Representative • Republican

Ernest Bailes

Texas • District HD-018

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Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

71% Bias

Voting Pattern

Nay: 635

Not Voting: 2

Other: 45

Yea: 4745

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Ernest Bailes

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Relating to the punishment for certain criminal conduct involving the smuggling of persons or the operation of a stash house; increasing criminal penalties.

Relating to an appropriation to provide funding for the construction, operation, and maintenance of border barrier infrastructure and border security operations, including funding for additional overtime expenses and costs due to certain increased law enforcement presence.

Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of improper entry from a foreign nation and indemnification of certain claims relating to the enforcement of that offense.

Relating to making an appropriation for the construction, operation, and maintenance of border barrier infrastructure.

Relating to county requirements for the creation of a special district located in the county.

Relating to the creation of an additional judicial district composed of Liberty County.

Relating to the punishment for certain criminal conduct involving the smuggling of persons or the operation of a stash house; increasing criminal penalties.

Relating to the unlawful possession of a firearm by a person not lawfully present in the United States.

Relating to the rural constable's office salary assistance grant program.

Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 229; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose fees and taxes.

Relating to requiring public institution of higher education students who compete in intercollegiate athletic competitions to compete based on biological sex.

Relating to operating requirements for farm mutual insurance companies related to insurance in force on rural property.

Relating to the powers and duties of the Health and Human Services Commission and the transfer to the commission of certain powers and duties from the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Relating to the reporting of direct campaign expenditures by certain persons and political committees.

Relating to the regulation of the collection, use, processing, and treatment of consumers' personal data by certain business entities; imposing a civil penalty.

Relating to the procedures for the issuance of a personal identification certificate to a person whose driver's license is surrendered.

Relating to early registration for parenting students at public institutions of higher education.

Relating to the designation of fentanyl poisoning or fentanyl toxicity for purposes of the death certificate and to the criminal penalties for certain controlled substance offenses; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the sale of charitable raffle tickets by certain nonprofit wildlife conservation associations.

Relating to measures for ensuring public school safety, including the development and implementation of purchases relating to and funding for public school safety and security requirements and the provision of safety-related resources.

Relating to state preemption of and the effect of certain state or federal law on certain municipal and county regulation.

Relating to the relationship between managed care plans and optometrists and therapeutic optometrists.

Relating to the punishment for certain criminal conduct involving the smuggling of persons or the operation of a stash house; increasing criminal penalties.

Relating to the regulation of library materials sold to or included in public school libraries.

Relating to the designation of advanced clean energy projects.

Relating to the protection of minors from harmful, deceptive, or unfair trade practices in connection with the use of certain digital services and electronic devices, including the use and transfer of electronic devices to students by a public school.

Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs in this state; authorizing a fee.

Relating to benefits for certain members of the Texas military forces and survivors of members of the Texas military forces.

Relating to a veterans suicide prevention campaign.

Relating to the development and funding of broadband and telecommunications services.

Relating to public higher education, including the public junior college state finance program.

Relating to the creation of a specialty trial court to hear certain cases; authorizing fees.

Relating to health benefit plan coverage of prescription contraceptive drugs.

Relating to limitation of certain liability of owners, lessees, and occupants of land in connection with livestock and agricultural land.

Relating to prohibitions on the provision to certain children of procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment, or gender dysphoria and on the use of public money or public assistance to provide those procedures and treatments.

Relating to broadband development.

Relating to the applicability of certain city requirements to agricultural operations.

Relating to agreements authorizing a limitation on taxable value of certain property to provide for the creation of jobs and the generation of state and local tax revenue; authorizing fees; authorizing penalties.

Relating to an interstate compact for border security, including building a border wall and sharing state intelligence and resources.

Relating to health benefit plan coverage for certain biomarker testing.

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