Texas Senate’s voucher proposal would give families $10,000 to fund students' private school Updated: Jan. 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM GMT+8| By Jaden Edison and Pavan Acharya for the Texas Tribune The Texas Senate revealed a bill on Friday to create an education savings accounts program.Texas...
Contraception bill falls short in the Senate amid Republican opposition Republicans largely opposed a vote to advance a bill to protect access to contraception Wednesday, as Democrats make a push to center reproductive rights in the run-up to the election. ...
Texas Senate Approves Bill for Pari-Mutuel GamblingAUSTIN - The Texas Senate gave final legislative approval Monday to a bill that could legalize pari-mutuel gambling on horse and dog racing.FROM STAFF, WIRE REPORTS
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Lt. Gov. Patrick wants the House to pass the Senate bill. "So we reach out to our friends in the House, and we ask them to seriously consider the bill." CBS News Texas emailed Speaker Phelan's office seeking comment, but has not heard back. If the House also passes the Senate's...
A bill that would allow Texas college students to keep handguns locked in their cars in college campus parking lots easily passed the state Senate on Tuesday. The bill, OK'd in a bipartisan 27-4 vote, would override rules by several state colleges and universities that prohibit guns on ...
known as Senate Bill 3. Drawn up in response to the devastating power outages that left much of the state freezing during the worst winter storm in the state’s recent memory, this sweeping overhaul of the electric grid received unanimous support in the Texas Senate before advancing to the ...
Shortly before midnight, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals put the law known as Senate Bill 4 back on hold. The confusion along Texas' vast border during that brief window revealed that many sheriffs were unprepared, unable or uninterested in enforcing SB4 in th...
“South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, objected to a resolution offered by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that would have allowed another senator to take Feinstein’s place on the panel while the Democrat...
The so called “Women’s Health Protection Act” (WHPA) that would have banned all Pro-Life laws across the country, failed in the U.S. Senate today. The bill died with 49 voting for and 51 voting against this bill which would have radically altered U.S. law to ban any and all res...