Texas Legislature

Senate Bill 1 tightens voting-by-mail rules, prevents local efforts to expand voting options, increases access for partisan poll watchers, and sets new rules — and possible criminal penalties — for those who assist voters in casting their ballots in Texas.

Reproductive Freedom Congregations is a group of churches uniting against Texas's new abortion law in support of women's right to choose. Texas Right to Life, the organization which helped draft the law is defending it as helping to prevent women from making a devastating decision.

The Texas Medical Association called two anti-abortion bills unconstitutional and criticized the U.S. Supreme Court for not blocking the broader law from going into effect.

When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, four years ago It left $125 billion in damage With that, and more disasters likely to follow, struggling small businesses to survive.

The controversial voting rights bill passed the Texas House on a 79-37 mostly party-line vote, moving fast a week after Democrats ended their holdout

The fall of Afghanistan has triggered powerful emotions among the many Americans who fought there in the battle against global terrorism.

Democrat Reps. Garnet Coleman, Armando Walle and Ana Hernandez were the latest to rejoin the House on Thursday, narrowly clinching a quorum.

Texas Democrats who fled the state a month ago still haven’t returned to the state Capitol. Who is looking for them? How many Democrats need to return? Can they be arrested? Here's what you need to know.

Senator Carol Alvarado read a message from one of her constituents as she held a marathon filibuster. The Houston Democrat was on the Senate floor for 15 hours trying to block a Voting Rights' bill, but the measure passed.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced on his Twitter that the Supreme Court halted Harris Co. judges' order to block the arrest of more than 40 Democrats

It’s unclear how long the orders will remain in place, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has already indicated the state plans to fight them.

After a long 15 hours, Texas Senator Carol Alvarado ends her filibuster Thursday morning of a voting rights bill, which passed the senate vote moments later.

With local counties and schools implementing mask mandates amid the rising COVID-19 cases, the governor took to social media to remind them of the consequences.

Both chambers convened at noon for a second overtime round ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott after the first 30-day stretch ended in an impasse after House Democrats left the state to block a controversial GOP elections bill.

With voter fraud becoming one of the largest buzzwords among debates with lawmakers and a Houston resident making headlines for allegedly voting illegally as a previously convicted felon, FOX 26 consulted experts to learn more.

Voters with disabilities say proposed voting legislation will make casting a ballot harder for those with physical and mental challenges.