The Texas Association of Business is the state’s leading business advocacy organization and the Texas State Chamber of Commerce. Our primary responsibility is to represent the interests of our members at the Texas State Capitol by advancing policies that support a competitive, free market business climate.
TAB serves as the unified voice of Texas employers, representing companies of all sizes and across all industries.
We work to ensure that business perspectives from every region of the state are reflected in the policy process and we proudly serve as the state-designated affiliate to the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).
Purpose
Our purpose is to champion the best business climate in the world, unleashing the power of free enterprise to enhance lives for generations.
Core Principles
TAB protects the Texas business climate through four nonnegotiable principles:
- No new mandates on business
No additional statutory or regulatory requirements that increase operating costs or administrative burden. - No creation of new private rights of action
No expansion of litigation exposure through new statutory causes of action - No new taxes or tax structure changes that increase the cost of doing business
Preserve Texas’s competitive tax environment and policy certainty. - No regulatory overreach without demonstrated statewide economic necessity
Require clear economic justification and measurable benefit before expanding regulatory authority