The State Bar Act creating the integrated bar was enacted into law on April 12, 1939, and was promptly signed into law by then Governor Wilbert Lee O'Daniel. The State Bar Act was relatively succinct, and implementation of the Act was left to the Texas Supreme Court.

At the first bar convention held in 1940 after passage of the State Bar Act, more than two thousand lawyers gathered in Fort Worth and announced the bar's activities as including unauthorized practice of law, regular clinics or legal education institutes, and encouragement of local bar associations. An impetus for faster growth of the State Bar was an attorney general's opinion from then Attorney General Gerald Mann that lawyers who had not paid their $4.00 registration fee were automatically suspended from the practice of law until the fee was paid. By 1941, the second year of the new integrated State Bar's existence, membership had grown to 8,523 members.

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