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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hawaiʻi State Legislature has opened its grant-In-aid application process for the 2026 legislative session, inviting ...

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 ...

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 ...