The details of the House settlement with the NCAA may not have finished, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Thursday that will end the NCAA's decades-old prohibition on universities paying players directly.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed House Bill 2, the largest public school funding increase in Texas history, allocating $8.5 billion in new funding for public education. A significant portion of the funding - $ 4.

Lawmakers passed more than 1,200 bills during the 89th Texas Legislature, nearly 800 of which were sent to the governor in the last 10 days of the 140-day session, which wrapped up Monday. Now that legislators have gone back to their districts to turn their attention back to their families and,