Drew Darby

Voted to pass Senate Bill 1257 in the Texas House, the last vote before it went to the governor. Health plans that cover a gender transition procedure must also cover its side effects and any reversal. That includes yearly monitoring, and care for people who joined the plan after the procedure. Plans that large employers pay for themselves are not covered. The House passed it 87-58 and the law took effect September 1, 2025.

May 12, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted yes on the final version of Senate Bill 2024, a law on vapes marketed to children. The Texas House adopted the compromise 96-35. The law raised this crime from a Class B to a Class A misdemeanor. It bars selling or advertising a vape whose package shows cartoon characters, a celebrity name or image, or pictures of candy or other food. It also bars vapes shaped like school supplies, phones, watches, headphones, clothing, backpacks, cosmetics, or toys. It bars vapes made in, or advertised as made in, China or another country the United States names a foreign adversary. It bars vapes mixed with cannabinoids, alcohol, kratom, kava, mushrooms, or tianeptine. The governor signed it and it took effect September 1, 2025.

June 1, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted against passing House Bill 1586 in the Texas House. The law makes the state health department post the school vaccine exemption form online for anyone to print. People can still request a blank form in writing, and cannot be asked for any information. It drops the copy-proof seal on the form and bars the state from keeping requesters' names. It did not change who qualifies for an exemption. The House passed it 83-54, the Senate agreed, and the law took effect September 1, 2025.

May 14, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass House Bill 5033. It ends state agencies' duty to run car emissions inspections only if Congress removes the federal requirement or a constitutional change lets states block such programs. Until one of those events happens, current inspection rules stay in force. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 101-45.

May 8, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass House Bill 223. It removes lobbying and government-relations contracts from city rules that allow some services to skip open bidding. Cities must now seek competing offers for those contracts. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 92-56.

May 7, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 14, which created a governor's office to help agencies cut needless rules. Agencies must write proposed rules plainly and list them in a searchable public database, and a court may cancel a rule if the agency skipped required steps. Courts must decide what laws and agency rules mean without favoring the agency's view. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 97-51.

April 9, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 8. It requires every county sheriff who runs a jail to seek a deal that lets local officers help enforce federal immigration law. State grants cover the cost, and the attorney general can sue a sheriff who does not comply. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 86-47.

May 25, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted to accept the Senate's version of House Bill 121, a Texas school safety bill. This was the House's last vote on it. The House agreed 97-38, the governor signed it, and it took effect September 1, 2025. Texas already required an armed peace officer at each school campus during school hours. A district that cannot meet that rule may claim a good cause exception and use another plan. This law makes that exception expire after one year, so the school board must review and renew it. An alternative plan may use a school marshal or a trained, armed district employee or contractor. New security staff get 90 days to finish the required training, instead of 180. Texas Education Agency inspectors became peace officers, but only for safety monitoring and emergency coordination. A threat assessment team reviewing a special education student must include someone who knows that student's disability. A threat assessment is a review of whether a student may be dangerous. Teams must report a serious risk of violence to the superintendent right away. Districts may spend state school safety money on security staff, building upgrades, and suicide prevention. The Senate had dropped the House's new child abuse reporting rules for school employees.

May 30, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 15. In cities over 150,000 people in larger counties, it caps lot-size rules on land of at least five acres not yet divided into lots. Cities cannot demand lots over 3,000 square feet, 30 feet wide, or 75 feet deep; affected people may sue to enforce these limits. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 86-43.

May 28, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 2835. It lets cities approve an apartment building with one stairway when it has no more than six stories above grade and four homes per floor. It must have stairway sprinklers meeting National Fire Protection Association Standard 13, two-hour fire-rated stairway enclosures, one-hour fire-rated hallways, an escape opening on each floor served by the single exit, and smoke and fire alarms, despite local code changes. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 81-57.

May 27, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1362. It bars Texas offices from using red flag orders unless state law allows them; these court orders take guns from people judged dangerous for a time. Offices cannot take federal money to enforce them; using an order not issued under Texas law becomes the lowest felony level, while current family and crime-related protection orders stay. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 86-53.

May 28, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 2284, which limits local bow and gun rules. It extends the state ban on city and county firearm rules to archery equipment, so local governments may no longer regulate bows, crossbows, or arrows. It also drops firearms from a municipal fire-prevention power and changes the county bow-hunting lot limit from 10 acres or less to smaller than seven acres. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 96-43.

May 15, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted to pass House Bill 3053. It blocks cities and counties from running or joining firearm buyback programs meant to reduce civilian gun ownership or let people sell guns without fear of charges. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 85-56.

May 13, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 33. It bars state and local government offices from using public money or other support to help someone obtain an abortion. The attorney general can sue to stop a violation and recover the money spent. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 87-58.

May 22, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 510. It lets the secretary of state withhold voter-registration money from a county official after written notice and a fair chance to fix late or missing work. Covered duties include handling registrations, registration challenges, and address-check notices on time. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 109-33.

May 28, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass House Bill 5115. It raises the election fraud listed in state Election Code Section 276.013 from the most serious misdemeanor to a second-degree felony, makes it a first-degree felony for elected officials, and makes an attempt a third-degree felony. It also covers knowingly counting an invalid vote or refusing to count a valid one. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 88-54.

