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

A bipartisan panel of Texas Senators approved legislation that would increase Texas' homestead property tax exemption, once ...

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

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

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

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

AUSTIN – The Texas House and Senate released their proposed budgets for 2026 and 2027, and lawmakers told CBS News Texas they liked how similar the two chambers' spending plans are. "It's ...

The proposal, a priority of Gov. Greg Abbott, budgets $1 billion over the next two years to fund the private school vouchers.

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 ...