Opinion: Banning Taxpayer Funded Representation Would Disenfranchise Voters and Cripple Lawmakers
For years, local mayors, county commissioners, school board trustees, sheriffs, and police officers have been represented before the Texas Legislature by paid advocates hired...
These Texas Companies Have Publicly Opposed Voting Restrictions
When Georgia passed its 96-page voting overhaul bill into law last month, large companies went public with their opposition. The CEOs of Coca-Cola and...
Don’t Count on the Courts to Stop New Texas Voting Restrictions
After Georgia passed a slew of new voting rights restrictions, which President Joe Biden referred to as “new Jim Crow laws,” all eyes are...
Texas Medicaid Expansion Stalls After Lack of Speaker Support
Despite some promising bills that were filed in the 87th Texas Legislature, it looks like any efforts for the state expanding Medicaid under the Affordable...
The Senate Passed its Version of the Budget, What’s in it, and What’s in...
The Texas Senate recently passed its version of the state budget totaling $250.7 billion—$117.9 billion in General Revenue funds representing an increase of 2.6%...
Maternal Medicaid Extension Passes Out of Committee
Texas' struggle with maternal mortality is not new, however the Legislature made a big step toward addressing its abysmal record when the House Committee...
Editorial: Will the Legislature Use These Two Bills to Steal $18B Intended for Texas...
After a year living under the conditions of the coronavirus pandemic, Texas schoolchildren are close to the end of the school year and the...
Good Bill Hunting: HB 531 Flood Disclosures for Renters
Rep. Armando Walle (D-Houston) took a significant step yesterday in filling a gap in flooding legislation when his bill requiring rental property owners to...
Leach’s Possibly Corrupt Bill Is Still Trucking (Also Still Possibly Corrupt)
State Rep. Jeff Leach (R-Allen) came under fire last month when he introduced House Bill 19. If passed into law, it would greatly benefit trucking companies...
Who Are the 26 Texas Legislators Who Voted Against an Anti-Human Trafficking Bill?
With U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) under investigation for an alleged sexual relationship with an underage girl, as well as the reminder that during...
