Everything you need, by the job you are doing
Shelved by task rather than by which agency published it, because nobody wakes up wanting a Secretary of State handbook. They want to know who appoints the poll workers.
Why every link here is one of ours
Links point at sd1toolkit.org and then forward you on. When a publisher redesigns and a document moves, we change one line and every page, every slide, and every printed handout follows. Nothing printed goes dead.
And why we do not host copies
A copy of the party rules is right the day it is posted and wrong within a year, because rule numbers move at every biennial convention. A stale copy misleads the exact reader who trusted us for being careful. A broken link is visible and fixable. That is the failure we want.
Start here, your first week
If you were appointed last month and nobody handed you anything, read these in this order.
RPT General Rules, current
As amended 12 June 2026. Rule numbers move at every biennial convention, so check the date on the file.
RPT official documents hub
Rules, platform, legislative priorities, SREC bylaws, rule clarifications, and resolutions.
Election Code chapter 171, party organization
Read the Amended by history at the end of any section before relying on the displayed text.
Running a CEC meeting
Who votes, what it takes, and the powers most chairs never use.
RPT General Rules, current
As amended 12 June 2026. Rule numbers move at every biennial convention, so check the date on the file.
Election Code chapter 171, party organization
Read the Amended by history at the end of any section before relying on the displayed text.
Tracking the Legislature
Free tools that tell you a bill is moving before it moves.
Create a My TLO account
Needs an email confirmation. Do it at home, not at a training on rural signal.
My TLO, free account
Bill Lists, Alerts, Saved Searches, RSS. The account is free and always has been.
Committee meeting postings, both chambers
From the front page choose Committees, then Meetings. Five days notice for a House public hearing, two hours for a House formal meeting, 24 hours for any Senate committee meeting.
Session deadline calendars
Do not carry one legislature's dates forward to the next.
House and Senate rules and precedents
Each chamber adopts new rules in January of odd numbered years. Section numbers move.
House Research Organization
Plain language bill analyses and the Writing the Laws guide to the legislative process.
Texas Senate membership directory
Authoritative on which counties sit in which senate district.
RPT Legislative Priorities
Knowing which are live tells you which bills already have organised party support.
Conventions and resolutions
The ladder from your precinct to the state convention.
RPT General Rules, current
As amended 12 June 2026. Rule numbers move at every biennial convention, so check the date on the file.
State convention site
Committee reports, delegate information, and the convention calendar.
RPT Platform, current
The Preamble principles in here are the standard a Rule 44 censure is measured against.
Texas Senate membership directory
Authoritative on which counties sit in which senate district.
Elections and election workers
Being a precinct chair does not make you an election judge or a poll watcher. Those are separate jobs with separate appointments and separate training.
Conducting your elections, all handbooks
The hub. Every handbook below lives here, plus advisories and forms.
Poll Watcher's Guide
A precinct chair is not a poll watcher by virtue of the office. Watchers are appointed separately.
Appointment of Election Workers Handbook
The CEC and the county chair both have roles in who works the polls.
Signature Verification Committee Handbook
The county chair appoints this committee in a primary.
Training and educational resources
Online election worker and poll watcher training.
VoteTexas.gov
The page to send an ordinary voter to. Registration, ID, early voting, what is on the ballot.
County chair duties
A county chair is the filing authority for primary candidates and runs a great deal of the primary. Most of that is statutory and most of it sits in one handbook.
County Chair Handbook
The single most important document for a county chair. Filing authority, ballot drawing, polling places, election workers, notice, contracts, poll watchers, runoffs.
Laws and procedures for county chairs of political parties
The agency's own index of what applies to a party county chair.
Election Code chapter 171, party organization
Read the Amended by history at the end of any section before relying on the displayed text.
Money, filing, and advertising
What has to be reported, on what form, by when.
Campaign Finance Guide for local candidates
Read this before accepting a contribution or spending a dollar.
Form C/OH, candidate and officeholder report
Forms are revised. Check the revision date before reusing a saved copy.
Political Advertising, what you need to know
Covers party offices including county and precinct chair, and includes websites.
Records and accountability
How to find out what is true, and which forum a problem belongs in.
Public Information Act Handbook
Updated after every legislative session. What a body must give you, what it may withhold, and the deadlines on both sides.
Open Meetings Act handbook and resources
Applies to governmental bodies, not to your CEC. Useful when the problem is the county, not the party.
Open government resources for the public
Handbooks, the cost hotline, and how to complain about an overcharge.
Local Government Code chapter 87, removal of county officers
Materially amended in 2025. The site has displayed superseded text for several sections.