It has been over 18 months since KPRC 2 Investigates revealed a Harris County maintenance shed under the control of County Commissioner Rodney Ellis was secretly housing a massive African art collection.

Friday’s announcement of proposed Senate Bill 252 comes after Channel 2 Investigates first exposed secret massive art collection being warehoused on the taxpayers’ dime, “Legally what this bill means is that I don’t think that what Precinct One Commissioner is doing is legal. I don’t think you can take a private Art collection, house it, spend public money, do private tours, I don’t think that is the right thing under the Texas Code,” said Bettencourt. The state senator out of District 7 doesn’t believe the actions taken by Ellis and his office is legal. Bettencourt said this bill is to ensure accountability at the state level if the Ogg’s office does nothing. Bettencourt indicated he cannot speak to federal operations, but he can speak to the state and its laws.

I felt like an outlaw at the bar exam because I needed menstrual products, says Sarah Riffel, who took the test last summer. Tampons and pads are no longer contraband at the upcoming bar exam for aspiring lawyers in Texas. Test takers previously could not carry menstrual products into the exam. I felt like an outlaw at the bar exam because I needed menstrual products, she said. Ear plugs and cellphones are among the prohibited items; menstrual products are not.

HOUSTON Texas has its share of homicide cases that have gone cold. KPRC 2 is taking a look back at both the solved and unsolved cases featured by the Texas Department of Public Safety to acknowledge the ability to solve cold cases and perhaps seek justice in cases that remain cold. The oldest unsolved cold case on the Texas Department of Public Safety website is the brutal beating and shooting murder of a 17-year-old in Sonora, Texas. He lived and worked in Sonora, Texas, known as the area where the Hill Country meets West Texas. http://www.sonoratexas.org/ Its small town on the way to or from Big Bend, as its website says. If you have any information, submit a tip online through the Texas Rangers Cold Case website or call 1-800-346-3243 so your information can be forwarded to the Texas Ranger assigned to the case.