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State government

Governor: Greg Abbott (R)
Lieutenant Governor: Dan Patrick (R)
Attorney General: Ken Paxton
Comptroller: Glenn Hegar (R)
Land Commissioner: George P. Bush (R)
Agriculture Commissioner: Sid Miller (R)
Railroad Commissioners: Christi Craddick (R), Wayne Christian (R), and Jim Wright (R)

City governments

Mayor of Houston: Sylvester Turner (D)
Mayor of San Antonio: Ron Nirenberg (I)
Mayor of Dallas: Eric Johnson (R)
Mayor of Austin: Steve Adler (D)
Mayor of Fort Worth: Mattie Parker (R)
Mayor of El Paso: Oscar Leeser (D)
Mayor of Arlington: Jim Ross (N/A)
Mayor of Corpus Christi: Paulette Guajardo (D)
Mayor of Plano: John B. Muns (R)
Mayor of Lubbock: Daniel Manning Pope (R) (until May), Trey Payne (R) (from May)

Elections

Events

January 15 – A gunman takes multiple people hostage at Congregation Beth Israel, a Jewish synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. He is later shot and killed by police, with no other fatalities and all four hostages being rescued.^[1]
April 7 – Governor Abbott announced in a press conference a plan to direct the Texas Division of Emergency Management to bus illegal immigrants with 900 charter buses from Texas to Washington D.C, citing the potential surge of immigrants who would cross the border after Title 42 provisions regarding communicable disease were set to be rolled back by President Biden the next month.^[2]
- April 13 – The first bus, carrying 24 immigrants, arrived in Washington D.C after 30 hours.^[3] A second bus arrived the next day.^[4]
May 7 – Austin voters approve Proposition A by a 85–15 margin to prevent the enforcement of cannabis laws in most circumstances in the city (though police can still confiscate the drug).^[5]^[6]
May 24 – In one of the deadliest school shootings in American history, nineteen children and two adults are killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The 18-year-old shooter is killed at the scene in a shootout with police.^[7]
May 27 – The National Rifle Association of America holds its annual convention in Houston, Texas. In the wake of the shooting at Robb Elementary School three days earlier, the pro-gun convention is met with protests from local residents.^[8]
June 6 – Attorney Thomas J. Henry files a lawsuit in a Texas district court on behalf of four families of victims in the Robb Elementary School shooting. Levied against the estate of the suspected gunman, the lawsuit is a part of the investigation into the massacre.^[9]
June 19 – The Republican Party of Texas holds its party's convention in Houston. Attendees approved many controversial resolutions, including the assertion that President Joe Biden "was not legitimately elected", calling for the full repeal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, declaring homosexuality as "an abnormal lifestyle choice", as well as promoting Texan secession from the union.^[10]^[11]^[12]
July 6 – The Department of Justice reports that it is investigating potential violations of civil rights by the state of Texas in its multi-billion dollar border mission.^[13]
July 14 – Texas attorney general Ken Paxton sues the Department of Health and Human Services to prevent it from mandating that hospitals must perform abortions when the life of the mother is at risk, even if state law does not allow for such exception.^[14]
August 30 – Texas reports an immunocompromised patient has suffered the first US death in the monkeypox outbreak.^[15]
November 8 – The 2022 Texas gubernatorial election is held. Republican governor Greg Abbott is reelected.
November 9 – Voters approve measures to decriminalize possession of small amounts of cannabis in the cities of San Marcos, Denton, Killeen, Elgin, and Harker Heights.^[16]

v t e Years in Texas
19th century	1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

v t e History of Texas
By period	French Texas Spanish Texas Mexican Texas Republic of Texas Texas annexation Civil War era Reconstruction State of Texas
By topic	Annexation Border disputes Forests Indian Wars Jewish history Oil boom Revolution Slavery Texas Rangers Vice
By city	Amarillo Austin Brownsville Corpus Christi Dallas El Paso Fort Worth Galveston Houston Laredo San Antonio Timelines of cities in Texas
Government agency	Foreign relations of the Republic of Texas Congress of the Republic of Texas Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas Texas Historical Commission
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