What we're carrying into the next session — for El Paso, for working Texas families, and for democracy itself.
Carry forward the fight we started on HB 4. Challenge maps that erase Hispanic and Black voting power. Defend the Voting Rights Act framework in Texas. Push for transparent, race-conscious analysis on every map that comes through this chamber — because if we cannot count fairly, nothing else we pass is legitimate.
Finish the work started in HB 3475. El Paso is the largest U.S. metro area without an accredited law school. We will build the binational legal pipeline a region of two million people deserves — and meet the statewide demand for bilingual, border-fluent legal professionals.
Expand foreign-trained doctor licensure beyond the first wave. Protect indigent care. Defend funding for the primary care clinics built at the county. Texas should not leave 1 in 4 residents without coverage and call that a free-market success.
Use the Ways & Means seat to push reforms that reach Hispanic working-class homeowners — not just the lobby-favored carve-outs. Tighten appraisal cap fairness, expand homestead protections, and stop the quiet shift of the property tax burden from corporate landowners onto neighborhoods.
Expand dual credit so more high schoolers leave with college credit. Strengthen the teacher pipeline. And give voters tools — like recall — when local boards stop showing up for the kids who depend on them.
Continue the county-era record on transparency, pretrial fairness, and modern operations — at the state level. Texas works best when its government is honest about what it does, accountable for what it spends, and willing to be measured.