Decision season starts Thursday for the Supreme Court, kicking off a race against the clock to release this term’s opinions before the court’s summer break begins. The justices are set to hand ...

The House's higher education committee closed registration to testify on Senate Bill 37 less than half an hour after the ...

Having spent 52 years in the Texas House, Senfronia Thompson is the longest-serving woman in the chamber's history and in any ...

The Texas constitution limits its Legislature to a 140-day regular session every other year. The final three weeks of a ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Texans "like their Lotto and ... scratch-off games," and therefore, the state will fix the lottery.

Some measures that made it through before midnight dealt with jail bonds, an unconstitutional ban on gay sex, and the ...

With just over two weeks left in the legislative session, Texas senators have introduced their version of the sweeping public ...

The Senate passed its version of the proposal, Senate Bill 3, in March, but it has since been amended in a House committee.

Each legislative session, thousands of bills are filed by state lawmakers, but how many actually become law? And how long ...

Other states along the Gulf Coast have adopted legislation officially recognizing the water basin as the Gulf of America.

The county's downtown office building location at 1111 Fannin Street will now be named in the late congresswoman's honor.