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Texas A&M Paid $27.5M in 2024 Coaching Buyouts
Two Texas schools make the top three list for SEC contract buyouts.
Time Running Out for Senate To Pass GOP-Backed Bill Ending In-State Tuition for Illegals
Currently there are over 59,000 illegal aliens enrolled in colleges and universities across the state.
Texas House Approves Crackdown on THC Products Following Push From Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
The issue has been one of Patrick’s top priorities for the session.
Texas House Advances Legislation to Block Local Abortion Travel Funding
In recent years, some cities have funneled tax dollars to nonprofit organizations that help women pay for abortions outside of Texas.
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How Should Conservatives Fix Property Tax Bill?
Texas taxpayers should celebrate the fact that an important property tax reform bill will reach the House floor on Saturday. But if it’s going to be meaningful, conservatives will have to fix the heavily watered-down bill. The Texas Senate weakened Senate Bill 1 prior...
Byron Cook Fails to Block House Debate on Property Tax Reform
The Texas House Speaker’s top lieutenant – and killer of all things conservative – joined three Democrats to block the House from even considering a dramatically watered-down property tax reform bill. Fortunately, the effort failed. Outside the Capitol, the only...
Is Jane Nelson The “Biggest Spender”?
A senior state lawmaker cried foul after a news organization – the Texas Monitor – turned a spotlight on her spending habits, alleging that the revelations are untrue. Texas Scorecard’s investigations reveal what is, as Nelson says, “fake news,” and what is fact. In...
Straus’ JV Team Puts Foot in Mouth, Again
The same morning hundreds of people from across the state gathered in support of common sense reform in front of the capitol steps, a Dallas lawmaker was busy ridiculing them. This time, he found his spotlight in the form of bashing the same conservative movement he...
Texas House passes Pro-Life Health Insurance Bill
The Texas House has finally passed a pro-life bill straight from the governor’s list of 20 agenda items. HB 214, authored by State Rep. John Smithee (R-Amarillo) removes the packaging of elective abortion into health insurance plans provided both by private companies...
Senate Republicans Push Education Reform In Lieu of House’s “Ponzi Scheme”
Just a few days after the Texas House passed legislation proposing to throw another $1.8 billion at a Texas’ public school system while doing nothing to address serious structural issues, their colleagues in the Texas Senate called a press conference demanding serious...
Annexation Animus All Over Again
A critical bill that would considerably strengthen Texans’ property rights will soon be up for a vote in the Texas House – but if history is any indicator, the liberal governing structure in the lower chamber is already prepared to kill it. Municipal annexation isn’t...
House Leadership Defeated in Move to Block Tax Reform
House leadership has been forced to back down after proposing a tactic that would have blocked all property tax reform and relief amendments. Their capitulation to grassroots opposition signals that House leadership may have fewer than 20 Republican supporters. On...
Parker Moves to Spite Republicans
Conservatives will get a meeting of the House Republican Caucus in which they can advance proposals to reform the process by which a House Speaker is chosen, but it won't have any impact on the current special session. A full week after fourteen conservative members...