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Texas Senate panel advances bill that gives schools more latitude to discipline students

House Bill 6 is a response to reports of more violent classroom disruptions after the pandemic. It lowers the bar for when schools can discipline for the state’s homeless and youngest students.

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Texas House advances bill requiring A/C in prisons; proposal's fate uncertain in Senate

The 89-43 vote comes less than two months after an Austin federal judge declared extreme heat in Texas prisons “plainly unconstitutional."

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Here are winners and losers in the Texas Legislature's school funding plan

The $7.8 billion school funding bill proposed by the Texas Senate and agreed to by the governor and House speaker is the largest infusion of new dollars into public education in the state’s history, said state Sen.

Texas House votes to repeal 'homosexual conduct' ban

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Bill to ban NDAs in child sex abuse cases passes Texas Senate

Today SB 835, Trey’s Law, passed the Texas Senate 31-0! This bill prohibits the use of NDAs to silence victims of sexual abuse & assault. Thank you Lt Gov @DanPatrick for getting this bill through the floor so quickly! In Texas we stand with victims, not perpetrators. #txlege pic.twitter.com/FTxlnYcokz

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Texas House repeals gay sex ban in historic, unlikely vote

Texas Representative Craig Washington spearheaded the first-ever effort to repeal Texas Penal Code section 21.06, which made "homosexual conduct" a criminal offense. The bill failed in the Texas House 117 to 14,

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Texas House votes to repeal ban on “homosexual conduct”

Texas. More than 20 years later, the Legislature took its first steps to remove that prohibition from the books. On Friday, the Texas House voted 59-56 to approve House Bill 1738, which would remove from state statute the unenforceable 1973 law that bans "deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex.

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Texas congressman file bill to reimburse Texas for border security costs

States, agencies and local governments may apply for grants including for costs they incurred after Jan. 20, 2021, according ...

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Texas House Approves Bill Mandating Air Conditioning in State Prisons to Address Health Risks

The Texas House passed a bill for air conditioning in prisons by 2032, following a district judge's ruling that current ...

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Senate passes compromise bill that saves, reforms Texas Lottery

Legislation that would renew the Texas Lottery with strict reforms has passed the Senate. House lawmakers will now consider ...

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Texas House bill allowing online voter registration got a public hearing — after missing deadline to become law

Texas is one of eight states without universal online voter registration. A lawmaker pushing for it says he’ll continue the ...

Proposal to enhance state's pioneering junk science law approved by Texas House

The measure, which must pass another vote in the House as a formality, does not have a companion in the Senate, making its ...

Key GOP holdout on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ calls for deeper cuts to Medicaid, ‘Green New Deal’ spending

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) huddled with White House officials and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought on Saturday to voice those concerns — but didn’t commit to backing ...

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Faculty and students blast Texas House panel for limiting testimony on bill that targets state universities

The House's higher education committee closed registration to testify on Senate Bill 37 less than half an hour after the ...

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