Jake Gripp: The Texas legislature is about to start ... Williams: Well, there are some fantastic quotes, some even that won’t appear in the article, like one of my favorites had to be this one guy ...

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Jennifer Perkins, a former board president of the Texas Silver-Haired Legislature Foundation, said the organization wanted to ...

The 307-foot tall landmark UT Tower is pictured on the University of Texas campus in Austin. Threats to Texas’ flagship ...

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows announced that a quorum, the minimum number of members needed to work, was not present.

The lower chamber passed bills on Tuesday aimed at improving the state's wildfire response and prohibiting taxes on financial ...

For the first time since gaveling into session on January 14, members of the Texas House of Representatives debated and voted ...

Democrats point to budget estimates by the Texas Legislative Budget Board that the cost of the school choice program could rise to $4 billion a year by 2030. But during the news conference ...

It ain’t all bad in Austin. The Texas Legislature is halfway through its biennial session, and while I’ve written columns about crony capitalism and bad policy, lawmakers from both parties ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) called the bill one of his “major” legislative initiatives, the Texas Tribune reported. “I will not allow retailers to circumvent the law and put Texans ...

A bill proposed in the Texas legislature could charge transgender Texans with a state felony if they commit what proponents call “gender identity fraud.” Republican state Rep. Tom Oliverson ...

Texas doesn’t make a big enough deal about ... She was an excellent lobbyist and she understood the legislative process.” Alvarado isn’t the only one trying to bring more attention to ...