May 15, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass House Bill 493. It bars people finally convicted of a first- or second-degree felony from serving as poll watchers. Texas already barred people with an election-related felony, and appointees must now swear in writing that they have no covered conviction. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 86-52.

May 13, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to send Senate Joint Resolution 18 to Texas voters. It would permanently bar state taxes on capital gains, which are profits from selling assets, for individuals, families, estates, and trusts. Texas had no such tax, so this would block a future one while leaving property, sales, and use taxes in place. The Texas House approved it 104-26 and put it on the November 4, 2025 statewide ballot.

April 28, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted to approve the final, negotiated version of Senate Bill 13, a school library law. Elected school boards must vote in an open meeting on every book a district adds to its libraries. Proposed titles must be open for public review for at least 30 days first. A parent can give the district a list of books their own child may not check out. When anyone challenges a book, the district must block students from it until it acts. The Texas House approved the report 81-48 and the law took effect September 1, 2025.

May 31, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 2972. It limits a public college free-speech law to students and employees, and common outdoor campus areas no longer get the law's strongest protection for public speech. Schools must bar camping, speech events from 10 at night to 8 in the morning, and masks used to evade rules, scare people, or block campus officials. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 97-39.

May 28, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 12. It bars public schools from assigning diversity, equity, and inclusion duties or teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity in any grade. Schools cannot sponsor clubs based on those topics, and parents must give written permission for clubs and human sexuality lessons. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 88-47.

May 25, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 965. It protects a public school employee's religious speech or prayer while working. A government office may limit it only to serve a vital public goal and must use the narrowest rule that works. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 86-48.

May 23, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1036, which makes home solar sellers register, carry insurance, and list the licensed installer and last day to cancel in each contract. Buyers get five business days to cancel free, and sellers cannot lie or pretend to represent a utility or government office. The state may order refunds and fines up to $2,500, or $10,000 when the buyer is 65 or older. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 94-37.

May 23, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted yes, 83-47, to adopt the final House-Senate compromise on Senate Bill 37, the last House vote on the bill. The law requires each public university's governing board to review the required core courses at least every five years. Boards may overturn campus decisions that change those courses. Boards must approve or deny provost hires and may overturn the hiring of a vice president or dean. Only a board may create a faculty senate, and that senate can only give advice. The law also creates a state higher education ombudsman, a complaint officer named by the governor. The governor signed it and it took effect September 1, 2025.

May 31, 2025

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Voted yes on the final version of Senate Bill 17. The Texas House adopted the House-Senate compromise 85-57. The law bars governments, companies, and certain people tied to countries named as security threats from buying Texas property. U.S. citizens and green-card holders are exempt. A covered person who knowingly buys anyway commits a state jail felony, the lowest felony level in Texas. The attorney general may sue, and a court can have the property sold. The governor signed it and it took effect September 1, 2025.

May 29, 2025

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 2337. Businesses that tell shareholders how to vote must tell the client, company, and public when advice uses goals not tied to money, such as environmental or diversity goals. If they give very different advice to clients who did not ask for it, they must tell those clients, the company, and the attorney general, and harmed people may sue. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 92-50.

May 28, 2025

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Voted through Senate Bill 11 to let school boards create a daily school prayer and religious-reading period. Participants must give up legal claims that the prayer time breaks church-state rules; the time cannot use the school speaker system; and the state must defend participating schools. It also removes the rule against urging students to pray or not pray. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 88-48.

May 23, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 21. It created the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, a special fund outside the state treasury held and managed by the comptroller. The reserve may buy only bitcoin or other cryptocurrency whose average market value over the past 24 months was at least $500 billion. The comptroller must report to the legislature every two years, advised by a five-member committee. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 101-42.

May 21, 2025

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Voted to pass House Bill 521. Curbside voters must swear they cannot enter without help or need help because of a disability, and someone escorting such a voter may also get a curbside ballot. When at least four poll workers are present, two must carry the ballot; campaigning is barred within 20 feet; and knowingly skipping the form after driving seven or more voters is a Class A misdemeanor, the state's most serious minor crime. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 84-54.

May 13, 2025

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Voted to send House Joint Resolution 2 to Texas voters. It would block new or higher state taxes on estates, inheritances, or gifts beyond those in place on January 1, 2025. The Texas House approved it 112-29 and put it on the November 4, 2025 statewide ballot.

April 29, 2025

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Voted through House Joint Resolution 98 to ask Congress for a constitutional convention, a national meeting that can suggest changes to the United States Constitution. Any change had to limit federal spending or power, or set term limits for federal officers and members of Congress. The Texas House backed the request 86-57 and the Senate 17-14. It was filed with the Secretary of State on May 13, 2025, making Texas's application to Congress official. Applications to Congress do not go to Texas voters.

April 28, 2025

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 2. It created education savings accounts that families can use for private school tuition and other approved education costs. Each account gets 85 percent of average state and local funding per public school student, and the first two-year program budget is capped at $1 billion. The bill became law after the Texas House passed it 86-61.

April 17, 2025

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Voted to send House Joint Resolution 4 to Texas voters. It would block taxes on securities trades and on the business of running a registered securities market. General business, sales, and use taxes could continue. The Texas House approved it 111-31 and put it on the November 4, 2025 statewide ballot.

April 1, 2025

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