We hope that all Denton County State Legislators (5 State House Reps and 2 Senators) achieve PLUS scores for each of the Official TX GOP Legislative Priorities. Priority bills “supported or opposed” by the Republican Party of Texas/SREC Legislative Priority Committee are used to track our legislators each session.
Their PLUS or MINUS scores are achieved by:
- authoring, co-authoring or supporting Republican Party of Texas (RPT) Priority Bills (see https://texasgop.org/89th-lp-bill-list/ for the RPT bills supported or opposed in each priority)
- supporting RPT Priority Bills in committee
- supporting rules that advance the priorities
- advancing RPT Priority Bills publicly via video, email campaigns or speaking that can be documented by our committee
PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE ALWAYS FAR FEWER SENATE BILLS THAN HOUSE BILLS SUBMITTED SO COMPARING REPS’ SCORES TO SENATORS’ SCORES DOES NOT REFLECT AN ACCURATE COMPARISON. THE TWO CHAMBERS ARE REPORTED SEPARATELY FOR THAT REASON.
How Points Are Scored
+1
PRO-CONSERVATIVE
Legislator earns these points when they support one of our TX RPT approved priority bills and take specific, decisive action to advance it through the legislature.
0
INCONCLUSIVE
Legislator earns this point when they appear to be on the fence, declining to take action to either support or oppose one of our TX RPT approved priority bills.
-1
PRO-LIBERAL
Legislator earns these points when they refuse to support, or openly oppose, one of our TX RPT approved priority bills—allowing the liberal agenda to advance.
We use an objective and data driven standard. No scores are arbitrary. Each Denton County legislator is tracked throughout the legislative session. The RPT/SREC Legislative Committee examines the language of the official 2025 Republican Party of Texas Legislative Priorities and the 2025 RPT Platform language as they review each priority bill. Only bills that advance the priority and platform language are approved. Some bills are specifically opposed by the RPT/SREC Legislative Priority Committee using this criteria. Finally, the D3C Committee examines the words and actions of the legislator regarding the approved/opposed priority bills. The following criteria are used to score the Denton County legislators:
- Bills legislators have filed.
- Bills legislators have co-authored or co-sponsored through April 15th of each session (this time limit screens out “late sponsorship tricks”—the practice of endorsing a bill after it is known to be dead due to committee delay).
- Amendments legislators have offered (if any).
- Committee actions and votes taken by Denton County legislators that involve the legislative priorities for that session and any high priorities such as votes for Speaker of the House, House rules, and property tax relief bills.
- Video, texts, public speaking or email campaigns that support RPT priority bills are tracked and appear on our scoring grid under “scoreboard words”.
On April 10, 2025, letters were sent to our 2 State Senators and 5 State Representatives explaining our scoring, the cut-off for sponsoring bills and requesting their staff send us video, email campaigns or public speaking on priority bills to assure we have all information for scoring. Our committee searches Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram to locate scoring information in addition to any legislator’s staff information we receive.
Our D3C legislative affairs committee is constantly monitoring votes and bill support in preparation for each update. We replace each scoring grid on this site as they are updated.
