The Texas Senate gave unanimous approval Thursday to proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption ...

The marquee proposal would increase the amount of a home’s value exemption from school taxes to $140,000 from $100,000. The ...

For the past several years, Republican state lawmakers have pushed to rein in rising property tax bills. That push culminated ...

The Texas Senate sent two bills to the Texas House on Thursday that will cut property taxes by again increasing the Homestead ...

The package of bills would tighten the state's bail laws to keep more people in jail — including undocumented immigrants — ...

Efforts by conservatives to pressure Republican senators to support Trump’s Cabinet nominees have largely been successful so ...

Proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption to $140,000 cleared a key hurdle Tuesday when a bipartisan committee voted unanimously to approve and send two bills to the ...

Texas, and multiple cosponsors in the Senate. In the House, it was filed by U.S. Reps. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., and Monica De ...

Democratic senators, who repeatedly failed in their ... to what the state is solely responsible” for. Both the Texas House and Senate have proposed setting aside $1 billion in the next two years for ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has scheduled a 10 a.m. news conference at the Capitol. No subject was listed in his announcement.

Two commanders in charge of enhanced military operations along the U.S.-Mexico border were unable Wednesday to give senators ...

As congressional Republicans try to extend President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, some are considering an unusual plan to ...