Texas' hemp industry is bracing for a dramatic shakeup on March 31, when new state restrictions take effect that will fundamentally reshape what consumers can purchase. Popular smokable products ...

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows directed lawmakers to study the secession of New Mexico counties to Texas, the development ...

Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock is squabbling with Attorney General Ken Paxton, but it’s a primary-fallout fight among party factions. | Opinion ...

Guess where he’s ending up.

Texas District 1 Republican Senator Bryan Hughes has been named to the newly-created Senate Select Committee on Religious Liberty. The committee was created by Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, and will be ...

Most Americans, and most Texans, are exhausted by the way our political leaders practice politics. The mean-spirited, ...

Dan Patrick has released committee assignments, naming State Sen. Kevin Sparks chair of the Committee on Natural Resources.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick today created the Senate Select Committee on Religious Liberty, to be chaired by Sen. Phil King, R-Weatherford. Upon creating the committee, Lt. Gov. Patrick […] ...

State Senator Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) has been named chair of the Sunset Advisory Commission and re-appointed chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services. State Senator Lois ...

The upset winner of a special election in a GOP-leaning district was not assigned to any committees of the upper chamber.

Dan Patrick of “petty, partisan politics” Monday after the newly elected senator was left off a list of influential ...