The package of bills would tighten the state's bail laws to keep more people in jail — including undocumented immigrants — ...

Opponents of the bail reform package say the proposed changes are based on false pretenses and could unjustly keep innocent ...

The Senate Finance Committee seemed interested Monday in funding specific education priorities, instead of a large investment ...

The marquee proposal would increase the amount of a home’s value exemption from school taxes to $140,000 from $100,000.

Twenty-nine Texas senators, headed by Sen. Paul Bettencourt, made the move to lower property taxes, right on the heels of Gov ...

Republican Texas lawmakers are renewing a push to infuse a greater religious influence in the state's public schools with a ...

In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Texas Senate Committee on Local Government passed a property tax relief bill onto the full ...

Texas Senator Joan Huffman, who represents parts of the Houston region, said the bills will be known as "Jocelyn's law" and ...

A bipartisan committee voted unanimously to send to the full Senate legislation that would raise the state homestead ...

Since Texas passed a law in 2023 requiring public school districts to have an armed officer at each campus, districts have ...

A Texas Senate committee on Tuesday quickly and unanimously advanced a proposal to provide billions of dollars in tax breaks ...

Texas lawmakers are discussing five proposed bail reforms, including one to prevent undocumented defendants from posting bail ...