Several Texas House members appear to have a new vote strategy—using extend-o-sticks to reach the buttons to indicate their approval or disapproval of the legislation at hand.  However, the tool seems to be more handy when House colleagues are not on the floor.

House Bill 46 is expected to pass the lower chamber Tuesday. It reached the floor ahead of the House rewrite of Senate Bill 3, which would impose strict new regulations on consumable products containing THC.

A raft of social conservative priorities backed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick hang in the balance, including efforts to infuse more religion into public schools.

The bill originally allowed pregnant women to drive in HOV lanes, to be consistent with Texas abortion laws, but legislators extended it to all mothers.

The Texas House voted 87-58 to approve Senate Bill 1257 on Monday. The measure requires health care providers who provide gender transition health care to also cover any care related to "adverse effects and reversals.

The bill would bar those under 18 from checking out books with sexually explicit material without parental permission.

Any House bills or joint resolutions that haven’t passed out of committee by Monday, made it to a calendar by Tuesday or gotten their second reading on the House floor by Thursday are effectively dead for the state's biennial legislative session.

A hefty expansion to the state’s narrow medical marijuana program won overwhelming approval in the Texas House on Monday, giving veterans broad access to THC treatments and raising the number

House lawmakers considered a bill that would expand a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion practices in Texas universities to K-12 schools.