With billions of dollars in new prison construction looming, Texas lawmakers invested in criminal justice reform policies designed to reduce incarceration, while keeping our streets safer and saving millions in correction costs.
Higher Education
Safe Schools and Fair Standards
Safe Schools and Fair Standards Key points: Texas’s higher education code is not aligned with Supreme Court precedent on the correct standards for defining harassment. Texas statute does not define what makes conduct “severe,” “persistent,” or “pervasive.” The existing legal framework should remain intact but needs updated definitions that protect both free speech and students...
September 28, 2026