User:Jackspm10/sandbox

Sandbox Page for Jackspm10

Legislation[edit]
Pursuant to the state constitution, the Texas Legislature has enacted various laws, known as "chapter laws" or generically as "slip laws". These are published in the official General and Special Laws of the State of Texas as "session laws". Most of these statutes are codified.

The Texas Constitution requires the Texas Legislature to revise, digest, and publish the laws of the state; however, it has never done so regularly. In 1925 the Texas Legislature reorganized the statutes into three major divisions: the Revised Civil Statutes, Penal Code, and Code of Criminal Procedure. In 1963, the Texas legislature began a major revision of the 1925 Texas statutory classification scheme, and as of 1989 over half of the statutory law had been arranged under the recodification process.

The de facto codifications are Vernon's Texas Statutes Annotated and Vernon's Texas Codes Annotated, commonly known as Vernon's. The unannotated constitution, codes, and statutes can also be accessed online through a website of the Texas Legislative Council. Gammel's Laws of Texas contains relevant legislation from 1822-1897.

Most, but not all, Texas statutes have been codified in the following codes:


 * 1) Agriculture Code
 * 2) Alcoholic Beverage Code
 * 3) Business and Commerce Code
 * 4) Business Organizations Code
 * 5) Civil Practice and Remedies Code
 * 6) Code Of Criminal Procedure
 * 7) Education Code
 * 8) Election Code
 * 9) Estates Code
 * 10) Family Code
 * 11) Finance Code
 * 12) Government Code
 * 13) Health and Safety Code
 * 14) Human Resources Code
 * 15) Insurance Code
 * 16) Labor Code
 * 17) Local Government Code
 * 18) Natural Resources Code
 * 19) Occupations Code
 * 20) Parks and Wildlife Code
 * 21) Penal Code
 * 22) Property Code
 * 23) Special District Local Laws Code
 * 24) Tax Code
 * 25) Transportation Code
 * 26) Utilities Code
 * 27) Water Code

Law of Texas: Planned Edits
For this wikipedia page, I plan on creating child articles for each of the subsections of the Texas Codes that are listed in order on this page.

In each child article I hope to provide a broad explanation of what that Title seeks to legislate, possible histories and recorded changes to each section, and subsections for important codes and laws from each section in plain, easy to understand language with explanations of the implications these laws could have.

To do this I will be referencing the codes themselves, both the annotated and non annotated versions which are mentioned on the page, but are wholly inaccessible to just about everyone. I will also probably bring in outside sources such as court filings and decisions, Texas A&M Law's articles on the Texas Legislature and Statutes, and the University of Texas's materials on the subject as well.