AUSTIN, Texas – Across the 140 days of the 89th Texas Legislature, lawmakers filed 11,503 Senate and House bills. By Sunday, June 22, which marked the final day for Gov. Greg Abbott to veto ...

The Texas Capitol seen on Monday, June 30, 2025. Dozens of new Texas laws will take effect in December and January, bringing wide-ranging changes to the state's education system, law enforcement, ...

A three-judge panel began presiding over a nine-day trial on whether Texas can use its newly redrawn congressional map for the upcoming 2026 elections at the Albert Armendariz Sr. U.S. Courthouse in ...

A raft of new state laws will take effect Thursday, Jan. 1. One of the most significant is Senate Bill 38, a measure that supporters say will make it easier to remove squatters from homes and ...

The billion dollar school choice program for Texas students launches next week. The program called “Education Freedom ...

A new law that Gov. Greg Abbott signed off on last summer, which aims to remove unwanted individuals from a person's home, also known as squatters, has now taken effect. Senate Bill 38, sponsored by ...

Some of the constitutional amendments on the Nov. 4 ballot are head scratchers - and not just because voters need to think about how they want to cast their ballots. From jargon-laced proposals about ...

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