Voting rights advocates worry that legislation approved by House and Senate committees could make it harder to get more ...

Before the 2024 election, two Texas counties mailed out voter registration forms to hundreds of thousands of residents, ...

A right to appraisal bill approved nearly unanimously by the Texas Senate went before the House Insurance Committee Wednesday ...

It took multiple special legislative sessions in 2023 and Gov. Greg Abbott campaigning against the naysayers to happen, but now a measure that would create a school voucher program in Texas has passed ...

The widow of a University Park man killed in an apparent road rage shooting urged lawmakers on Thursday to pass a new traffic ...

Habeas corpus is a critical safeguard of liberty. In the words of Chief Justice John Marshall in the seminal 1803 case, Marbury v. Madison, the “very essence” of civil liberty is “the right to claim ...

Bill to Create a Texas Homeland Security Division Passes State Senate The Texas Senate on Thursday approved a proposal that would create a homeland security division within the state’s ...

Texas Senate has passed Senate Bill 38, an anti-squatter bill. Co-author state Sen. Paul Bettencourt says that the current process punishes rightful property owners while rewarding trespassers.

Texas Senate bill 1065 aims to keep the State Fair of Texas from imposing a firearms ban. If passed, the bill would allow license-to-carry holders to bring firearms to the Fair and other places ...

If passed into law, Senate Bill 36 would make Texas’ immigration enforcement efforts a permanent part of the state’s criminal justice system. SB 36, which passed in the Senate on a 26-4 vote ...

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