This page contains links to Texas legislative, judicial, governmental, and business information. It is divided into six sections: Agency and Legislature Information; Codes, Statutes, and Legislation; Decisions, Opinions, and Judicial Information; Legal Aids; Legal Research Aids; and Business Information. The Fast Access Table of Contents [below] contains clickable links to each of the six sections.
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Agency and Legislature Information | Codes, Statutes, and Legislation Decisions, Opinions, and Judicial Information | Legal Aids Legal Research Aids | Business Information |
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR STATE OF TEXAS GOVERNMENT INFORMATION TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TEXAS LEGISLATURE ONLINE THE TEXAS SENATE TEXAS STATE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY WINDOW ON STATE GOVERNMENT CONSTITUTION OF TEXAS GALLERY WATCH MUNICIPAL CODES ONLINE REAL ESTATE MATERIAL TEXAS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE TEXAS ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE ACT TEXAS LEGISLATIVE SERVICE TEXAS LEGISLATURE ONLINE TEXAS OPEN GOVERNMENT TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT TEXAS OPEN RECORDS ACT TEXAS PROBATE WEBSITE THE TEXAS REGISTER TEXAS STATUTES ETHICS ADVISORY OPINIONS NOELKE LAW AND PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTER - AG OPINIONS NOELKE LAW AND PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTER - SC OPINIONS OPINIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS OPINIONS OF THE TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS OF THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS SMARTLINE - COURT RECORDS TEXAS APPELLATE COURT CASES TEXAS CENTER FOR LEGAL ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM TEXAS CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT & JUDICIAL ETHICS OPINIONS TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH DISTRICT TEXAS DISCOVERY RULES TEXAS ETHICS REPORTER TEXAS JUDICIAL DIRECTORY ONLINE TEXAS JUDICIARY ONLINE TEXAS RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE TEXAS RULES OF CIVIL EVIDENCE TEXAS RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE TEXAS RULES OF CRIMINAL EVIDENCE TEXAS RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE U.S. COURTS - EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS U.S. COURTS - NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS U.S. COURTS - SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DENTON COUNTY JUSTICE INFORMATION SYSTEM PUBLICDATA.COM STATE BAR OF TEXAS TEXAS BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS TEXAS CONVICTIONS RECORDS DATABASE TEXAS COUNTY MAPS TEXAS LAW ORGANIZATIONS RESOURCE CENTER TEXAS LAWYERS CENTER ONLINE TEXAS LAWYER'S TEXLAW TEXAS LEGAL AND BUSINESS FORMS TEXAS LEGAL SERVICES CENTER TEXAS SEARCH GUIDE TO TEXAS LAW LEXIS-NEXIS XCHANGE TEXAS LEGAL.COM TEXAS LEGAL RESEARCH INDEX TEXAS LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE LIBRARY WESTLAW
(Official website of the Texas Governor; features information about the governor's speeches, major initiatives, appointments, and legislative information, including a legislative process guide)
(Agency Information, County and City Information, General Services Commission's Catalog, links to many other Texas sites; from the Texas Department of Information Resources)
(Detailed information about the Texas House of Representatives, including committee memberships, directory information, legislation, RealAudio of committee meetings, etc.)
(Official website of the Texas Legislature; features the Texas Statutes in full-text, information about prefiled bills, versions of bills, legislation, bill history with search functions, committee schedules and membership, and House and Senate calendars. A new capability offers live video of the House of Representatives and Senate chambers while they are in session.)
(Information about the Texas Senate, its members and committees, the 74th Legislature, and the Lieutenant Governor's Office; from the Texas Senate)
(Includes links to Texas State Government websites, the Library Catalog of Texas State Agencies, Texas State Archives information, and information about Texas Cities, Counties, Libraries, etc.; from the Texas State Library)
(Wide selection of Texas government information, with an emphasis on economic and state fiscal data; from John Sharp, Texas Comptroller)
(The Texas Constitution, in full text; accessible by article; from Texas Legislature Online)
(On-Line Legislative Tracking Service for Texas; fee-based; also offers a legislative clipping service)
(Compilation of links to U.S. municipal codes; arranged by state/city; from the Seattle Public Library. Texas municipal codes are available for Austin, Baytown, Bedford, Brownwood, Bryan, Colleyville, Copperas Cove, Corpus Christi, Dickinson, Early, El Paso, Fort Worth, Friendswood, Grand Prairie, Hereford, Houston, Irving, Laredo, McAllen, McKinney, Pampa, Pasadena, Rosenberg, San Antonio, San Marcos, Seabrook, Southlake, Sugar Land, Texas City, Victoria, Waco, and Webster)
(Texas real estate information, such as a Contract for Deed's Two Closings Table, Texas' Home Solicitation Transactions Act, Underground Easements Notices, Roll Back Tax Notice, and Seller's Residential Disclosure Notice; many are in zipped format, for Wordperfect 5.1; from the Law Offices of Anderson & Anderson)
(Access to the full-text of the Texas Administrative Code [state rules and regulations]; arranged by title; from the Office of the Secretary of State)
(Full-text access to the Texas Administrative Procedure and Practice Act, which is Chapter 2001 of the Texas Government Code in the Texas Statutes; from the State Bar of Texas Administrative and Public Law Section)
(Fee-based online legislative bill tracking service for Texas; bills are accessible by author, subject, or committee, and searchable by word or phrase; site also features access to committee hearings, record votes, calendars, reports, campaign finance, Texas Weekly, and the Washington Weekly Report from Congressional Quarterly)
(Official website of the Texas Legislature; features the Texas Statutes in full-text, information about prefiled bills, versions of bills, legislation, bill history with search functions, committee schedules and membership, and House and Senate calendars. A new capability offers live video of the House of Representatives and Senate chambers while they are in session.)
