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February 13, 2025
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Representative Toni Rose was appointed today by Speaker Dustin Burrows to the House Committees on Appropriations and Human Services as well as Vice-Chair of the House Committee on Calendars for the 89th Legislative Session.
From Texas House of Representatives
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February 14, 2025
Today, Representative Daniel Alders filed a Constitutional Amendment to ban any carbon tax in the Lone Star State. The proposal would strengthen Texas’ commitment to a pro-growth energy economy and protect consumers from additional taxes.
From Texas House of Representatives
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February 14, 2025
Austin, TX – Texas State Representative Matt Shaheen has been appointed to serve as Chairman of the House Elections Committee, a role that will allow him to play a pivotal part in shaping the future of electoral processes in Texas. In addition to this key leadership position, he has also been appointed to the Higher Education Committee, where he will advocate for policies that enhance educational opportunities across the state.
From Texas House of Representatives
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February 14, 2025
AUSTIN, TX—Yesterday, Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows announced committee assignments for the 89th Legislative Session. State Representative Oscar Longoria (House District 35), was appointed to the Licensing & Administrative Procedures and Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Committees.
From Texas House of Representatives
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February 13, 2025
AUSTIN, TX) – Today, Speaker Dustin Burrows announced the committee assignments for the 89th Legislative Session, naming Representative Drew Darby as the new chairman of the House Committee on Energy Resources, as well as a member of the House Committees on Administration and State Affairs.
From Texas House of Representatives
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February 13, 2025
AUSTIN – Today, February 13, 2025, Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows announced the committee assignments for each House member for the 89th Texas Legislature. Representative Erin Elizabeth Gámez was named as Vice-Chair of the House Committee on General Investigating.
From Texas House of Representatives
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February 13, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – In a resounding victory for Texas Homeowners, the Texas Senate has unanimously (30-0) passed Senate Bill 4 and Senate Joint Resolution 2, marking a historic step in providing meaningful property tax relief.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Paul Bettencourt - SD 7
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February 13, 2025
AUSTIN - Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the unanimous passage of Senate Bill 4, Increasing the Homestead Exemption to $140,000 ($150,000 for seniors), and Senate Joint Resolution 2, by Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston:
“I have been fighting to reduce property taxes long before I was elected to the Texas Senate. I have made increasing the Homestead Exemption my mission because it is the best way to deliver meaningful property tax reductions for homeowners.
From The State of Texas Lieutenant Governor By Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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February 13, 2025
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Representative R.D. "Bobby" Guerra was appointed Vice Chair of the House Committee on Agriculture and Livestock for the 89th Legislature by Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows. In addition, he will serve on the Energy Resources and Redistricting Committees.
From Texas House of Representatives
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February 13, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Representative Wu was appointed by Speaker Dustin Burrows as Vice-Chair of the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence and as a member of the subcommittee on Juvenile Justice, the Redistricting Committee, and the Committee on Appropriations for the 89th Legislature.
From Texas House of Representatives
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February 13, 2025
AUSTIN — State Representative Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) has been reappointed by Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows to serve as Chairman of the influential Texas House Committee on Environmental Regulation. In addition to this key leadership role, Landgraf has also been selected to serve on the House Committee on Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence.
From Texas House of Representatives
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February 13, 2025
Today, Representative Daniel Alders was appointed to serve on the House Committee on the Delivery of Government Efficiency and House Committee on Land and Resource Management.
From Texas House of Representatives
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February 13, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows today announced committee assignments for the 89th Texas Legislature, following an extensive process of meeting individually with House members regarding their committee preferences and legislative priorities.
From The State of Texas Speaker By Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows
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February 12, 2025
AUSTIN, TX | February 12, 2025 – The Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute (THBI), the statewide organization representing the life science industry in Texas, expresses deep concern over the recent guidance released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to limit funding for medical and life science research at Institutions of Higher Education. In
From Texas Healthcare & Bioscience Institute
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February 12, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC —Today, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released its 14th annual list highlighting the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in America, and 12 Texas locations made the top 100, including eight in the Houston metropolitan area.
