Proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption to $140,000 cleared a key hurdle Tuesday when a bipartisan committee voted unanimously to approve and send ...

Last session, Texas lawmakers provided the largest property tax cut in the state's history by increasing the homestead ...

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The Legislature has two chambers — the 150-member House of Representatives and the 31-member Senate. Everyone in Texas is ...

Texas state Senator Cesar Blanco hosted a press conference to announce the reintroduction of a senate bill that could improve ...

The Senate passed different versions of the bill several times last session, but it's died in the House each time.

Texans also heard from their fellow citizens as part of the Democratic Party’s response to Abbott’s speech, with state ...

After hours of testimony Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Education advanced Senate Bill 2, a school voucher bill, setting it ...

The Texas Senate's Education Committee heard from a panel of pro-voucher ... if those are the requirements because those are historic and that's not good enough," Creighton said. "Please get me the ...

Two days after the Texas Senate ... them for the death of Senate public school funding proposals. “All of these concepts and ideas that public schools personally asked me to consider before ...

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AUSTIN (Nexstar) — On Monday, the Texas House of Representatives and Texas Senate released their respective state budget outlines for 2026 and 2027. The House proposal includes $335.7 billion in ...