Dustin Burrows is a Republican state representative from Texas House District 83 who has served since 2015 and is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election, where Democrat Malik Williams is also on the ballot.[1][2]He was elected speaker of the Texas House on January 14, 2025.[1]
Dustin Burrows was born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1978, and received a bachelor's degree from Rhodes College in 2001 and an M.B.A. and J.D. from Texas Tech University in 2004.[1]As of November 2025, Ballotpedia lists him as a partner at Burrows Law Firm, P.C.; he was previously a partner at the Lubbock law firm of McCleskey, Harriger, Brazill & Graff.[1]
Burrows assumed office in the Texas House in 2015.[1]The Texas House elected him speaker on January 14, 2025, after he defeated the Republican House Caucus nominee, Rep. David Cook, 85-55 in two rounds of voting.[1]
Their recorded votes on bills that divided the chamber (unanimous votes left out), grouped by topic. A bill can sit under more than one topic. "With" and "against" compare each vote with how most Republicans voted. How topics are assigned
On the version voted Apr 24, 2025: Creates a state-run education savings account program letting families use public money for private school and other approved education costs, generally about 85% of average per-student school funding, up to $30,000 for students with disabilities and $2,000 for homeschoolers, capped at $1 billion for 2025–2027.
Apr 16, 2025 · Passed 86–63 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Bars licensing youth camps with floodplain cabins, with exceptions; requires campgrounds to put roof-access ladders in floodplain cabins and keep evacuation plans; requires youth camps to follow campground rules plus emergency plans, weather radios and warning systems.
On the version voted May 29, 2025: Changes school funding and teacher pay, giving districts per-teacher money for raises to teachers with three or more years' experience of up to $8,000 in districts of 5,000 or fewer students and $5,000 in larger ones, and revising special education and teacher preparation funding.
Apr 17, 2025 · Passed 142–5 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted May 30, 2025: Makes supplemental appropriations to, and reduces some existing appropriations for, state agencies, including health and human services, schools and universities, courts, prisons and state facilities, and gives directions on how the money is used.
Apr 10, 2025 · Passed 122–22 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted May 31, 2025: Sets the state budget for the two fiscal years ending August 2026 and August 2027, appropriating about $176 billion for fiscal 2026 and $162 billion for fiscal 2027 from all fund sources to state agencies, courts, schools and universities.
Apr 10, 2025 · Passed 118–26 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted May 9, 2025: Proposes a constitutional amendment, for the November 4, 2025 ballot, allowing the Legislature to exempt animal feed held by its owner for retail sale from property taxes.
Apr 28, 2025 · Passed 102–5 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Bans manufacturing or distributing abortion-inducing drugs in Texas, and mailing, delivering or prescribing them to or from Texas, with exceptions such as medical emergencies. Only private qui tam suits (at least $100,000 per violation) enforce it; women who take the drugs cannot be sued.
Aug 28, 2025 · Passed 84–46 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted May 12, 2025: Creates the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, overseen by a nine-member appointed committee, to award grants for research, facilities and prevention programs on dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, if voters approve a constitutional amendment moving $3 billion into a research fund.
Apr 23, 2025 · Passed 127–21 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted May 21, 2025: Lets government agencies, universities and property owners' associations get state permits to kill white-tailed deer by showing it is needed to protect endangered species habitat or to control overpopulation where recreational hunting is not feasible.
Apr 30, 2025 · Passed 106–28 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Substantive votes concern legislation or nominations; procedural votes concern how the chamber considers them. A Yes vote applies to the motion shown, which may not be final passage.
HB 1 · TX HOUSE
Relating to youth camp emergency plans and preparedness; authorizing penalties
PresentRECORDED
Motion: Motion: At 11:23 p.m., Representative Geren moved that, at the conclusion of the receipt of messages, the signing of bills and resolutions, and administrative
Requires licensed youth camps to adopt written emergency plans filed with the state health department, notify parents if any part of a camp is in a floodplain, give campers a safety orientation, and meet state-set minimum camper-to-counselor ratios for overnight stays.
Relating to youth camp emergency plans and preparedness; authorizing penalties
PresentRECORDED
Motion: Concur in Senate amendments
Requires licensed youth camps to adopt written emergency plans filed with the state health department, notify parents if any part of a camp is in a floodplain, give campers a safety orientation, and meet state-set minimum camper-to-counselor ratios for overnight stays.
Bars licensing youth camps with floodplain cabins, with exceptions; requires campgrounds to put roof-access ladders in floodplain cabins and keep evacuation plans; requires youth camps to follow campground rules plus emergency plans, weather radios and warning systems.
Amending the House Rules of Procedure to authorize additional constitutionally compliant, proportional penalties for members absent without leave for purpose of impeding the action of the House that do not unfairly impair members' representative functions
PresentRECORDED
Motion: Adopt HR 128
Raises the daily fine for members absent without leave to impede the House from $500 to three times the legislative per diem; adds operating-budget forfeiture, loss of chair posts after two days and seniority cuts after three, unless the House excuses.
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 5
PresentRECORDED
Motion: Adopt HR 174
Suspends House rules so the conference committee on Senate Bill 5 can add camp-safety funding for the Department of State Health Services, contingent on S.B. 1 ($2.59 million stabilization fund, $2.48 million general revenue), and an immediate effective date.
Bars licensing youth camps with floodplain cabins, with exceptions; requires campgrounds to put roof-access ladders in floodplain cabins and keep evacuation plans; requires youth camps to follow campground rules plus emergency plans, weather radios and warning systems.
Bars licensing youth camps with floodplain cabins, with exceptions; requires campgrounds to put roof-access ladders in floodplain cabins and keep evacuation plans; requires youth camps to follow campground rules plus emergency plans, weather radios and warning systems.
Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability
PresentRECORDED
Motion: Concur in Senate amendments
Replaces STAAR testing with an instructionally supportive assessment program by 2027-2028, changes how school performance ratings are determined, and limits legal challenges to Texas Education Agency accountability decisions, including a nine-month deadline to sue over rules.
Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability
PresentRECORDED
Motion: Extend speaking time for Rep. Hinojosa
Replaces STAAR testing with an instructionally supportive assessment program by 2027-2028, changes how school performance ratings are determined, and limits legal challenges to Texas Education Agency accountability decisions, including a nine-month deadline to sue over rules.
Relating to election procedures regarding accepting a voter with a residence address that is not current and the immediate effect of a voter's registration after the registrar's receipt of certain change of address notices
PresentRECORDED
Motion: Final passage (third reading)
Repeals the rule that an in-county change-of-address notice takes effect immediately, and lets voters who moved within their county vote in the precinct where they are registered without having to ask the registrar to update their registration address.
