Texas Legislature

Lawmakers approved new political maps and decided how to spend COVID-19 relief money. But they didn’t pass bills about vaccine mandates or the criminal penalty for illegal voting.

If the bill becomes law, Texas will join at least five other states that have passed such legislation.

The Justice Department wants the high court to put the restrictive law on hold during ongoing legal challenges. The U.S. government says the legislation is unconstitutional.

Senate Bill 52 would allow Texas’ public universities to pay for infrastructure projects through tuition revenue bonds, a process that hasn’t been done by the state Legislature since 2015.

The Biden administration urged the courts again Monday night to step in and suspend a new Texas law that has banned most abortions since early September, as clinics hundreds of miles away remain busy with Texas patients making long journeys to get care.

The Texas Legislature is in the midst of redrawing voting districts, a process that happens after the census every 10 years.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., which since September has banned most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state.

The bill would allow county party leaders, candidates, judges and political committees to formally ask the Texas secretary of state's office to review any "irregularities" in an election.

The Texas House of Representatives Committee on Redistricting redrew the maps that allocate the 150 seats that make up the chamber, showing that Republicans gained more control.

While Texas's booming metros will have more people representing them, that’s not the case in more rural parts of the state.

The Texas Legislature is now in round three of this year's special sessions. Back on their priority agenda is a controversial measure that would restrict which sports teams transgender student athletes can play on.

Abortion rights advocates say the justices have allowed Texas to skirt the constitutional rights of its citizens.