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The Texas Senate wants more — and smaller — starter homes in new neighborhoods

The goal of the new legislation is to help drive down the cost of housing so that more Texans can afford homes.

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National leaders mount pressure campaign on Texas House GOP to pass voucher bill

Supporters of voucher-like education savings accounts are trying to press their advantage early and build a sense of inevitability.

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Brooke Rollins says she'll shield farmers from impacts of Trump's tariffs in ag secretary nomination hearing

Rollins previously led the Texas Public Policy Foundation and served under Gov. Rick Perry.

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Texas lawmakers are scrutinizing university professors’ influence. Here's how faculty shape their universities.

Faculty senates have long played a key role in developing curriculum and protecting open inquiry. State leaders have also accused them of liberal indoctrination.

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Texas’ order to ask hospital patients’ citizenship status renews focus on the state’s large uninsured population

On Nov. 1, hospitals will begin asking patients their citizenship status. But data suggests uninsured citizens, not immigrants, cost Texas hospitals more.

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Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is two House votes away from passing school vouchers

Abbott called on supporters to push through the primary runoffs to deliver the final pro-voucher members needed to pass his legislation, plus some padding.

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School voucher supporters bask in primary wins, say goals are within reach

Gov. Greg Abbott called the results “an unmistakable message.” His allies said the state is “closer than ever” to a voucher program.

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Voucher proposal spurs mix of excitement, wariness in Texas home schooling community

Parents of Texas’ growing population of home-schooled students are split over whether education savings accounts would give them much-needed financial help or represent an unwanted government involvement in their kids’ educations.

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Gov. Greg Abbott says he’ll add teacher pay to the special session — but only if lawmakers pass school voucher bill

Though lawmakers have drafted a bill to increase public school funding and teacher salaries, it cannot pass during the special session unless Abbott adds those issues to his agenda. Teachers were the only state employees to not receive a raise in the regular session.

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School voucher bill gets initial approval in the Texas Senate, heads over to a more skeptical House

The Senate also approved Senate Bill 2, which would infuse $5.2 billion to school districts to help them with teacher raises and rising costs. Gov. Greg Abbott said he would add those items to the special session’s agenda once lawmakers approve a voucher program.

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Disability advocates argue against school vouchers in Texas Senate hearing

The Senate’s main “school choice” bill would prioritize vouchers for children with disabilities, among other underprivileged groups. But advocates and parents raised concerns that voucher recipients who choose private school would no longer be protected by federal law.

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Texas can now apply to import lower-priced Canadian medications

Texas joins a handful of states turn to the north for cheaper drugs. But feds have been slow to approve requests, three years after giving initial OK.

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Texas A&M leaders’ text messages show desire to counteract perceived liberal agenda in higher education

Some members of the university system’s board of regents said they wanted to promote conservative causes at the flagship campus and resisted efforts to hire journalism professor Kathleen O. McElroy, who they believed would work counter to those goals.

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University of North Texas can charge out-of-state students higher tuition than undocumented Texans, appeals court rules

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a federal judge’s previous injunction that barred the college from charging out-of-state American citizens more than undocumented immigrants living in the state.

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Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dade Phelan join forces on property taxes. It might help the push for school vouchers.

Phelan announced the formation of a House committee that could set the tone in favor of vouchers ahead of an expected special session on education. The move comes weeks after Abbott sided with Phelan on a plan to lower property taxes.

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Texas Republicans ended a patchwork of local rules they say hurt business. They also eroded powers of city councils.

Lawmakers delivered Gov. Greg Abbott a long-sought bill to stop local governments from enacting local laws that exceed state law on a number of fronts.

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TribCast: The conservative plan to eliminate school property taxes in Texas

On this week’s episode, we speak to the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s James Quintero, who has been at the center of the debate over property taxes this week.

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With no deal on property taxes in sight, Abbott hints at multiple special sessions

The governor stands behind his support of the Texas House tax plan despite Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s insistence that the Senate has a better deal for homeowners.

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Cars registered in Texas after 2025 will no longer need to pass a safety inspection, but owners will still pay the fee

Cars in some of Texas’ larger counties will still be required to have their emission output checked.

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Texas Senate passes revamped school funding bill in last-minute bid to implement voucher program

Texas senators have latched education savings accounts to a school funding bill in a last-ditch effort to avoid a special session. But some House members are furious at the revamped version and have vowed not to let it become law.

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Texas’ next ESG target will be insurers: ‘We’re gonna teach them some manners’

Texas’ fight against environmental, social and corporate governance policies may soon expand to another front: insurance companies.

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Texas legislative leaders — Dan Patrick, Dade Phelan — jab each other’s priorities in dueling speeches

During dueling speeches to a conservative think tank in Austin, state House Speaker Dade Phelan and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who have a history of animus, split over property tax relief, criminal justice reform and school choice.

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Texas House’s property tax bill calls for $17 billion in cuts, tighter appraisal cap

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan’s proposal reveals the different roads the Texas House and Senate want to take on property taxes — and the fight that might emerge between the two chambers this session.

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Gov. Greg Abbott vows to exclude renewable energy from any revived economic incentive program

In 2021, the Texas Senate declined to consider a bill extending the program, which discounted local property taxes to lure big companies to the state. It had become plagued with bipartisan accusations of “corporate welfare.”

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Gov. Greg Abbott promises to be “heavily involved” in push for education savings accounts

In an interview with the Tribune, the governor also backed criminalizing some health care treatments for transgender kids and shrugged off the idea that he’s in a conservative policy rivalry with Ron DeSantis.

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