Texas Lobbying + Public Policy
Move your priority through the Texas Legislature.
Legislative advocacy is how companies, associations, and organizations protect a position or advance an objective before the Texas Legislature, state agencies, and the executive branch.
GovExperts handles the work between a policy goal and a government decision: strategy, representation, bill and budget language, and follow-through after sine die.
Who This Is For
Four reasons organizations call.
If the Texas process can change your operations, funding, license, or market, the question is whether you have a plan for the next decision.
01
Advance a proposal
You need legislation, an amendment, or a budget provision that does not exist today.
02
Defend a position
A filed bill, committee substitute, or agency recommendation would raise cost, restrict practice, or close a market.
03
Secure or protect funding
Your priority lives in the General Appropriations Act, an exceptional item, or a related budget rider.
04
Shape implementation
Session ended. The next fight is rulemaking, guidance, licensing, or how an agency puts the law into practice.
Associations with member agendas use the same process. See Association Lobby Support.
2026–27 Calendar
Interim work decides what session can pass.
The 90th Regular Session is scheduled to convene January 12, 2027, and adjourn May 31, 2027. Bill pre-filing opens November 9, 2026.
Through December 2026, the Legislative Budget Board and the Governor’s Office of Budget, Planning and Policy review agency Legislative Appropriations Requests.
Waiting until opening day compresses filing, author work, committee strategy, and coalition building into a 140-day calendar. Most durable work starts in the interim.
What We Do
Legislative advocacy from strategy through implementation.
Access is not a strategy. Texas outcomes turn on policy substance, the political environment, process deadlines, and the people who can move or stop a file.
01 — Strategy
Legislative strategy
Define the objective. Map members, committees, agencies, and stakeholders. Set a path that matches the calendar and the risk.
02 — Representation
Lobbying and representation
Represent the client before the Legislature, state agencies, and executive-branch decision-makers. Meetings are scheduled against a written ask.
03 — Text
Policy and bill development
Turn the objective into workable text: bills, amendments, budget riders, and the materials members and staff actually use.
04 — Process
Legislative navigation
Manage the file through filing, referral, hearings, calendars, floor consideration, conference, and final action.
05 — Budget
Budget and appropriations
Develop and advocate funding priorities inside the state budget process, including exceptional items and related riders.
06 — Support
Coalitions and stakeholders
Identify allies and opposition. Prepare witnesses. Keep the ask consistent across the organizations that will be heard.
Our Approach
The same method used across the firm.
1 · Discover
Map the facts
Objective, decision-makers, and the political and budget facts that will govern the outcome.
2 · Strategize
Write the plan
Legislative, appropriations, or coalition work that fits the timeline and the risk.
3 · Engage
Work the file
Members, staff, agencies, and stakeholders who can move the priority.
4 · Deliver
Report and adjust
Status, progress, and changes when the calendar or the opposition shifts.
5 · Sustain
Stay after sine die
Implementation, rulemaking, and the next LAR cycle often decide what the statute does.
Policy Experience
Advocacy grounded in the underlying policy.
The argument has to survive contact with the program, the budget, and the agency that will administer the result.
Healthcare and life sciences
Healthcare delivery, Medicaid, public health, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, health professions, and access to care.
Technology and innovation
Information technology, cybersecurity, data policy, emerging technologies, telecommunications, and related agency practice.
Insurance and financial services
Insurance regulation, property and casualty markets, specialty lines, financial services, and related public policy.
Energy, infrastructure, and economic development
Energy and natural resources, infrastructure, economic development, incentives, and policies that affect investment in Texas.
Associations and professions
Issues affecting trade associations, professional societies, regulated professions, and their members. Related: Association Lobby Support.
Why GovExperts
Experience where policy, politics, and government intersect.
GovExperts and Caddo Associates combined in 2025. The firm works from Austin.
The team has worked in and around the Legislature, state leadership, agencies, associations, and client representation. Strategy is written against the process that will decide the file.
How Can GovExperts Help?
Legislative advocacy is one of three ways we work.
Legislation and advocacy
Bill work, committee strategy, floor coverage, and appropriations advocacy. You are on that page.
Public-sector business development
When the issue is also a customer problem: agency buyers, budget cycles, and procurement paths.
Explore public-sector business development →
Association programs and training
Member agendas, message discipline, and advocate preparation.
Association Lobby Support →
Advocacy Without Friction →
Intelligence + Perspective
More on legislative advocacy.
Lobbying
Why a Lobbyist
The role professional lobbyists play in strategy, relationships, and advancing a client interest.
Read the insight →
Hiring
Hiring a Texas Lobbyist This Year?
What organizations should weigh before engaging professional representation in Texas.
Read the insight →
Grassroots
Grassroots Lobbying
How to identify, prepare, and engage stakeholders without weakening the official ask.
Read the insight →
Before You Hire
Practical questions.
When should we hire, if session starts in January 2027?
Interim. Pre-filing, author work, committee relationships, and LAR review happen before opening day. Session is execution against a plan that already exists.
Do we need a registered lobbyist?
Direct communications with Texas legislative and executive-branch officials can trigger Texas Ethics Commission registration. That is a compliance question for the engagement. We address it at the outset.
What if we only need appropriations help?
Say so. Budget work has its own calendar, members, and work product. It still has to be coordinated with any related bill.
What if our issue is at an agency, not in a bill?
Say so. Rulemaking, licensing, guidance, and implementation often decide the real effect of a statute.
What happens on the first call?
We start with the objective, the deadline, and who else is already in the fight. Then we say whether representation is the right next step.
Let’s Talk
Your legislative advocacy strategy starts here.
Bring the objective, the constraint, and the date you have to be ready. GovExperts will tell you what the Texas process requires next.