Foreign land. Attorney General Ken Paxton proposed strengthened rules to enforce Senate Bill 17, the 2025 law barring certain individuals and entities tied to China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from buying Texas land, his office announced Friday. The rules would let any person file a complaint with the attorney general’s office and would have the office plan an online registry of covered properties, including those bought before the law took effect, modeled on the Texas Sex Offender Registry. The proposal appears in the October 9 issue of the Texas Register, and Paxton said he is also planning a task force to find and stop foreign land sales.
Voter rolls. Travis County election staff have processed more than 32,000 voter registration records that the Department of Public Safety failed to send to counties, KUT reported Friday. About 20,000 more applications filed before Monday’s registration deadline still await processing, and early voting for the November 3 election begins October 19.
Data centers. The Taylor City Council voted 5-0 to annex the 664-acre Taylor Technology Campus planned by Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers, Texas Scorecard reported. The 20-year agreement requires a closed-loop cooling system using nonpotable water and projects $1.38 billion in gross tax revenue over two decades, while residents at the meeting warned that the campus would draw down local water and raise prices.
Houston. Houston officials unveiled a three-year homelessness program with a $48 million funding goal that has drawn $34 million from private foundations so far, according to the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston, Texas Scorecard reported. The program is meant to move people faster out of the city’s residential treatment center, which has served more than 420 people since it opened in late May.
Alberta. Premier Danielle Smith ruled out holding another referendum on separation if a majority of Albertans vote to remain in Canada on October 19. “Not as long as I’m premier,” Smith said Friday in an interview in Calgary, CBC News reported. The ballot asks whether Alberta should remain a province of Canada or begin the legal process to hold a binding referendum on separating.
Texas Nationalist Movement calendar. The Smith County team of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) holds an information table at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, October 10, at a park in Lindale, according to the TNM calendar, and the Bexar County team holds its Alamo Memorial March that evening at the Alamo in San Antonio. The Brazoria County team hosts a meet and greet and Texian App workshop Tuesday, October 13, at Smithhart’s Texas Grill in Angleton, according to the TNM calendar, and the Llano County team holds a meet and greet Thursday, October 15, at The Falls in Llano.
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