"The House is at work," Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows told ABC13's Tom Abrahams during a one-on-one conversation as the filing deadline for legislation nears the Capitol.

The 75 co-sponsors plus the bill’s author would provide enough votes to pass Gov. Abbott’s top priority measure in the ...

Families participating in the program could receive about 85% of the amount public schools collect for each attending student ...

Sometimes under Dade Phelan and Joe Straus, previous Republican speakers, Senate bills important to Patrick faded in the ...

A state senator from Brenham has again filed a bill to prevent foreign adversaries from purchasing land in Texas.

Rep. Dade Phelan, one of 11 House Republicans other than Buckley or Burrows who did not sign on as a coauthor, said he remains undecided in part because he expects a lot to change in HB 3 by the ...

Some lawmakers, including former House Speaker Dade Phelan of Beaumont, have said publicly they haven’t made their mind up on whether to support a voucher program. Teachers’ unions and public ...

TEXAS, USA — This story was first published in The Texas Tribune and can be viewed here. A narrow majority of the Texas House signed on in support of the chamber’s school voucher bill on ...