Resolutions, reports and briefs
Everything we have written for the party and for the Legislature, in one place and free to use. Find a resolution by committee or by topic, download it, adapt it, and bring it to your precinct, county, or senatorial district convention or your county executive committee. Keep the attribution line. How to write and file a resolution is in Module 4.
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Flock / ALPR packet: everything in one download
The county resolution, how-to, SREC transmittal, talking points, legislator letter, cover letter to other chairs, the Rusk County resolution as adopted, and the starter records request. Word and PDF.
Reports and briefs delivered to Texas officials
Posted exactly as sent. The dates, recipients, and replies are on Docs & hearings, with the hearing calendar and how to comment.
- The Best Interest of the Child: full report (302 pp.). Sent 8 Oct 2026 to the Texas Commission on Marriage and Family; staff replied it will be submitted as written comment.
- Executive summary (11 pp.). With the report, 8 Oct 2026.
- Model bill specifications, no bill text (19 pp.). With the report, 8 Oct 2026.
- Written comment for the 13 Oct TCMF meeting (2 pp.). Registered for the 13 Oct 2026 meeting.
- Letter to the Senate Committee on State Affairs (2 pp.). Sent 8 Oct 2026 to the clerk and each member; the clerk replied it will inform the committee's recommendations.
- Brief: Removal Is a Separation (2 pp.). Sent 16 Oct 2026 to the Supreme Court of Texas Children's Commission.
- Brief: the costs to children and to Texas (2 pp.). Sent 16 Oct 2026 to the Children's Commission.
- Crosswalk: each finding and the committee it serves (1 p.). Sent 16 Oct 2026 to the Children's Commission.
- Recommended advisors (2 pp.). Sent 16 Oct 2026 to the Children's Commission.
- Handout for the 13 Oct 2026 TCMF meeting (2 pp.). Complimentary handout.
- Child protection handout (33 pp.). Complimentary handout, 19 Oct 2026.
Coming next
- Fiscal report: what Texas pays to remove children. Working Draft 1 went to Senate State Affairs and the TCMF on 16 Oct 2026 (read the draft). The final report follows when outstanding Texas records requests are answered.
- Cost-benefit report. Working Draft 1 went to the Children's Commission on 16 Oct 2026 (read the draft). Final version in progress.
- Interstate custody enforcement resolutions. County executive committee resolutions, then the SREC, with a legislative annex. In drafting (build 002).
- Anti-SLAPP rule amendment. Noticed 12 Sep 2026 for the next quarterly SREC meeting. The result is posted here after the vote.
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Resolutions and templates (38)
Protect Texas water resources and basin-of-origin integrity
What it asks for: Groundwater, interbasin transfers, and agricultural and private property rights.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
AI data centers to follow oil-and-gas water protocols and use recycled water
What it asks for: Water use by large data centers.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Reform eminent domain law to protect private property
What it asks for: Public necessity and private property rights.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Stop developers profiting from eminent domain takings
What it asks for: Limits on resale and profit after a taking.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Protect property rights: expedited removal of unauthorized occupants
What it asks for: Squatting and owner remedies.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Against alien land ownership in Texas
What it asks for: Acquisition limits, divestiture, and critical infrastructure.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Impacts of undocumented immigration on Texas communities
What it asks for: State costs and enforcement.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
No taxpayer funds for religious or ideological advocacy; supremacy of Texas and U.S. law
What it asks for: Constitutional supremacy and foreign legal systems.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Resolution concerning the Council on American-Islamic Relations
What it asks for: As its authors wrote it.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Secure the electrical grid against foreign threats and EMP
What it asks for: Grid hardening and public-private work.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Support the Texas Electric Vehicle Charging Safety Act
What it asks for: Charging-station safety.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Protection of Texas Minors from Artificial Intelligence Act
What it asks for: Age verification and parental monitoring tools.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Annual active-shooter preparedness training for school personnel
What it asks for: School safety.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Elect the Texas Secretary of State (county version)
What it asks for: Popular election of the chief election officer.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Direct election of the Texas Secretary of State
What it asks for: Vacancies filled by special election.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Direct election of all Texas judges
What it asks for: No gubernatorial appointment; vacancies by special election.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Audio and video recording in all Texas courtrooms
What it asks for: Continuous recording with privacy protections for children.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Certified shorthand reporters for every hearing
What it asks for: A verbatim record of in-camera hearings and bench conferences.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Judicial campaign contribution disclosure
What it asks for: Disclosure to all parties and recusal.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
State employment of probate judges
What it asks for: Uniform probate and guardianship service in every county.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Licensing legal paraprofessionals
What it asks for: Affordable access to family, probate, debt, and justice courts.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Direct election of State Commission on Judicial Conduct members
What it asks for: A constitutional amendment for voters.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Elected director of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct
What it asks for: Public accountability for judicial discipline.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
In-person filing locations for judicial conduct complaints
What it asks for: Offices across Texas.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
No appointed statewide prosecutor; fund the elected Attorney General
What it asks for: Public corruption and criminal investigations.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Prosecution and treble damages for oath violations
What it asks for: A statutory remedy when local prosecutors do not act.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Condemning fatherlessness and the policies that drive it
What it asks for: Parenting time in child support guidelines.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Condemnation of Title IV-D and non-welfare child support
What it asks for: Federal child support financing.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
Resolution opposing civil litigation to suppress protected speech (SREC)
What it asks for: Submitted to the SREC, September 2026 (build 001). Adoption record pending; the adopted text is posted here when the RPT releases it.
Who can adopt it: Addressed to the State Republican Executive Committee (SREC).
Proposed RPT rule on litigation used to suppress protected speech (SREC)
What it asks for: Noticed 12 September 2026 for the next quarterly SREC meeting.
Who can adopt it: Addressed to the State Republican Executive Committee (SREC).
County resolution opposing warrantless mass vehicle surveillance
What it asks for: Fill in the county, date, and vote. Supports Planks 55 and 168.
Who can adopt it: Any precinct, county, or senatorial district convention, or a county executive committee, may adopt its own version.
How to adopt and advance the vehicle-surveillance resolution
What it asks for: For county and precinct chairs.
Who can adopt it: A working document for county and precinct chairs.
Transmittal of the vehicle-surveillance resolution to the SREC
What it asks for: Cover letter.
Who can adopt it: A working document for county and precinct chairs.
Talking points: the vehicle-surveillance resolution
What it asks for: One page for the mover.
Who can adopt it: A working document for county and precinct chairs.
Letter asking your legislators for their written position
What it asks for: Send after adoption.
Who can adopt it: A working document for county and precinct chairs.
Cover letter inviting other county chairs to adopt
What it asks for: Send with the adopted resolution.
Who can adopt it: A working document for county and precinct chairs.
Rusk County Republican Party ALPR resolution, as adopted
What it asks for: Adopted 31 July 2026. Shown as its authors wrote it.
Who can adopt it: Adopted by the Rusk County Republican Party; other counties may adopt their own version.
Starter records request on license-plate readers, any county
What it asks for: Fourteen items to ask for, and who to address.
Who can adopt it: Anyone may file it with a county or city.
From the Republican Party of Texas
RPT resolution on additional data centers in Texas (opens in a new tab)
Supports: RPT Platform Plank 43(c) and Plank 50(d), (e), (f)
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