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Editor’s note: This is an updated version of our 2023 guide to the Texas Legislature. Texas’ 2025 legislative session runs from Jan. 14 to June 2. Lawmakers will debate a bevy of issues and pass ...

A man was injured at a South Side bar and rushed to a local hospital in critical condition on Wednesday night. Texas’ 2025 legislative session runs from Jan. 14 to June 2. Lawmakers will debate a bevy ...

A bill to increase transparency in state and local government passed its first legislative committee Tuesday. In an ironic twist, one version of the bill was posted online, but lawmakers voted to ...

ALBANY — The State Legislature next week is scheduled to vote on a $254 billion state budget that was due more than a month ago and negotiated behind closed doors. The details of what's in it won't ...

The state budget is also a piece of legislation and moves through the Legislature in a similar process as other bills. It is developed through a two-year process that is led by the Legislative Budget ...

Texas’ 2025 legislative session runs from Jan. 14 to June 2. Lawmakers will debate a bevy of issues and pass hundreds of bills that affect Texans’ lives. First, the proposals must survive several ...

Many state legislative sessions are underway right now — learn more about this crucial political process and how it can bolster or reduce your rights. With an increasingly conservative Supreme Court ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Here’s a rundown of how legislation moves through the Capitol, the ...

Call it experiential learning at its finest, small-state symbiosis or, simply, the kind of education that can only happen in Delaware. Since 1982, the University of Delaware’s Legislative Fellows ...

Last month, as Maryland lawmakers considered a bill that would ban transgender students from playing in girls’ sports, something was notably missing from the House Ways and Means Committee hearing ...