Texas Legal Research: Free Online Resources

Provided through the Texas Secretary of State’s office, this website provides an alphabetical listing of all Texas Codes, available in pdf and Word format. Exact word search and topic search are available.

This website is useful for bill tracking. For bills introduced in and after the 71st legislature in 1989, you can search by bill chamber, bill type, author, sponsor, committee, subjects, and actions.

Provided through the Legislative Reference Library of Texas, this website helps you determine whether a new bill has affected or will affect sections of the Texas Statutes and learn the status of the related bill. Searchable by bill number or code section.

Provided through the Texas Secretary of State’s office, the Texas Administrative Code (TAC) is a compilation of all state agency rules in Texas.

Provided through the Texas Secretary of State’s office. Published weekly, this website publishes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. The current issue and several previous issues are available in pdf.

Issues of the Texas Register starting with the first issue, Volume 1, No. 1 (January 6, 1976) to the present. In PDF.