Chris Jimenez - Ballotpedia

Chris Jimenez earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Phoenix. He is a married father.

Chris is a U.S. Marine Veteran and small business owner

Chris is a first-time candidate for political office.

2026 Texas General Election

Create tiered incentives for employers that provide any qualified health benefit and support Direct Primary Care (DPC) options alongside coverage to improve access and reduce downstream costs.

Chris Jimenez for HD 52 | Priorities

Affordable Housing & Property Taxes

Fight for fair property tax policy that doesn’t push long-time residents out of their homes.

Streamline local permitting processes and reduce unnecessary regulations to increase housing supply and make homes more affordable for working families.

Lower the current 20% cap on how much a rental property’s taxable value can go up each year for landlords who charge fair-market rent or less. That way, renters are less likely to end up paying more than 40% of their income on housing and utilities, and responsible landlords get a break on their property tax bill.

Food Security & Local Agriculture

Support urban agriculture and community gardens to increase local food production, provide hands-on education, and expand access to fresh produce in neighborhoods with limited grocery options.

Provide property tax relief or incentives for farms that produce food for local markets, helping family farms stay viable while strengthening regional food systems.

Support agricultural workforce development with training programs, apprenticeships, and partnerships that prepare young people for careers in farming, ranching, food production, and agribusiness.

Keep public dollars local. Prioritize state and local contracting opportunities for Texas small businesses and entrepreneurs so more of our tax dollars stay in our communities.

Streamline rules without weakening protections. Remove duplicative or outdated regulations and fees while maintaining common-sense worker and consumer safeguards.

Respect for Workers

Support policies that raise wages so full-time work can reliably cover basics like housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation and prevent families from falling behind as costs rise.

Strengthen workplace safety and enforcement so that hard work in Texas is rewarded with stability, respect, and a real chance to get ahead.

Protect Texans’ right to organize and speak up on the job so the people who keep our economy running have a real voice in the decisions that affect their pay, safety, and livelihoods.

Proposes tiered employer incentives for qualified health benefits and Direct Primary Care options.

Advocates for property-tax policies that help long-term residents remain in their homes.

Proposes streamlining local permitting and reducing unnecessary regulations to increase housing supply and affordability.

Proposes lowering the annual taxable-value increase cap for rental properties charging fair-market rent or less.

Supports urban agriculture and community gardens to expand local food production and fresh-food access.

Proposes property-tax relief or incentives for farms producing food for local markets.

Supports agricultural workforce programs, apprenticeships, and partnerships for careers in farming, ranching, food production, and agribusiness.

Prioritizes state and local contracting opportunities for Texas small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Supports removing duplicative regulations and fees while maintaining worker and consumer protections.

Supports policies to raise wages so full-time work covers basic living costs.

Supports stronger workplace-safety enforcement.

Supports Texans' rights to organize and speak up at work.

- Proposes tiered employer incentives for qualified health benefits and Direct Primary Care options.
- Advocates for property-tax policies that help long-term residents remain in their homes.
- Proposes streamlining local permitting and reducing unnecessary regulations to increase housing supply and affordability.
- Proposes lowering the annual taxable-value increase cap for rental properties charging fair-market rent or less.
- Supports urban agriculture and community gardens to expand local food production and fresh-food access.
- Proposes property-tax relief or incentives for farms producing food for local markets.
- Supports agricultural workforce programs, apprenticeships, and partnerships for careers in farming, ranching, food production, and agribusiness.
- Prioritizes state and local contracting opportunities for Texas small businesses and entrepreneurs.
- Supports removing duplicative regulations and fees while maintaining worker and consumer protections.
- Supports policies to raise wages so full-time work covers basic living costs.
- Supports stronger workplace-safety enforcement.
- Supports Texans' rights to organize and speak up at work.

Economy

Cut recidivism through re-entry, employment, and stability supports. Expand education, workforce training, job placement, transitional housing, and case-management services for formerly incarcerated Texans so people have a real path forward instead of a revolving door back into the system.

Public Safety & Stability

Communities are safest when officers are well-trained and well-supported, behavioral-health needs are treated early, survivors are protected, and public systems are transparent, fair, and accountable.

Chris supports law enforcement and investing in a public-safety strategy that prevents harm before it happens, responds effectively when crises occur, and builds lasting trust between residents and the institutions meant to protect them.

Public Safety Rooted in Prevention

Treat mental health and substance-use crises as public-safety priorities. Expand access to crisis response teams, counseling, and long-term recovery services so people in acute behavioral-health crisis are met first with care and clinical support—not unnecessary incarceration.

Equip officers with the training, tools, and standards to serve effectively. Invest in continuous professional training, including de-escalation, trauma-informed response, and mental-health crisis intervention, alongside clear performance standards, transparent reporting, and meaningful accountability.

Strengthen domestic-violence prevention and survivor protection. Increase funding for shelters, trauma counseling, legal advocacy, and coordinated safety planning, while expanding access to evidence-based intervention programs that reduce repeat violence and improve long-term outcomes.

