Texas House of Representatives

Lawmakers considered measures on university tenure, school safety and border security.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been impeached by fellow Republicans in a historic vote in the Texas House. He will immediately and temporarily be suspended from his duties.

The vote comes after House-hired investigators publicly detailed a list of illegal acts Paxton allegedly committed in an effort to protect a political donor.

The Texas House Public Education Committee will hold a hearing Monday on legislation to create education savings accounts. The House blocked the committee chair's attempt to hold a vote on Wednesday.

The Republican chair of the House Higher Education Committee said universities need to be able to offer tenure. But Democratic lawmakers and professors raised concerns that the House version of Senate Bill 18 still does too much to weaken tenure.

A Texas Republican has resigned from the Texas Legislature after an investigation found he had sex with a subordinate after he served the 19-year-old staffer alcohol at his apartment earlier this year.

According to one of the Texas attorney general’s aides, the state has already spent nearly $600,000 defending Paxton. The aide conceded the state could end up having to pay even more if it were to litigate the case and lose.

Members considered more than 50 amendments to the proposed map during debate that began Tuesday and ended early Wednesday. Some of the biggest changes focused on Dallas and Harris counties.

Voting rights experts say the latest bill still would make it harder to vote in Texas, but it's less restrictive than what almost passed in May.

The Texas Supreme Court earlier Tuesday ordered that Democrats who refuse to show up could soon be detained by law enforcement and brought back to the state Capitol.