The Texas Senate has proposed injecting a staggering half a billion dollars into film production, as economists and fiscal ...

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Texas lawmakers are considering a plan to help parents move their children from public to private school using ...

SB 4 would increase the Homestead Exemption from $100,000 to $140,000, and up to $150,000 for seniors and disabled people.

If the Legislature approves SB 4, Texas voters would have to approve the amendment to the state Constitution to make the tax ...

The Texas Senate sent two bills to the Texas House on Thursday that will cut property taxes by again increasing the Homestead ...

The bill would increase the homestead exemption from $100,000 to $140,000, and $150,000 for seniors, which is the largest ...

Senator Cesar J. Blanco has announced that Senate Bill 4 also known as SB 4 and Senate Joint Resolution 2 (SJR 2) have passed ...

News spoke with Little Cypress-Mauriceville Superintendent Stacey Brister, who is traveling to Austin to represent educators ...

Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at ...

The real problem our schools in Texas face is a lack of state investment. The proposed $10,000 private school voucher makes ...

The package of bills would tighten the state's bail laws to keep more people in jail — including undocumented immigrants — ...