The Legislature has two chambers — the 150-member House of Representatives and the 31-member Senate. Everyone in Texas is ...

Legislative power in Austin flows from three sources: the governor, the lieutenant governor and the House speaker.

The way the Texas House and most other legislative bodies operate, members can't just get up on the chamber floor and start ...

The governor’s list of priority items includes issues important to social conservatives and to business advocates.

Senate Republicans expect to mark up their budget resolution as soon as next week, as the House GOP struggles over its ...

There's also about $6.5 billion in additional money for property tax relief on top of what was passed two years ago. That may include what the Senate has proposed, which is an increase in the ...

Both chambers set aside $1 billion for a voucher-like education savings account program — double what was on the table two years ago — in a sign that supporters are emboldened after recent electoral ...

With little power in Republican-led Washington, D.C., California Democrats struggle to mount a countereffort to President ...

Locally in Texas, immigration also remains a top issue ... to register to vote will also go before both legislative chambers. Senate Republicans are calling for the Legislature to establish ...

and after Texas Republicans strengthened their supermajority in the state Legislature, and federally the GOP won the White House and both chambers of Congress, they are positioned to move the ...

On the same day the Texas Senate filed its 2026-2027 biennium budget proposal, the Texas House filed a similar budget.