El Paso city leaders are taking stock of what was accomplished by the Texas Legislature in 2025.

The city's Strategic and Legislative Affairs office, or LSA, presented a breakdown of this year's legislative sessions — the regular 89th legislative session along with two subsequent special sessions — during a meeting of the El Paso City Council on Monday, Sept. 29.

Nearly 8,900 bills were filed during the regular session, which ran from Jan. 14 through June 2, and a total of 1,200 were signed into law, giving the Legislature a 13.5% passage rate.

The first special session, which was called by Gov. Greg Abbott to push through his school voucher plan , ended with none of the 592 proposed bills passing muster. Abbott called a second special session after the first one failed — 12 of the

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