Texas House

Austin fended off legislative volleys targeting Project Connect, trees, Austin Energy and land-use this session.

The majority of bills lawmakers propose never become laws in Texas. As the legislative session winds down, strategy and the mere brutal passage of time have taken their toll.

See the results for the Texas House and Senate districts in Central Texas.

Lawmakers adjourned in the early hours of Tuesday morning, securing changes to the state’s political maps and other conservative goals.

Before they’re even signed into law, the state’s new maps for congressional and statehouse districts have been challenged in federal court by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Before the second special session ended, lawmakers sent the GOP-backed bill for the governor's signature.

Texas Democrats argue their constituents' power would be diluted under current maps. They're asking a federal court to temporarily redraw maps for 2022.

House Democrats for weeks have denied the lower chamber the number of present members needed to pass legislation in a bid to block a voting restrictions bill. House Speaker Dade Phelan has already signed dozens of civil arrest warrants.

If the House Democrats who skipped town to block voting legislation don’t return before the special session ends, the Senate bills will languish without becoming law.

Republicans tried to shift political power in 2003. Now, they want to preserve it. This time, national Democrats have the power to do something.