(Full-text access to the Texas Open Records Act, the Texas Open Meetings, Act, the Texas Open Records Handbook, the Texas Open Meetings Handbook the Administrative Procedures Act, and the Attorney General's Administrative Law Handbook; from the Office of the Attorney General)
(Full-text access to the Texas Open Meetings Act, which is Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code in the Texas Statutes; from the State Bar of Texas Administrative and Public Law Section)
(Full-text access to the Texas Open Records Act, which is Chapter 552 of the Texas Government Code in the Texas Statutes; from the State Bar of Texas Administrative and Public Law Section)
(Intended for Texas attorneys; resources about probate, estate planning, trusts, fiduciary litigation, and elder law; from Barnes & Karish, P.C.)
(Full-text access to the Texas Register; site offers separate access for the current issue and past issues, beginning with the 1/2/96 issue; no tables or graphics; from the Office of the Secretary of State)
(The Texas Statutes, in full-text; browsable by code, title/subtitle, chapter, and section, or by code in its entirety in ASCII format; current through the 74th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature, 1995; jointly maintained by the Texas Legislative Council and West Publishing Company; from Texas Legislature Online)
(The Texas Ethics Commission's Ethics Advisory Opinions, in full-text; searchable by text string, or retrievable by number)
(A free non-commercial email notification of all new Texas Attorney General opinions. Subscribers receive notification of each opinion via email when the opinion is published on the web, with a general description of the legal issue, and the web site
address where the opinion is located in full-text)
(A free non-commercial email notification of all new Texas Supreme Court opinions. Subscribers receive notification of each opinion via email when the opinion is published on the web, with a general description of the opinion, and the web site address where the opinion can be retrieved in full-text)
(Full-text opinions and orders of the Supreme Court of Texas; updated weekly; downloadable in pkzip format [orders are in WP 5.1 format]; 1997 opinions accessible through a separate link; from the Supreme Court of Texas)
(The Index to Opinions link on this website contains AG Opinions from 1939-1943 and 1947-Present, AG Letter Advisory Opinions from January 1953-Present, and AG Open Records Decisions from July 1973-Present, arranged by name of Attorney General; in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) or HTML format; from the Office of the Attorney General)
(Opinions of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, since 7/15/98; Hand-Down List and Issues are also available; in Wordperfect 7.0/7.1 format; from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals)
(Fee-based access to Austin area [Travis, Hays, Williamson, and Bastrop counties] and Dallas area civil and criminal court records, since 1988 or 1990; from the Austin American-Statesman)
(Search engine for locating and accessing Texas appellate court cases; search by case number, type, trial court name & style, number and county; from Texas Judiciary Online)
("Resources" section includes access to the Supreme Court Professional Ethics Committee Opinions [1 - Present] with Subject and Source Indexes and a Table of Opinions, a guide to the basics of law practice, a bibliography of professionalism/ethics topics, Texas Bar Journal articles, law review articles, and Texas cases cites and pertinent points of law)
(Full-text of Texas Code of Judicial Conduct, accessible by canon; judicial ethics opinions are from number 1 (issued in 1973) to present, and are accessible by number; from Texas Judiciary Online)
(Opinions of the Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas) from 1981 to Present, from the Court Case Management System; searchable by keyword, case information, or case/attorney information; includes a list of recent opinions and links to other court web sites)
(Guide to the 1999 Discovery Rules Revisions; in Wordperfect 6.0 or 7.0 or HTML format; from the Texas Judicial Server)
(Offers access to the Texas Ethics Opinions in full-text [accessible by subject or number], canons, disciplinary rules, the Rules of Professional Conduct, disciplinary actions, lawyer's creed, the Code of Judicial Conduct, Judicial Ethics Opinions by Number in full-text, Procedural Rules for the Removal or Retirement of Judges, and information on filing a complaint on a Texas Judge; from the University of Houston Law Center)
(Search engine for locating personnel in Texas trial, district, county, justice of the peace, and municipal courts; search by type of court, name of court, and county, or by last name of judicial professional; from Texas Judicial Online)
(Information about the Texas Supreme Court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the Texas Courts of Appeals, and the Texas Trial Courts.)
