Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed House Bill 2, the largest public school funding increase in Texas history, allocating $8.5 billion in new funding for public education. A significant portion of the funding - $ 4.

Lawmakers passed more than 1,200 bills during the 89th Texas Legislature, nearly 800 of which were sent to the governor in the last 10 days of the 140-day session, which wrapped up Monday. Now that legislators have gone back to their districts to turn their attention back to their families and,

The details of the House settlement with the NCAA may not have finished, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Thursday that will end the NCAA's decades-old prohibition on universities paying players directly.