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Tools for bloggers tracking the Texas Lege and reasons why they should

With the 81st Texas legislative session full upon us, I wanted to point readers (and especially, readers with blogs) to free online tools available for tracking bills at the Texas Legislature.Once the legislative session gets going, you can get most of the information you need to track what's happening (if not always as quickly as you'd like it) from the capitol website, including the House and Senate websites, which collectively are so robust and useful I consider them a true state treasure. This allows nearly the same access to information as is available to those actually attending public hearings, including online posting for most events and real time and archived video of committee hearings and floor debates.A good way to specialize is to to track the agendas and watch the hearings for the handful of committees covering some particular issue area from week to week - in my case, criminal justice, but you could do similar things on healthcare or schools or beer distribution or whatever you're interested in...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 16, 2009 (boomark / email).