Today, Senator Jane Nelson (R-Flower Mound) filed SB 1, the Senate's base budget, establishing the state's funding priorities for the next two years, and SB 500, the supplemental budget bill. The [...]
The Legislative Budget Board (LBB) met today, January 11, 2019 to discuss setting the constitutional spending limit on certain appropriations for the 2020-21 biennium. The LBB was provided 5 updated [...]
Rep. Dennis Bonnen (R-Angleton) was unanimously elected by record vote today as House Speaker for the 86th Legislative Session. Speaker's Office Staff Directory Biography
The Legislature will convened on January 8, 2019 to kick off the 86th Regular Session for the next 140 days. Live/archive video broadcasts can be found at the following links: [...]
Representative Joe Pickett (D-El Paso) has announced he will resign effective January 4 due to health concerns, ahead of the 13th term to which he was recently elected. With Pickett's [...]
Today was the first day lawmakers could file bills for the 86th Texas Legislative Session. In the first day of prefiling, a total of 465 bills were filed as of 5:30pm. [...]
The Texas Tribune released an article last week which covered details of Governor Abbott’s school finance proposal, including a link to the Governor's presentation, “Improving Student Outcomes and Maintaining Affordability [...]
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board met on October 25 to take up the agenda here. This report covers selected agenda Items pertaining to dual credit, college and career readiness, [...]
Early voting for the November 6th midterm elections starts October 22. At the end of September, Texas reached a new record - having 15,624,871 registered voters. The Texas Tribune has published [...]
Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium (TEGAC) held its fall members meeting in Austin on September 19. During the morning program state and local perspectives on key education policy issues were [...]