Texas Issues
The Texas Legislature officially assigns bill subjects to legislation, but not in a way that's easy to understand. To make this bill-to-issue system more accessible, our legislative data source the Open States Project has re-assigned individual bills to one of 44 master issue areas below.
Issue Areas
- Agriculture and Food (168 Bills)
- Animal Rights and Wildlife Issues (99 Bills)
- Arts and Humanities (46 Bills)
- Budget, Spending, and Taxes (1595 Bills)
- Business and Consumers (577 Bills)
- Campaign Finance and Election Issues (430 Bills)
- Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (38 Bills)
- Commerce (1009 Bills)
- Crime (1198 Bills)
- Drugs (0 Bills)
- Education (1492 Bills)
- Energy (436 Bills)
- Environmental (667 Bills)
- Executive Branch (215 Bills)
- Family and Children Issues (708 Bills)
- Federal, State, and Local Relations (5 Bills)
- Gambling and Gaming (37 Bills)
- Government Reform (0 Bills)
- Guns (69 Bills)
- Health (1551 Bills)
- Housing and Property (941 Bills)
- Immigration (153 Bills)
- Indigenous Peoples (21 Bills)
- Insurance (498 Bills)
- Judiciary (474 Bills)
- Labor and Employment (696 Bills)
- Legal Issues (767 Bills)
- Legislative Affairs (481 Bills)
- Military (195 Bills)
- Municipal and County Issues (1109 Bills)
- Nominations (0 Bills)
- Other (1931 Bills)
- Public Services (1443 Bills)
- Recreation (138 Bills)
- Reproductive Issues (38 Bills)
- Resolutions (4732 Bills)
- Science and Medical Research (97 Bills)
- Senior Issues (206 Bills)
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Issues (29 Bills)
- Social Issues (150 Bills)
- State Agencies (2086 Bills)
- Technology and Communication (431 Bills)
- Trade (0 Bills)
- Transportation (955 Bills)
- Welfare and Poverty (65 Bills)