2026 Texas General Election

Lauren Ashley Simmons

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Supports increasing Texas’ minimum wage to $15/hour and indexing it for inflation.

Supports paid sick leave and paid family and medical leave for Texas workers.

Supports protecting workers at risk of job loss from AI and automation by mandating no-cost retraining and training for new jobs created by technology.

Supports stopping attacks on workers' right to organize.

Supports protecting public sector pension funds and providing retirement security for all workers.

Supports leveraging funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act to create hundreds of thousands of jobs for the regional economy.

Economy

Supports decriminalizing marijuana possession and regulating it like alcohol.

Supports improving police accountability by ending qualified immunity, appointing independent investigators for police-involved shootings, reforming body camera footage release rules, and enhancing data collection to identify patterns of unlawful bias.

For Candidate Lauren Ashley Simmons on Issue public-safety:  
Highlights the increased risk of homicide for women abused by partners who own firearms.

Supports increasing stable government funding for domestic violence service providers, including shelters, crisis centers, legal assistance, and mental health services.

Supports common sense gun safety reforms, including an assault weapons ban, universal background checks, red flag laws, raising the minimum age to buy a gun, and safe storage requirements.

For Candidate Lauren Ashley Simmons on Issue public-safety:  
Supports restoring local control over gun regulations in cities and counties.

Public Safety

Supports universal access to quality, affordable healthcare and mental health care.

Aims to accept Medicaid expansion to restore coverage for Texans who lost insurance.

Supports repealing Texas' abortion ban and removing unnecessary restrictions on abortion access, emphasizing that healthcare decisions should be made by patients and their doctors without government interference.

Supports repealing Texas' ban on gender-affirming care for minors and advocates for parental rights in healthcare decisions without government interference.

Healthcare

Supports increasing wages for teachers and educational support personnel to attract and retain quality staff.

Supports ending Texas' over-reliance on high-stakes standardized testing.

Supports spending public dollars on public schools and opposes private schools or voucher schemes.

Opposes government-sanctioned censorship in education, including book bans and restrictions on teaching critical race theory and Black history.

Wants to replace the $300 million in cuts to children's special education funding and provide adequate supports for all people with disabilities.

Supports restoring control of HISD to democratically elected officials and unwinding the damage caused by the TEA takeover.

Education

As of July 22, 2026, Lauren Ashley Simmons’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Energy & the Environment

Supports same-day voter registration, universal mail-ballot voting, and protections for voter registrants against criminal penalties related to confusing regulations.

Supports creating a nonpartisan redistricting commission to end unconstitutional gerrymandering in Texas.

Voting & Elections

Alexandria Nicole Butler

- Your state representative represents the interests of your local district in the Texas House of Representatives. The State House of Representatives, along with the State Senate, makes up your state lawmaking body: the Texas State Legislature
- Your state representative can author, sponsor, and vote on bills that may become state laws. 
- There are 150 members of the Texas House of Representatives, each representing a single district. Representatives must be at least 21 years old and reside in the state for at least two years before their election. 
- State representatives are elected to two-year terms during even-numbered years. There are no term limits. 
- State representatives make $7,200 annually in addition to a $221 payment per day during legislative sessions and mileage reimbursements.

Your representative and state lawmaker in the Texas House of Representatives.