Wednesday, November 16 2011 4:16 PM EST2011-11-16 21:16:02 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas lawmakers passing a flurry of bills on the final day of the Legislative session in May accidentally removed a $200 fine for driving without license plates from the transportation code.
Monday, October 3 2011 12:09 AM EDT2011-10-03 04:09:20 GMT
Amarillo, Texas - State Senator Kel Seliger will be embarking on the second leg of his Town Hall Meetings tour across the Panhandle over the next few weeks.
Wednesday, July 6 2011 3:28 PM EDT2011-07-06 20:28:22 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas - A reproductive rights group has asked a federal judge in Austin to block a new Texas law requiring doctors to conduct a sonogram before performing an abortion.
Friday, July 1 2011 11:18 PM EDT2011-07-02 03:18:15 GMT
AMARILLO---An Amarillo attorney tells NewsChannel 10, there is much more work to be done following the compensation of a texas man wrongfully imprisoned for murder. Thursday, Anthony Graves received
Friday, July 1 2011 12:23 PM EDT2011-07-01 17:23:37 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas — A reproductive rights group wants a federal judge in Texas to block a new state law requiring doctors to conduct a sonogram before an abortion.
Wednesday, June 29 2011 11:34 AM EDT2011-06-29 16:34:54 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas — When the Texas Legislature's special session began, Republican majorities in the House and Senate warned Democrats they wouldn't be able to stop an immigration enforcement bill that had sparked one of the toughest partisan fights of the year.
Tuesday, June 28 2011 2:09 PM EDT2011-06-28 19:09:46 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate has passed a bill to formalize a $4 billion cut to public education and direct how it will be spread across school districts.
Wednesday, June 29 2011 12:10 PM EDT2011-06-29 17:10:15 GMT
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House will get a chance to vote on a bill to criminalize invasive pat-downs at airports on Wednesday. But the bill faces an uphill battle to get final passage.
AUSTIN, Texas — After failing to make quorum two days last week, the Texas House is expected to finally get back to work Monday — and will have a very full plate of legislation to sort through.
Texas - With the special session almost coming to an end, one area lawmaker is hoping a bill he helped author gets approved. If it passes it would change the way some Texas cities enforce immigration laws.
SAN ANTONIO - Gov. Rick Perry touted his record of appointing Hispanics at a convention of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
Austin, TX- Texas and the feds continue a battle over whether an airport pat-down should be criminalized. Governor Rick Perry is urging lawmakers in the house to pass House Bill 41 which would criminalize
DALLAS (AP) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed into law a measure that gives the state's teachers more access to criminal information about their students.
HOUSTON – Texas is now the first state with a law requiring drillers to publicly disclose the chemicals they use when extracting oil and gas from dense rock formations.
AUSTIN (AP) – Texas Gov. Rick Perry vetoed 23 bills Friday, including legislation that would have outlawed sending or reading text messages while driving
AUSTIN, Texas — A majority of Texans want women to get a sonogram before an abortion, but don't support legislative efforts to defund medical practices that provide abortions, according to a new public policy poll.
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry added immigration legislation to the special session's agenda on Tuesday, including a measure that would remove local law enforcement agencies' ability to make immigration violations a lower priority.
The Texas House is considering bills to make it easier for schools to increase elementary school class sizes and streamline firing teachers to ease budget strains.
AUSTIN, Texas - Conservative Sen. Dan Patrick has reintroduced a bill to restrict the use of abortion-inducing medications to be considered during the special session.
Today is the final day of the legislative session and Governor Rick Perry says if Democrats don't vote for critical bills he supports, they may not like what a special session looks like.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas House Republicans are fighting among themselves over abortion language contained within a major, omnibus health care reform bill - a clash that has delayed the measure and could even ultimately derail it as a special legislative session runs short on time.
AUSTIN, Texas - Sending or reading text messages while driving would be outlawed in Texas under a bill passed by legislature and headed for Gov. Rick Perry's desk.
