Special Session

In addition to the controversial voting bill, the agenda includes bail reform, restrictions on transgender youth sports participation, and funding for the Legislature itself.

The latest bills contain many measures from a past failed legislative effort that voting rights groups say would make it harder to vote in Texas.

We asked our readers for their questions about the special legislative session that starts Thursday in Texas. These are the answers.

Abbott also listed restrictions on transgender student athletes and restoring funding to the Legislative branch after he vetoed it on the special session agenda.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday put blame on the House — particularly Speaker Joe Straus — for the shortcomings of the special session and left the door…

The Texas Legislature closed out the special session Tuesday night amid a stalemate on property tax reform, leaving unfinished Gov. Greg Abbott's top…

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A bill that would require physicians and health care facilities to report more details on abortion complications to the state — and would fine those that…

Despite it serving, in part, as the reason lawmakers are back in Austin for legislative overtime, the Texas Legislature could very well gavel out next…

The Texas House tentatively approved two bills Thursday that will keep several state agencies from closing, including the Texas Medical Board. If the…

Two months ago, Texas lawmakers quietly did something rare in this statehouse: They sent Gov. Greg Abbott a bill designed to make voting easier for…

From Texas Standard : Rhetoric from lawmakers on both sides of the abortion debate raged on at the state Capitol on Tuesday over a Republican bill that...