Sen. Creighton's SB 2972, passed to engrossment Tuesday, reverses the TX 2019 law establishing universities as traditional ...

What this does is remove testing from being the center of gravity for the year the way that it is now,” state Rep. Diego ...

The bill would reduce the minimum number of polling places that Texas counties must have, rolling back a 2023 law that ...

With less than three weeks remaining in the regular legislative session, Texas lawmakers are working on competing legislation ...

Under a bill that is scheduled for a vote in the Senate, it would be illegal to entomb live bats in an unoccupied structure ...

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A key Senate critic threw a lifeline to the Texas Lottery when he proposed moving its oversight to a new agency instead of ...

Senate Bill 2519 would block the local property tax collection and transfer process now being used to develop Austin's ...

The bill filed by Sen. Bob Hall is the latest in a series of bills that limit who can purchase tickets and who oversees the ...

A new Senate proposal would save the lottery, but add tighter controls and put it under a different oversight agency.

Texas’s State Senate has passed an anti-abortion bill that seeks to punish anyone who distributes abortion medication with ...

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