Analysts Say GOP Bill Leaves 23M More Uninsured
Budget office: 23 million more uninsured, lower premiums for less coverage under GOP House-passed health care bill.
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Budget office: 23 million more uninsured, lower premiums for less coverage under GOP House-passed health care bill.
The often-combative Texas Board of Education would expand its ability to reject textbooks it doesn't like, rolling back limits that have been in place for more than two decades, under a proposal on the verge of clearing the state Legislature.
The Texas House has voted to allow concealed carry permit holders to have guns in their locked cars parked outside schools.
The state Senate voted 21-10 after 1 a.m. Wednesday to attach rules requiring transgender Texans to use public restrooms corresponding to their birth-certificate gender onto an otherwise unrelated proposal on county governments.
The changes heading toward approval Tuesday by the GOP-controlled House wouldn't expand the list of IDs that Texas has required since 2011.
A bill to save the troubled Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund came one step closer to becoming law on Tuesday.
Drone flights could soon face new restrictions in America's largest conservative state. The Texas Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to ban drones over sports arenas and jails.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that his quest this year to visit every state is about building relationships, not politics. Zuckerberg insisted that he is not running for office.
Texas lawmakers are reviving efforts to prohibit coverage of abortion by some health insurance plans with just a week left to deliver the bill to Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
Dozens of Dallas residents packed Dallas City Council chambers on Monday night for a town hall-style meeting with leaders of a task force handling an $800 million dollar bond for 2017.
The version the Senate approved after midnight increases classroom funding by only about $500 million, scraps the $210 per-student increase and adds a plan offering taxpayer funds that would go into education savings accounts that some special education students could use to attend private schools.
Texas Republicans pushed the state closer to a law that allows publicly-funded foster care and adoption agencies to refuse to place children with non-Christian, unmarried or gay prospective parents because of religious objections.
A transgender "bathroom bill" now appears to be on a fast-track to becoming law in Texas — though it may only apply to public schools.
A transgender "bathroom bill" reminiscent of one in North Carolina that caused a national uproar now appears to be on a fast-track to becoming law in Texas — though it may only apply to public schools.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Sunday a bill that prevents state and local governments from issuing subpoenas for religious sermons.
