Lawmakers representing Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, saw 31 bills they introduced signed into ...

Lawmakers met Friday to pass the bill out of committee without a hearing as a May 27 deadline for a House floor vote nears.

W.Va., introduces a House resolution to celebrate the election of the first-ever pope born in the United States.

The Texas House of Representatives recently voted to repeal its 1973 law banning same-sex sexual encounters, with 12 Republican representatives joining Democrats in the historic 72-55 vote. Though the ...

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The bill would require the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to install air conditioning at each of its facilities by the ...

Nearly one year after President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in the hopes of stopping certification of ...

While teachers deserve raises, said Cushing ISD Superintendent Brandon Enos, they also need students who arrive at school safely and who are well fed.

Repealing the law would prevent it from becoming a "zombie law" and going back into effect in the event the court decision ...

The 89-43 vote comes less than two months after an Austin federal judge declared extreme heat in Texas prisons “plainly ...

U.S. senators renewed calls on Friday for Congress to pass sanctions on Russia after Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks showed ...

Some measures that made it through before midnight dealt with jail bonds, an unconstitutional ban on gay sex, and the ...