there are things happening in the Texas capital right now that will impact your life whether you think it's important to listen to or not it's still happening so introducing the Texas legislative session lawmakers use 140 days to debate a massive list of issues and pass hundreds of bills that affect all parts of Texans lives every odd-numbered year the laws proposed by the lawmakers have to go through many procedures and votes before it can become a real law so who are the lawmakers here the Texas legislature is made up of 150 members from the House of Representatives known as the lower chamber and 31 members of the Senate known as the upper chamber each representative and Senator represents a geographic District that they were voted on to represent these districts were redrawn in 2021 this session Republicans hold 88 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 20 of the 31 seats in the Senate meaning that there is a republican majority you can read our full legislative session guide with all this info and more at texastribune.org