Inside the Texas Legislature -- bills, votes, and committee action from the Texas House and Senate.
The Texas State Board of Education is scheduled to take final votes on Friday, June 26, on two changes to the state's public-school curriculum: a rewrite of the social studies standards and a new statewide reading list that would add Bible stories to required reading.
Four months into the job, Texas Insurance Commissioner Amanda Crawford spent Wednesday morning answering for the price of keeping a roof insured.
Texans lost more money to cryptocurrency-kiosk scams in 2025 than residents of any other state.
For most of a seven-and-a-half-hour hearing Wednesday, witness after witness told the House Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs the same thing: Texas keeps paying to jail people whose real problem is untreated mental illness, addiction or homelessness, and the bill keeps coming back.
The Texas Comptroller’s office has awarded nearly 3,800 additional Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) to students previously held on the program’s waitlist.
Texas election officials are reviewing all 254 counties to flag commercial mailboxes that may be standing in for home addresses on the voter rolls, the Secretary of State's office told a Senate committee Tuesday.
A large coalition of Republican members from the Texas House of Representatives sent a joint letter to the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) urging the immediate, unaltered adoption of the state's proposed literary works list and the comprehensive revisions to the Social Studies Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
Last week, state education officials released the first batch of student test data since Texas implemented its statewide ban on student cellphones during the school day.
Texas is preparing to spend up to $20 billion on water over the next two decades.
In much of Texas, a data center can sink a well and pump as much groundwater as it wants, and no state agency is empowered to stop it.