Monday marked the first day Texas lawmakers could file bills for the upcoming session, and they wasted no time, filing more than 1,000 bills and resolutions across the House and Senate in preparation for January.

The state legislature finds itself in a position it hasn't been in for decades with Democratic control in the House and a Republican majority in the Senate, but the lieutenant governor will be a Democrat in January.

Lawmakers filed 1,262 bills and resolutions Monday.