Legislation that would renew the Texas Lottery with strict reforms has passed the Senate. House lawmakers will now consider ...

The state Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill that would preserve the Texas Lottery, but abolished the commission ...

This session’s centerpiece legislation is the plan to allocate $1 billion annually that families can use to help pay for ...

2 and lawmakers don’t have much time to settle all lottery-related issues ... related to the Lottery Commission first allowing lottery couriers into Texas and any and all possible crimes ...

With just over two weeks to go before the end of the legislative session, Texas lawmakers still need to pass a public school finance plan. Now, a new proposal from the ...

The agency responsible for immigration enforcement has aggressively revived and expanded a decades-old program that delegates ...

The bill would also mandate a review of the Texas Lottery, which could lead to the abolishment of the lottery itself.

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