Texas budget cuts taxes, plays up border, mental health, parks, school safety. ESAs?
AUSTIN — Texas would significantly bolster mental health, school safety and state parks under a spending plan laid out by...
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Texas House passes bill making it easier to look at mental health court records of gun buyers under 21
AUSTIN (CBSNewsTexas.com) – Ten days after the deadly mass shooting in Allen, State Representative Jeff Leach, R-Allen urged lawmakers on...
Blaming the Texas mall mass shooting on mental health issues obscures the real problem
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is calling for more resources for mental health following a mass shooting at an outlet...
TikTok, social media use targeted in Texas teen mental health bills
AUSTIN — At the start of a new school week, middle school teacher Chris Leal likes to check in with...
Judge defends keeping eye on Texas’ overuse of mental health drugs on foster children
AUSTIN — A federal judge on Monday lambasted Texas officials for challenging her authority to review how powerful mental health...
Texas Senate passes budget stressing tax cuts, mental health, employee pay raises
AUSTIN — The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a two-year, $308 billion state budget that stresses property tax cuts, mental...
Texas doesn’t shield foster kids from sexual abuse, overuses mental-health drugs
AUSTIN — Foster children who previously were victims of sexual abuse are being placed in bedrooms alongside youth flagged for...
New institute for brain, mental health research advances in Texas House
AUSTIN — Texas would launch a new research institute for mental health and brain diseases, seeding it with $3 billion...
Why won’t Texas ban executions for people with severe mental illness?
For several years now, state Rep. Toni Rose, D-Dallas, has tried to get a bill passed that would ban the...
Longtime Texas Rangers radio broadcaster will miss start of MLB season to treat mental health
Eric Nadel, the longtime radio voice of the Texas Rangers, will miss the start of the 2023 Major League Baseball...
Texas AFT :Fully Funded, Fully Respected: The Path to Thriving Texas Public Schools
Fully Funded, Fully Respected The Path to Thriving Texas Public Schools A joint report by Texas AFT & Every Texan...
Texas emergency rooms becoming front lines in the youth mental health crisis
FORT WORTH (CBSNewsTexas.com) — For desperate parents with children suffering from a mental health crisis, help can be hard to find. A...
Dallas adding 296 new psychiatric beds to Texas supply
A rendering of the new hospital that will be at the intersection of Harry Hines Boulevard and Medical District Drive....
Texas Executes Mentally Ill Man After Denying Him Access to Mental Health Testing
Texas executed Tracy Beatty (pictured) on November 9, 2022, after the United States Supreme Court declined to review his challenge...
Texas governor’s much-touted mental health care expansion falls short of local, state need
A white tent looms over the grounds of the Uvalde County Fairplex, a sparse multipurpose venue that previously hosted rodeos,...
Mental health hotline call center in North Texas is looking to hire more, double the size of existing staff
FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Nearly three months into a nationwide transition on the best way to get help to...
The Legal Clinic At Thurgood Marshall School Of Law In Houston, Texas
The Classical republican idea of "civil society" dates again to Hobbes and Locke. A judiciary is theoretically sure by the...
Texas doctors study effects of wearing a mask during exercise
FRISCO, Texas (Nexstar) — From Baylor Scott & White’s sports performance center at The Star in Frisco, Paola Lugo dons...
Superior HealthPlan Working to Improve Health Literacy across Texas
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Many Texas healthcare consumers find it challenging to understand health information, from medical forms...
Central Texas Spine Institute Finds Success In Treating Chronic Back Pain – Press Release
Austin, TX-based Central Texas Spine Institute PLLC (CTSI) is pleased to report that they have found tremendous success treating chronic...
