Amid Fight Over Redistricting, Texas Legislature's 3rd Special Session Ends With Passage Of Bipartisan Bills
Lawmakers voted to increase the homestead exemption on school property taxes from $25,000 to $40,000.
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Lawmakers voted to increase the homestead exemption on school property taxes from $25,000 to $40,000.
In a late night session, Texas Republicans approved redrawn voting maps that favor incumbents and decrease political representation for growing minority communities.
The Justice Department has formally asked the US Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, while the fight over the measure plays out in the courts.
A bill focused on transgender athletes in Texas is headed to Governor Greg Abbott's desk.
On October 18 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the formation of a 2021 Texas Election Integrity Unit.
In Texas, former President George W. Bush is remembering the first Black U.S. secretary of state, Colin Powell, who died from complications from COVID-19.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell died Monday morning due to complications from COVID-19.
Early voting begins today for the November election. Texans will decide on several local races, as well as city and school bond issues.
During the evening hours on October 16 Texas Republicans closed in on redrawn U.S. House maps that would shore up their eroding dominance as demographics increasingly change in the state's booming suburbs.
An appellate court ruling means a ban on most abortions continues in Texas.
New allegations of racism in Southlake will seem for many like old news: until you look deeper into the root of the current issue, Texas' controversial new law banning so called "critical race theory."
On October 15 the Biden administration said it will turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court in another attempt to halt a Texas law that has banned most abortions since September.
Beginning in November the Biden administration said it plans to reinstate a Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.
The House and Senate will have to hash out differences in their bills. Senate passed similar legislation earlier during the special session which ends next Tuesday night.
Other states that came to Texas' defense accused the Biden administration of overstepping by bringing the challenge, while mostly steering clear of the broader arguments about whether the law itself is constitutional.
