The Texas House voted to require schools to provide single-stall restrooms, locker rooms and changing facilities to students who don’t want to use facilities designated by “biological sex.”
85th Legislative Session
Posted in
Public Education
Texas Senate puts voucher-like program in school finance bill
The Texas Senate voted to approve a bill that would simplify funding formulas for public schools and let parents use state money to send their kids with disabilities to private schools or pay for homeschooling.
Posted in
State Government
Analysis: A legislative session ending on the lieutenant governor’s terms
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has put the clock to his advantage. With a week to go in the regular legislative session, his threat of pushing lawmakers into overtime if he doesn’t get his way on pet issues is paying off.
Posted in
Higher Education
When UT denied this valedictorian, she got it to change admissions rules
Madison Mau is valedictorian of her tiny high school’s senior class, but the University of Texas denied her anyway. Unwilling to accept that result, she lobbied the school to change its admissions policy.
Posted in
State Government
Effort to overhaul Texas voter ID rules survives — for now
A flurry of legislative activity Sunday night gave life to efforts to overhaul the Texas’ voter identification law, a change that’s crucial to the state’s arguments over whether lawmakers disenfranchised minority voters.
Posted in
Politics
Texas Republicans fear federal oversight as voter ID overhaul stalls
Republicans fear a failure to overhaul strict Texas voter ID rules could torpedo the state’s position in litigation over whether lawmakers discriminated against minority voters.
Posted inState Government
Abbott signs bill protecting sermons from subpoenas
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law legislation shielding pastors’ sermons from government subpoena power.
Posted in
State Government
Abbott, Patrick: More work needed as special session threat looms
Gov. Greg Abbott says he’s optimistic that lawmakers can avoid a special session. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants the “bathroom bill” passed or he’ll keep pushing for one.
Posted in
Public Education
Texas Senate will consider many bills in one for school finance vote
The Texas Senate will consider a version of the school finance bill, as soon as Sunday, that now includes an assortment of other House and Senate education bills — according to a notice Senate staffers received Saturday.
Posted in
State Government
Budget compromise taps Rainy Day Fund, transportation funding
Lawmakers, scrounging for cash in a tight-fisted legislative session, agreed to dip into the state’s savings account and to make use of an accounting trick using funds set aside last session for highway projects.
