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The House budget spend $4.4 billion more than lawmakers appropriated in 2023 and keeps Operation Lone Star funded.
The Texas House passed a $337 billion budget for the 2026-27 biennium Friday morning. This came after the chamber spent more ...
While Democrats and abortion access advocates pushed to ensure pregnant women aren’t criminalized, some conservatives ...
Senate Bill 1403 would allow the Texas Office of the Attorney General to expedite procedures and provide “clarity that ...
The criminal penalties have remained on the books, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling more than twenty years ago that ...
Abortion funds argue the proposals could help revive pre-Roe bans, but others say their benefits outweigh potential costs.
In what proponents say is a “clean up” and opponents call an “unnecessary risk,” Texas lawmakers consider bills that would ...
The proposal would require counties who opt for hand counts to use ballots that can be scanned and tabulated by a voting ...
A new bill passed by the Texas Senate aims to crack down on squatters by streamlining their removal and imposing stricter ...
For decades, Texas law has continued to contain a provision outlawing “homosexual conduct,” despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas that the measure is unconstitutional.
Texas lawmakers are considering several bills aimed at improving access to mental health and substance use treatment — ...
If they are asking for a compromise and exception to the rule at the very beginning of this process ... influence on what legislation gets attention is nothing new in Texas.