Budget Passes State Senate & Heads To House
Budget writers in the Texas House are set to unveil their own state spending plan after the Senate overwhelmingly approved a $195.5 billion two-year budget proposal.
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Budget writers in the Texas House are set to unveil their own state spending plan after the Senate overwhelmingly approved a $195.5 billion two-year budget proposal.
The Senate Education Committee is set to discuss a string bills including a controversial proposal to lift the cap on the number of licenses issued to operate charter schools statewide.
A proposed $195 billion state budget is headed to the Texas Senate for approval. The two-year budget restores some of the $5.4 billion slashed from public schools in 2011.
The Senate Education Committee has voted to refer to the full chamber a measure reducing the number of standardized tests Texas students must pass to graduate from high school.
Only a handful of abortion clinics in Texas could continue to operate as they do now if Republican lawmakers push through a tough new bill aimed at raising the regulations that govern the clinics.
Texas senators delivered a subtle rebuke to three-term Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday, approving a bill that would limit future statewide office holders to two consecutive terms.
Lawmakers are planning to hear testimony on who decides the terminally ill patient's fate when the family and doctors disagree.
Texas House members are to discuss a proposed ban on school districts from requiring student ID badges embedded with locator chips.
The state would pay for school employees to learn to carry a gun on the job under a proposal set for consideration at the Capitol.
Mitt Romney, his campaign, and many Republicans were stunned when he lost to President Barack Obama during a weak economy.
House bill 1706 in the Texas Legislature would legally prohibiting anyone from interfering with a nursing mother in public, a protection breast-feeding advocate Michelle Hickman feels new mothers need.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visits North Texas for a speaking engagement.
Lawmakers took the first step Thursday to setting up a $2 billion fund to finance water projects across the state. Members of the House Natural Resources Committee approved a plan that would take the money from the state's Rainy Day Fund.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved an assault weapons ban, this despite the objections of two Texas Senators.
A lawmaker is demanding financial evidence to support a plan for government-sponsored drug-testing of laid-off-workers. The bill came up for debate in a legislative committee on Wednesday morning.
