new Texas Cyber Command and how online platforms sell concert and event tickets.
Texas cities are holding $633 million in local hotel tax money they have collected but not spent, a comptroller's official told the Senate Committee on Economic Development Sept. 22.
Texas lets a solar developer run a project for 20 years, and a wind developer for 10, before posting a dollar toward tearing it down.
A land developer told the House Committee on Environmental Regulation on Sept. 15 that his 75-unit housing project in Williamson County waited exactly two years for one wastewater permit.
Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D–Laredo, asked the two bank lobbyists in front of her a question nobody else on the dais had put that plainly: how widespread is politically motivated debanking in Texas?
Texas local governments owe $552 billion in debt service, and $330 billion of that is principal.
Texas took two runs at prediction markets on the same day.
The tell, Patrick Quigley says, is what Texans do when they actually need care.