Tuesday marks the first day of Texas’ 89th Legislative session, coming after a bruising election season in which Republicans ...

The choice of speaker, made by all 150 members of the Texas House, will set the course of the 2025 legislative session and ...

First, while senators know what to expect with Lt. Gov Dan Patrick at the legislative body's helm, who controls the lower ...

Texas Democratic state House Rep ... for why they saw critical losses in the White House, both chambers of Congress, and on local levels during the past election cycle. In what proved to be ...

The Senate is expected this week to take up the Laken Riley bill, a measure that Republicans have championed as one of their first actions to address what they have deemed as necessary changes to ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered that the flags lowered to half-staff for the late President Jimmy Carter be raised for ...

A staunchly conservative Texas Legislature, poised to approve the agendas set by Republican state leaders, will convene ...

Here’s a rundown of how legislation moves through the Capitol, the ways lawmakers operate and who the power players are.

Farmers and ranchers are starting the new year with a bill that's years old — policies passed before the pandemic, inflation, ...

Under the bill, called the Laken Riley Act, state attorneys general like Ken Paxton would have the ability to challenge ...