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.
The Texas Senate Committee on Economic Development will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 3 to take testimony on three interim charges: how Texas cities collect, report and spend hotel occupancy tax revenue; whether the Legislature should approve each new project finance zone individually; and what artificial intelligence is doing to the state's labor market.
Texas issued more than 45,000 open-records rulings last year and is on pace to beat that by 10 percent.
A Texas school district moved roughly $97 million into a private charity it helped create, and on Aug. 26 a House committee spent four and a half hours trying to establish who is allowed to look at it.
Texas pays 56 peer service coordinators to reach veterans in crisis across 254 counties.
The Texas Senate Committee on Local Government will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 2 to hear invited testimony on whether the housing laws the Legislature passed last year are working, and on whether the fees Texas cities and counties collect get enough scrutiny.
Texas made itself the gatekeeper for driverless commercial vehicles last year.
Texas has spent three sessions pushing state money into rural sheriff's offices.
The Texas House Select Committee on Health Care Affordability will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 1 to take invited testimony only on four interim charges aimed at the cost side of the state's health care system — delivery and financing models, insurance plan design, coverage for smaller employers, and what consumers are able to learn about price and quality before they buy.
The Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 1 to take invited and public testimony on a single interim charge: how much water the state's data centers and other energy-intensive industries consume, and what Texas should require them to disclose.
The Texas Senate Committee on Local Government will gavel in at 1 p.m. Sept. 1 to hear invited testimony on two interim charges: what a decade of rising homestead exemptions has actually done to Texas school tax bills, and how county appraisal districts set and pay for their own budgets.
Texas built a fund to buy water that does not exist yet.
The Texas House passed a social media ban for minors by 116 votes to 25 and watched it die anyway.