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

Senate Bill 2 now heads to the House, where top officials say they have the support to create education savings accounts.

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

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 ...

After seven hours of debate over SB 2 on the Senate floor Wednesday, the chamber suspended rules so that they could expedite ...

The easy part is over. The Texas House will next take up "school choice" vouchers, an emergency item for Gov. Greg Abbott.

House Republicans reported “very positive developments” after a marathon meeting at the White House on Thursday focused on ...

With all eyes on Austin for the next few month, House Speaker Burrows talks about House and State goals for this session.

Conservative activists in the GOP caucus called any power sharing with the minority party a betrayal of Republican voters.

Meanwhile in the Panhandle, Republicans were less excited that Burrows won the speaker contest thanks largely to Democrats.

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 ...

In a dramatic two-ballot vote Tuesday, Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock clinched the title of speaker of the ...