Texas Administrative Code

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The Texas Administrative Code (TAC) is the official compilation of all state agency rules in Texas. Established by the Legislature in 1977 under the Administrative Code Act (Texas Government Code §§2002.051-2002.056), it organizes the regulatory power of the executive branch into 17 subject-based titles. Because these rules carry the force of law—dictating everything from environmental standards to educational requirements—the state is legally mandated by House Bill 2304 (1995) to provide the public with electronic access to the TAC at no charge. This requirement ensures that the "secret law" of bureaucracy is replaced by a transparent, accessible record available to every citizen.

While the Secretary of State provides a web-based viewing portal to satisfy this mandate, the current official interface is designed for human browsing rather than modern data analysis. By requiring email registration for downloads and limiting exports to fragmented sections, the existing system creates "friction" that hinders large-scale legal research and civic technology development. This extract exists to bridge that gap, transforming the state's public records into a truly open-data resource. By providing the full TAC in structured, machine-readable formats like JSON, XML, and USML, this project enables developers, researchers, and legal professionals to analyze the law programmatically without the administrative hurdles of manual scraping or identity disclosure.

Source: Texas Secretary of State