2019 Texas Legislature

The Texas Medical Board will no longer be writing the rules for a new law outlawing surprise medical bills for some Texans. The law goes into effect Jan.…

If you’re looking to buy a house in Texas, the homeowner is now required to tell you if it has ever flooded. Likewise, if you own a home that’s flooded,…

A law went into effect in Texas this week that increases penalties for demonstrators who interfere with oil and gas pipelines and other pieces of…

Texas lawmakers added more than $75 million to the budget in the last legislative session for sexual assault-related initiatives. Nearly $60 million was…

At least seven people were killed and another 20 were injured in a mass shooting that stretched in and around Midland and Odessa, Texas, Saturday. The…

This Sunday, 820 new laws passed during the 2019 session of the Texas Legislature will go into effect. They range from the huge — a $250 billion two-year…

Months before Texas district attorneys started dropping or delaying low-level marijuana cases, state lawmakers were told that a well-liked bill to…

From Texas Standard:Momentum for one of Gov. Greg Abbott's priority issues this legislative session appears to have dwindled. Ordinances passed in Dallas,…

From Texas Standard:The governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker all insist this will be the legislative "session of the teacher," and that the…

From Texas Standard:When Texas lawmakers arrived in Austin Tuesday, they were probably at their most optimistic – the process of debating and passing…