Legislative Hearings Update
House & Senate Floor The House will reconvene on Thursday, March 16 at 10:00 AM The Senate will reconvene on Thursday, March 16 at 11:00 AM Video Broadcasts: House | Senate Legislative Hearings [...]
House & Senate Floor The House will reconvene on Thursday, March 16 at 10:00 AM The Senate will reconvene on Thursday, March 16 at 11:00 AM Video Broadcasts: House | Senate Legislative Hearings [...]
CSSB 30 (Huffman) Relating to supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding appropriations - was passed out of the Senate Chamber unanimously on 3/15 [...]
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the Texas Senate’s passage of Senate Bill 2, which restores the act of illegal voting to a felony: “Maintaining the integrity [...]
From Sen. Joan Huffman's press release: Senator Joan Huffman filed Senate Bill 30, the Senate’s supplemental budget for the 2022-2023 biennium. In total, the bill appropriates $11.8 billion in All [...]
Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) in a press release announced the Senate’s $16.5 billion in Property Tax Relief bills heard in the Senate Finance Committee on March 15th, 2023. An overview can [...]
From Sen. Charles Perry's March 7th press release: Sen. Charles Perry filed Senate Bill 28 and Senate Joint Resolution 75 to create the Texas Water Fund (TWF) at the Texas [...]
On March 10th Senator Brandon Creighton sent the Attorney General a request for an opinion (RQ-0502-KP) regarding the constitutionality of Texas's "Blaine Amendments" and the constitutionality of a Texas Education [...]
From the Texas Education Agency (TEA) social studies newsletter on March 10th: The State Board of Education (SBOE) voted to amend their instructional materials adoption cycle to remove Proclamation 2025 [...]
On March 15, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final Good Neighbor Plan, which secures significant reductions in ozone-forming emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOX) from power plants [...]
Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson today announced structural changes to the Texas Secretary of State's Elections Division. Keith Ingram, the current Director of the Elections Division, will now serve [...]