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Texas Legislative Council created by the 51st Legislature in 1949, with its first organizational meeting held October 19, 1949, and staff beginning duties in spring 1950

Agency assumed bill-drafting responsibilities from the Office of the Attorney General starting with the 56th Regular Session in 1959, and began its permanent statutory revision program in 1963

Computer technology oversight began between the 62nd (1971) and 63rd (1973) Regular Sessions, with mainframe equipment installed at the State Capitol; information systems division is now the agency's largest

Robert E. Johnson served as executive director from 1963 to 1980; the Robert E. Johnson Building, completed in 2000, now houses the council and other legislative support agencies

Resolution adopted by the Texas House of Representatives on June 1, 2025, by non-record vote, commemorating the agency's 75 years of nonpartisan support to the Texas Legislature