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Republicans currently control both chambers. Texas House Republicans have experienced considerable intraparty strife over issues such as school vouchers and the 2023 impeachment of Ken Paxton, the state's attorney general. Retirements and primary battles left over 30 seats open for the general election.
The 89th Texas Legislature is the meeting of the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Texas, composed of the Texas Senate and the Texas House of Representatives. The regular session is scheduled to until June 2, 2025.
The 2024 Texas House of Representatives election was held on November 5, 2024. [1] The winners of this election will serve in the 89th Texas Legislature . It was held alongside numerous other federal, state, and local elections, including the 2024 U.S. presidential election and the 2024 Texas Senate election .
Texas lawmakers returned to Austin on Tuesday to begin a 140-day session, during which the Republican-led Legislature is poised to pass an array of conservative priorities and decide how to spend ...
Elections are scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024. [4] Seats up for election will be all seats of the Texas Legislature, [5] all 38 seats in the United States House of Representatives, and the Class I seat to the United States Senate, for which two-term incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz is running for re-election. [6]
Elected to the Texas Legislature 1890. Rick Perry, longest serving Governor of Texas, (2000–2015) and former U.S. Secretary of Energy (2017–2019). Colonel Alfred P.C. Petsch (1925–1941) Lawyer, legislator, civic leader, and philanthropist. Veteran of both World War I and World War II.
Signature programs, including those ones that result in greater economic mobility, are at risk. The Legislature should appropriate and distribute the approved $4 billion in the state’s K-12 ...
With the Legislature on Tuesday adjourning its fourth special session this year, the House once again blocked school choice proposals from advancing in the Capitol, blunting Gov. Greg Abbott's ...