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After stalling for years, effort to allow permitless carrying of handguns sees major breakthrough in Texas House Texas Tribune Published:  Tags:  Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In legislative session after legislative session late last decade, gun rights supporters pushed for a new law that would allow Texans to carry handguns without a license. Their cause did not go far in 2015 — and neither did it in 2017. In 2019, a Democratic lawmaker recalled Thursday evening,...

/ The Texas House will need to give a final stamp of approval to the legislation before it heads to the Senate, where the bill’s fate is less clear. The Texas House has approved a bill that would allow handguns to be carried without a permit, marking a win for gun rights activists who have for years pushed the measure at the Legislature but a blow to El Paso Democrats who have been fighting for gun safety measures since the 2019 massacre in their hometown. Initial approval came Thursday in a 84-56 vote after several hours of some of the most emotionally charged debate yet this legislative...

Texas House gives 'constitutional carry' initial OK, allows people to carry guns without a license  Cassandra Pollock, The Texas Tribune April 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail In this Jan. 13, 2015 file photo, gun rights advocates carry rifles while protesting outside the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)Eric Gay, STF / AP The Texas House on Thursday gave an initial OK to a bill that would allow handguns to be carried without a permit, marking a win for gun rights activists who have for years pushed the measure at the Legislature but a blow to El Paso Democrats who have...

/ After Congress passed the first stimulus bill last year, officials used the state's $1.3 billion education share to fill other holes in the state budget, leaving public schools with few additional resources to pay for the costs of the pandemic. Three federal stimulus packages passed during the pandemic included more than $19 billion for Texas public schools, but state leaders have yet to distribute most of the money. Local districts say they need it to cover pandemic-related costs. For more than a year, the federal government has been pumping billions of dollars into school districts acros...

.  For more than a year, the federal government has been pumping billions of dollars into school districts across the country to help them meet the demands of the pandemic. Most states have used that pot of stimulus funds as Congress intended: buying personal protective equipment for students and teachers, laptops for kids learning from home, improved ventilation systems for school buildings to prevent virus transmission and covering other costs. But in Texas, local schools have yet to see an extra dime from the more than $19 billion in federal stimulus money given to the state. After Congre...