SB 3070, which awaits Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature, would move the lottery game to Texas’ Department of Licensing and ...

Texas GOP lawmakers exit the 2025 legislative session having taken care of their top two education priorities: private school ...

A bill that would preserve the Texas Lottery but abolish the commission that oversees it is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott. The ...

A bill signed by Abbott becomes law. If he leaves a bill unsigned but doesn't veto it, it also automatically becomes law.

Lawmakers celebrated a host of policy wins as the session ended this week, including private school vouchers, teacher pay ...

Senate Bill 3070 would abolish the lottery's governing board but allow the games to continue under the authority of a ...

For 140 days during the 89th Texas Legislature, 150 members, state representatives and 31 senators took thousands of hours of ...

Staff writers Philip Jankowski, Gromer Jeffers, Jr., Nolan McCaskill and Aaron Torres contributed to this report.

The last day of Texas' 2025 legislative session is here. After 140 days at the Capitol in Austin, the Texas Legislature has ...

Republican factions united to pass most but not all of their conservative priorities in this year’s legislative session, ...

Dan Patrick’s legislative priorities ... Money called the lottery the “most regressive tax” in Texas, and his supporters claimed the game unfairly preys on the poor and could not be run ...