Ryan Guillen, Texas House District 31
Ryan Guillen represents Texas House District 31 and is a Republican. This page is the record: of the 67 votes this site publishes, Ryan Guillen cast 64, and on the 48 of those where the two parties took opposite sides, they voted against their own party 28 times.
Where they broke with their own party
- HB 5616 — Creates a state program and fund to promote the presidential libraries in Texas as historical and tourist attractions.
- HB 2284 — Requires music therapists to hold a state licence before they can practise, and allows the state to charge fees for it.
- HB 4811 — Makes South by Southwest eligible for state event-reimbursement money, and exempts it from having to show it considered holding the festival outside Texas.
- HB 3883 — Makes an FIA World Endurance Championship car race eligible for state event-reimbursement money.
- HB 3335 — Lets a county donate surplus property to a civic or charitable group without first showing that an auction would fail, but requires it instead to find that the county can keep enough control to ensure the donation serves its public purpose.
- HB 2446 — For medical bills of $50,000 or less, removes the need for a sworn affidavit to prove the charges were reasonable and the care was necessary.
- HB 2341 — Makes time credit automatic, rather than up to the judge, for state jail inmates who take part in an education, treatment or work programme.
- SB 1498 — Lets the state seize cryptocurrency through civil forfeiture, by adding digital currency to the property that can be taken as suspected proceeds of a crime.
- HB 4443 — Creates a pilot programme in Dallas-Fort Worth in which the state, community colleges and employers train workers for jobs in energy-efficient technology.
- HB 3326 — Makes it easier for adjunct professors to qualify for federal student loan forgiveness, by requiring public colleges to count 3.35 hours of work for each credit hour taught and to treat 30 hours a week as full time.
- HB 2442 — Makes one mail-in ballot application cover both the election and any runoff, unless the voter asks not to be sent the runoff ballot.
- HB 5111 — Sets who may serve as a campaign treasurer: at least 18, a Texas resident, not already treasurer for someone else, and not convicted of certain election offences.
- HB 1203 — Creates an office inside the Department of Agriculture responsible for keeping the state's food supply secure and free of disruption.
- HJR 218 — Asks voters to change the constitution so money from the Texas energy fund can pay for energy-efficiency projects that benefit electricity customers.
- HB 2234 — Raises the age at which someone is tried as an adult from 17 to 18, so 17-year-olds go through the juvenile system instead. It applies only to conduct on or after 1 September 2027.
- HB 5525 — Requires the parole board to write separate guidelines for people convicted of crimes they committed before turning 18, weighing rehabilitation and education.
- HB 4838 — Requires the state to hire a language access coordinator and find where people who do not speak English cannot reach health and social services or 2-1-1.
- HB 510 — Requires the state to give a homeless person a free certified copy of their birth certificate when they ask for one.
- HB 636 — Requires the state housing agency to build a statewide network for sharing real-time data on homelessness.
- HB 2308 — Creates an 11-member advisory commission of state officials and legislators to study border security and illegal immigration.
- SB 1563 — Requires the state to create training for county jailers on dealing with veterans in custody.
- HB 2186 — Requires elevator mechanics, apprentices and contractors to register with the state before working on elevators.
- HB 1784 — Extends the help colleges must give students who were in foster care — including a named staff liaison — to students who are homeless.
- HB 871 — Updates the building codes Texas cities must use for homes and commercial buildings from the 2012 editions to the 2018 editions.
- HB 3179 — Lets the county where the Llano and James rivers meet charge its own hotel tax, except at hotels a city already taxes.
- SB 973 — Lets appraisal districts put more property images online, including street-level exterior photos and aerial shots showing more than one building.
- HB 2298 — Creates a state grant programme to help Texas hospitals and clinics use artificial intelligence to scan medical images for cancer.
- HB 3947 — Requires regional transport planners to take account of the travel needs of people who use state health, welfare and workforce services.
ZIP codes in District 31
78114 · 78121 · 78355 · 78119 · 78014 · 78118 · 78384 · 78101 · 78113 · 78383 · 78019 · 78151 · 78368 · 78223 · 78140 · 78064 · 78102 · 78332 · 78595 · 78112 · 78372 · 78017 · 78026 · 78141 · 78580 · 78008 · 78563 · 78001 · 78007 · 78021 · 78022 · 78067 · 78071 · 78072 · 78075 · 78076 · 78111 · 78116 · 78117 · 78143 · 78144 · 78147 · 78160 · 78161 · 78338 · 78341 · 78349 · 78353 · 78357 · 78360 · 78361 · 78376 · 78385 · 78536 · 78545 · 78547 · 78548 · 78564 · 78582 · 78584 · 78585 · 78588 · 78591
Most people first. Nearly half of Texas ZIP codes sit in more than one House district, so a ZIP on this list may also be in another one, and your street decides which.
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Who made this. Marco Arras, a Texas resident. I donate to the Democratic Party, and I say so before anything else rather than in a footnote. The rule that picks which votes appear is published and runs identically on both caucuses, and every vote and count is in a file you can download and check.
Sources. Roll calls from the Texas House Journal and LegiScan. Districts and ZIP codes derived from 2020 Census blocks; the method and its known error are documented in ZIP_TO_DISTRICT.md.