Texas Government Affairs

Texas Lobbying & Government Affairs Specialties

Em Dash Strategies provides Texas legislative advocacy and government affairs representation for businesses and organizations navigating complex public-policy, regulatory, budget, and technology issues.

How the practice is organized

Katy Aldredge’s career inside the Texas House, major committees, a legislative office, and the executive branch gives the firm substantive experience in both policy and process. The pages below are not marketing categories invented after the fact. They reflect the issues she spent years staff-working: drafting, research, stakeholder management, committee preparation, appropriations, and the mechanics of moving complicated legislation.

The differentiator is not simply relationships. When a company has a difficult Texas public-policy problem — especially a technical one — the work is to understand the substance and then navigate the Legislature, state agencies, and the Governor’s Office with that understanding intact.

Practice areas

Where the work is focused

01

Artificial Intelligence

Texas is no longer only studying AI. It is writing rules for how agencies use it, how the public sector governs it, and how emerging-technology companies meet the Legislature.

02

Cybersecurity

Texas cybersecurity policy now reaches agency security programs, critical infrastructure, workforce, incident response, liability, and the Texas Cyber Command.

03

Data Privacy

Consumer rights, sensitive data, genetic privacy, and breach reporting sit alongside cybersecurity in a body of Texas law that continues to be refined.

04

Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure

Physical infrastructure, cloud computing, and state technology modernization now sit inside the same policy conversation as AI and cybersecurity.

05

Digital Assets

Texas has built a distinct statutory environment around Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, custody, and related financial innovation.

06

Financial Services

Banking, insurance, public funds, securities, and FinTech often turn on technical statutory language whose effects reach well beyond the bill caption.

07

Appropriations & State Budget

In Texas, a good policy idea and a funded policy outcome are not the same thing. Budget strategy is legislative strategy with a fiscal calendar.

08

Government Efficiency & Regulatory Reform

Modernizing government usually requires changing statutes, budgets, procurement, agency processes, and technology at the same time.

Method

Capabilities that cut across every specialty

Issue expertise matters. So does knowing how a bill is prepared for committee, how a rider is written, and how agencies actually implement what the Legislature passes.

  • Legislative Advocacy
  • Policy Development
  • Executive Branch Engagement
  • Regulatory Advocacy
  • Appropriations Strategy
  • Coalition Building
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Legislative Analysis

Discuss Your Texas Policy Issue

If your organization is facing a legislative, regulatory, or budget question in Texas, Em Dash Strategies can help you understand the landscape and decide how to engage.

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