Mike Schofield is a Republican state representative who has represented Texas House District 132 since January 2021, after an earlier stint from 2015 to 2019, and is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2]He holds a political science degree from Rutgers University and a law degree from Louisiana State University.[1]
Mike Schofield earned a B.S. in political science from Rutgers University and a J.D. from Louisiana State University.[1]
Schofield previously held the District 132 seat from 2015 to 2019.[1]He returned to the seat on January 12, 2021, succeeding Gina Calanni, who had defeated him in 2018.[1]In the 2023-2024 session he was assigned to the Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence, Land & Resource Management and Redistricting committees.[1]He defeated Chase West in the November 5, 2024 general election and advanced from the March 3, 2026 Republican primary; Sara McGee is the Democratic candidate in 2026.[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
›Rights & public safety543 with · 84 against630 votes
Makes an application for an early voting ballot by mail count as an application for any resulting runoff election too, unless the applicant asks not to receive a runoff ballot.
May 15, 2025 · Failed 62–77 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted May 30, 2025: Bars governments, companies and certain individuals tied to countries named as national security threats in recent federal intelligence assessments, or designated by the governor, from buying Texas real estate, with exceptions for U.S. citizens, permanent residents and some homes; violations can bring felony charges, fines and forced sale.
On the version voted May 23, 2025: Requires police to send the attorney general a copy of any probable-cause report on a human trafficking offense they give local prosecutors, and requires the attorney general to take over prosecution if the local prosecutor takes no action within 180 days.
Apr 30, 2025 · Failed 64–74 · 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 · Failed 73–74 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Requires the Texas Workforce Commission to run a Dallas-Fort Worth pilot with junior colleges, technical institutes and employers to train students for energy-efficient technology jobs, including dual-credit courses and a certificate of completion.
May 14, 2025 · Passed 70–65 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Bars school boards from giving a departing superintendent a severance payment larger than six months' salary and benefits, down from the one-year level that now triggers a cut in state school funding, and requires boards to report severance terms to the state.
May 7, 2025 · Failed 76–68 (two-thirds needed) · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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 school boards from giving a departing superintendent a severance payment larger than six months' salary and benefits, down from the one-year level that now triggers a cut in state school funding, and requires boards to report severance terms to the state.
May 7, 2025 · Failed 76–68 (two-thirds needed) · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Requires public colleges, for Public Service Loan Forgiveness certification only, to count adjunct faculty as working 3.35 hours per credit hour taught and as full-time at 30 average weekly hours, and to certify within 60 days.
May 2, 2025 · Passed 69–67 · against most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted May 28, 2025: Requires a health care provider who diagnoses an unborn child with a life-threatening or life-limiting condition to give the pregnant woman state information on perinatal palliative care and a provider list; repeat violations carry a $1,000 administrative penalty.
May 26, 2025 · Failed 65–80 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Requires the Health and Human Services Commission to hire a language access coordinator to assess non-English speakers' access to its programs and 2-1-1 services and report findings within one year; the provisions expire June 1, 2027.
Raises caps on state loan-repayment assistance for mental health professionals, such as $160,000 to $180,000 for physicians; adds eligible professions, including school counselors; adds one-time $5,000 (needed-language fluency) and $10,000 (counties of 150,000 or fewer) amounts; counts public school service toward eligibility.
May 27, 2025 · Passed 70–63 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Requires the Texas Workforce Commission to run a Dallas-Fort Worth pilot with junior colleges, technical institutes and employers to train students for energy-efficient technology jobs, including dual-credit courses and a certificate of completion.
May 14, 2025 · Passed 70–65 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted May 26, 2025: Limits extensions of plugging deadlines for oil and gas wells inactive more than 15 years and completed over 25 years earlier, requires annual testing reports on long-inactive wells, and directs the Railroad Commission to set penalties and report yearly to state leaders.
May 22, 2025 · Failed 56–86 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Requires metropolitan planning organizations to consider the transportation needs of people who receive services from the Health and Human Services Commission or Workforce Commission in 10-year plans, and to show providers considered meeting those needs when requesting state funding.
Allows the Texas Facilities Commission to authorize electric vehicle charging stations in state-owned parking lots and garages built on or after September 1, 2025, considering EV registrations, state employee EVs and lot usage, under guidelines requiring installation at no cost to the state.
