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 House Select Committee on General Aviation will gavel in at 10 a.m. Aug. 18 to take invited and public testimony on five interim charges spanning the condition of the state's general aviation airports, regional air service, workforce shortages, disaster response and airport governance.
The Texas House Committee on Pensions, Investments & Financial Services will gavel in at 10 a.m. Aug. 18 to hear invited testimony only on four interim charges: the rollout of two laws passed last session and reviews of the actuarial soundness of the state's two largest pension systems.
The Texas House Subcommittee on Telecommunications & Broadband will gavel in at 11 a.m. Aug. 18 to take invited and public testimony on three interim charges: monitoring the state's Broadband Development Office and its multibillion-dollar grant programs, studying pole attachment fees as a barrier to broadband deployment, and exploring public-private partnerships for wireless first responder networks.
The Texas House Committee on Higher Education will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 18 to take invited and public testimony on four interim charges covering college affordability, credential completion, protections against foreign adversarial influence and the ability of Texas universities to compete for federal research dollars.
State Representative Drew Darby asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Monday to hold a public meeting in Tom Green County before the agency acts on four air quality permit applications tied to a proposed data center campus near Dove Creek.
The Texas House Committee on State Affairs will take public testimony Wednesday, Aug. 19, on the two biggest fights on the state’s grid — data centers and the proposed 765,000-volt transmission lines — according to the hearing notice posted on the Legislature’s schedule.
The Texas House Committee on Transportation will gavel in at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 17 to work through one of the fullest interim agendas of the month: eight charges that range from the federal crackdown on commercial driver licenses held by foreign drivers to the economic weight of Texas seaports and broad oversight of the state's transportation agencies.
The Texas House Permanent Standing Subcommittee on State-Federal Relations will gavel in at 10 a.m. Aug. 17 to study how two recent federal decisions — the end of penny production and a rewrite of U.S. Postal Service postmarking rules — are rippling into the daily business of Texas local governments and the people who depend on them.
The Texas House Committee on Higher Education will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 17 to take invited and public testimony on three interim charges covering the overall state of higher education in Texas, the rollout of three laws passed last session and the state's patchwork of college and career advising programs.
The Texas Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 13 for the second of two back-to-back hearings, taking invited and public testimony on four interim charges that run from commercial inspections at the state's land ports of entry to the cartel-driven fuel-smuggling economy along the border.
The first annual report on Texas Education Freedom Accounts is full of big numbers — 274,000 applications, 85,344 funded students, a 121,000-name waiting list the comptroller's office calls the largest in the country.
The Texas Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 12 to hear invited and public testimony on two interim charges — how the state should help defend Texas airspace against hostile drones, and how the Department of Public Safety is standing up the homeland security division lawmakers created last session.