Texas Legislature 2019

The Texas Senate unanimously passed legislation expanding the Texas Compassionate Use Program on Wednesday. The legislation is expected to become law,…

Texas lawmakers overwhelmingly approved an effort to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp in the state. Advocates anxiously watching from the House…

The Texas Senate tentatively approved a bill Tuesday that would add more transparency and accountability to sexual assault reporting systems in colleges…

Updated on March 7, 2019.Texas leads the nation in arrests for possessing small amounts of marijuana. According to the most recent statistics available,…

Texas lawmakers want to end a backlog of untested rape kits. A bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday aimed to help thousands of women find justice and…

Groups pushing for an expansion of the state’s medical marijuana law joined people pushing decriminalization and total legalization efforts at the State…

House Speaker Dennis Bonnen has handed out committee assignments, and South Texas lawmakers now lead 10 of those committees.Bonnen said the committee…

Updated at 7 p.m.Gov. Greg Abbott, who was sworn into office Tuesday to begin his second term, made school finance reform and improving educational…

After failing to pass legislation to reform public school funding in 2017, state leaders have pledged to make it a top priority this legislative…

The next Texas legislative session begins in January, and lawmakers began filing their legislation Monday.Every other November, state senators and…