2025 Texas Legislature
The 89th regular session of the Texas Legislature begins January 14th, 2025, and runs through June 2nd, 2025. You can view a list below of housing-related bills that we will be updating and tracking throughout the session and more resources to help you navigate low-income housing in the 89th Legislature. You can find a list of our priorities here.
Recent #Lege25 updates and stories:
Texas Legislative District Housing Tool
Our new tool for 2025 allows any user to view the housing demography of their Texas House and Senate districts. We have provided all the information you need to use the District Housing Tool as well as an online and downloadable version here.
Housing Bill Tracker:
You can view an updating list of bills relevant to housing at the 89th Session in the Google Sheet here:
How to navigate the legislative process:
Note: These are external links. We are sharing these for informational purposes about the legislative process only. Texas Housers does not endorse any information or positions that may be found on these pages.
- Texas Legislature Online (TLO) – Official source of up-to-date information on bills, hearings, and other aspects of the legislative process
- How to navigate TLO (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4), by Representative Gina Hinojosa
- Who represents me?, Texas Legislature Online – How to identify your elected officials
- Legislative process
- Short version (visualization), the Texas Politics Project, University of Texas
- Long version (document), Texas Legislative Council
- Narrative version (FAQ), Texas Tribune
- Important dates, Texas Legislative Council
- Submit Written Testimony for
- House Bills (online)
- Senate Bills (in person) from Equality Texas.
- How to drop a card at the Capitol in Support or Opposition of a bill courtesy of Texas Appleseed
Check back often throughout session for updates and new resources. Please address any inquiries to Ben Martin, Research Director at Ben@texashousing.org