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 (167 Bills)
- Animal Rights and Wildlife Issues (109 Bills)
- Arts and Humanities (50 Bills)
- Budget, Spending, and Taxes (1371 Bills)
- Business and Consumers (433 Bills)
- Campaign Finance and Election Issues (425 Bills)
- Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (37 Bills)
- Commerce (699 Bills)
- Crime (1086 Bills)
- Drugs (0 Bills)
- Education (1203 Bills)
- Energy (256 Bills)
- Environmental (513 Bills)
- Executive Branch (251 Bills)
- Family and Children Issues (561 Bills)
- Federal, State, and Local Relations (5 Bills)
- Gambling and Gaming (27 Bills)
- Government Reform (0 Bills)
- Guns (58 Bills)
- Health (1204 Bills)
- Housing and Property (762 Bills)
- Immigration (180 Bills)
- Indigenous Peoples (15 Bills)
- Insurance (405 Bills)
- Judiciary (441 Bills)
- Labor and Employment (556 Bills)
- Legal Issues (634 Bills)
- Legislative Affairs (494 Bills)
- Military (208 Bills)
- Municipal and County Issues (877 Bills)
- Nominations (0 Bills)
- Other (1347 Bills)
- Public Services (1061 Bills)
- Recreation (107 Bills)
- Reproductive Issues (60 Bills)
- Resolutions (4727 Bills)
- Science and Medical Research (58 Bills)
- Senior Issues (154 Bills)
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Issues (29 Bills)
- Social Issues (108 Bills)
- State Agencies (1907 Bills)
- Technology and Communication (399 Bills)
- Trade (0 Bills)
- Transportation (783 Bills)
- Welfare and Poverty (52 Bills)