by TFR Staff | Feb 11, 2025 | 89th TXLege, Vote Notices
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for February 11th, 2025 Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Bill 4 (SB 4) – Property Tax Relief, Raising the Homestead Exemption Author: State Sen. Paul...
by TFR Staff | Apr 24, 2024 | News
Earlier this month, the Texas Senate unveiled its interim charges, which are topics of study assigned to Senate committees during the interim period between legislative sessions. These charges, issued by Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, guide committees in their...
by Andrew McVeigh | Oct 19, 2023 | 88th TXLege, News
We are now ten days into the third Special Session of the Texas Legislature. While school choice has been a focal point of the session thus far, another major area of concern is the ongoing border crisis and illegal immigration. After the entire regular...
by Andrew McVeigh | Oct 5, 2023 | 88th TXLege, News
Rumors had abounded for months that Governor Abbott was going to call a third special session to address so-called “school choice.” The third special session of the year has officially been called by Governor Abbott, with the State Legislature to convene in Austin at...
by Andrew McVeigh | Oct 4, 2023 | Explainers, State
The Texas State Legislature meets for its Constitutionally-required regular session once every odd-numbered year for 140 days from roughly mid-January to the end of May. The Governor can call additional special sessions of thirty days at any point outside of the...