NewsChannel 10 AMARILLO---Keeping a gun with your belongings, even when you are at work could soon be legal in Texas. The Texas house and senate just passed their final versions of a bill which allows
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry will be holding a formal signing ceremony for a law that requires doctors to conduct a sonogram before performing an abortion.
Now that a budget deal has been worked out between negotiators at the Texas Capitol, the House must pass a school finance plan to pay for the four-billion dollar cut to the education system.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texans who want to catch catfish using only their bare hands would be able to do so legally under legislation approved by the state Senate.
A bill that would allow a remote low-level radioactive waste site in West Texas to bury material from dozens of states has been approved by the Texas House.
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Late Monday night leaders of the Texas House and Senate announced they've reached an agreement on almost every part of the state budget.
Austin, TX - The Texas Legislature is grappling with a $27-Billion dollar deficit. Educators and healthcare workers are waiting to see exactly how much will be cut from the budget and how that will affect them.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas legislature has sent to the governor a measure requiring legal permanent U.S. residents to provide additional proof they are impoverished before qualifying for state indigent care services.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House passed a bill that would make it a criminal offense for public servants to inappropriately touch travelers during airport security pat-downs.
AUSTIN, Texas — With some lawmakers actually crowing for emphasis, the Texas House has approved a measure to toughen punishments for activities related to cockfighting.
AUSTIN, Texas — Payday loan providers would be required to post the terms, interest rates and fees for their services under a bill approved by Texas lawmakers.
DNA Testing has released hundreds of wrongfully convicted prisoners and if Governor Perry signs a new bill into law, DNA could also help exonerate men who have been paying child support for children who are not theirs.
AMARILLO, TEXAS - Justin Johnson grew up playing basketball at the North Branch YMCA. "They kept me from doing dumb stuff, they kept me off the streets."
AUSTIN, Texas - English would become the official language in Texas and all official functions would have to be in English, under a law approved by the House State Affairs Committee.
Legislation that could give harsher punishment to those convicted of abuse towards children, elderly and the disabled is one step closer to becoming law.
WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is taking a step toward a presidential bid in 2012 by setting up a committee to help him test the waters for a possible run.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House unanimously approved a bill Wednesday that would regulate the already-limited ability of governments to seize property using the power of eminent domain.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are proposing to throw some of their newest tea-party backed members overboard, but a redistricting plan released Wednesday would retain much of their strength in the heavily GOP state House.
AUSTIN, Texas — Republicans are using their biggest majority ever in the Texas House to promote their conservative vision: government slashed to the bone, more curbs on abortion, far less money for birth control and new ID requirements for voters.
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas House committee has approved a bill that would require commercial cat and dog breeders to register with the state and apply for a license.
AMARILLO, TX - Parents in the area are preparing for the worst when it comes to their children's future. That future could depend on decisions made in Austin.
AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas House Ways and Means Committee unanimously approved a bill that would increase sales tax collection on Internet transactions.
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas hunters could soon be able to book trips on helicopters to shoot wild hogs and coyotes under a plan approved by lawmakers Monday that would dramatically expand the state's strict rules on aerial hunting.
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas House approved a bare-bones state budget late Sunday, making massive cuts to public education and health care programs for the poor, but promising to keep working to improve the $164.5 billion spending package.
Elise Preston NewsChannel 10 AMARILLO---Kindergarten and first grade are two of the most commonly repeated grades for Texas children. Some area administrators are fighting to keep a state program they
Texas must comply with the 2009 Military and Overseas Voting Empowerment Act. The law, known as MOVE, requires states to provide ballots to military personnel at least 45 days before an election
AUSTIN, Texas — State lawmakers are considering legislation that would require unemployed Texans to pass a drug test before collecting jobless benefits.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas House committee has approved legislation opposing elements of the sweeping federal health care law signed by President Barack Obama last year.
