AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a major victory at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which vacated an injunction that wrongfully ordered Texas to remove buoys that the State placed in the Rio Grande […]
General News
COMMISSIONER MILLER ANNOUNCES HOME-DELIVERED MEAL GRANT APPLICATION
Applications are open from September 1, 2024, to November 1, 2024 AUSTIN – Today, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller announced that applications for the Texans Feeding Texans: Home-Delivered Meal Grant Program will open September 1, 2024, on the Texas Department of Agriculture’s […]
Harmony Public Schools Announces Start of 2024-25 School Year
[HOUSTON] — Harmony Public Schools is pleased to announce that the first day of the 2024-2025 academic school year is Tuesday, August 13, 2024. Since 2000, Harmony Public Schools has combined high standards with a rigorous STEM-centered curriculum and dedicated teachers to prepare students […]
Disaster Recovery Center Opens in Fort Bend County July 31
AUSTIN — FEMA is opening a Disaster Recovery Center in Fort Bend County July 31 to provide one-on-one help to Texans affected by Hurricane Beryl. Center location: William B. Travis Building 301 Jackson St. Richmond, TX 77469 The center will operate […]
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Helps Secure 60-Month Prison Sentence and Nearly $5 Million in Restitution for Health Care Fraudster
AUSTIN – An investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control has secured a 60-month federal prison sentence for Rene Fernandez Gaviola, a Houston dentist at the center of a $6.9 million fraud scheme. Gaviola will also serve […]
Sen. Cruz Celebrates Senate Passage of Landmark Legislation to Protect Children Online
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today celebrated Senate passage of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0). As the Committee’s ranking member, Sen. Cruz helped lead efforts to move the two […]
Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures $1.4 Billion Settlement with Meta Over Its Unauthorized Capture of Personal Biometric Data In Largest Settlement Ever Obtained From An Action Brought By A Single State
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta (formerly known as Facebook) to stop the company’s practice of capturing and using the personal biometric data of millions of Texans without the authorization required […]
Sen. Cruz Introduces TRACE Act to Safeguard Schools from Foreign Adversaries
“The House has already passed this bill. I urge my Senate colleagues to take it up expeditiously and pass it.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today introduced the Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education (TRACE) Act to enhance transparency […]
Fiscal Notes: Discover Texas’ 12 Economic Regions
(AUSTIN) — In the latest Fiscal Notes, Comptroller researchers share what makes Texas’ regional economies tick, using location quotient (LQ): comparing an industry’s size in a particular area (based on employment) with its size in the national economy. There were expected results, such as a […]
Disaster Recovery Centers Open in Fort Bend, Harris, Jackson Counties July 30
AUSTIN — FEMA is opening Disaster Recovery Centers in Fort Bend, Harris and Jackson counties July 30 to provide one-on-one help to Texans affected by Hurricane Beryl. Center locations: Fort Bend County Public Transportation Facility 3737 Bamore Rd. Rosenberg, TX 77471 Harris County […]
