After 140 days at the Capitol in Austin, the Texas Legislature has just wrapped up its 89th session. This year, state ...

A sweeping Texas bill designed to avert the looming possibility of a water crisis passed a final legislative hurdle Friday ...

The 89th Texas Legislature has passed landmark legislation that positions the state for long-term water resilience, unlocking significant funding.

State lawmakers created groundwater conservation districts in 1949 to protect what water is left. But their power to restrict ...

The deal allocates $1 billion a year for water and splits that funding equally between new water supply projects, like ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott commends the legislature for passing bills to improve the state's water infrastructure.

In a vote of 143 to 3, the Texas House approved Senate Bill 7, the partner bill to a constitutional amendment planned to pump ...

A boost in public school spending, school vouchers, and money for water systems are other highlights of the state budget, ...

Senate Bill 6 would increase regulations on data centers and other large electric consumers, while Senate Bill 7 would help ...

Of the roughly 1,200 bills that passed the legislature this legislative session, several were identified as emergency ...

Securing new water supply is enormously expensive ... one-time appropriation of new funding to the Texas Water Development Board. Even as the Legislature prioritized funding for water ...