The legislation authored by the Democratic from Dallas would require schools to notify parents if certain faculty, staff positions go unfilled ...

A bill filed after KXAN’s OutLaw investigation faced a steep challenge this legislative session but has progressed further ...

State lawmakers have one week left to hash out some of the biggest LGBTQ bills of the session. Here's what has passed and ...

ORIGINAL POST: The Texas House voted overwhelmingly to decriminalize sodomy today, Thursday, May 15. House Bill 1738, ...

The Democratic bill, which passed with support from a handful of Republicans, still needs to pass the state Senate before it ...

While supporters of the bill say it's needed to make it easier to remove squatters, some in opposition say it undermines due ...

House Bill 1738 would strike down a 1973 Texas law prohibiting “homosexual conduct.” That law has been unenforceable since ...

Efforts to remove it have been brought session after session, including this year’s HB 1738 by Rep. Venton Jones, D-Dallas.

Thursday's House vote was the furthest the effort to repeal the ban has gone in the Texas Legislature. House Bill 1738 is ...

An unlikely group of Republican allies joined Democrats to approve repealing the ban, which has been unenforced since 2003.

The proposal, brought this session by state Rep. Venton Jones, D-Dallas, one of the chamber’s first Black gay members, passed in a 72-55 vote, with support from all Democrats and a handful of ...