Texas Politics

"A record, $33 billion budget surplus gave lawmakers a golden opportunity to give Texas teachers, whose average salaries now trail the national average by more than $7,700, the kind of substantial pay raises they deserve and need", says Texas State Teachers Association President Ovidia Molina.

As thousands of the "uninvited" push across the Southern border into Texas, outrage aimed at the President over lifting the Title 42 restraint has been continual and ferocious.

The House gave initial approval to a bill that would ban doctors from providing transition-related care to children. This is the furthest point the measure has reached in the Legislature.

The Texas CROWN Act, also known as House Bill 567 was successfully voted on in the Texas Senate with 29-1.

There were some big developments on Thursday at the Texas Capitol on the future of both gun control and online gambling.

Bryan Slaton became the first Texas lawmaker to be expelled in nearly 100 years. He was also a former youth pastor.

The legislation would raise the minimum age for purchasing certain firearms but likely wouldn’t have been a hindrance to the Allen gunman obtaining a weapon. The bill still faces an uphill climb in the Legislature.

In our ongoing digital series, Behind Breaking Bond, we examine two proposed laws heading to the Texas House prioritizing trials for murder suspects and giving minimum prison sentences if convicted of using weapons in crimes.

At the Texas Capitol, it's been another day of heavy lifting for Texas lawmakers covering topics from controversial new limits on gender-affirming healthcare to reversing the exodus of public school teachers.

The Texas Senate advanced a bill to restore the rightful lawful residents to own a homestead, investment property, and commercial businesses.

Lawmakers have said school safety is a priority this session, but it is still unclear whether they’ll listen to Uvalde families who want to raise the minimum age to purchase semi-automatic guns from 18 to 21.

"Our goal is to foster dialogue, build relationships, and inspire concrete actions that can make a real difference in the lives of the people of the Fifth Ward and Kashmere Garden communities," Councilmember Letitia Plummer said.

A bill proposing to raise the age limit from 18 to 21 to purchase a semi-automatic rifle received hours of testimony in the House select committee on Community Safety.

There's a significant development in the ongoing campaign to liberalize Texas marijuana law restrictions as two bills are still alive in the Texas Legislature.

There was heartbreaking testimony before lawmakers in Austin, where parents who lost children in the Uvalde school shooting pushed to raise the legal age to buy an assault rifle from 18 to 21.