What a bill page gives you. A plain-English account of what the law does, written from the bill’s own final text — then, underneath it, every change anyone tried to make on the floor: who offered it, what it would have done, and whether it was adopted, set aside, or voted down. Every record vote is listed with the tally from the House Journal or Senate Journal, and every claim links back to the document it came from.
What is here so far. Session by session — how many bills the governor signed into law, how many constitutional amendments went to the voters, how many bills were vetoed, and how many of them are written up here:
| Session | Became lawLaw | Amendments to votersTo voters | Vetoed | Written up hereWritten up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 89th Legislature | 1,138 | 18 | 26 | 1,161 |
| 2023 88th Legislature | 965 | 13 | 58 | 977 |
| 2021 87th Legislature | 826 | 8 | 17 | 834 |
| 2013 83rd Legislature | 875 | 10 | 23 | 885 |
| 2011 82nd Legislature | 932 | 11 | 20 | 942 |
4,799 measures have written pages here, and more are added in batches — the biggest fights of the sessions alongside small laws that passed almost unnoticed, and a few that cleared both chambers and were vetoed. Every record vote on every measure of the sessions is already on this site, on the legislators’ own pages — what is being added here, one measure at a time, is the account of what each one actually does. The record votes of the 2009, 2015, 2017 and 2019 regular sessions and of every called session are on the legislators’ pages as well; their bills are not written up yet.
A word on the summaries. They are restatements, not the official language. Where a bill page says what a law does, the linked text at capitol.texas.gov is what governs — and it is one click away on every page.
Sources. Bill text and amendment records from capitol.texas.gov; vote tallies from the House and Senate Journals — the same records every vote on this site comes from.
Everything here comes from the official record: the Texas House and Senate Journals, capitol.texas.gov, lrl.texas.gov and the Attorney General’s own published index.
No ratings, no report cards, no spin. Arithmetic on the record and nothing more — readers draw their own conclusions.
Every vote links to the journal page it came from, and every opinion links to the Attorney General’s official PDF.
Where the record is incomplete — voice votes, missing tallies, garbled scans — the site says so plainly instead of papering over it.