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Texas State Web Sites
- State Agencies, Departments, Commissions, etc. (including Executive, Legislative, and Judicial offices)
Publications: Constitution, Laws, Rules & Regulations, etc.
- The Texas Constitution (Texas Legislature Online)
- This version reflects changes made by amendments approved by the voters on September 13, 2003.
- Also available online via RamPort in LexisNexis Academic > Legal Research > State Codes > Texas (for ASU only)
- Available in paper in the Reference Collection: Vernon's annotated Constitution of the State of Texas (Ref. KFT1230.A3 V43)
- Texas Administrative Code (via Secretary of State)
- Compilation of all state agency rules in Texas
- Available in paper in the Reference Collection: Official Texas administrative code. (Ref. KFT1235 1988 .A215)
- Texas Register
- State Rules and Open Meetings (via Secretary of State)
- Back issue archive (1991-current) (University of North Texas)
- The past 13 months also available in paper in the Reference Collection (Ref. KFT1235 .A2)
- Emergency, proposed, and adopted rules
- Notices of withdrawn and repealed rules
- Notices of rule review and other information submitted by state agencies for publication
- Open Meetings (via Secretary of State)
- Originally, notices of open meetings were published in the print version of the Texas Register. In November, 1998, these notices were removed from the print Texas Register and published through the Secretary of State's web site only.
- Text only version of Open Meetings, Texas Administrative Code, and Texas Register
- Texas Statutes (via Texas Legislative Council)
- Current through the third called session of the 78th Texas Legislature, 2003
- Also available online via RamPort in LexisNexis Academic > Legal Research > State Codes > Texas (for ASU only)
- Available in paper in the Reference Collection: Vernon's annotated Revised civil statutes of the state of Texas (Ref. KFT1230.A3 V4) and Vernon's Texas codes annotated (Ref. KFT1230.A3 V42)
- Texas State Publications Annual Index
- Texas State Library
- Index to Texas government documents, 1994-2003
- Also available in paper in the Documents/Reference Collection in the Reference Room: Docs/Ref. Z1223.5 .T47
General Texas Information
- Texas Online
- The mission of TexasOnline is to provide a single point of access to Texas Government information and services that is: secure, convenient, efficient, customer service-oriented, and accessible.
- Texas in Focus: A Statewide View of Opportunities (January 17, 2008) [PDF]
- Texas, Where We Stand: Comparative Facts and Figures about the Lone Star State (April 2003)
- Texas, Where We Stand: Major Challenges Facing Texas Education Today (February 2006) [PDF]
Executive Branch
- "The Executive Department of the State shall consist of a Governor, who shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the State, a Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Commissioner of the General Land Office, and Attorney General." (Texas Constitution. Art. 4. Sec. 1. Amended Nov. 7, 1995.)
- Office of the Governor
- Office of the Lieutenant Governor
- Office of the Secretary of State
- Comptroller of Public Accounts ("Window on State Government")
- General Land Office
- Attorney General of Texas
Legislative Branch
- "The Legislative power of this State shall be vested in a Senate and House of Representatives, which together shall be styled 'The Legislature of the State of Texas.'" (Texas Constitution. Art. 3. Sec. 1)
- Texas Senate
- Texas House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House
- House Research Organization
- An independent administrative department of the Texas House of Representatives and a nonpartisan source of impartial information on legislation and issues considered by the Texas Legislature
- Floor reports, focus reports, bill analyses, constitutional amendment analyses
- "All publications" includes links to online versions of HRO documents and indexes to all publications
- Texas State Auditor's Office
- The SAO is one of five legislative support agencies. It operates under the oversight of the Legislative Audit Committee, chaired jointly by the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. (Mission)
- Legislative Budget Board
- Appropriations Bills Archives
- Legislative Budget Estimates
- Texas Budget Source
- The Legislative Budget Board (LBB) developed the Texas Budget Source (TBS), a report generator, to provide the general public information on the Texas state budget. TBS extracts its data from the LBB’s Automated Budget and Evaluation System of Texas (ABEST). Users may generate budget reports for a specific state agency. They may also generate reports organized by the articles of the General Appropriations Bill. In either case, users choose the legislative biennium, e.g. 2002-2003, the report type (which identifies a particular stage of the General Appropriations Bill), and the data view (the actual title of the report). A Help button is available on the request screen for a quick guide to navigating the screen and viewing, printing, and downloading reports.
