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Texas records retention authority and schedules
State and local records retention schedules issued under Texas records law set how long governmental bodies keep records and when they may destroy them, supplying the retention side of the government information lifecycle.
Status
- Legal status
- In effect
- Allegation or finding
- Operative law
- Applicability
- Texas state and local government offices
- Enforceability
- Binding on parties within scope
- Effective date
- In effect
- Law checked through
- October 12, 2026
- Citation
- Gov't Code ch. 441 (state records; ยง441.185 retention schedules) and Local Gov't Code chs. 201 to 205 (Local Government Records Act)
- Source
- Tex. Gov't Code ch. 441; Tex. Local Gov't Code chs. 201 to 205