From Texas Trucking Association
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February 11, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) and the Senate Committee on Local Government unanimously passed Senate Bill 4 and Senate Joint Resolution 2, priority bills of Lt. Governor Dan Patrick. Both measures, expected to pass with bipartisan support on the Senate Floor, raising the homestead exemption from $100,000 to a record $140,000.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Paul Bettencourt - SD 7
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February 10, 2025
Former Congressman Martin Frost (D-Texas), a long-time supporter of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, condemned President Donald Trump’s statements that he will appoint himself as Chairman of the Kennedy Center Board and replace numerous members of the Center Board.
From Former Congressman Martin Frost
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February 10, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton is continuing his efforts to investigate and hold accountable any school district or official who openly disregards Texas law protecting the integrity of women’s athletics.
After demanding documents from Dallas Independent School District (“ISD”) and Irving ISD, the Office of the Attorney General has now sent letters to the Superintendents of Hutto ISD and Richardson ISD. The information requests were sent after it was made public that officials at both districts openly conveyed that they could circumvent Texas law for the sake of enabling biological boys to compete in girls’ sports.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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February 10, 2025
Austin - Today, Sen. Phil King filed SB 10, priority legislation that would require Texas’ public
schools to once again display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. SB 10 follows the historic
2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision which overturned a faulty legal precedent used since 1980 to
prohibit these displays.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Phil King - District 10
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February 7, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – The Coalition of Texas Lottery Couriers (CTLC) – an organization comprised of the
three largest lottery courier companies operating in Texas – today expressed its support for the
implementation of state regulatory standards that require the highest levels of transparency and
accountability for all lottery couriers.
From The Monument Group By Coalition of Texas Lottery Couriers
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February 5, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus released the following statement on the passage of Senate Bill 2:
Today, Senate Democrats were united in their strong opposition to Senate Bill 2, which would create an “Education Savings Account” program. This latest voucher scheme siphons off billions of taxpayer dollars for private vendors without requiring the transparency, accountability or anti-discrimination standards our public schools must follow.
From The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus
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February 6, 2025
“SB 2 seeks to destroy our public education system. Our public schools are already severely underfunded and overburdened with outdated resources and insufficient support for students with special needs. School vouchers divert much-needed funds from public schools and will only exacerbate the inequalities that our schools face, especially in black and brown neighborhoods.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Borris L. Miles - District 13
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February 5, 2025
AUSTIN - Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today on the passage of Senate Bill 2, Providing School Choice, by Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe:
“From the first day I arrived in the Texas Senate, my goal and passion has been to improve public education in Texas and provide great education options for all students. As senator, I served as chair of the Senate Committee on Education and led the effort to reform high school diplomas, reduce STAAR tests from 15 to 5, reform charter schools, and fully fund public education.
From The State of Texas Lieutenant Governor By Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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February 5, 2025
HUNTSVILLE – A violent criminal who was found guilty of murdering a Texas pastor and sentenced to death by a Tarrant County jury was executed by the State of Texas on Wednesday, February 5th according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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February 5, 2025
AUSTIN — State Rep. David Spiller introduced House Bill 2361, a legislative measure essential to the success of President Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts in the State of Texas. House Bill 2361 would require all local law enforcement agencies in Texas to participate in Section 287(g) agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an indispensable tool for law enforcement agencies to assist in immigration enforcement activities.
From The State of Texas By Representative David Spiller - District 68
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February 6, 2025
TEXAS — Last week, more than 80 clergy from across the state of Texas called upon Members of the state legislature to take action on behalf of those struggling with hunger. With nearly 17 percent of Texans struggling to put food on the table — the second-highest rate in the nation — the diverse group of faith leaders urged elected officials to prioritize policies such as the Summer EBT program and modernizing eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to make meaningful progress towards ending hunger in the state.
From Feeding Texas
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February 5, 2025
Texas State Teachers Association President Ovidia Molina released the following statement:
Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick claim to want to raise teacher pay, but the Senate today is expected to debate SB 2, a voucher bill that, if finally enacted, will make it increasingly more difficult for public school classrooms to be adequately funded and public school teachers to be adequately paid.
From Texas State Teachers Association
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February 5, 2025
Austin, Texas – Today, State Representative Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos of House District 102 has filed legislation to fund our Texas public schools by increasing the Basic Allotment and automatically increasing school funding with inflation.
