Approved 30-1, legislation creating a dementia research institute funded with $3 billion in state money next goes to the Texas House.

Texas Senators will convene in the high chamber on Wednesday morning to debate and vote on the creation of the Dementia ...

Fewer than half of Texas public school districts are compliant with new safety guidelines published after the deadly mass ...

Many school districts have struggled to afford the cost of complying with House Bill 3 from 2023, which requires schools to ...

The Texas Senate has passed a proposed constitutional amendment that would give judges more discretion to hold people accused ...

Texas Senate Bill 5 would create the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Voters would be asked this fall to ...

Senate passed a trio of proposed laws from Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston) on Wednesday aimed at tightening rules around bail ...

The Bail Project, a national organization that helps low-income defendants pay bail, said the bill is "based entirely on ...

The package was fast-tracked after Gov. Greg Abbott declared “bail reform” an emergency item. The bills now head to the House for consideration.

The Texas Senate, by nearly unanimous votes ... Houston Republican Sen. Joan Huffman, who authored the legislation, said the current constitutional requirement to offer bail to some defendants ...

The Texas Senate has given the green light to a bipartisan bill that some lawmakers say will keep violent offenders off the ...

Texas senators passed a set of bills this week that would keep more defendants in jail while they await trial for certain ...