AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House of Representatives has passed a bill that would restrict who could own land in Texas. Senate Bill 17, authored by State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham), would ...

State Rep. Venton Jones (center), moves passage of House Bill 1738, May 15, 2025. The Texas House of Representatives has passed a bill to repeal the state's law banning "homosexual conduct." ...

Texas House lawmakers rushed to advance their bills out of the lower legislative chamber minutes before Thursday night's midnight deadline, which left thousands of measures dead in the water.

The Texas House gave approval Friday to a controversial bill that would restrict land purchases by people from certain foreign countries—drawing strong criticism from Democratic lawmakers ...

The Texas House preliminarily approved a bill to replace the STAAR test with a shorter one. The bill aims to reduce testing time and use results to inform instruction, addressing concerns about ...

Legislation aimed at barring people and agents of countries deemed hostile to U.S. interests from owning land in Texas leaped closer to becoming law after House Republicans late Thursday and again ...

The Texas House voted Monday to advance a bill that defangs an obscure state law that property owners use to stop new homes from going up near them. House members gave preliminary approval to ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A new bill that could bring major changes to how public schools across the state are held accountable has cleared a major hurdle at the Texas Capitol. House Bill 4, which has now ...

Texas Rep. Stan Gerdes filed House Bill 4814 on March 13, with the proposed legislation also known as the Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education (F.U.R.R.I.E.S.) Act.

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — At 12 a.m. Friday, thousands of bills in the Texas House of Representatives will meet their end. Before the deadline, the House passed 1,060 bills, with each passing three ...

It is the first time the bill has made it to the House floor since it was first proposed decades ago. Activists and members of Austin's LGBTQ community gather on the steps of the Texas Capitol on ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that will make it harder for homeowners to block projects to build new homes near their neighborhood. House Bill 24 ...