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It's the final day of the session, and lawmakers rushed several major bills to the governor's desk. Here’s what made the cut.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNBill to scrap STAAR test dies in the Texas LegislatureThe state standardized test has long been criticized for taking instructional time away from teachers and putting unnecessary ...
Lawmakers advanced bills on immigration, protests at college campuses and banning school-sponsored LGBTQ clubs.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNTexas Legislature gives new city of Starbase authority to shut down local beach for SpaceX launchesLocal organizations strongly opposed the measure, hosting phone banking events to urge lawmakers to vote against the bill.
The bill would have replaced the STAAR test with three shorter tests, but House and Senate lawmakers seem unable to reconcile ...
The plan settled on by House and Senate negotiators seeks to raise the number of licensees from 3 to 15 by next year and add ...
The Texas Legislature passed a bill Sunday that would restrict protests on university campuses. The bill comes in reaction to ...
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FOX 7 Austin on MSNBill requiring sheriffs to work with ICE passes Texas legislatureIn its original form, the bill would have applied only to counties with populations over 100,000. On May 24, the House passed ...
KXAN and Nexstar journalists wrote hundreds of stories covering the 89th Legislative Session since bill filing opened in ...
The Texas Legislature 89th Regular Session ends on June 2. Here are some bills that died in the House and Senate in 2025.
Texas lawmakers have filed thousands of bills in the 2025 legislative session. Here are the key bills that have passed so far ...
Ken Paxton sought more power for his office to take up election cases But lawmakers haven’t agreed on a measure that would ...
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