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. ...
The GOP-led Texas state Senate passed sweeping elections legislation Tuesday that critics say will make it harder to vote, particularly for those of color, one day after Democratic lawmakers in the state House left Texas to thwart passage of the bill in the lower chamber. The uppe...
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Senate Bill 434 Senator Mayes Middleton of Galveston introduced this gem (that's sarcasm in case you couldn't tell) of a bill in the Texas Senate,Senate Bill 434. In a nutshell, the bill would eliminate the 1959 Texas Open Beaches Act and take authority away from the Texas General Land ...
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 ...
The debate over a controversial abortion bill drew thousands of protesters on Monday to the Texas State Capitol, where the Texas Senate and House quickly met to officially revive the legislation. The bill -- which would impose strict limits on abortion, such as a ban on abortions after 20 ...
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 ...
He claimed that lawmakers on the committee had been “swayed by the influence of the powerful bill sponsor” — likely referring to Senator Kolkhorst. BREAKING: The anti-#Bitcoin mining bill in Texas just passed through Senate committee uncontested without a single vote in opposition.— Dennis ...
Texasfar-right RepublicanLt. Governor Dan Patrickis lauding two just-passed state Senate bills which mandate theTen Commandmentsbe prominently displayed in every public school classroom and that public schools be allowed to create times specifically devoted so people...