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Texas Lawmakers Consider Over-The-Counter Access to Ivermectin
Ivermectin gained widespread attention as a treatment for COVID-19.
Hays CISD Is Asking Residents for Nearly $2 Billion in May Bond Election
School district leaders claim the hefty price tag is aimed at accommodating the 1,000 kids per year they expect to gain over the next decade.
Texas A&M ‘Queer Theory’ Class Promotes Radical Gender Ideology
A student wishing to enroll in the class must have 6 hours of prerequisite Women’s and Gender Studies coursework already completed.
Republican Chair Considers Democrat Lawmaker’s Bill for ‘HPV Plan’
Critics worry it will turn the state into “the de facto marketing arm of Merck.”
State Archive
More Than 660 New Laws Go Into Effect Today
Wednesday marks the day by which six hundred and sixty-six different pieces of legislation passed in the 87th regular legislative session take effect and become law. The Texas Legislature is currently in the midst of the second called special legislative session,...
Texas Secures a Win for Election Integrity
In a win for election integrity advocates, the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature finally passed a major comprehensive election reform bill—a top GOP priority that Democrat lawmakers spent months trying to block. House and Senate members gave final approval to...
Texas State Agency ‘Celebrates’ Transgender Youth, Promotes LGBT Organization
Update: Shortly after publication, the webpage was removed by DFPS. A state agency overseen by Gov. Greg Abbott is promoting transgender ideology and a left-wing advocacy organization on its own website. On Tuesday, former State Sen. Don Huffines—who is currently...
Gov. Abbott Shows Illegal Border Crossings Still Allowed
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott showed on social media that he’s still allowing illegal aliens to cross the state’s open border, and he hasn’t said if he’s switched from building a chain-link fence to an actual “border wall.” While the Biden–Harris administration is ignoring a...
Conservative Priorities Languishing at Hands of Democrat House Chairman
Update: Since publication, the Critical Race Theory Bill has been passed out of the House Education Committee. The chances of two pieces of conservative priority legislation passing the Texas House are looking slim, after a Democrat House chairman expressed...
Records Show Fleeing House Democrats Collected Taxpayer-Funded Per Diem Payments
Newly obtained records reveal only one Democrat House member who fled the state for Washington, D.C., to break quorum has actually returned his per diem payment to the state, despite promises from others to do so. When a legislative session is ongoing, lawmakers...
Abbott Priority Bail Reform Bill Dies in Texas House
On Monday, the Texas House of Representatives gave final consideration to legislation relating to bail reform, an issue that Gov. Greg Abbott named as an emergency legislative item back in February, during the 87th regular legislative session. The issue then fell...
House GOP Lawmaker Compromising With Democrat on School Mask Bill
UPDATED on 8/31/21 at 11:15 am to include clips from the House Public Education Committee hearing. On Monday evening, the House Public Education Committee considered two different bills relating to mask mandates in public schools. Before laying out the bills, the...
‘Pill-Induced’ Abortions Will Soon Be Partially Illegal in Texas
AUSTIN — Using chemicals to kill a child in the womb will now be outlawed across the state—unless the child is a certain age. On Monday, the Texas House approved Senate Bill 4, a proposed law to ban “pill-induced” abortions of children more than 49 days old. Common...