During and immediately after each legislative session, Thomson Reuters publishes Vernon’s Texas Session Law Service. These paperback volumes give complete texts, final vote totals, dates of approval, and effective dates for all acts and joint resolutions passed by the legislature. The first volume provides mailing addresses for members and lists the members of all standing committees. Each volume includes a subject index and tables that: (1) show where each applicable new session law is to be placed in the statutes; (2) identify which statutes were affected by the new session laws; (3) identify which uncodified previous session laws were affected by the new session laws; and (4) list each enacted bill and adopted joint resolution by number and cross-reference each one to its respective session law chapter. For ordering information, call Thomson Reuters at (800) 328-9352, or visit the company’s website.

The secretary of state’s office distributes the official bound volumes of the laws enacted during each session, titled General and Special Laws of the State of Texas. These session law volumes provide texts of all bills, joint resolutions, and concurrent resolutions that passed and the record of popular votes on all amendments proposed to the Texas Constitution from 1875 to the most recent election. For ordering information, call the secretary of state’s office at (512) 463-0872.

Session laws from 1836 to the present are available for use at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, and session laws from 1855 to the present are available for use in the Legislative Reference Library. The Legislative Reference Library also provides online access to tables cross-referencing bill numbers with session law chapters from the 19th Legislature (1885) to the present through its website. Session laws from the 1st to the 37th Legislatures (1846 to 1921), as published in Gammel's The Laws of Texas, are available in the Legislative Reference Library and can be accessed online on the website of the University of North Texas Libraries.