The Senate Finance Committee seemed interested Monday in funding specific education priorities, instead of a large investment ...

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

Republican Texas lawmakers are renewing a push to infuse a greater religious influence in the state's public schools with a ...

Most Texas Senators have signed on to a new bill that increases the residence homestead exemption to $140,000. Twenty-nine ...

Read more A bill aimed at lowering property taxes unanimously passed a Texas Senate committee Tuesday, clearing the way for ...

A bipartisan committee voted unanimously to send to the full Senate legislation that would raise the state homestead ...

Signed into law in June 2023, HB 3 increased how much districts receive for school safety each year to $10.00 per student from $9.72 per student, with an additional $15,000 for each campus in a school ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Wednesday called on the Texas House to pass a series of bills designed to reform the state's bail ...

Undeterred by four years of sluggish progress and certain defeat at the Texas Capitol, the gambling industry is plodding ...

Last session, Texas lawmakers provided the largest property tax cut in the state's history by increasing the homestead ...