/tags/texas-senate Texas Senate en-US Copyright Thu, 15 May 2025 10:51:51 GMT /texas-news/2025-05-15/clock-is-ticking-for-texas-lawmakers-to-settle-on-8-billion-public-school-funding-package Senators will hold a hearing Thursday on their counterproposal to the House's school funding bill. House Democrats and public education advocates have criticized the upper chamber for not moving faster to advance the legislation. Thu, 15 May 2025 10:51:51 GMT /texas-news/2025-05-15/clock-is-ticking-for-texas-lawmakers-to-settle-on-8-billion-public-school-funding-package Jaden Edison | The Texas Tribune , Jasper Scherer | The Texas Tribune /news/2025-05-15/a-texas-abortion-ban-sponsor-aims-to-clarify-when-doctors-can-do-the-procedure Since abortion became almost entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A new bill aims to change that. Thu, 15 May 2025 09:00:00 GMT /news/2025-05-15/a-texas-abortion-ban-sponsor-aims-to-clarify-when-doctors-can-do-the-procedure Katia Riddle /government/2025-05-08/texas-house-senate-standoff-jeff-leach-child-sexual-abuse-nda-bill State Rep. Jeff Leach accused the Texas Senate of weakening a bill aimed at banning nondisclosure agreements for child sexual abuse cases. Thu, 08 May 2025 20:10:16 GMT /government/2025-05-08/texas-house-senate-standoff-jeff-leach-child-sexual-abuse-nda-bill Penelope Rivera /news/2025-05-08/texas-senate-bill-would-allow-youths-as-young-as-15-sent-to-adult-texas-prisons-texas-juvenile-justice-department-texas-appleseed-tdcj A Texas Senate bill under consideration would lower the current age from 16 for juveniles already in the system and commit a second felony. Thu, 08 May 2025 09:58:00 GMT /news/2025-05-08/texas-senate-bill-would-allow-youths-as-young-as-15-sent-to-adult-texas-prisons-texas-juvenile-justice-department-texas-appleseed-tdcj Marina Trahan Martinez /texas-news/2025-05-02/will-saturdays-elections-be-the-last-one-in-may-for-texas The Texas House is considering a bill to abolish May elections, which have the lowest turnout of any election. Fri, 02 May 2025 11:47:50 GMT /texas-news/2025-05-02/will-saturdays-elections-be-the-last-one-in-may-for-texas Jess Huff | The Texas Tribune /politics/2025-05-01/bill-allowing-texans-to-sue-abortion-pill-distributors-for-100-000-passes-texas-senate Abortion is illegal in Texas, but some women are still accessing abortion through mail-order drugs. Senate Bill 2880 aims to crack down on the practice. Thu, 01 May 2025 19:33:56 GMT /politics/2025-05-01/bill-allowing-texans-to-sue-abortion-pill-distributors-for-100-000-passes-texas-senate Olivia Aldridge /texas-news/2025-05-01/wide-ranging-crackdown-on-abortion-pills-passes-texas-senate The bill gives the state new tools to try to stop the flow of abortion pills, but critics say it’s legally dubious on several fronts. Thu, 01 May 2025 10:10:19 GMT /texas-news/2025-05-01/wide-ranging-crackdown-on-abortion-pills-passes-texas-senate Eleanor Klibanoff | The Texas Tribune /texas-news/2025-04-30/texas-senate-oks-effort-to-clarify-medical-exceptions-under-states-abortion-ban Texas lawmakers advanced a bill to change the language in the state's abortion laws in an effort to clarify when doctors are allowed to perform an abortion during a medical emergency. The bill, which passed unanimously in the Texas Senate on Tuesday, is the first time Republican lawmakers have sought to amend the state's ban since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:39:49 GMT /texas-news/2025-04-30/texas-senate-oks-effort-to-clarify-medical-exceptions-under-states-abortion-ban The Associated Press /government/2025-04-22/deadly-police-chases-texas-law-legislature State lawmakers and criminal justice experts offer some insight into what drives the lawmaking process in Texas and whether police chases – a phenomenon that killed nearly 100 people in Texas in 2022 – will ever be regulated in the law. Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:02:00 GMT /government/2025-04-22/deadly-police-chases-texas-law-legislature Toluwani Osibamowo /texas-news/2025-04-01/matthew-mcconaughey-industry-reps-push-for-texas-lawmakers-to-beef-up-states-film-incentive-fund Matthew McConaughey, who has spent more than three decades as an actor, told the Texas Senate Finance Committee on Monday that one of his only regrets is not making more films in Texas. Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:16:15 GMT /texas-news/2025-04-01/matthew-mcconaughey-industry-reps-push-for-texas-lawmakers-to-beef-up-states-film-incentive-fund Nina Banks