As we enter the last month of session, late nights in the chambers are inevitable. Check out the graphs below for an overview illustrating how the past several sessions have compared on just how late those nights were, which days of the week have seen later adjournment times on average, and other comparisons.
For the purposes of these graphs, "adjournment" includes recessing for the day. Saturdays and Sundays in which neither chamber was convened were calculated as null values.
Cover image: Rusty Kelley, house sergeant-at-arms, 65th Legislature (1977). Courtesy of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
