In just over a month, lawmakers passed breakthrough legislation addressing housing, drug addiction and campaign finance reform. Longshot bills mired in controversy ultimately won broad support, ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom called state lawmakers into a special legislative session to address gasoline prices and price spikes, but legislative leaders are in a standoff over whether they’ll convene and one ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas’s constitution limits the legislature to just 140 days every other year to pass new laws. However, it also lets the governor call for “special sessions” between those biennial ...