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Texas House OKs bill to limit minors' access to sexually explicit books in public libraries
House Bill 3225 would require libraries to use age verification to keep minors from reading “sexually explicit” books.
Texas House passes dozens of bills in marathon Friday night floor debate
The lower chamber passed bills dealing with sexually explicit content in public city libraries, additives in school lunches ...
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They drove to the Capitol to testify on a bill and got a grueling lesson in Texas democracy
The group from Johnson County waited 18 hours to testify at a hearing that started at 1 a.m. on a bill to limit toxic ...
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Texas Senate passes bill that would allow teachers, students to misgender others without punishment
Senate Bill 1999 would bar punishment against public employees and students who misgender their peers. The bill now heads to ...
Texas is on the verge of handing Tesla and other big businesses a major win
A pair of bills out of the Lone Star state could make it easier for big businesses like Tesla to quash shareholder lawsuits ...
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John Cornyn says tax and spending bill must reimburse Texas $11 billion for border security
Texas Republicans are pushing the federal government to pay the state’s costs of Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg’s Abbott’s ...
Texas retailers expect to give shoppers the bill for tariff burdens
Nearly three in four retailers and wholesalers expect higher tariffs to deliver a negative effect this year, according to a ...
Texas bills could shut down existing wind, solar farms: 'I cannot recall legislation as damaging.'
The bills would require nearly every solar and wind farm in the state to back up their electricity output with natural gas ...