Trey Martinez Fischer was born on the southside of San Antonio, the fourth of five children; Trey’s mom was a nurse at Santa Rosa Hospital and his father sold cars at Cavender Oldsmobile.

About | Trey Martinez Fischer

After an injury while working at Oak Farms Dairy ended his college football career, Trey graduated from UTSA, becoming the first member of his family to graduate college.

While caring for his mother, Trey continued his education at the University of Texas, working his way through law school with an internship at the Attorney General’s office.

Photo caption on the candidate's about page: Trey with his wife, Elizabeth Provencio, and their daughters Francesca (L) and Camilla (R).

Trey Martinez Fischer was born on the south side of San Antonio. He graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio and attended law school at the University of Texas. He is married to Elizabeth Provencio and has two daughters.

The family later opened a small, 20-seat restaurant at Five Points — the Chili Bowl — where Trey worked as a dishwasher, alongside his mother at the cash register, his sisters waiting tables and his brother, the cook.

Trey worked as a dishwasher at the Chili Bowl and completed an internship at the Attorney General’s office while in law school.

Trey was first elected to the Texas House in 2000, with his mom serving as his campaign manager. In his very first term in the House, he was voted “Freshman of the Year” by both his Republican and Democratic colleagues.

Terms of Service
Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	116	Jan 14, 2025 - Jan 12, 2027	89th	Democrat	San Antonio / Bexar		Bexar
H	116	Jan 10, 2023 - Jan 14, 2025	88th	Democrat	San Antonio / Bexar		Bexar
H	116	Jan 12, 2021 - Jan 10, 2023	87th	Democrat	San Antonio / Bexar		Bexar
H	116	Jan 8, 2019 - Jan 12, 2021	86th	Democrat	San Antonio / Bexar		Bexar

Member profile for Trey Martinez Fischer | Texas Legislative Reference Library

Trey currently serves in the Texas House representing District 116. He was first elected to the Texas House in 2000.

Member profile for Trey Martinez Fischer

2026 Texas General Election

Raising The Minimum Wage

Representative Martinez Fischer firmly believes that no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty. In 2013, Rep martinez Fischer was the driving force behind the most successful push for a minimum wage increase in over a decade. He authored and fought for House Joint Resolution (HJR) 26, a constitutional amendment that would allow for voters to decide on whether to raise minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10.

Rep Martinez Fischer is still committed to the fight for a higher minimum wage for all Texans and has filed a bill this session to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 so that all Texans can live a life of dignity.

Issues | Trey Martinez Fischer

BILLS WE LOVE
BILL: HB 9
RAISING THE BUSINESS PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION

Joint Author: Rep Trey Martinez Fischer

This bill raises the business personal property tax exemption from $2,500 to $125,000. Small businesses are the backbones of our communities. Raising their business personal property tax exemption lowers their tax bills and helps them (and our economy!) thrive.

HB 9 | Trey Martinez Fischer

BILL: SB 4/SJR 2 & SB 23/SJR 85
PROPERTY TAX RELIEF

Joint Sponsor: Rep Trey Martinez Fischer

This bill raises the homestead exemption to $140,000 with an additional $60,000 for disabled people and seniors. Homestead exemptions are one of the most equitable ways to decrease property taxes.

SB 4/SJR 2 & SB 23/SJR 85 | Trey Martinez Fischer

BILLS WE LOVE
BILL: HB 22
ELIMINATION OF INTANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX

Joint Author: Rep Trey Martinez Fischer

This bill reduces unnecessary taxation and creates a more business-friendly environment in Texas. HB 22 also provides more consistency in the Tax Code.

HB 22 | Trey Martinez Fischer

Filed a bill to raise Texas’s minimum wage to $15 by 2025.

Supports raising the minimum wage to $15. 

Joint-authored House Bill 9 (HB 9), which raises the business personal-property tax exemption from $2,500 to $125,000.

Joint-sponsored legislation raising the homestead exemption to $140,000, with an additional $60,000 exemption for seniors and disabled people.

Joint-authored HB 22, which eliminates the intangible personal-property tax.

- Supports raising the minimum wage to $15. 
- Joint-authored House Bill 9 (HB 9), which raises the business personal-property tax exemption from $2,500 to $125,000.
- Joint-sponsored legislation raising the homestead exemption to $140,000, with an additional $60,000 exemption for seniors and disabled people.
- Joint-authored HB 22, which eliminates the intangible personal-property tax.

Economy

Promoting Common Sense Gun Laws

Representative Martinez Fischer Fischer believes that gun violence is a product of social acceptance, and he refuses to believe that we should accept 30,000 gun related deaths a year nationwide, simply due to a fear of political retribution.

Rep Martinez Fischer was the most vocal opponent of both the Open Carry and Campus Carry bills. Despite both bills being forced through the Legislature by large Republican majorities, he was able to amend Campus Carry legislation to allow colleges and universities to determine where on their campuses guns will and will not be allowed.

Rep Martinez Fischer has proudly held a D rating from the NRA, even before his opposition of Campus Carry and Open Carry legislation. He remains committed to stopping bills that would make it easier for individuals to obtain a firearm without going through a proper background check or obtaining a permit.

BILLS WE LOVE
BILL: SB 1555
RAILROAD GRADE SEPARATION PROJECTS

Joint Sponsor: Rep Trey Martinez Fischer

This bill creates a grant program for railroad grade separation projects. Texas has the most public railroad crossings in the country. This increases safety, emergency response times, and economic productivity.

SB 1555 | Trey Martinez Fischer

Opposed Texas legislation allowing people to openly carry guns and carry guns on college campuses, and amended the campus-carry measure to let colleges determine where guns are allowed.

