Texas Rep. Dustin Burrows, Speaker of the House, adjourned the chamber Sine Die on Friday Aug. 15, 2025, in Austin. Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows adjourned the 2025 Legislature's first special ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KCBD) - Texas Democrat lawmakers broke house quorum today. More than 50 Democrats in the lower chamber were not present when House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) gaveled in the ...

AUSTIN, Texas – Across the 140 days of the 89th Texas Legislature, lawmakers filed 11,503 Senate and House bills. By Sunday, June 22, which marked the final day for Gov. Greg Abbott to veto ...

Gov. Greg Abbott at a bill signing ceremony at the Capitol on June 11, 2025. Abbott called a special legislative session early Monday after he vetoed 25 bills on Sunday. (Ronaldo Bolaños/The Texas ...

A map of U.S Congressional Districts proposed plan is seen at a Texas legislators' public hearing on congressional redistricting in Austin Aug. 1, 2025. I would like to thank the Texas House Democrats ...

AUSTIN – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for another Texas Legislature’s special session after the first session was adjourned Friday morning after failing to make a quorum. Abbott immediately issued a ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate passed key bills this week that would create new requirements for county disaster preparedness, require and fund flood sirens, and provide $200 million to help with ...

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Some of the constitutional amendments on the Nov. 4 ballot are head scratchers - and not just because voters need to think about how they want to cast their ballots. From jargon-laced proposals about ...

GOP lawmakers in the Texas House of Representatives and Senate have gone all in on enacting a new congressional districts map that was drawn to give their party a better chance at gaining five ...

Following reports that former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's nonprofit Powered by People was helping fund Texas state Democrats' exodus out of the state to halt Republican redistricting ...