Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the president of the state senate, has released his first round of interim changes for committees in the next legislative session.

Patrick’s initial five-item to-do list also included assessing risks posed by hostile foreign entities to the grid’s supply ...

(The Center Square) – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued an initial list of interim charges for Texas Senate committees to pursue ...

At the top of the list is “preventing Sharia law in Texas.” Anti-Sharia law and targeting Islamic political ideology affiliated with terrorism is a common theme among Texas Republicans in the last few ...

The freeze affects new H-1B petitions at state agencies and public universities in one of the nation’s largest H-1B states.

Suzanne Bellsnyder used to work for Republicans in Austin. Now she’s challenging them to do better for rural Texas, where she lives and operates two newspapers and a growing Substack newsletter.

The bills in Missouri, Virginia, and West Virginia call for year-round daylight saving time, should Congress give states the ...

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Follow along for live updates in the runoff election between Democrat Taylor Rehmet and Republican Leigh Wambsganss.

Texas House Democrats who absconded last year, halting state legislative business, have been fined nearly $10,000 each. They ...

With Texas’ hardline conservative megadonors largely staying on the sidelines, a handful of House primaries have become ...

Now, a new state law passed last legislative session is paving the way for broader partnership with the federal entity.