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.

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

A bipartisan panel of Texas Senators approved legislation that would increase Texas' homestead property tax exemption, once again, to $140,000. It now heads to ...

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

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

With plenty of patience and money, the industry is extending its multi-year campaign to bring legal casinos and sports ...

A month into the new Congress, House and Senate Republicans are still not on the same page on how to tackle President Donald Trump’s agenda raising the possibility the two chambers could be on a ...

A Texas Senate bill to raise the homestead exemption and provide relief to the state's property taxpayers quickly passed out of committee Tuesday.

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 ...

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 ...