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The House Ways & Means Committee is expected to vote on the bill Wednesday.

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Texas added Airbnb to a short list of companies that can’t receive state money because they boycott Israel, though Airbnb says it does not. Now, employees at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer stay in Airbnbs while on school business.

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Student activists, professors and community members have rallied to oppose Wilson's nomination, citing her anti-LGBTQ voting record.

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Disability advocates want the Texas Legislature to invest in pay raises for home care workers. Even in a year of surplus, it's a difficult battle.

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Supporters of the provision, known as equity appeals, say it's valuable for all property owners and stops taxing units from imposing unfair taxes.

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Lawmakers in the House and Senate have filed bills that aim to address a pair of 2015 court decisions seen as threats to open government.

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The directive came the same day that Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath expanded a conservator's oversight of Houston public schools. And it followed on the heels of Gov. Greg Abbott advocating for the state to take over the district.

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A government spokesman said shutting down the checkpoints near El Paso is a temporary measure.

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O'Rourke has brought on veteran Democratic strategist Jennifer O'Malley Dillon to lead his White House bid.

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Lawmakers were alerted that a page on the House floor had the infection, triggering discussions about vaccine policies in the state.

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The bill would increase state, school district and teacher contributions to the fund, and provide a one-time additional check for retirees.

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The hearing on a bill regarding "the rights of a living child born after an abortion" was delayed Monday morning due to a lack of a quorum.

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The Texas Legislature, full of people who believe in open government and who also like to settle things quietly and outside of public view, is diving into open-government legislation.

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For years, Diane Wilson has tried to get Formosa Plastics Corp. to stop discharging plastic pellets from its sprawling petrochemical complex on the Central Texas coast. This week, she's getting her day in court.

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Whichever Democrat running for president places well in South Carolina's Feb. 29 primary will head into the March Super Tuesday contests — a rash of states that will include Texas — with momentum.

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"This is Harris County!" declared a bevy of colorful signs at a campaign rally Saturday for the California Democrat. Harris has made clear she plans to cede no ground to Democratic rivals who hail from the Lone Star State.

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Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an environmental lawsuit against Intercontinental Terminals late Friday seeking tens of thousands of dollars in damages.

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The former El Paso congressman hit six states in the first seven days of his nascent White House bid, plowing through the ups and downs of the trail while maintaining a breakneck pace.

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Halfway through the session, the Capitol's hallways are full of talk of a special session on school finance and property taxes. That won't happen — unless the Legislature makes a mess of the time it's got left.

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Hear from naturalized citizens whose voter eligibility was questioned as part of the state’s flawed review of the voter rolls.

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