While touring major cities in Texas to highlight wins and local impacts stemming from the 89th Texas Legislature, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick made a pit stop in Lubbock on Tuesday. Joined by Sen. Charles ...

A $1 billion voucher program, touted as “the largest school-choice program in American history,” will go toward students’ enrollment in private and parochial schools.

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The end of the Texas legislative session brings changes that impact public schools, property tax relief, criminal justice, abortion and more.

Monday is the final day of Texas' 89th Legislative session. Bills signed, bills stalled: Texas Legislature ends with big GOP wins The Texas House and Senate will meet one last time before Sine Die ...

Patrick is president of the Texas Senate and is arguably the most powerful person in the Legislature. He appeared to support the idea of redrawing legislative boundaries to squeeze one or two more ...

In the state legislature, being useless is cause for embarrassment. In Congress, it can be the foundation of a lengthy career. Harrison’s last big job was as a Trump-administration bureaucrat.

AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — As Texas’s biannual and 140-day legislative session came to an end on Monday, Republican lawmakers had run up the scoreboard, passing a range of conservative priorities. On ...

Monday was "sine die" for the Texas Legislature — the last day of the 89th legislative session. Here’s what happened under the Pink Dome as lawmakers wrapped up their biennial work.

The 89th Texas legislative session ushered in school vouchers, more property tax relief, a THC ban, and changes to the state’s outdated bail bonds system, but was it a successful session?