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House unveils bill giving state authority to “repel” and return migrants crossing from Mexico

House Bill 20 by state Rep. Matt Schaefer, R-Tyler, would test the boundaries of the state’s ability to enforce immigration law, which courts have historically ruled falls under federal purview.

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Lawmakers offer stark choices for ending the crisis in Texas’ youth prisons — shut them all down, or build more

Plagued by decades of scandals over sexual and physical abuse of children, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department is at a crossroads.

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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan’s new priority bills focus on school safety, requiring districts to adopt active-shooter plans

More than nine months after the Uvalde school shooting, top GOP lawmakers maintain focus on school safety reforms and investments in mental health resources in hopes it will prevent future tragedies.

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Texas House prioritizes armed officer at each school and bolstering teacher quality

DALLAS — Every Texas school would have an armed officer and would-be teachers would receive extra support under legislation prioritized by House Speaker Dade Phelan.

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Texas lawmakers propose historic investments to broadband and water infrastructure — but voters will have the last word

If passed during this legislative session, this would be the state’s biggest investment in broadband, but some local officials question whether it would make the service more affordable in areas with few providers.

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The top fundraisers in the Texas House

Campaign finance requirements govern how much money candidates may receive from individuals and organizations, how often they must report those contributions, and how much individuals, organizations, and political entities may contribute to campaigns.

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Texas legislative leaders — Dan Patrick, Dade Phelan — jab each other’s priorities in dueling speeches

During dueling speeches to a conservative think tank in Austin, state House Speaker Dade Phelan and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who have a history of animus, split over property tax relief, criminal justice reform and school choice.

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Texas House’s property tax bill calls for $17 billion in cuts, tighter appraisal cap

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan’s proposal reveals the different roads the Texas House and Senate want to take on property taxes — and the fight that might emerge between the two chambers this session.

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Gov. Greg Abbott vows to exclude renewable energy from any revived economic incentive program

In 2021, the Texas Senate declined to consider a bill extending the program, which discounted local property taxes to lure big companies to the state. It had become plagued with bipartisan accusations of “corporate welfare.”

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Business and legislative leaders push to replace expired tax break with a new one

Business groups warned lawmakers that Texas could lose business to other states without something to replace the so-called Chapter 313 tax break, which gave some companies big breaks on school taxes.

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Texas Oil and Gas Producers Want Their Tax Break Back

An effort to resurrect Texas’ Chapter 313 tax abatement is underway in the Legislature.

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Speaker Dade Phelan endorses Medicaid expansion for new mothers, repeal of “tampon tax” in first batch of 2023 priorities

The leader of the state House also threw his support behind bills to crack down on how companies handle private data and to protect children from “addictive algorithms” by digital companies.

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Texas AG Paxton defends $3.3 million whistleblower settlement before House budget writers

AUSTIN, Texas – Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office made its case on Tuesday for state budget writers to fund a $3.3 million whistleblower settlement, saying the cost to keep fighting the lawsuit would be far higher.

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Gov. Greg Abbott promises to be “heavily involved” in push for education savings accounts

In an interview with the Tribune, the governor also backed criminalizing some health care treatments for transgender kids and shrugged off the idea that he’s in a conservative policy rivalry with Ron DeSantis.

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Texas AG Paxton faces lawmaker pushback over $3.3M whistleblower settlement

AUSTIN, Texas — A fight is brewing over whether the GOP-led Legislature will fund a $3.3 million settlement that Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office struck with a group of whistleblowers.

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Paxton whistleblowers urge lawmakers not to oppose settlement that will be paid with taxpayer dollars

In a statement, the attorneys for the four former top deputies who accused Attorney General Ken Paxton of crimes said state employees “cannot be expected to report government corruption in the future if they know the Legislature won’t back their rights.”

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Uvalde’s state lawmakers face an uphill battle raising the age limit for semi-automatic guns. They’re trying anyway.

Many relatives of Uvalde victims back bills that state Rep. Tracy King and Sen. Roland Gutierrez are pushing in the Legislature. But limits on gun access don’t fare well at the Capitol.

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Democrats to chair fewer Texas House committees amid GOP pushback

House Speaker Dade Phelan selected Democrats to chair eight of the 34 standing committees, down from the 13 he appointed at the start of the last legislative session.

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Gambling proponents have a new plan to ask Texas voters to legalize casinos

If state lawmakers agree, Texas voters will have the final say on whether the state will expand gambling and casinos this November.

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Critics say state tax break helps petrochemical companies and hurts public schools

In December, legislators killed a controversial tax abatement program known as Chapter 313, but its effects will last decades.

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Here’s what you need to know about the fight over property tax cuts in the Texas Legislature

Republicans are wrestling over how much of the state’s nearly $33 billion budget surplus to spend on property taxes. Democrats have their own ideas about what to do with the cash.

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With full state coffers and bipartisan support, Texas teachers are hopeful they’ll get a raise this year

The COVID-19 pandemic, inflation and burnout have pummeled teachers in the last few years. Lawmakers from both parties agree they should get a pay bump — but it won’t happen without some negotiation.

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Wanna bet? Texas Legislature to reconsider legalizing casinos and sports betting

Given the stiff headwinds to getting any expansion in gambling passed, sports betting and casino advocates may be competing against each other, rather than working in tandem.

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he’ll run for reelection in 2026, reversing previous plan to retire

Patrick made the comments at a daylong conference in Austin hosted by The Texan, a political news site started by former GOP state Sen. Konni Burton.

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Uvalde families press urgency after California shootings

Families of the 21 victims killed in a Texas elementary school shooting last May gathered Tuesday at the state capitol in Austin to renew their calls for tighter assault weapon restrictions, just days after three separate shootings in California left 24 people dead

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