The Legislature has two chambers — the 150-member House of Representatives and the 31-member Senate. Everyone in Texas is ...

It’s Groundhog Day in the Texas Legislature. Patrick, who presides over the Senate, is miffed because Burrows needed crucial support from Democrats to best Mansfield Republican Rep. David Cook, who ...

Texas lawmakers are reviving efforts to eliminate the decades-long practice of changing the clocks twice a year.

After hours of debate on the Texas Senate floor, families are now one step closer to an opportunity to use state money to ...

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday in the culmination of an unusually long and unusually public mudfight for the role.

Gov. Greg Abbott said cutting taxes is a top priority, however, state lawmakers don’t have as much money to plug into tax ...

The easy part is over. The Texas House will next take up "school choice" vouchers, an emergency item for Gov. Greg Abbott.

Top Republicans praised the Texas Senate's passage of "school choice" legislation as the proposal advances to the House where ...

After hours of testimony Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Education advanced Senate Bill 2, a school voucher bill, setting it ...

The chamber voted to approve Senate Bill 2 in a 19-12 vote, with a single Republican rebelling against his party to vote ...

Patrick may not like it, he may criticize it, but ultimately it’s what works in the House, not what works in the Senate, that’s going to keep Burrows as speaker.” Members of the Texas House ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — After hours of debate on the Texas Senate floor ... All eyes will now be on the House of Representatives as it works to pass its version of the bill. Senate Bill 2, authored ...