- The first time you run a Texas Budget Source report on your workstation, you will be asked to download Crystal Report Viewer. This may take a few moments if you have a modem connection to the Internet. Minimum requirement for viewing these reports is Internet Explorer 5.0.
- Legislative Reference Library of Texas
- Texas Ethics Commission
- The Texas Ethics Commission serves as a repository of required disclosure statements for state officials, candidates, political committees, and lobbyists and consequently, serves as a clearinghouse of information for public and press inquiries.
- Texas Ethics Reporter
- From the University of Houston Law Center
- Links to other Texas legal ethics materials are available on the Legal Information Institute site (Cornell University
- Texas Legislative Council
- The Texas Legislative Council provides bill drafting, computing, research, publishing, and document distribution services to the Texas Legislature and legislative agencies.
- Texas Legislature Online
- Provided by the Texas Legislative Council
- Who represents me?
- "Who Represents Me" provides information about current districts and members of the Texas Senate, Texas House of Representatives, the Texas delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives, and the State Board of Education.
- Legislative Process
- General (Legislative) Reports -- Includes links to reports for the 71st (1989)-79th(2005-20060 Legislatures
- "How to Follow a Bill Using TLO"
- Legislation
- Bill status; bill lists by Author, Committee, and Subject
- Search bills by bill number, subject, author, committee, or keyword
- MyTLO
- The MyTLO section of the Texas Legislature Online website offers personalized viewing of legislative content, including Bill Lists, Bill Alerts, Other Alerts, and RSS feeds for legislative content. Some of these services require registration, but are free of charge.
- Texas Redistricting
- Provided by the Texas Legislative Council
- Available maps
- Sunset Advisory Commission
- Sunset is the regular assessment by the Legislature of the continuing need for a state agency to exist. While most oversight is concerned with agency compliance with legislative policies, Sunset asks a more basic question: Do the agency's functions continue to be needed?
Judicial Branch
- "The judicial power of this State shall be vested in one Supreme Court, in one Court of Criminal Appeals, in Courts of Appeals, in District Courts, in County Courts, in Commissioners Courts, in Courts of Justices of the Peace, and in such other courts as may be provided by law. The Legislature may establish such other courts as it may deem necessary and prescribe the jurisdiction and organization thereof, and may conform the jurisdiction of the district and other inferior courts thereto." (Texas Constitution. Art. 5. Sec. 1. Amended Aug. 11, 1891, Nov. 8, 1977, and Nov. 4, 1980.)
- Attorney General of Texas
- Texas Courts Online (formerly: Texas Judiciary Online)
- Supreme Court of Texas
- Courts of Appeals (Texas Courts Online)
- 1st Court of Appeals Online (Houston)
- 2nd Court of Appeals (Fort Worth)
- 3rd Court of Appeals Online (Austin)
- 4th Court of Appeals Online (San Antonio)
- 5th Court of Appeals (via CourtStuff.com) (Dallas)
- 6th Court of Appeals Online (Texarkana)
- 7th Court of Appeals Online (Amarillo)
- 8th Court of Appeals Online (El Paso)
- 9th Court of Appeals Online (Beaumont)
- 10th Court of Appeals (Waco)
- 11th Court of Appeals Online (Eastland)
- 12th Court of Appeals Online (Tyler)
- 13th Court of Appeals Online (Corpus Christi)
- 14th Court of Appeals Online(Houston)
- Court of Criminal Appeals (Texas Courts Online)
- Texas Trial Courts
- Office of Court Administration
- State Bar of Texas
- State Commission on Judicial Conduct
- Texas Board of Law Examiners
- Texas Judicial Council
- Texas State Law Library
Other Texas Resources
- Texas State Data Center and Office of the State Demographer
- The SDCs are official sources of demographic, economic, and social statistics produced by the Census Bureau. These data are made available by the Census Bureau to the SDCs at no charge (fees may be charged for customized products). The SDCs make these data accessible to state, regional, local and tribal governments, and non-governmental data users at no charge or on a cost-recovery or reimbursable basis as appropriate.
- County Information Project (Texas Association of Counties. Online Resources. County Data)
- Serves as a central source for county data
- Texas County Highway Maps
- The General Libraries and the Geography Department at The University of Texas at Austin
- Electronic State Business Daily (Texas Building and Procurement Commission) (moved to Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, as of Sept. 4, 2007)
- Texas state agencies post large procurement opportunities in one online location
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Compiled/Revised: February 2008, by Janetta Paschal,
Government Documents/Reference Librarian