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

Proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption to $140,000 cleared a key hurdle when a bipartisan ...

Bills filed in the Texas Senate are once again trying to bring prayer and the Ten Commandments into public school classrooms.

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

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

A plan blessed by Arrington’s close personal friend, Speaker Mike Johnson, has stalled for weeks in the Budget Committee. Arrington and fellow Texas hard-liner Chip Roy have battled Ways and Means ...

The bill then is sent to the governor, who can either sign it into law or veto it. However, if a law is vetoed while ...

House Bill 1 and Senate Bill 1, Jan. 22. The proposals include billions of dollars for border security, property tax cuts, ...

Dan Patrick, who leads the Senate. Because it proposes an amendment to the Texas Constitution ... Budget bills filed by both chambers earmarked $3.5 billion for new property tax relief by reducing ...

Gov. Greg Abbott will deliver his 2025 State of the State address at 5 p.m. outlining legislative priorities. Watch live on ...