AUSTIN, Texas — Police in Texas would have to adopt written policies for conducting live and photo identification lineups of criminal suspects under a bill passed by the Senate on Wednesday that seeks to avoid wrongful convictions.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate has given initial approval for a "Choose Life" license plate as a measure to discourage abortion and raise money to promote adoption.
Amarillo, Texas - The possibility of allowing Sunday liquor sales is causing quite an uproar in the Texas Legislature. The bill filed by State Senator Rodney Ellis of Houston, would remove the Sunday liquor sale ban.
AUSTIN, Texas — Democratic lawmakers denounced the latest version of the state budget, saying it would close 50 percent of the state's nursing homes. Those closures would leave 43,700 without a facility to live in.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A state representative from Houston has filed a bill that would make it a state jail felony to knowingly hire an illegal immigrant -- unless the person is a domestic worker.
Austin TX - (AP) Supreme Court Justice Wallace Jefferson, chief judge of the state's high court, is calling on the Texas Legislature to provide more funding for poor defendants who can't afford to hire a lawyer.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A state House committee is set to debate legislation that would require doctors to perform sonograms on women considering abortion.
HOUSTON — Lobbyists, opponents and casino owners believe Texas' massive budget crisis could give proposals to legalize gambling their best chance in years for approval.
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas police chiefs and sheriffs visited the Capitol to decry potential Arizona-type legislation that would require them to enforce federal immigration law.
AUSTIN, Texas — A proposed law that would require doctors to show women a sonogram of their fetus before performing an abortion will be modified to give the woman greater control over what she sees and hear, the bill's main author said Tuesday.
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry declared Tuesday that there are "no sacred cows" in the strapped Texas budget, but he found a few hallowed programs that came close: the ones he uses to reward companies that expand or relocate to Texas.
AUSTIN — Texas Republican leaders have scored their first major legislative victory of the 2011 session with Senate passage of a bill requiring most residents to present photo identification before being allowed to vote.
AUSTIN (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry wants to fast-track legislation tightening voter identification laws and another measure aimed at restricting federal spending.
AMARILLO, TEXAS - Tony Collins is mostly an A student at West Texas A and M. In addition to working, he pays for school through financial aid and without that: "I wouldn't be going to college.
Austin, Texas - Texas House budget writers released the first draft of the budget Tuesday evening. The first draft details how cutting state jobs will help close the budget gap.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry took the oath office for an unprecedented third full term on Tuesday, saying historians will call this the "Texas Century."
Austin, Texas - The next Texas budget process has just begun, but the possible outcome of a revenue shortfall between $15 billion and $27 billion will become much clearer this week as the first version of the budget is released.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is using state bodyguards on an as-needed basis after he says "credible threats" were documented in December.
NewsChannel 10 asked, and viewers like you answered on Facebook in record time. We wanted to know what state programs you thought could be cut to make up for about a $25 Billion budget shortfall.
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Thursday that the first draft of the new budget will eliminate an estimated 8,000 state jobs and not raise taxes.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Legislature opened its 2011 session Tuesday with a blast of conservative chest-beating, a fizzled leadership challenge and a gigantic budget shortfall that could change state government as the people have come to know it.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - State officials are considering seizing a herd of cattle after around 1,000 emaciated cattle were found on a drought-stricken ranch near Fort Sumner.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - State officials are considering seizing a herd of cattle after around 1,000 emaciated cattle were found on a drought-stricken ranch near Fort Sumner.
We have an alert from Clovis police, which is lock your doors and don't leave valuables in your car. The city's crime report says they've been dealing with 49 calls for breaking and entering in the last 2 weeks.
We have an alert from Clovis police, which is lock your doors and don't leave valuables in your car. The city's crime report says they've been dealing with 49 calls for breaking and entering in the last 2 weeks.
After over a century of being banned, gay youth are now allowed to be a part of the Boy Scouts. But gay adult leaders and parents are still not permitted to participate.
After over a century of being banned, gay youth are now allowed to be a part of the Boy Scouts. But gay adult leaders and parents are still not permitted to participate.
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