State leaders on Thursday praised the Texas Senate for its swift passage of a school voucher bill that breezed through the upper chamber a day earlier after hours of debate over the legislation ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, is making another move to lower property taxes. On Friday, he filed Senate Bill 4, alongside 28 other senators, to increase the residence ...

This resolution has already passed the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. Sen. Bill Brotherton, D-Phoenix, voted against the second resolution. He was not elected with Clean ...

Texas families could use tax dollars to fund their children’s private school tuition under a Republican-backed bill that sailed ... Joan Huffman, R- Houston, chair of the Senate Committee ...

State Rep. Gene Wu (D-Houston) criticized the bill. "The state already has eminent domain power, but the state has to prove that it actually needs it. In Texas, we've actually thrown in more than ...

The vote on Senate Bill 2 also comes less than a week since the Texas Senate Education Committee quickly moved the bill forward. SB 2 now heads to the Texas House for consideration. Texas ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The Texas Senate voted Wednesday 19-12 in favor of passing the school choice bill that would establish education savings accounts, allowing families to use public funds to ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Action 13 is getting results for you, Houston. Just hours after ABC13 introduced you to an Independence Heights woman who called us about a $400 water bill, the city sent ...

HOUSTON — All Houston airports will reopen Wednesday after shutting down on Jan. 21 as a winter storm barreled through South Texas. George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P.

Houston and Harris County residents should be angry about a stealth diversion of their property taxes. As a Houston Chronicle investigation revealed last month, Texas state government allowed ...

The bill will likely face opposition from Texas Democrats. State Sen. Molly Cook, D-Houston, said before the debate that she would not support the bill. She argued the bill will have unintentional ...

The bill “will serve more students with more funding than any proposal our body has considered yet,” according to the analysis accompanying it. This version isn't the worst one Texas lawmakers ...