Gina Hinojosa and Greg Abbott on the 2025 Texas bills
They are running for Governor of Texas. Only one of them has cast a vote on the bills this site asks about, and that is a fact about the offices they have held rather than a judgement about either of them. This page says exactly what the record shows for each, and where the two kinds of record stop being comparable.
What Gina Hinojosa's record shows
Gina Hinojosa sits in the Texas House, so there is a roll call on these bills. Of the 67 votes this site asks about, Gina Hinojosa cast 62. On the 48 of those where the two parties took opposite sides, they voted against their own party's majority 2 times.
Where they broke with their own party
- 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 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.
What Greg Abbott's record shows
Why there are no votes. Has never served in a legislature, so he has no roll-call record at all.
What there is instead. What he did with each bill that reached him — signed it, vetoed it, or let it become law without signing.
What that evidence cannot tell you. Every bill that reaches a governor gets one of three answers, so unlike a priority list this can show both directions. It is still uneven: he signed 26 of the 31 that reached him, so a signature mostly means he did not object rather than that he pushed. The 4 he let become law without signing are recorded as taking no side, because that is what they are. 34 of these bills never reached his desk at all, and he appears on none of those.
On these 67 bills, Greg Abbott left a recorded mark on 31 of them
Signed 26, let 4 become law without signing, vetoed 1.
- SB 1233 — Requires the state to produce information about perinatal palliative care, and requires a doctor to give it to a pregnant woman when an unborn child is diagnosed with a life-limiting condition. A doctor who does not can face an administrative penalty.
signed it. 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.
signed it. history - HB 5616 — Creates a state program and fund to promote the presidential libraries in Texas as historical and tourist attractions.
signed it. history - SB 22 — Creates a state fund that pays incentives to film and television productions, and lets the state refuse a grant over content it judges indecent or unflattering to Texas.
let it become law without signing. history - HB 4396 — Makes the American Performance Horseman and the American Rodeo eligible for state event-reimbursement money.
signed it. history - HB 24 — Makes it harder for neighbours to force a supermajority vote on a rezoning: an adjoining-owner protest now needs 60% of that land, and the council can then approve the change by simple majority.
signed 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.
let it become law without signing. 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.
signed it. history - SB 509 — Requires a court to notify the attorney general, and to wait an hour, before hearing a request for a temporary restraining order in an election case. An order issued without that notice is void.
signed it. 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.
signed it. history - HB 4995 — Lets paramedics attached to police tactical units carry a handgun on duty, and shields their agency from liability if it is fired.
signed it. history - HB 117 — Creates a governor's task force to examine how early childhood education and childcare are run in Texas.
signed it. history - SB 15 — Stops larger cities from requiring a new house lot to be bigger than 3,000 square feet, wider than 30 feet or deeper than 75 feet, on newly platted land of five acres or more.
signed it. history - SB 17 — Bars people and companies tied to certain foreign governments, China among them, from buying land or property in Texas, and makes doing so a crime.
signed it. history - SB 1349 — Raises the penalty by one offence category when someone threatens, assaults or stalks a person in Texas on behalf of a foreign government, with a 15 year minimum where the underlying offence is a first degree felony, and makes it a crime to enforce another country’s laws here.
signed it. history - SB 1563 — Requires the state to create training for county jailers on dealing with veterans in custody.
signed it. history - HB 5246 — Reorganises the state's space agencies, widens the aerospace office's remit from space to aviation as well, and abolishes the spaceport trust fund.
signed it. 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.
signed it. 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.
signed it. history - HB 229 — Writes definitions of male and female into state law and requires government records that collect sex to use them.
signed it. history - HB 145 — Lets electric utilities self-insure against wildfire losses and requires them to file wildfire risk plans, with a penalty for failing to.
signed it. 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.
signed it. history - SB 973 — Lets appraisal districts put more property images online, including street-level exterior photos and aerial shots showing more than one building.
let it become law without signing. history - SB 739 — Adds state insurance investigators to the officers allowed to use tracking devices and to obtain access to certain communications.
let it become law without signing. history - SB 2 — Creates state-funded accounts that families can spend on private school tuition and other approved school costs. The money comes from the state budget.
signed it. 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.
signed it. history - SB 10 — Requires every public school classroom in Texas to display a copy of the Ten Commandments.
signed it. history - SB 3 — Bans hemp products containing THC — the ones sold in smoke shops and convenience stores — and adds licences, fees and criminal penalties for selling them.
vetoed 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.
signed it. history - SB 6 — 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.
signed it. history - SB 5 — 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.
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Why these are not the same kind of evidence
A vote is a choice between yes and no on one question, made at the same moment as 149 other people, and it can go either way. A signature is the last word on a bill that already passed, and a priority list names only bills somebody wanted. Printing them side by side as though they were one measurement would flatter whichever candidate you already preferred, so this page keeps them apart and says what each one is.
See where you land, before you see the party
The site asks you about real votes with the party labels hidden, then shows you where you landed and how these members actually voted.
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, the party label is hidden until you answer, and every vote, count and score is in a file you can download and check, so none of this asks you to trust me.
Sources. Roll calls from the Texas House Journal and LegiScan. Governor and Lieutenant Governor actions from the bill history at capitol.texas.gov, linked on each bill above.