State Representative Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos (HD 102) has issued the following statement:
From The State of Texas By Representative Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos - District 102
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February 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Fetterman (D-Penn.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) introduced the Banning SPR Oil Exports to Foreign Adversaries Act. The bipartisan bill prohibits the sale or export of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, or any entity owned or controlled by those nations.
From Senator Ted Cruz Press Office
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February 4, 2025
AUSTIN, TX -- The latest Induced Termination of Pregnancy (ITOP) report from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), released on February 3, 2025, reaffirms that Texas' pro-life laws are achieving their intended goal -- protecting both women's and unborn babies' lives.
From Texas Alliance for Life
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February 4, 2025
(Austin, TX) — The Hobby School at the University of Houston released a poll today claiming that a slight majority of Texans support a ban "on the unregulated sale of THC consumables by retail outlets. In fact, THC consumables in Texas are subject to a robust series of federal and state regulations.
From New West Communications By Texas Hemp Business Council
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February 2, 2025
In his State of the State address earlier this afternoon, Gov. Greg Abbott called Education Savings Accounts—vouchers-- an “emergency item” requiring immediate and swift legislative passage.
He is wrong.
From Pastors for Children
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February 2, 2025
AUSTIN, TX — Today, Governor Greg Abbott delivered his State of the State address. Representative James Talarico, who participated in the post-speech panel, released the following in response:
From The State of Texas By Representative James Talarico
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February 2, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas - Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows today released the following statement after attending Governor Greg Abbott’s biennial "State of the State" address to lawmakers and guests in Austin, Texas:
From The State of Texas Speaker By Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows
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February 2, 2025
The Association of Texas Professional Educators (ATPE)—the largest public educator organization in Texas—releases this statement from Executive Director Shannon Holmes:
“What Gov. Abbott says, at face value, sounds right. Every Texas student should have the opportunity to receive the best education for their needs. But the problem lies in the governor’s approach.
From Association of Texas Professional Educators
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February 2, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton signed an immigration enforcement agreement with the Trump Administration, becoming the first Texas law enforcement entity to formally assist with and facilitate the mass deportation of illegal aliens during President Donald Trump’s second term. Attorney General Paxton also called on all state and local law enforcement entities in Texas to enter into similar agreements with the federal government.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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February 3, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas – Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows today announced additional senior and policy staff assignments in the Office of the Speaker.
Sydney Watts will serve as Director of Administration and Kimberly Carmichael as Press Secretary.
From The State of Texas Speaker By Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows
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February 3, 2025
AUSTIN — Today, in response to Governor Greg Abbott naming bail reform as an emergency item, Senator Joan Huffman, R-Houston, announced her filling of a comprehensive bail reform package aimed at making our communities safer and bringing accountability and transparency to the bail setting process.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Joan Huffman - Senate District 17
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February 3, 2025
HOUSTON, Texas – Restorative Houston has received funding from the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA) through a grant from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), within the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to promote community awareness of crime victims’ rights and services during the 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
The awarded funding is part of our Community Awareness Project in Houston.
From Restorative Houston
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February 3, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas – On Sunday, the Texas AFL-CIO released the following statements in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s out-of-touch State of the State address:
“This State of the State address, again, proved that Greg Abbott prioritizes his billionaire buddies over Texas workers,” said Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy. “Our school teachers, our energy workers, our union members build this state. And together, they’re building power and organizing to take down out-of-touch oligarchs like Abbott.”
From Texas AFL-CIO
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January 31, 2025
AUSTIN – Jan. 31, 2025 -- The Texas Lyceum, widely considered the Lone Star State’s premier non-profit, non-partisan, statewide leadership organization, today officially launched a national Campaign for Civility, calling on elected officials at all levels of government nationwide to embrace civil discourse as they conduct the business of government.
From Sunwest Communications By The Texas Lyceum
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January 31, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton joined an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to prevent a District Judge from mandating that taxpayers fund “gender transition” surgeries for inmates in a state prison.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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January 31, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas - In case you missed it, this week, Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows participated in The Texan’s 89th Session Kickoff event, where he highlighted his legislative priorities and commitment to delivering a successful, conservative session for all Texans.
