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Texas senator tries new path in bid to revise Texas free-speech law

In a last-minute hearing Wednesday, Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, opened another avenue to get the bill passed, raising alarm among free-speech advocates.

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With clock ticking on legislative session, Texas Democrats delay debate on university tenure bill

The Senate wants to eliminate tenure altogether while the House seeks to enshrine it in state law. The two chambers have until May 26 to come to an agreement.

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Texas expected to ban puberty blockers, hormone treatments for trans kids

Gov. Greg Abbott said he will sign Senate Bill 14 into law, which will make Texas one of over a dozen states that restrict transition-related care for transgender minors. Legal groups have already pledged to challenge it in court.

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School voucher bill hangs by a thread as key deadline approaches

The House public education committee chair said Wednesday he currently has no plans to bring the bill for a vote. Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to call a special session if the House doesn’t “expand the scope of school choice.”

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Texas House approves bill to improve background checks on child-welfare workers

The action came after The Refuge, a Bastrop foster care facility, hired a caretaker without knowing her history of misconduct.

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Texas GOP close to eroding Dem power

Gov. Abbott and the bill's supporters have long sought legislation to push back against local regulations

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Rural Texas landowners who lost water access due to San Antonio pipeline could soon get relief

Groundwater levels rapidly declined in rural Lee County after San Antonio began pumping the water and moving it 100 miles southwest. A Senate bill initially approved by the House on Tuesday would help affected well owners.

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House advances bill that could provide billions of dollars for new water projects and fixing aging infrastructure

The bill aims to create a water supply four times the size of Lake Livingston, one of the state’s largest reservoirs. But it may still be a “drop in the bucket” compared to the state’s needs.

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House waters down some of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s priorities, adding to late-session uncertainty

Although the lower chamber backed the Senate’s action on gender-affirming care, it has been less accepting of school choice and attempts to rein in higher education.

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Houston-area chemical fire highlights gaps in Texas environmental enforcement

A fire broke out at a Deer Park Shell plant the day after a public hearing on renewing the permit for ITC, a nearby facility that caught fire in 2019, sparking a Texas Tribune/Public Health Watch investigation that documented failures in state and federal oversight.

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Eliminating countywide voting in Texas would make the process harder on voters, cost more money, election leaders say

Currently, more than 80% of Texas voters can vote anywhere in their home county, a model that originated in Lubbock County. If lawmakers approve new legislation, that would change.

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Austin doctors who treated trans kids leaving Dell Children’s clinic after AG Paxton announces investigation

Attorney General Ken Paxton previously announced an investigation into “potentially illegal” activity. Parents are scrambling to find transition-related care for their kids as the Legislature appears poised to ban it altogether.

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U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw tapped to lead GOP response on Mexican drug cartels

The Houston Republican has alarmed Mexico and Democrats with previous calls for a military response to the criminal organizations.

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Effort to allow casinos falls short in Texas House

Facing a rigid deadline, gaming supporters were unable to get the supermajority support needed to move the legislation forward.

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Abortion bills gain little traction as Texas Legislature turns its attention to LGBTQ restrictions

Texas’ abortion laws look likely to remain about where they were at the beginning of the legislative session, as key deadlines pass without any movement on abortion-related bills.

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Teachers are losing hope that lawmakers will give them a big raise this session

The most ambitious proposals are all but dead, leaving teachers wondering why they’re looking at small raises when the state has a historic budget surplus at its disposal.

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House signals readiness to fight Senate over bills to ban tenure, diversity efforts at Texas universities

Rep. John Kuempel, R-Seguin, pledged to defend his legislation dialing back Senate bills that would eliminate tenure and ban diversity, equity and inclusion offices. But faculty and students say even the House versions will hurt higher education.

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TX mess undermines GOP "groomers" fight

In policing queer Texans, Republicans missed “grooming behavior" by one of their own, LGBTQ advocates say

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Shell refinery unit in Deer Park had history of malfunctions before fire

Recent “upsets” like tripped compressors, pressure loss and freezing weather resulted in thousands of pounds of unauthorized pollution but no fines or citations from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

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Deaths from firearms keep climbing in Texas, decades after lawmakers began weakening gun regulations

The rate of firearm-related deaths in Texas has reached a level not seen since the 1990s. Texas lawmakers have approved more than 100 bills that loosened gun restrictions since 2000.

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Bryan Slaton’s Texas House downfall could complicate GOP fight against “groomers”

Republicans were so busy policing drag artists and transgender Texans that they missed so-called “grooming behavior” by one of their own, LGBTQ advocates say.

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Texas House’s version of the Senate’s voucher bill would change eligibility to the program and replace the STAAR test

The Texas House’s education committee is soon expected to discuss the new version of Senate Bill 8, which was heavily modified to sway votes in the lower chamber.

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“Nothing bad happens here”: Allen residents say shooting has shattered the town’s sense of safety

A mass shooting at this suburb’s community hub — the outlet mall — has punctured the sense of security that drew many to Allen. “That could have been me and my boys,” one local woman said.

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Migrants waiting to cross the border say government’s app for asylum-seekers is a mess

Hundreds of migrants have waited on the U.S. bank of the Rio Grande for days to be apprehended. Others say they want to follow the rules to enter legally — if they could just get the government phone app to work.

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