Tuesday marked the first unofficial beginning of the next Texas legislative session — and already lawmakers have begun filing bills they hope to pass when the Legislature goes into session on Jan. 14.

Texas lawmakers began filing bills for next year’s legislative session on Tuesday, submitting a record-breaking 1,500 in the first filing period.

Lawmakers in the Texas House and Senate filed more than a thousand pieces of legislation Tuesday, offering an early look at the issues they hope to prioritize when they gavel in f

Read more Texas lawmakers broke a record Tuesday after they submitted more than 1,500 bills at the Capitol building on the first day of prefiling before the start of the 89th legislative session in January.

The majority came from Senators Bob Hall and Jose Menéndez, who each filed more than 60 bills on Tuesday. But their 2025 gender-related bills are rewrites and resubmissions of ones filed in 2023 that didn’t go far.

Some of the first bills filed this year targeted border security as Republicans look to bolster immigration enforcement under a new Trump administration.