The proposal would expand a program that allows districts to award bonuses to educators based on their students’ academic ...

Opponents of the bail reform package say the proposed changes are based on false pretenses and could unjustly keep innocent ...

A bipartisan panel of Texas Senators approved legislation that would increase Texas' homestead property tax exemption, once ...

The Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee on Wednesday passed a series of bills and constitutional amendments designed to ...

The package of bills would tighten the state's bail laws to keep more people in jail — including undocumented immigrants — ...

The Senate Finance Committee seemed interested Monday in funding specific education priorities, instead of a large investment ...

Increasing the homestead exemption would cost the state roughly $3 billion over two years and add to a growing tab of ...

The marquee proposal would increase the amount of a home’s value exemption from school taxes to $140,000 from $100,000.

Proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption to $140,000 cleared a key hurdle when a bipartisan ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Texas Senate Committee on Local Government passed a property tax relief bill onto the full Senate for a vote. Governor Greg Abbott declared ...

House Speaker Dustin Burrows reappointed state Rep. Brad Buckley (R-Killeen) to lead the committee. Buckley tried to get ...

Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, said during a Senate Finance Committee meeting Monday. The discussion comes as school districts across Texas, ailing from growing budget deficits, continue their ...