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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he, along with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and House Speaker Dustin Burrows had been in heavy discussions over the last two days, yet failed to reach an agreement. -
A new law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in all Texas public-school classrooms is set to take effect September 1, 2025. -
Texas Senate Bill 16 passed the Senate on a party-line vote, but the bill never made it to the House floor for consideration. -
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is expected to Sign Both Senate Bills 10 & 11 into law. -
The most controversial is a proposed constitutional amendment to deny bail before trial to people in the country without legal status who are accused of a range of serious felonies. -
Similar proposals are in multiple states after a court ruling in 2022, though opponents say the move would impose one religious view on people with different religious traditions -
Harris County in Texas is home to Houston, and has tended to vote blue in the last decade. Republican state lawmakers recently passed bills that target how elections are run there.
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In Texas, the National Rifle Association meets in Houston as families in Uvalde are mourning children slain in a massacre earlier this week.
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Voters head to the polls in Texas for the state's primary in the first midterm election of 2022. A governor's race is on the ballot, as is the second-largest congressional delegation in the U.S.
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The Asian population in Fort Bend County is Texas' largest. When the Texas Legislature met to redraw congressional maps, many Asian Americans hoped it would reflect that. That didn't happen.
