With near-unanimous agreement, the Texas House passed a bill to reform the state’s public school accountability system by eliminating the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test.

With less than 30 days left in the 89th Legislative Session, a Texas senator has introduced a new bill to address growing concerns regarding the Texas Lottery Commission (TLC) by abolishing the agency ...

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This week, the Texas House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at expanding and reforming the Texas Compassionate Use Program (TCUP) by broadening access to medical cannabis for Texans suffering ...

A resolution that would have amended the Texas Constitution to prevent the Legislature from imposing a tax on carbon emissions sparked fiery discussion between the state House of Representatives’ ...

This story has been updated to reflect that the Senate passed House Bill 31. The Texas House overwhelmingly passed reforms to a controversial affordable housing program over the weekend, with more ...

State lawmakers moved closer to approving one of Gov. Greg Abbott’s key priorities Monday night with a vote on legislation that would require the mandatory detention of certain violent suspects ...

Two bills broaching contentious social issues took the stage in the Texas House of Representatives on Saturday night — one requiring insurance companies to cover adverse results from gender ...

At the behest of one of Texas’ U.S. senators, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will open an investigation into a controversial new Muslim-centric community outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The Supreme Court of Texas last week revived a dismissed case filed against the City of College Station in an opinion that could be a bellwether for the future of a 2023 law governing extraterritorial ...

The Tarrant County Republican (TCGOP) executive committee voted on May 8 to censure freshman Rep. John McQueeney (R-Fort Worth) for some of the actions he has taken since joining the Texas House of ...

The Texas House debated for nearly six hours on Thursday a bill aimed at preventing individuals and entities from adversarial countries from purchasing land in the state, with a plethora of arguments ...