Texas law, as it stood on any date
A board's action is judged by the rules in force when it acted, not today's. This library keeps every Texas code and the Constitution, section by section, with each version and the date it took effect. Every review on this site checks its citations against the version in force on the date of the meeting.
For the Constitution, enter article.section, e.g. 3.52 for art. III §52.
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| Code | Chapters |
|---|---|
| Agriculture Code | 95 |
| Alcoholic Beverage Code | 62 |
| Business and Commerce Code | 134 |
| Business Organizations Code | 31 |
| Civil Practice and Remedies Code | 163 |
| Code of Criminal Procedure | 88 |
| Education Code | 115 |
| Election Code | 109 |
| Estates Code | 132 |
| Family Code | 82 |
| Finance Code | 100 |
| Government Code | 494 |
| Health and Safety Code | 390 |
| Human Resources Code | 62 |
| Insurance Code | 388 |
| Insurance Code - Not Codified | 5 |
| Labor Code | 83 |
| Local Government Code | 236 |
| Natural Resources Code | 60 |
| Occupations Code | 214 |
| Parks and Wildlife Code | 67 |
| Penal Code | 42 |
| Property Code | 97 |
| Special District Local Laws Code | 1328 |
| Tax Code | 56 |
| Transportation Code | 188 |
| Utilities Code | 64 |
| Water Code | 51 |
| Water Code - Auxiliary Laws | 3 |
| Vernon's Civil Statutes | 36 |
| Texas Constitution | 18 |
| Texas Administrative Code, Title 30 (TCEQ rules) | 97 |
| 17 CFR (SEC rules) | 1 |
| 26 CFR (Treasury tax rules) | 1 |
How it works
- Today's text comes from the Legislature's own file server, every code downloaded weekly. When a chapter changes, the new text of each section is kept as a new version. Nothing is overwritten.
- Earlier texts come from the Internet Archive's captures of the Legislature's statute pages, from 2018 on. They are added in the background, the chapters the reviews cite most first.
- When each version took effect is read from the section's own history note (for example "Amended by Acts 2023 … eff. September 1, 2023"). When the code shows two texts of one section, its "effective until" or "effective on" note is used.
- TCEQ's rules (30 TAC, every chapter) come from the Legal Information Institute's copy of the Texas Administrative Code, refreshed monthly; each rule's source note gives its amendment dates. Attorney General opinions (1983 on) are checked weekly, with the AG's own list of opinions overruled, modified or withdrawn. Federal bond rules (SEC Rules 15c2-12 and 10b-5, the municipal advisor rules, Treasury's tax-exempt bond rules) come from eCFR with every dated version.
- Limits. A text in force before the earliest archived capture can't be shown; the page says so. The official texts are the Legislature's, the Secretary of State's and eCFR's; this is a research copy.