Opposes legislation making it easier to obtain a firearm without a background check or permit.

Joint-sponsored Senate Bill (SB) 1555, which creates grants for railroad grade-separation projects.

- Opposed Texas legislation allowing people to openly carry guns and carry guns on college campuses, and amended the campus-carry measure to let colleges determine where guns are allowed.
- Opposes legislation making it easier to obtain a firearm without a background check or permit.
- Joint-sponsored Senate Bill (SB) 1555, which creates grants for railroad grade-separation projects.

Public Safety

Standing Up for 60,000 Texas Children with Disabilities

In 2013, the Legislature cut $350 million from Medicaid services dedicated to acute therapy for 60,000 of Texas’ disabled children, for one of the worst reasons; because they could. Since, he has fought to see that those vital services would not be lost.

POINT OF ORDER SUSTAINED

HB 2587 by Representative Olcott is a bad bill. It would force hospitals to include a question on their intake form asking for the patient’s citizenship and immigration status. So I raised a Point of Order against it.

Not only did this bill break House rules, it also was anti-immigrant. In hospital settings, we should be asking, “Are you okay? How can I help you?” The last thing we should ask patients for is their papers. This bill would distract hospitals from treating their patients while forcing people into the shadows.

Point of Order Sustained: HB 2587 | Trey Martinez Fischer

Expanding Access to Healthcare

Texas leads the nation with nearly a quarter of its population lacking sufficient health insurance coverage. While the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature refuses to expand healthcare coverage for purely political reasons, despite available funding,Representative Martinez Fischer has fought to expand coverage and create jobs for Texans.

Rep Martinez Fischer believes it is time for leaders to put people over politics and expand health insurance coverage to over 1 million hard-working Texans. That is why he filed HB 116, which would have expanded Medicaid eligibility for Texans and brought $90 billion back to our state to create jobs and alleviate tax burdens on taxpayers and local governments.

Expanding Access to Healthcare

Additionally, Rep Martinez Fischer has filed HB2114 which would enshrine into Texas law protections for individuals with preexisting conditions, no matter what happens to the Affordable Care Act.

Advocates for retaining Medicaid acute-therapy services for disabled children.

Raised a point of order against HB 2587, which would require hospitals to ask patients about citizenship and immigration status.

Filed HB 116 to expand Medicaid eligibility and health insurance coverage in Texas.

Filed HB 2114 to establish state-law protections for people with preexisting conditions.

- Advocates for retaining Medicaid acute-therapy services for disabled children.
- Raised a point of order against HB 2587, which would require hospitals to ask patients about citizenship and immigration status.
- Filed HB 116 to expand Medicaid eligibility and health insurance coverage in Texas.
- Filed HB 2114 to establish state-law protections for people with preexisting conditions.

Healthcare

Funding Our Public Schools

Rep Martinez Fischer is where he is today because of Texas public schools. All children should have the same opportunity.

Known for his strong negotiating skills, in 2013 Rep Martinez Fischer was selected by the Speaker of the House to work out a budget compromise with the Senate, where he was able to secure nearly $4 billion more for public education.

In the last session, when the Legislature passed a budget that left Texas students underfunded, he voted against it – citing the cuts passed by the Texas Senate and the damaging effects that they would have for our schools.

BILLS WE LOVE
BILL: HB 4236
PROPERTY VALUE STUDY

Author: Rep Trey Martinez Fischer

This bill evaluates how the school district property value study impacts school finance and tax bills. It establishes a study group to examine these effects and recommend alternative solutions. We want to make sure that the way we calculate state funding for our schools isn’t shortchanging school districts or hurting our taxpayers.

HB 4236 | Trey Martinez Fischer

Fighting for Our Veterans

In 2011, when Republicans, and even some Democrats, sought to reduce the educational benefits guaranteed to our service members, Rep Martinez Fischer fought against them and won. Since, he has fought to ensure that the education benefits from the Hazlewood Act are preserved and available for veterans and their families.

Secured nearly $4 billion more for public education in a 2013 budget compromise and voted against a later budget he said underfunded students.

Authored HB 4236 to study how school-district property-value calculations affect school funding and tax bills.

Advocates for preserving Hazlewood Act education benefits for veterans and their families.

- Secured nearly $4 billion more for public education in a 2013 budget compromise and voted against a later budget he said underfunded students.
- Authored HB 4236 to study how school-district property-value calculations affect school funding and tax bills.
- Advocates for preserving Hazlewood Act education benefits for veterans and their families.

Education

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Trey Martinez Fischer

- Joint-authored House Bill 9 (HB 9), which raises the business personal-property tax exemption from $2,500 to $125,000.
- Joint-sponsored legislation raising the homestead exemption to $140,000, with an additional $60,000 exemption for seniors and disabled people.
- Joint-authored HB 22, which eliminates the intangible personal-property tax.

- Filed HB 116 to expand Medicaid eligibility and health insurance coverage in Texas.
- Filed HB 2114 to establish state-law protections for people with preexisting conditions.

Trey Martinez Fischer is from San Antonio, Texas. He has a bachelor 27s degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio and a law degree from the University of Texas. He and his wife, Elizabeth Provencio, have two daughters.

Trey is an attorney. He previously worked as an intern at the Texas Attorney General's office. He also worked at Oak Farms Dairy. 

Trey Martinez Fischer | 2024 candidate for Texas House District 116

Trey is currently a member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 116. He was first elected to the Texas House in 2012. He previously served in the Texas House from 2001 to 2009.

Texas Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer - Texas Tribune Directory

Supports women and minority-owned businesses.

Supports increasing the business personal property tax exemption from $2,500 to $125,000.

Supports reducing taxes to create a more business-friendly environment.

Opposes open carry and campus carry bills.

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