Higher education & workforce

UTEP Student Union expansion signed into law

HB 2853 · Signed 2025

Modernizes the student union at one of the largest Hispanic-serving research universities in the country.

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El Paso public law school through the House

HB 3475 · Passed House 2025

Clears the path for the first accredited law school in one of the nation's largest metros without one.

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Dual credit teacher pipeline expansion

Filed 2025

Increases the number of teachers eligible to lead dual credit classrooms statewide.

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Healthcare

Foreign-trained doctor licensure signed into law

Joint-authored · Signed 2025

Allows experienced foreign-trained physicians to practice in Texas, easing a chronic shortage in border and rural communities.

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Democracy & fair representation

Broke quorum to oppose the 2025 redistricting maps

August 2025

Denied the supermajority the votes they needed to ram the map through.

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Met with Governor Newsom and federal & state leaders

Sacramento · Aug 8, 2025

Vince and four Texas House colleagues built the national coalition the fight required.

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Delivered HB 4 floor remarks against the map

Aug 22, 2025

Argued from the map's own math: Texas Hispanics would become the most underrepresented population group of any group in any of the fifty states.

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K-12 governance

School board trustee recall for absenteeism

Filed 2025

Gives voters a tool to remove trustees who stop showing up.

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The county years 2013–2020

$400M+ Comprehensive Mobility Plan

Every project delivered on time and on budget.

$150M+ for new primary care clinics

Voted to allocate funding to dramatically expand healthcare access for El Paso residents.

El Paso County's first pretrial office

Established the office and secured 24/7 magistrate operation, streamlining judicial process and protecting defendants' rights.

First TX county to adopt NCSC CourTools

Set a transparency benchmark for court operations now studied across the state.

Statewide indigent defense reforms

Investigations led to a Texas Indigent Defense Commission mandate for comprehensive reform.

County Economic Impact Fund (2018)

Diversified development incentives to attract major investment to the Borderplex region.

Blocked a hazardous medical waste facility (2019)

Exposed inaccuracies in the company's TCEQ application, protecting community health and safety.


Recognition

National County Leader of the Year

American City & County Magazine · 2016

The first Texas County Commissioner ever to receive the recognition.