HB 1738, state Rep. Venton Jones’ bill to remove language criminalizing consensual sexual contact between adults of the same ...

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

Over 20 years after the Supreme Court found the Texas law unconstitutional, a proposed bill would repeal the ban on so-called ...

A yearslong effort to strike Texas’ ban on gay sex took a leap forward on Thursday after House lawmakers passed a repeal just ...

The legislation was co-authored by gay State Rep. Venton Jones - but will it pass in the Senate? The legislation was co-authored by gay State Rep. Venton Jones - but will it pass in the Senate?

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

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

State Rep. Venton Jones has announced that on Monday, April 7, the House Committee on Public Health unanimously passed House Bill 50, the bill the Texas Democrat authored that would ensure HIV ...

A Texas law criminalizing “homosexual conduct” – on the books since 1973 – is closer to being repealed Monday. House Bill 1738, which would remove the measure from the state’s penal code, was ...

State Rep. Venton Jones’ bill to offer HIV testing in Texas when someone is screened for other STDs passed its third reading in the Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday, April 29.

An unlikely group of Republican allies joined Democrats to approve repealing the ban, which has been unenforced since 2003. It is the first time the bill has made it to the House floor since it was ...