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These guides explain the process. They do not take sides on any candidate, party, or ballot question.
Voting in Texas
Who can register, the deadlines, the forms of ID the law accepts, and how early voting and voting by mail work.
How Texas Makes Laws
The House and Senate, the 140-day session, and each step a bill takes before it becomes law.
Amending the Texas Constitution
How the Legislature proposes an amendment and voters approve it, and how Texans have used that power since 1876.
Who Represents You
How to find your state legislators, reach their offices, follow a bill on Texas Legislature Online, and sign up to testify at a House committee hearing.
The Texas Bill of Rights
Article 1 of the Texas Constitution, section by section in plain language, and how it can be changed.
Local Government in Texas
Counties, cities, school districts, and special districts: what each one does and who elects whom.
Teaching with the Founding Documents
For grade 7 Texas History teachers: each founding document in the library matched to the TEKS student expectations it supports, with questions students can answer from the text.