The 2023 Texas legislative session started with “historic” budget surplus and ended with an impeached attorney general

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas lawmakers entered into 2023 predicting a historic legislative session, one in which they had a $32.7 billion budget surplus to spend and a host of conservative priorities to rally around. On Monday, they indeed gaveled out of a historic session. But perhaps not for the reasons they expected. Flailing legislative negotiations about property taxes and “school choice” were overshadowed by the Texas House overwhelmingly voting to impeach...