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The Texas Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Texas.It is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives.The state legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin.
The current Texas State Capitol is the fourth building to serve that purpose in Austin. The first was a two-room wooden structure (located on the northeast corner of 8th St and Colorado St) which served as the national capitol of the Texas Republic and continued as the seat of government upon Texas' admission to the Union.
The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. There are no term limits. The House meets at the State Capitol in Austin.
Texas House members with family and guests crowd the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol for the opening of the 88th Texas Legislative Session in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023.
(The Center Square) – Members of the Texas House elected their new speaker Tuesday, state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock. They did so after the former speaker, state Rep. Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont ...
The Texas House on Tuesday elected state Rep. Dustin Burrows (R) to lead the chamber in a blow to the rising far-right wing of the party, defeating a candidate supported by Texas Attorney General ...
Legislative Reference Library of Texas (May 6, 2006). "Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives, 1846-present". Archived from the original on July 25, 2010; Sorensen, Stephanie S. (2006). "Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives"
(The Center Square) – Two Democrats and one Republican have announced they are running for speaker of the Texas House, vying to unseat the current speaker, state Rep. Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont ...