Texas

Texas is preparing to issue $7.2 billion of tax and revenue anticipation notes to cover cash flows to school districts for the new fiscal year beginning Sept. 1.

Austin, Texas voters will be decide in November if they will authorize $65 million of bonds for affordable housing after rejecting a similar $78.3 million proposal in 2012.

Dallas County's Parkland Hospital will not lose its Medicare and Medicaid funding after a second evaluation found the charity hospital in compliance with federal standards.

A $220 million plan to preserve the abandoned Houston Astrodome will go to voters if Harris County Commissioners approve the proposal on Tuesday.

A lawsuit by a spurned developer of a proposed $165 million entertainment center adjoining Irving, Texas', new convention center has been settled, clearing the way for a plan to resurrect the project.

Texas sales tax receipts rose 7.3% in July, marking the 40th straight month of increases.

Options for a November affordable housing bond referendum in Austin, Texas range up to $65 million without a tax hike.

After three special sessions, Texas lawmakers have passed a $1.2 billion transportation bill that appeared to satisfy outgoing Gov. Rick Perry.

The federal government will finance rebuilding the blast-damaged schools and streets in West, Texas in a reversal of an earlier ruling.

A political action committee headed by two Texas legislative leaders will promote passage of a constitutional amendment setting up a $2 billion water infrastructure bond bank.

El Paso City Council raised the interest limit on $61 million of bonds for a downtown ballpark to increase their marketability.

Frisco Independent School District plans for a May 2014 bond vote to build nine new schools in the fast-growing north Dallas suburb.

Houston Independent School District is kicking off a new $1.9 billion bond program as it completes projects from an earlier bond-funded effort.

Fort Worth Independent School District may seek $785 million of general obligation bonds in November at the Texas district's first bond referendum since 2007.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday called a third special session after the Legislature failed to pass an $850 million highway funding measure.

Both houses of the Texas Legislature debated a compromise measure to provide more than $800 million per year for transportation funding as their second special session neared the end.

After years of debate and controversy, the city council for the Dallas suburb of Irving approved building a $166 million entertainment center that has put the city's triple-A rating at risk.

All 40 replacement or rebuilt schools in Houston Independent School District's $1.89 billion bond program will meet strict environmental guidelines.

The San Antonio Water System will need to add about $492 million to its capital plans to upgrade leaky sewers under a $1.1 billion settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, officials said.

The Texas House and Senate are moving toward final approval of an $800 million transportation funding measure