From The State of Texas Speaker By Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows
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January 30, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – The Coalition of Texas Lottery Couriers (CTLC) – an organization comprised of the three largest lottery courier companies operating in Texas – today expressed its support for the implementation of state regulatory standards that require the highest levels of transparency and accountability for all lottery couriers.
From The Monument Group
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January 29, 2025
AUSTIN TX - Blakemore Public Affairs has again launched the Texas Elected Officials Flash
Card App to help users build knowledge of state elected officials and improve memory with
each photo. The free app displays pictures of Texas’ elected officials sworn in at the
beginning of the 89th Legislative Session in January.
From Blakemore Public Affairs
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January 30, 2025
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Family physicians applaud the actions of Sen. Kevin Sparks and Rep. Lacey Hull for filing legislation that will modernize Texas insurance laws to promote innovative, alternative payment models for some health care services.
From Texas Academy of Family Physicians
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January 30, 2025
Texas – In a recent letter to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, made public on Wednesday, two utilities with coal plants in Texas requested a rollback of safeguards that protect communities and their water from toxic coal ash pollution.
From Sierra Club
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January 30, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Following Governor Greg Abbott’s State of the State Address, Travis County Democrats Senator Sarah Eckhardt, Representative Vikki Goodwin, Representative Gina Hinojosa, and House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu of Houston will deliver a response to the Address. They will cover topics ranging from border security and affordability to infrastructure and healthcare access.
From Senator Sarah Eckhardt - District 14
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January 30, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton sent an Iowa- and Kansas-led multistate letter to Costco demanding that the company fully repeal its discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) practices.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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January 29, 2025
“We are dismayed that school funding is not among Lt. Gov. Patrick’s top 25 priorities for the 2025 Texas legislative session.
From Association of Texas Professional Educators
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January 29, 2025
AUSTIN - Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today upon announcing the first round of his top 40 priority bills for the 89th regular legislative session:
“Thousands of bills are filed by Texas senators each session. Traditionally, bill numbers 1 through 20 have indicated the Lt. Governor’s priorities for the Senate. In 2017, I increased the number of priority bills to 30. This year, I am increasing the number of priority bills to 40.
From The State of Texas Lieutenant Governor By Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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January 29, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a $250,000 settlement of the State’s labor trafficking lawsuit against Austin Eco Bilingual School, a Spanish immersion preschool, and its owners and operators, Adriana and Enrique Rodriguez. The settlement amount is equal to the maximum fine for a violation of Texas’s civil anti-trafficking law.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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January 28, 2025
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Today, Representative Suleman Lalani, M.D. (D-Sugar Land) was elected as the new Co-Chair of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Caucus. He will serve alongside Representative Angie Chen Button (R-Richardson), following the recommendation of outgoing Co-Chair Representative Gene Wu (D-Houston).
From Texas House of Representatives By Tony Flores Chief of Staff Representative Suleman Lalani, M.D. House District 76
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January 28, 2025
Austin, Texas – Today, Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) proudly joins Chairman Brandon Creighton, author of SB2 and fellow Republican members of the Senate Education Committee in supporting Senate Bill 2, the Texas Education Freedom Act, marking a historic step forward in providing universal school choice to all Texas families.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Paul Bettencourt - SD 7
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January 28, 2025
TEXAS – Today, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual report on union density in the country, showing that the number of Texas union members is the highest it's been in ten years and has been steadily growing since 2021.
From Texas AFL-CIO
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January 28, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton testified before the Senate Finance Committee today, urging lawmakers to fully fund the Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”), ensuring that state laws are enforced and the people of Texas are protected.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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January 24, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that the Texas State Bar has abandoned its long-running attempt to sanction Attorney General Paxton after four years of wasteful politically motivated lawfare.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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January 23, 2025
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that a bipartisan coalition of states and other parties reached a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with members of the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma, Inc. (“Purdue”) for their instrumental role in creating the opioid crisis.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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January 23, 2025
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced Texan and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary nominee Brooke Rollins at her nomination hearing in the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
From John Cornyn - United States Senator for Texas
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January 23, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced the Protecting Military Installations and Ranges Act to protect Department of Defense (DOD) installations and training areas from our adversaries. The bill restricts the purchase of certain property by a foreign person acting for or on behalf of Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea.
From Senator Ted Cruz Press Office
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January 23, 2025
DALLAS, TX – Only a week into the 89th Texas Legislature, it is already clear that public education will continue to be a major topic of conversation. Recent poll results show it is also an important issue for Texas voters, who expect transparent and reliable information on how well their students and schools are performing.
From The Mach 1 Group
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January 22, 2025
Texas State Teachers Association President Ovidia Molina released the following statement:
The proposed legislative budgets released today set aside $1 billion of our taxes for private school vouchers, while continuing to underfund our public schools, where most Texas children will continue to be educated. This is simply wrong and a failure of the Legislature’s constitutional duty to adequately fund public education.
From Texas State Teachers Association
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January 22, 2025
AUSTIN — Today, Senator Joan Huffman, R-Houston, filed Senate Bill 1, the Senate's base budget for the 2026-2027 biennium. The General Appropriations Bill is a culmination of months of due diligence and input from state agencies and stakeholders. It establishes property tax relief, public safety, education, energy, water infrastructure and supply, and many other critical needs as priorities for the upcoming two-year budget.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Joan Huffman - Senate District 17
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January 22, 2025
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows today released a statement following the filing of the House’s base budget proposal for the 2026–2027 biennium. Substantially identical to the Senate’s base budget proposal, this initial step in the budgetary process signals a strong commitment to collaboration between the two chambers to pass a fiscally conservative budget that addresses the priorities of Texans.
From The State of Texas Speaker By Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows
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January 22, 2025
“Today, Senate Finance Chair Joan Huffman filed SB 1, the Texas Senate’s introduced state budget for the 2026-2027 biennium. My budget team and I have worked alongside Chair Huffman and the Senate Finance Committee to ensure the Senate’s state budget reflects the conservative priorities of Texans. I thank Chair Huffman for her tireless work over the interim to produce this budget. She has been a great partner throughout this process, which began in late August.
From The State of Texas Lieutenant Governor By Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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January 17, 2025
AUSTIN –Today, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick appointed State Senator Borris L. Miles to the following Senate Committees: Criminal Justice, Health and Human Services, Nominations and Transportation.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Borris L. Miles - District 13
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January 17, 2025
[Austin, TX] – On Monday, January 20, at 10:00 AM, Democratic leaders from across Travis County and Texas will unite for a press conference titled “I Have A Dream” The event will amplify the Democratic Party’s message of standing shoulder to shoulder with working families, protecting core values, and racial equality for all.
From Travis County Democratic Party
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January 17, 2025
AUSTIN - Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued the following statement today upon announcing his Texas Senate committee appointments for the 89th Legislature:
“Texas has the population and economic strength of a separate nation. With the 8th largest economy in the world, we would be the 39th largest nation in geographic size, and the 50th largest in population if we were a country.
From The State of Texas Lieutenant Governor By Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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January 14, 2025
AUSTIN - Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the election of
Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives:
From Blakemore & Associates
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January 15, 2025
State lawmakers are back in Austin, and the NFL playoffs are in full swing—two seemingly unrelated events that, in reality, share a compelling connection.
From GeoComply
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January 15, 2025
Multiple officials say Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages after more than 15 months of war.
From M. Sliwa Public Relations
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January 14, 2025
Today, the Texas House of Representatives elected a new Speaker to lead the lower chamber of the Legislature. Representative Dustin Burrows of Lubbock received the support of 85 of his colleagues and will hold the power to steer a legislative agenda reflecting the priorities of 150 members representing over 30 million Texans.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Sarah Eckhardt - District 14
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January 14, 2025
AUSTIN — State Representative Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) took the oath of office at the Texas Capitol on Tuesday, marking the beginning of a new term serving the Ector, Loving, Ward and Winkler counties in the Texas House of Representatives.
From The Senate of Texas By Representative Brooks Landgraf
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January 14, 2025
AUSTIN – The Texas Association of Manufacturers (TAM) today released its “TAM Top Ten,” which details the Association’s policy priorities for the 89th Legislature in 2025.
From Gretchen Fox Consuting By Texas Association of Manufacturers
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