Texas Tribune reporter Matt Stiles officially departed to become the data reporting coordinator for NPR's Impact of Government project.

Sen. Mike Jackson, R-Lake Jackson, was elected president pro tempore of the Senate.

The Lone Star Report, after 15 years of publication, will cease publication this summer.

Gov. Rick Perry appointed three members to the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists.Rick Bruhn of Huntsville is a professor of counselor education at Sam Houston State University. George Francis IV of Georgetown is director of Global Configuration Services Delivery for Dell Inc. Sean Stokes of Denton is an assistant professor in the Texas Wesleyan University Graduate Counseling Program.

Perry also appointed James “Mike” DeLoach of Littlefield to the Advisory Council on Emergency Medical Services. DeLoach is the Lamb County judge.

Deaths: Former Gov. Bill Clements, a brash Dallas oilman who surprised Democrats and not a few Republicans by winning the governorship in 1978. He lost in '82, got it back in '86, and appointed or hired an astonishing number of the Republicans who run the state today, forging the way for the GOP takeover of state politics that was complete, more or less, by the mid-1990s. Clements suffered a stroke last year and had been ill. He was 94.