Researching Texas Law

Chapter 7 of Researching Texas Law (133-34) provides a brief summary of how to locate municipal codes in several Texas cities.  The best sites for locating these codes are below:
Municode, Online Library
Municode is by far the most thorough source for municipal codes. It contains the full text of codes for dozens of Texas cities, large [...]

Chapter 3 of Researching Texas Law includes URLs for many of the sources for Texas rules of court. Many of these rules are easy to locate. Here are two links that provide access to most of the rules:
Supreme Court of Texas
The site of the Supreme Court of Texas provides access to most of the rules [...]

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Consider these:
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Rule 18.4 of the Greenbook (11th ed. 2006) uses the following as an example for citing to a form book:
4 Texas Jurisprudence Pleading and Practice Forms § 74:4 (Lawyers Coop. Publ’g ed., 2d ed. 1993).
To say the least, this citation form is fraught with problems, including:
(1) The title page of the books says Texas Jurisprudence [...]

The Texas Legislature convened for its first day on Tuesday, January 13.
Here are the key dates in 2009 related to this legislative session.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 (1st day)
81st Legislature convenes at noon
Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 301.001 (Vernon 2005).
Friday, March 13, 2009 (60th day)
Deadline for filing bills and joint resolutions other than local bills, emergency [...]

In Chapter 9 of Researching Texas Law (pp. 194-95), we discuss briefly the TAC Titles Affected Inquiry System. This tool has been removed from the Secretary of State’s website, and the web address that we provide on page 194 is no longer functional.
To update the Texas Administrative Code online, follow the steps below:
Assume for purposes [...]

On pages 126-127 of Researching Texas Law, we discuss the revised Texas statutes that were approved by the Texas Legislature in 1879, 1895, 1911, and 1925.  The revised civil statutes are available in a variety of old print resources and are now available through the website of the Texas State Law Library.
Here are the links [...]

In Texas, researchers are often required to consult session laws not only for historical purposes but also for citation purposes.This usually occurs when a researcher wants to cite to an older Texas statute on point. For many years, Texas statutes were organized as articles in the Texas Revised Civil Statutes and published as part of [...]

This post supplements information found in Chapter 8 of Researching Texas Law.
Electronic availability of many types of legislative materials in Texas has generally been limited to documents produced from 1995 onward. The most easily accessible location for documents produced since the 74th Legislature convened in 1995 is Texas Legislature Online. From this website, [...]

The tutorial below focuses on how to locate and to cite to an opinion issued by the Texas Attorney General.

The Attorney General’s website has more information about these opinions and how to locate them.
Chapter 10 of Researching Texas Law also cover the subject of how to research Texas Attorneys General opinions.