Browse by Sector
Every industry brings its own policy priorities, spending patterns, and legislative battles to Austin. Browse the 1,964 lobbyists registered for the 89th Legislature by sector to find advocates who already know your issues.
4 TEC subject areas
Texas leads the nation in energy production, and no sector carries more weight under the dome. From oil and gas exploration to renewable build-out, ERCOT grid reliability, and utility rate-making, these lobbyists shape the infrastructure and environmental policy decisions that power the state.
Most registered: Energy · Utilities · Oil And Gas
10 TEC subject areas
Healthcare policy touches every Texan — Medicaid funding, hospital districts, provider liability, behavioral health, and the state's sprawling human-services agencies. Lobbyists in this sector represent systems, providers, payers, and patient advocates through every session's budget fights.
Most registered: Health And Health Care · Human Services · Hospitals
4 TEC subject areas
From public school finance and charter expansion to higher-education funding, teacher retirement, and labor policy, this sector advocates for the institutions and workforces that educate and employ Texans. School finance alone is reworked nearly every session.
Most registered: Education · Labor · Retirement Systems
6 TEC subject areas
The broadest sector in the directory: chambers and trade associations, corporate franchise law, economic-development incentives, occupational licensing, consumer protection, and the media and communications industries. If it touches commerce in Texas, it runs through here.
Most registered: Business And Commerce · Economic And Industrial Development · Corporations And Associations
4 TEC subject areas
Insurance is one of the largest single lobby practices in Austin — property, casualty, health, and title — joined by banks, credit unions, real-property interests, and housing developers navigating rate regulation, lending law, and an accelerating housing-affordability debate.
Most registered: Insurance · Property Interests · Financial Institutions
5 TEC subject areas
Highway funding, tolling authorities, ports, rail, aviation, and autonomous-vehicle frameworks. Texas moves more freight than any other state, and this sector's lobbyists work the TxDOT budget, vehicle regulation, and the infrastructure packages that keep it moving.
Most registered: Transportation · Highways And Roads · Vehicles And Traffic
7 TEC subject areas
Water rights and supply planning are existential issues in Texas, sitting alongside production agriculture, land stewardship, parks and wildlife, and coastal resiliency. This sector's advocates span farm bureaus, river authorities, conservation groups, and landowners.
Most registered: Environment · Water · Agriculture
4 TEC subject areas
Cities, counties, special districts, and other political subdivisions maintain one of the Capitol's most active lobby presences — defending local control, annexation and land-use authority, and the revenue tools that fund local services.
Most registered: City Government · County Government · Political Subdivisions
10 TEC subject areas
Tort reform, civil liability, court administration, and criminal-justice policy. Trial lawyers and tort reformers remain two of the most durable forces in Texas politics, while corrections and criminal-procedure advocates work both chambers' judiciary committees.
Most registered: Tort Reform · Civil Remedies And Liabilities · Product Liability
5 TEC subject areas
First responders, disaster preparedness, firearms policy, and the state's large military and veteran community. Texas's exposure to hurricanes, wildfires, and grid emergencies keeps emergency-management funding and responder benefits on every session's agenda.
Most registered: Disaster Preparedness And Relief · Safety · Military And Veterans
10 TEC subject areas
The machinery of the state itself: taxation, the biennial budget, agency operations and sunset review, procurement, elections, ethics, and open government. The largest concentration of lobby activity in the directory works this sector's appropriations and tax committees.
Most registered: Taxation · State Agencies Boards And Commissions · State Finances
15 TEC subject areas
Tourism and hospitality, gaming and alcoholic-beverage regulation, the arts, nonprofits, faith communities, and social-policy advocacy across family, immigration, and civil-society issues — a diverse sector where consumer-facing industries meet cause-driven advocates.
Most registered: Charitable And Nonprofit Organizations · Family Issues · Minors
About this data
Sector statistics are computed from 2026 lobbyist registrations filed with the Texas Ethics Commission. Compensation is reported by filers in ranges; estimates aggregate those ranges and attribute each lobbyist's reported compensation across the sectors they practice in, proportional to their registered subject matters. Actual spending may vary. Capitol Guide is an independent service not affiliated with the Texas Ethics Commission — for official filings visit ethics.state.tx.us.