(Full-text access to the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure; accessible by section/rule number or searchable by keyword; includes disposition and derivation tables; from the Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District)
(Full-text access to the Texas Rules of Civil Evidence, effective 3/1/98; from the Supreme Court of Texas)
(Full-text access to the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, including amendments through February 15, 1995; from the State Bar of Texas Administrative and Public Law Section)
(Full-text access to the Texas Rules of Criminal Evidence; arranged by article, then rule number; from the Jamail Center for Legal Research, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin)
(Procedural rules for Administrative Hearings; accessible by chapter and article or downloadable in Wordperfect format; divided into rules prior to 1/2/98 and after 1/2/98; from the State Office of Administrative Hearings)
(Includes a district map, PACER Information, Important telephone numbers, and a documents section which includes General Orders and Local Rules)
(Includes Local Rules as of 4/15/98, the 1998 Attorney Handbook, a description of court services, statistical information, notable cases, and public notices)
(Information about the District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern District of Texas; includes local rules, jury service information, information on admission to the Southern District of Texas Bar, a description of the Public Access to Court Electronic Records [PACER] fee-based system, information on the court's noticing by fax program and court reporting services rate information, and maps to divisional offices)
(Conduct searches of Denton County's criminal and civil judicial records [since 1988] and Sheriff's Bond and Jail Records; from Denton County, Texas)
(Fee-based; contains seven searchable databases - TexasDriverSearch, which contains Texas Driver's License Information [searchable by name or number]; TexasTagSearch, which contains Texas License Plates Information [owner information; searchable by plate number]; TexasParoleSystemSearch, a database of paroled convicts from the Texas Dept. of Corrections; TexasVoterSearch, a registered voter roll database - with electoral information on each voter - for the entire state of Texas; TexasTravisCriminalSearch, a database of disposed criminal misdemeanor records since 1988 and felony records since 1992 in Travis County; TexasDallasCriminalSearch, a database of criminal records by name in Dallas County since 1980; and TexasSexOffenderSearch, a database of registered sex offenders in Texas [searchable by name or zip code])
(Includes information about the State Bar of Texas' committees, sections and divisions, publications, Continuing Legal Education [CLE] seminars, ethics/grievances, courts, and member services)
(Includes information on obtaining copies of birth and death certificates, verification of marriage and divorce, and the Central Adoption Registry)
(Fee-based; registration required; searchable database of convictions records from the Texas Department of Public Safety)
(County Maps of Texas, issued by the Texas Dept. of Transportation; downloadable; accessible by county & sheet number or clickable zoom-in map; from the General Libraries and Geography Department at The University of Texas at Austin)
(Links to a variety of Texas legal information; "Professional Interest" section includes directory information for Clerks of the Texas Courts and a Texas CLE Calendar)
(Legal directory for Texas; locate attorneys/law firms alphabetically by name or practice area; divided into Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Statewide [other cities]; includes links to legal products/services and resources)
(Legal news and information for Texas lawyers and clients; includes memoranda, books, classifieds, a guide to Texas courts and lawyers, and an MCLE calendar)
(A compilation of links to indices and sources of Texas legal and business forms)
(Goal is to provide assistance to the poverty law advocate and client community; includes an email directory for legal aid and services offices personnel in Texas, links to legal services and resources support websites, and links to Federal and Texas legal research resources)
(Locate businesses, government agencies, and people in Texas; search by business name or keyword, department/agency, last name, last/first name, city; from Texas Monthly)
(Definitions, explanations, and details of the legal processes involved with various legal topics and specializations under Texas law, in layperson's terminology; includes profiles of leading Texas attorneys according to specialization; from Leading American Attorneys)
(Web-based version of LEXIS-NEXIS; hundreds of databases for conducting legal research; fee-based)
(Over 10,000 links to legal information on the Web, with an emphasis on Texas law)
(Focuses on the specifics of conducting legal research using Texas source materials, with lengthy explanations of historical background/content of major sources; includes a section containing a vast compilation of links to Texas Legal Research Internet Sites; from Lydia Brandt of The Brandt Law Firm)
(Includes detailed information concerning the library's resources, a lengthy section describing how to compile legislative intent, an explanation of how a Texas bill becomes law, statistical information about the Texas Legislature, Chief Elected Officials of the 75th Legislature, and links to other Texas legal resources)
(Web-based version of Westlaw; hundreds of databases for conducting legal research; fee-based; from the West Group)
TEXAS BUSINESS AND POLITICS
(Access to Hoover's Guide to Top Texas Companies; search engine enables keyword searching of entire database, or access the listings alphabetically or by metro area; from Texas Monthly Magazine and The Reference Press)
TEXAS LEGAL AND BUSINESS FORMS INDICES AND SOURCES
(A new page on Sue Fawcett's Texas Resources site; a compilation of links to indices and sources of Texas legal and business forms)
TEXAS MARKETPLACE
(Vast selection of Texas business information, including a state business directory; from the Texas Department of Commerce)