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Texas House members caught using new method to vote for no-shows
Several Texas House members appear to have a new vote strategy—using extend-o-sticks to reach the buttons to indicate their ...
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Texas lawmakers advance separate plans to eliminate STAAR test, adjust A-F system
With less than three weeks remaining in the regular legislative session, Texas lawmakers are working on competing legislation ...
After a sometimes graphic debate, Texas House advances bill limiting kids’ access to sexually explicit books in libraries
The bill would bar those under 18 from checking out books with sexually explicit material without parental permission.
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Texas House sends bill that could increase cost of gender transition health care to governor's desk
The Texas House voted 87-58 to approve Senate Bill 1257 on Monday. The measure requires health care providers who provide ...
Texas bill requiring insurance companies to cover gender detransitioning heads to governor
Bill requiring insurance companies to cover follow-up care, treatment for potential gender affirming adverse effects heads to ...
‘A gift to our mothers’: Moms could drive solo in car pool lanes under Texas House bill
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Texas House advances bill expanding compassionate use of medical cannabis
House Bill 46 is expected to pass the lower chamber Tuesday. It reached the floor ahead of the House rewrite of Senate Bill 3 ...
Apollo’s $1.2B buyout takes Landsea Homes private
Irvine, California-based the New Home Company is acquiring Dallas-based Landsea at $11.30 per share in an all-cash ...
Texas House panel approves bail restrictions sought by Gov. Greg Abbott
The bipartisan version of the bill advancing in the House does not go as far as the Texas Republican has pushed in recent ...