Searching for housing will return any bills that contain the term "housing" in its title or text. However, if you are looking for specific mutations of the term, you may chain together terms using ANDs or ORs, such as housing AND policy, housing OR house, hous*, etc.

Already know what bill you are looking for? Simply enter the bill identifier and Abstract will return that bill. For example, entering AB 1 or ab 1 will return just a single bill, AB 1 (and any special session bills of the same bill identifier, denoted with an X: ABX 1), that you are able to click into and explore.

If you only know the number of a bill that you may be interested in, entering its number will return all bills in the current session that match that number. For example, entering 644 will return AB 644, SB 644, and so on.

If you would like to search bills en masse, chaining bill identifiers with ORs will achieve that, such as AB 1 OR AB 2 OR AB 3... or AB 1, AB 2, AB 3, ....

If you would like to group intent bills at the start of the session, then searching for ranges of bill identifier numbers will allow you to narrow down all introduced bills to the collection that you care about, such as SB 100-220.

To search for bills based on a code section they could alter, enter the code abbreviation followed by either a section number or a range of section numbers for Abstract to return all bills that match that criteria. For example, GOV 123.4 will return all bills in the selected session aiming to amend section 123.4 of the Government Code, while PEN 1000-1500 will return all bills trying to amend any section between 1000 and 1500 of the Penal Code.