The library can only provide copies of certain records from the following courts:

• the Texas Supreme Court
• the Court of Criminal Appeals
• the 3rd Court of Appeals (criminal records only)

For help locating records from other courts, please see the library's Court Records guide.

Copies of court records may take longer depending on the availability of the files.

The library cannot copy exhibit files from the 3rd Court of Appeals and the Court of Criminal Appeals. To obtain exhibits from these courts, you will need to contact the court directly. We cannot facilitate or assist you with this process. You may also contact the trial court directly.

The library can provide certified copies of Texas statutes, administrative regulations, and select appellate court opinions.

Our certification states that the copy we provide is a true and correct copy of the law, regulation, or opinion as it appears in our collection or online. We cannot certify the accuracy or authenticity of the contents of the copies.

When you contact the library, provide the following information:

• your citation, which could be
  • a section or chapter of the Texas statutes,
  • a rule from the Texas Administrative Code, or
  • a case law citation;
• if you need a prior version of a law, the effective date; and
• your mailing address, unless picking up in person.

Some countries, like the Philippines, require a certified copy of Texas divorce laws to recognize a Texas divorce.

We typically provide a certified copy of Texas Family Code, Chapter 6, "Suit for Dissolution of Marriage." The cost for this service includes standard domestic first class shipping with tracking.

Our certification states that the enclosed pages are a copy of the law as downloaded and printed by a librarian from the Texas Constitution and Statutes website.

Before you contact us to place an order, please confirm that Chapter 6 will work in your situation. The library cannot determine which materials are required by foreign law. Price may vary if additional copies are required.

Our library can certify copies of Texas statutes as they appear in our collection or select online sources. Our copies are certified as faithful reproductions from our collection. We are unable to certify the accuracy of their legal contents.

For excerpts from Vernon's Texas Statutes and Codes Annotated, we certify that they were “copied from the Texas State Law Library’s copy of the publication.” The certification would not say that the wording of the law is accurate.

We may also certify copies from Westlaw and the Texas Constitution and Statutes website. Westlaw is a product of Thomson Reuters, an unofficial publisher of the Texas statutes, and includes an electronic version of the printed statutes. The excerpts would be printed and certified by a librarian.

There is no official publisher of the compiled Texas statutes, either electronically or in print. Vernon’s Texas Statutes and Codes Annotated remains an unofficial published version despite past attempts to make it official.

The Secretary of State can provide certified copies of legislative bills and resolutions. Bills typically include only the latest changes to the text, not the full text of the statute as amended over the years.