Republicans in the Texas Senate introduced a bill that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools and have time set aside in the day for students to read the Bible. The

Republican Texas lawmakers are renewing a push to infuse a greater religious influence in the state's public schools with a pair of bills introduced Monday in the state Senate. Here's what's proposed.

Bills filed in the Texas Senate are once again trying to bring prayer and the Ten Commandments into public school classrooms.

Proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption to $140,000 cleared a key hurdle when a bipartisan committee voted unanimously

The marquee proposal would increase the amount of a home’s value exemption from school taxes to $140,000 from $100,000.

Most Texas Senators have signed on to a new bill that increases the residence homestead exemption to $140,000. Twenty-nine Texas senators, headed by Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) made the move to lower property taxes,