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The government of Texas operates under the Constitution of Texas and consists of a unitary democratic state government operating under a ... Texas.gov official website;
Official Website The head of the General Land Office is the Texas Land Commissioner, a statewide public official. Since a 1972 constitutional amendment , Texas state-wide officers–including the Commissioner–have been elected every four years, prior to which they were elected every two years.
Texas Council on Competitive Government; Texas County and District Retirement System; Texas Court of Appeals; Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; Texas Credit Union ...
The governor of Texas is the head of the state government of Texas and is the highest elected official in the state. The governor is the leader of the executive and legislative branches of the state government and is the commander in chief of the Texas Military. The current governor is Greg Abbott, who took office in 2015.
In 1931, during the Great Depression, Texas and other states created a movement that sought to "reform the administrative machinery, and to reduce the high cost of state government." [ 4 ] The Texas Legislature enrolled Griffenhagen and Associates, "specialists in public administration and finance who had worked on similar projects throughout ...
Stanley K. Young, Texas Legislative Handbook (1973). Univ. of Tex., The Legislative Branch in Texas Politics, (last accessed Oct. 8, 2006) (stating that "The Texas Legislature is the most powerful of the three main branches of government[,]" primarily because it is "less weak than the other branches"). See also: Texas Government Newsletter
In Texas, there are two forms of municipal government: general-law and home-rule. A general-law municipality has no charter and is limited to the specific powers granted by the general laws of the state. Home-rule municipalities have a charter and derive the "full power of local self-government" [6] from the Constitution of Texas. A general-law ...
Texas Aeronautics Commission; Texas Civil Service Testing; Texas Commission on Law Enforcement; Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts; Texas Government Newsletter; Texas Open Beaches Act; Texas Senate; Texas Task Force 2 Urban Search & Rescue; Texas Tax Code Chapter 313; Texas Tax Reform Commission; Texas Water Development Board