After a lengthy debate among lawmakers over the best way to regulate services like Uber and Lyft, the Texas House backed a proposal that would override local regulations concerning ride-hailing companies.
85th Legislative Session
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Public Education
Watch as the Texas House debates school finance bill
We’re livestreaming as the Texas House debates legislation aimed at boosting per-student funding for almost every school district and charter in the state.
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Higher Education
Senate committee advances proposal to gut the Top 10 Percent Rule
A proposal to substantially weaken the Top 10 Percent Rule took an important step forward Wednesday.
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State Government
Dallas officials say state lawmakers share blame for city’s pension woes
Amid a legislative session that aims to fix massive pension shortfalls in two of Texas’ biggest cities, Dallas officials argue it’s state law that created some of their current problems in the first place.
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Politics
Analysis: How cars and booze might split sellers, buyers and lawmakers
Lawmakers get uncomfortable when their voters and their business supporters are out of sync. And the “bathroom bill” isn’t the only legislation where there’s daylight between those groups.
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State Government
Senate budget “unambiguously” unconstitutional, House leadership says
In a letter sent Tuesday, an attorney for two House leaders urges Attorney General Ken Paxton to side against a $2.5 billion accounting trick proposed in the Texas Senate’s version of the state budget.
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Public Education
Senate panel considers bill to simplify school finance formula
The Senate Education Committee discussed a bill that would radically simplify the state’s school finance formula, stripping it of some antiquated provisions. Parents and educators who testified wanted a few new provisions added in.
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State Government
House committee approves modified permitless carry legislation
A bill that would allow Texans to carry a firearm without a permit could be headed to the full Texas House.
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Economy
Texas Senate approves bill curbing regulation of short-term home rentals
Under Senate Bill 451 by state Sen. Kelly Hancock, R-North Richland Hills, Texas cities would be prevented from banning short-term rentals and their ability to write ordinances restricting the practice would be narrowed.
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Health care
Texas bill requiring burial of fetal remains passes out of House committee
Texas hospitals and abortion clinics would have to bury or cremate fetal remains under a measure that passed out of a House committee on Tuesday.
