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Hot List: Day 140 of the Legislature
Hot List: Day 126 of the Legislature
The focus in the House today is prevention of wrongful convictions. ...Read More
Hot List: Day 123 of the Legislature
Some legislation made it over the hurdle and others whimpered their goodbyes, at least for now. Some bills may resurface as amendments, anything to get it throu...Read More
Hot List: Day 122 of the Legislature
The Lead: There are so many ways to kill a bill in the Texas Legislature, and many bills will meet their demise today: It’s deadline for the House chamber...Read More
Hot List: Day 121 of the Legislature
The Lead: The franchise tax came into existence in 2006 and was trouble from the start. Businesses hated that it taxed their gross receipts instead of their pro...Read More
Hot List: Day 120 of the Legislature
After a heck of a battle, the session's biggest education bill, HB 5, has finally passed in the Senate....Read More
Hot List: Day 119 of the Texas Legislature
House members weren’t the only ones in Texas oozing over, I mean making a stand for guns. Gov. Rick Perry made media waves with his dramatic introduction at t...Read More
Hot List: Day 117 of the Texas Legislature
The Lead: Lawmakers are giving up their Saturday—the first chamber weekend workday of the session—to debate a slew of controversial gun bills. The gun day f...Read More
Hot List: Day 116 of the Legislature
Yesterday, the Senate passed the Texas Railroad Commission sunset bill, SB 212, which would rename the agency the "Texas Energy Resource Commission."...Read More
Hot List: Day 115 of the Legislature
The House Committee of Homeland Security and Public Safety met yesterday to begin legislative investigation into the recent West, Texas fertilizer plant explosi...Read More