Voted for an Anti-School Choice Amendment (Amendment 45 to TX HB1)

Amendment 45 to Texas HB1 (Record vote 111) seeks to restrict public funds from being used for private education. Stopping taxpayers from using their tax dollars for their children's education. Almost all Democrats voted in favor of the amendment and twenty-four Republicans joined them in supporting the amendment. This caused the amendment to pass the Texas House of Representatives. The Amendment states, “Prohibition on use of appropriated money for school vouchers or other similar programs. Money appropriated by this act may not be used to pay for or support a school voucher, including an education savings account, tax credit scholarship program, or a grant or other similar program through which a child may use state money for non-public primary or secondary education” (Page 38).

Here are the Republicans who voted in favor of the amendment (24):

State Rep. Stephen (Steve) P. Allison

State Rep. Trent Ashby

State Rep. Ernest Bailes

State Rep. Keith Bell

State Rep. Dewayne C. Burns

State Rep. Travis Clardy

State Rep. Drew Darby

State Rep. Jay Dean

State Rep. Charlie Geren

State Rep. Justin Holland

State Rep. Kyle J. Kacal

State Rep. Ken King

State Rep. John Kuempel

State Rep. Stan Lambert

State Rep. Brooks Landgraf

State Rep. Andrew S. Murr

State Rep. Angelia Orr

State Rep. Four Price

State Rep. John Raney

State Rep. Glenn Rogers

State Rep. Hugh Shine

State Rep. Reggie Smith

State Rep. David Spiller

State Rep. Gary Vandeaver

House Republicans who abstained from voting (10):

State Rep. Bradley (Brad) Buckley

State Rep. David Cook

State Rep. Mano DeAyala

State Rep. Frederick Frazier

State Rep. Cody Joe Harris

State Rep. John Lujan IV

State Rep. Dade Phelan

State Rep. Shelby Slawson

State Rep. Kronda Thimesch

State Rep. Ed Thompson

House Republicans who were absent  (1):

State Rep. Bryan Slaton