Through it all, from those first days until the tumultuous last night before the House and Senate gaveled out sine die, Texas Tribune photographers were at the Capitol. Here is some of what they saw.

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OLYMPIA, Wash. – After George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020, an outpouring of racial justice protests led to several policy wins for advocates in Washington ...

A law passed by the Texas Legislature in 2021 states that public schools in the state must display a sign with the national motto, "In God We Trust," if it's been received as a donation from a private ...

Nebraska lawmakers are poised for a special session this year after Gov. Jim Pillen's property tax plan was killed."I will call as many sessions as it takes to finish the long overdue work of solving ...

The bill passed by the Virginia legislature prohibits schools from teaching what it considers to be falsehoods about the U.S. Capitol riot, including portraying it "as peaceful protest." ...

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