Sergio Muñoz, Texas House District 36

Sergio Muñoz represents Texas House District 36 and is a Democrat. This page is the record: of the 67 votes this site publishes, Sergio Muñoz cast 64, and on the 50 of those where the two parties took opposite sides, they voted against their own party 16 times.

Where they broke with their own party

• HB 5138 — Lets the attorney general prosecute election-law crimes when the local prosecutor has not acted within six months of receiving a police report. history
• SB 33 — Bars cities and counties from spending public money or giving logistical support to abortion providers, or to groups that help people obtain an abortion. history
• HB 2284 — Requires music therapists to hold a state licence before they can practise, and allows the state to charge fees for it. history
• 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. history
• SB 2185 — Requires school districts excused from running a bilingual programme to report which alternative language methods they use, so those methods count towards bilingual education funding. history
• 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. history
• SB 1362 — Bars Texas courts and agencies from recognising or enforcing red-flag orders that remove firearms from someone judged a risk, and makes doing so a crime. history
• HB 30 — Lets a local government in a declared disaster area use a different formula for the tax rate it can set without voter approval, based on its disaster relief costs. history
• HB 121 — Lets the Texas Education Agency commission its own police officers, requires a district claiming a good cause exception from the armed security requirement to adopt an alternative standard such as a school marshal, and changes who sits on the state’s School Safety Center board. history
• HB 229 — Writes definitions of male and female into state law and requires government records that collect sex to use them. history
• HB 23 — Lets an applicant have a licensed engineer review or inspect development documents, instead of waiting for the local government to do it. history
• HB 3892 — Stops counties from limiting how many homes can be built per acre outside city limits, including through minimum lot sizes, lot widths or setbacks. history
• SB 1883 — Makes impact fees harder to impose or raise: approval now needs a two thirds vote of the governing body, a fee cannot be increased for three years, and the growth assumptions and capital plans must be published 60 days before the hearing rather than on the day of notice. history
• HB 3179 — Lets the county where the Llano and James rivers meet charge its own hotel tax, except at hotels a city already taxes. history
• SB 8 — Requires the sheriff of every county that runs a jail, or contracts one out, to request an agreement letting their deputies enforce federal immigration law, and to ask again each year if no agreement is reached. Creates state grants, sized by the county’s population, to pay for it. history
• SB 14 — Creates a state office that reviews agency rules and recommends repealing ones it finds unnecessary. It also tells judges to decide for themselves what a law means, rather than accepting the agency’s reading. history

How they voted on the bills people have heard of

These seven drew the most attention of the 67 this site publishes. Every member has a position on record for each one, whichever way they went.

• SB 2 Education savings accounts Voted against
  Creates state-funded accounts that families can spend on private school tuition and other approved school costs. The money comes from the state budget. history
• SB 8 Immigration enforcement Voted for
  Requires the sheriff of every county that runs a jail, or contracts one out, to request an agreement letting their deputies enforce federal immigration law, and to ask again each year if no agreement is reached. Creates state grants, sized by the county’s population, to pay for it. history
• SB 10 Ten Commandments in classrooms Voted against
  Requires every public school classroom in Texas to display a copy of the Ten Commandments. history
• SB 3 THC ban Voted against
  Bans hemp products containing THC — the ones sold in smoke shops and convenience stores — and adds licences, fees and criminal penalties for selling them. history
• SB 14 Regulatory review Voted for
  Creates a state office that reviews agency rules and recommends repealing ones it finds unnecessary. It also tells judges to decide for themselves what a law means, rather than accepting the agency’s reading. history
• SB 6 Electric grid and large power users Voted for
  Sets terms for power users above 75 megawatts at one site, such as data centres. They must help pay to connect, and can be ordered to cut usage during an energy emergency alert. history
• SB 5 Dementia research institute Voted for, on another vote on this bill
  Creates a state institute that awards grants for dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research and prevention. It takes effect only if voters approve a constitutional amendment setting up the institute and its fund. history

ZIP codes in District 36

78572 · 78577 · 78573 · 78574 · 78503 · 78501 · 78557 · 78589

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.