The two Texas government chambers are still negotiating the final budget, but the lottery has been in the legislative ...

Texas Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, authored a resolution to make the cannon the official state gun of Texas. On April 10, ...

The Texas House met for under nine seconds in its first Saturday session of the legislative term. During those 8.8 seconds, Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, a Republican, announced that a ...

The Texas Senate and House ... driver of high property taxes. The Legislature can only intervene by paying school boards to lower them, which costs the state more every year.

The Texas Senate quickly passed its version of the state's roughly $336 billion proposed budget, which would fund the operations of the state government through 2027. Senate Bill 1, the upper ...

Governor Dan Patrick and a Speaker of the Texas House held a joint news ... on "nothing but fiction" and that the legislature will pass what the state can afford. "It's wrong, flat-out incorrect ...

The Texas Senate also unanimously passed SB 7, Increasing Investments in Texas’ Water Supply, by Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, to expand the state’s water fund. The Senate’s budget ...