Texas Legal Research: Free Online Resources

Provides a lot of useful information regarding the Texas Legislature, including bills, the bill status, and information about Texas senators and representatives. Also provides links to other resources such as the Texas Statutes, Constitution, and Administrative Code, as well as House and Senate links.

Official website of the Texas Senate.

Official website of the Texas House of Representatives.

Offers general information to help legislators, other state officials and employees, and interested citizens in researching the work of past legislatures and in tracking the progress of pending legislative measures during a session.

The Legislative Budget Board (LBB) is a permanent joint committee of the Texas Legislature that develops budget and policy recommendations for legislative appropriations for all agencies of state government. It also completes fiscal analysis for proposed legislation. This website provides helpful resources on budget and funding-related items.

Published every two years by the Legislative Budget Board. The Fact Book includes contact information for all members of Legislature, maps of the Legislative complex and statistics on population, state spending, and exports.

The TLRL serves the reference and research needs of the Legislature, its staff, and its committees. Whenever possible, the Library assists the public and other state agencies with legislative research. Their website provides electronic access to Bill-Chapter/Chapter-Bill Cross Reference Tables and the Index to Sections Affected.

A nonpartisan legislative agency that provides bill drafting, computing, research, publishing, and document distribution services to the Texas Legislature and the other legislative agencies. Offers online access to publications such as A Guide to Texas Legislative Information and The Texas Legislative Council Drafting Manual. Also has information regarding the on-going codification of statutes in Texas.