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Special session offers Texas small businesses opportunity for potential disaster assistance
The Texas Legislature special session will focus, in part, on recovery efforts from the Hill Country floods. Some of the ...
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Reporter's notebook: Texas lawmakers want to keep hemp out of the hands of kids. Educators don’t think it will work.
Education Reporter Camille Phillips wanted to know if a ban on hemp sales to minors could cut down on the number of Texas students punished for vaping. Here's what she found out.
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AT A CROSSROADS: Hemp industry awaits their future as special legislative session continues
Senate Bill 5, nearly identical to the vetoed SB 3, proposes a statewide ban on THC and hemp products. FreshGrown TX CEO Jake ...
Texas GOP won’t say it, but climate change is on special session agenda | Editorial
Here is the central issue as the Texas Legislature deliberates: Republican lawmakers, so loath to utter the words “climate ...
Democrats suit up for Texas redistricting fight with $20 million super PAC fund
National Democrats are preparing to counter Texas Republicans’ possible mid-decade redistricting effort, which White House ...
Texas Panhandle faces shifting future under new state and federal laws
The Texas Panhandle is at a pivotal crossroads as new state laws and federal policy shifts begin to reshape rural life. The ...
Texas again trying to restrict the bathrooms transgender people can use
The bills would carry a $5,000 fine for a first-time violation. Momentum for such restrictions has increased in the state and ...
Ongoing special session highlights divisions among Texas' anti-abortion groups after Roe v. Wade
Texas' anti-abortion groups hold differing legislative priorities as the movement continues developing in a post-Roe world.