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.
A spring on Ryan White's ranch in the Pecos River basin flowed 1,200 gallons a minute until 2014.
The cheapest public records request is the one nobody has to file.
Three things happened in Texas health care on September 1.
Texas sent water-use surveys to 341 data centers this year.
Texas health insurers told a House committee Sept. 1 that state regulations have contributed to employers moving away from the fully insured market.
Three data center companies told a Senate committee Sept. 1 that they cool without fresh water and will pay for rural pipelines.
The state has never published how many Texas homeowners pay nothing in school property tax.
The most-discussed subject at last week's House Higher Education Committee hearing never made it onto the agenda.
The Texas House Subcommittee on Transportation Funding will gavel in at 10 a.m. Sept. 2 at the Solomon P. Ortiz Center in Corpus Christi to take invited and public testimony on how the Texas Department of Transportation divides its money and whether the state raises enough of it.
The Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 2 to take invited and public testimony on a single interim charge covering the Pecos River Basin: falling flows, the interstate compact that governs them, the 1930s special district that stores the water, and the treated oilfield wastewater that companies want to put into the river.
The Texas Workforce Commission spent the first hour of a House hearing Aug. 26 describing a child care program that serves 117,000 families.
On the morning of Aug. 18, nineteen people were receiving dialysis at Childress Regional Medical Center.