Albert Hawkins won another term as the state's health and human services commissioner on a 24-7 Senate vote.

Hawkins is a veteran bureaucrat with years of budget experience, stints in the Bush Administrations in both Austin and Washington, D.C., and a term in his current post. But his agency has won unfriendly attention from lawmakers angry about the failure of a multi-million state contract with Accenture, a turbulent conversion to a new integrated eligibility system, and at Gov. Rick Perry's attempt to order the agency to start vaccinating public school girls against human papillomavirus before they can enter sixth grade.

The Senate Nominations Committee grilled Hawkins earlier in the session, then sat on the appointment for weeks before giving him the nod. With this vote, he's got another term.

Shelley Kofler, last seen in this space a few days ago taking a PR job with the Texas State Teachers Association, got a sweeter offer and is leaving Austin for Dallas, where the former TV reporter will be the news director at KERA, the public broadcasting outfit there. She'll be involved in radio, television and web stuff there.

The former CFO at Texas Southern University, Quentin Wiggins, was found guilty of misapplication of more than $200,000 and faces five to 99 years in prison as a result. Prosecutors said he allowed TSU money to be spent on former President PriscillaSlade's home. Her trial is scheduled for later this summer.

Meanwhile, TSU's regents all resigned, an exodus capped when the chair, Belinda Griffin, sent her resignation to Gov. Rick Perry. He had suggested putting the school into a conservatorship; now he and legislators are trying to find a way to take over and fix the school without threatening its accreditation.

Deaths: O. Roy Hurst, the president and executive director of the Texas Hospital Association for 30 years, starting in 1956. He was 82.