May 1, 2025 · Passed 85–58 · against most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Creates a comptroller-run grant program, funded by appropriation, for counties that help indigent litigants with transportation to and from court proceedings.
May 9, 2025 · Passed 75–47 · against most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted May 28, 2025: Requires electronic health records of Texans to be stored in the United States, gives parents full access to their minor children's records, requires records to note biological sex as observed at birth, and lets doctors use artificial intelligence if they review results and tell patients.
May 22, 2025 · Passed 86–56 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Apr 16, 2025: Creates a state program that gives grants to Texas-based businesses that win federal small business innovation research or technology transfer awards, matching or supplementing that federal money, limited to one grant per business each year.
Apr 15, 2025 · Failed 70–75 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted May 29, 2025: Creates the Texas Cyber Command, a state agency led by a governor-appointed chief with a San Antonio facility, to prevent and respond to cyberattacks on governments and critical infrastructure, and transfers cybersecurity duties to it from the Department of Information Resources.
Apr 15, 2025 · Passed 89–54 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
As reported by the House committee, requires cities and counties to set up complaint processes for public camping ban violations and act on complaints within 90 days, and lets the attorney general and state police enforce the ban and recover costs from local governments that fail to act.
May 26, 2025 · Failed 57–87 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Requires registrars and county clerks to issue a homeless individual a certified birth record free on request, under verification and documentation rules set by the health commission, without requiring a physical address.
Bars cities and counties from treating a condominium as a land subdivision or requiring a subdivision plat to create or change a condominium, for condominium declarations filed on or after September 1, 2025.
May 26, 2025 · Passed 75–63 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Requires the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, with the Texas Veterans Commission, to develop a training program for county jailers on interacting with veterans, and requires currently licensed jailers to complete it by August 31, 2027.
May 27, 2025 · Passed 80–64 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Requires the comptroller to list restricted Chinese-affiliated entities and bars state retirement systems and the permanent school fund from holding them, with at least half divested within 180 days of notice and all within 360, subject to fiduciary-duty exceptions.
May 27, 2025 · Passed 87–54 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Exempts from the franchise tax a corporation that operates an FAA-authorized spaceport and has a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense for spaceflight or launch services.
Voted against most of their party on 93 of 792 party-divided votes on file.
Most often on: Rights & public safety (21), Education & families (21), Health & care (17)
Relating to requiring owners or operators of commercial passenger bus services to provide certain notifications to residents concerning operations
What it does: Requires operators of scheduled intercity bus services using buses with 35 or more seats to publish newspaper notice, with a second-language notice in some cases, at least 90 days before opening a new Texas terminal,…
Voted yes · most Republicans voted no · Democrats 53–0, Republicans 36–44
Relating to assistance in the investigation of certain open meetings offenses by the open records division of the attorney general's office
What it does: Requires police to send the attorney general's open records division copies of probable-cause reports on open meetings crimes, lets prosecutors request that division's help investigating, and requires prosecutors who…
Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 20–28, Republicans 62–12
Relating to the strong families credit against certain taxes for entities that contribute to certain organizations
What it does: On the version voted May 26, 2025: Creates a franchise tax credit, capped at $5 million a year in total, for contributions to nonprofits certified by the OneStar Foundation that serve at-risk families and do not provi…
Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 18–30, Republicans 79–1
Relating to the liability of nonprofit entities contracted with the Department of Family and Protective Services or with a single source continuum contractor to provide community-based care or child welfare services
What it does: On the version voted May 27, 2025: Treats nonprofits contracting for community-based care or child welfare services, and their staff, volunteers and caregivers, as charitable organizations under the Charitable Immunit…
Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 27–29, Republicans 82–2
Relating to the displacement of student financial aid at a public institution of higher education
What it does: Requires the Coordinating Board to write a financial aid displacement advisory explaining that private scholarships and other reasons can reduce other aid, and requires public colleges to include it or link to it in a…
Voted yes · most Republicans voted no · Democrats 56–0, Republicans 25–57
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
NoVOTED
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
Not votingNO VOTE
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
YesVOTED
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
YesVOTED
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
YesVOTED
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
NoVOTED
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
YesVOTED
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.
