The 88th Texas Legislature will convene in January 2023 and is expected to consider legislation on a wide range of issues with a direct impact on municipal government in general and on Lewisville in particular.

Lewisville City Council adopted its 2023 Legislative Agenda on Dec. 19, 2022, setting the city’s priorities and key issues for the legislative session.

Legislative priorities are divided into seven main categories: Local Authority, Local Revenue, Parks Funding, Public Safety, Social Equity, Transportation, and Water. The common theme to all seven categories is Lewisville’s belief that cities are the level of government most connected to, and thus most accountable to, the people they serve; as a result, the state should recognize and preserve local authority and support cities in their mission of providing quality local services to all Texans.

Within each broad Legislative Agenda topic, there is a list giving the city’s position on multiple sub-topics, some of them very specific to legislation filed for this session or in previous sessions. Because the legislative priorities are represented by seven main topics, there is flexibility to allow emerging legislative issues to be addressed through one or more of those topics.

Updates were posted throughout the 2023 legislative session, including all correspondence or committee testimony submitted by City officials related to bills or legislative issues.