As Texas faces a housing affordability crunch, state lawmakers sent a signal Monday to residents who try to stop new homes from being built near them: It may get a lot harder to do so. The Texas ...

House Bill 4 would make the test shorter and base scores on how students’ performance compares to national averages. The Texas House gave preliminary approval Monday to a bill that would ...

Equality Texas organized a rally on Friday with several advocacy partners to protest House Bill 229 and House Bill 778, which speakers argued would negatively impact the lives and freedoms of ...

Chinese and other foreign citizens could soon be barred from purchasing homes in Texas under a bill greenlit by the Texas House on Thursday. The measure, which passed the Republican-led chamber in ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House of Representatives has passed a bill that would restrict who could own land in Texas. Senate Bill 17, authored by State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham), would ...

State Rep. Venton Jones (center), moves passage of House Bill 1738, May 15, 2025. The Texas House of Representatives has passed a bill to repeal the state's law banning "homosexual conduct." ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that will make it harder for homeowners to block projects to build new homes near their neighborhood. House Bill 24 ...

A repeal of the state’s defunct ban on gay sex cleared the Texas House on Friday, following a nail-biter vote recount. On Thursday, lawmakers voted 72-55 to give the first approval to House Bill ...

It is the first time the bill has made it to the House floor since it was first proposed decades ago. Activists and members of Austin's LGBTQ community gather on the steps of the Texas Capitol on ...

Legislation aimed at barring people and agents of countries deemed hostile to U.S. interests from owning land in Texas leaped closer to becoming law after House Republicans late Thursday and again ...

The Texas House preliminarily approved a bill to replace the STAAR test with a shorter one. The bill aims to reduce testing time and use results to inform instruction, addressing concerns about ...

Texas House lawmakers rushed to advance their bills out of the lower legislative chamber minutes before Thursday night's midnight deadline, which left thousands of measures dead in the water.