Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced the first 25 of 40 Texas Senate priority bills, outlining several hot-topic issues he says ...

Republicans in the Texas Senate unveiled their proposal for a school voucher-like program Friday with the filing of Senate Bill 2. The bill would create education savings accounts, or ESAs ...

Democrats will serve as House committee vice chairs, which some lawmakers said harks back to the Texas tradition of power ...

Senate Bill 2 starts a new debate on a school voucher program in Texas. A funding proposal would allow up to 100,000 K-12 students who want to enroll to a private school to participate. The Texas ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - The 89th Texas Legislature released its preliminary ... Beesaw said the district is closely monitoring these budgets as a result. “It would be a definite shot in the ...

School choice is a high-priority issue for Texas Republican leaders, and lawmakers in the Senate filed their formal proposal in the Senate Friday morning. The upper chamber's proposal, Senate Bill ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), who serves as president of the Texas Senate, announced 25 of his top 40 priority bills for the 89th legislative session on Wednesday.

A healthy democracy has free and fair elections, robust civil liberties, multiparty competition and minimal corruption. Does ...

Former prosecutor Nicholas J. Ganjei was sworn in as the newest U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Texas on Wednesday, ...

Speaker Dustin Burrows’ (R-Lubbock) bid for the top post in the Texas House of Representatives proved successful on Jan. 14, the first day of the legislature’s biennial regular session.

Greg Abbott on Thursday called on Congress to reimburse Texas for its border security operation, Operation Lone Star. Abbott sent letters to the leaders of the U.S. House and Senate and entire ...

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