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