Do we have legislation ready to file for a TEXIT vote?

Yes, and it has already been filed. The legislation needed to put Texas independence on the ballot is remarkably simple for the size of the decision it carries.

The Texas Independence Referendum Act was first filed as House Bill 1359 in 2021 by Representative Kyle Biedermann, with Representative James White as joint author, and it has been refiled since. The question the movement intends to put to the people of Texas is the one TNM has carried from the start:

"Should the State of Texas reassert its status as an independent nation?"

That is the wording Representative Biedermann planned to restore through a committee substitute. If the people vote yes, the act directs the Legislature to act on that mandate. It establishes a Texas Independence Committee, a joint interim committee, charged with studying and recommending the most effective and expeditious method for Texas to return to its status as an independent republic, and with delivering that strategy within sixty months of the result being certified.

The bill is written carefully to survive the procedural and constitutional challenges the opposition will throw at it, the kind of point of order or lawsuit that could otherwise stall the effort for years. But make no mistake about where the power sits: under Article 1, Section 2 of the Texas Constitution, all political power is inherent in the people, and a vote of the people of Texas is the decisive act. The full filed text is on the public record at Texas Legislature Online.