Texas Legislature

State Rep. David Cook, a Republican from Mansfield, is hoping to be next Texas House Speaker.

Changes are coming in 2025 for the way cars are registered, how schools are funded and how you can protect your personal information online.

Gov. Greg Abbott is ready to push his school voucher plan again. This time, he has a lot more support.

Property deed theft is becoming such a problem in Texas that state lawmakers are considering creating a new criminal offense to hold crooks accountable. A South Dallas woman had no idea it was happening to her until an empty lot she owned was being cleared by strangers.

The Scope Act is part of a growing wave by lawmakers in multiple states to give more power to parents when it comes to their children’s digital footprint.

There hasn't been this much heat on the State Fair since Big Tex caught on fire. In this week's Texas: The Issue Is the FOX Texas Trio discusses the fair's new gun ban and push by Republican lawmakers to overturn it.

On Monday, lawmakers heard testimony from representatives in other states that have voucher programs.

“In limited circumstances, through publicly available information, you may be able to identify the civic person's ballot," admitted the election director for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office.

We hear about squatters in cities like New York and Los Angeles, but the problem is happening here in North Texas and across the state as well.

In the letter from 39 Texas House Democrats to Gov. Abbott, they say the state’s surplus of about $18 billion means it has the resources to better fund public schools. But the governor quickly pointed the finger back at them, claiming they had a chance to pass school funding but lost it over their opposition to his school voucher program.

A new poll shows that Texans are split about where gambling should and shouldn't be allowed in the state.

Governor Abbott says he expects to have the votes to pass school vouchers in 2025. See why he believes public schools may have missed their chance to accept the best possible deal.

North Texas State Rep. Jared Patterson (R-Frisco) and several other Republican lawmakers are being called not conservative enough by some groups. Patterson responded to those claims and the record of the Texas House.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would not sign a school funding bill if it did not have vouchers attached. Before students went home for the holidays, districts like Richardson ISD updated parents about the strong likelihood of budget cuts.

FOX 4’s Steven Dial spoke with Texas House Democrat James Talarico, who is a former teacher, about school vouchers.

The latest casualties were Senate Bill 5, which would spend $800 million on school safety measures through 2025, and Senate Bill 6, which would change the timeline of a trial after an election contest is filed by a citizen or group.

The decision to end work Tuesday leaves long odds for bills to boost school safety funding and make sure that election challenges don’t delay the implementation of property tax cuts, teacher pension raises and infrastructure spending.

Some members of the committee said such a ban, proposed two months after a prominent conservative activist was caught meeting with a famous white supremacist, might be a “slippery slope” or too vague.

FOX 4’s Steven Dial spoke to North Texas Rep. David Spiller about SB4, which would make illegal border crossing a state crime.