Supports reentry services including education, job placement, housing, and case management for formerly incarcerated Texans.

Believes in reentry services including education, job placement, housing, and case management for formerly incarcerated Texans.

Supports law enforcement and a public-safety strategy focused on prevention, crisis response, and public trust.

Supports crisis-response teams, counseling, and recovery services rather than unnecessary incarceration during behavioral-health crises.

Supports police training in de-escalation, trauma-informed response, and mental-health crisis intervention, alongside accountability measures.

Supports increased funding for domestic-violence shelters, trauma counseling, legal advocacy, safety planning, and intervention programs.

- Believes in reentry services including education, job placement, housing, and case management for formerly incarcerated Texans.
- Supports law enforcement and a public-safety strategy focused on prevention, crisis response, and public trust.
- Supports crisis-response teams, counseling, and recovery services rather than unnecessary incarceration during behavioral-health crises.
- Supports police training in de-escalation, trauma-informed response, and mental-health crisis intervention, alongside accountability measures.
- Supports increased funding for domestic-violence shelters, trauma counseling, legal advocacy, safety planning, and intervention programs.

Public Safety

Access to Basic Healthcare

Expand Medicaid so that working adults who fall in the coverage gap—earning too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to afford insurance—can access basic preventative care like cancer screenings, manage chronic conditions, and fill prescriptions without choosing between medication and their rent or mortgage payment.

Normalize mental health as part of preventive care so that people are more likely to ask for help early. This drives earlier intervention, better outcomes, and lower long-term costs.

Push for further expansion of maternal and postpartum care to reduce complications, improve outcomes, and support healthy families.

The Freedom to make Personal Healthcare Decisions

Keep government out of the exam room. Protect the right of Texans to make private healthcare decisions based on medical expertise, facts and personal circumstances—not political mandates.

Protect patient and physician autonomy. Ensure doctors can provide medically appropriate care and patients can receive it without fear, delays, or politically driven interference that increases risk and undermines informed consent.

Supports expanding Medicaid coverage for working adults in the coverage gap.

Seeks to expand Medicaid coverage for working adults who earn too much to qualify for medicaid but not enough to afford insurance.

Advocates for treating mental health as part of preventive care.

Advocates for further expansion of maternal and postpartum care.

Supports Texans' ability to make private health care decisions based on medical expertise and personal circumstances rather than political mandates.

Supports patient and physician autonomy in medically appropriate care.

- Seeks to expand Medicaid coverage for working adults who earn too much to qualify for medicaid but not enough to afford insurance.
- Advocates for treating mental health as part of preventive care.
- Advocates for further expansion of maternal and postpartum care.
- Supports Texans' ability to make private health care decisions based on medical expertise and personal circumstances rather than political mandates.
- Supports patient and physician autonomy in medically appropriate care.

Healthcare

Increase the basic allotment so school funding keeps pace with inflation—giving every student access to great teachers, safe classrooms, and the resources they need to succeed.

Keep public dollars in public schools. Ensure our public schools are fully funded, and reject any program that shifts funding to private schools at the expense of our local ISDs.

Defend religious freedom and the separation of church and state. Our public schools should welcome every student without imposing any religion in the classroom.

Higher Education

Expand school-based and community partnerships that address food insecurity, reliable transportation, and access to child care for student-parents.

Defend free speech and academic freedom on college campuses. Protect students’ right to express their views and peacefully protest, and faculty’s right to teach.

Improve access to reliable high-speed internet and modern hybrid learning infrastructure so students can stay on track academically without being penalized for where they live, the hours they work, or the responsibilities they carry at home.

Proposes increasing the basic allotment to keep school funding aligned with inflation.

Supports fully funding public schools and rejects programs that shift public-school funding to private schools.

Supports religious freedom and separation of church and state in public schools.

Supports school and community partnerships addressing food insecurity, transportation, and child care for student parents.

Supports free speech, peaceful protest, and academic freedom for students and faculty on college campuses.

Supports reliable high-speed internet and hybrid-learning infrastructure for students.

- Proposes increasing the basic allotment to keep school funding aligned with inflation.
- Supports fully funding public schools and rejects programs that shift public-school funding to private schools.
- Supports religious freedom and separation of church and state in public schools.
- Supports school and community partnerships addressing food insecurity, transportation, and child care for student parents.
- Supports free speech, peaceful protest, and academic freedom for students and faculty on college campuses.
- Supports reliable high-speed internet and hybrid-learning infrastructure for students.

Education

Protect Texas rivers, aquifers, and rural wells. Strengthen groundwater management, require responsible permitting and mitigation for high-impact projects, and protect recharge zones to prevent over-pumping and long-term supply degradation.

Clean air, clean water, and resilient communities should be treated as core economic priorities. Chris will push for transparency and accountability for high-demand projects, a weather-ready power grid, long-term drought preparedness through conservation and supply investments, and protection of water resources by strengthening groundwater safeguards, and enforcement to reduce pollution and emissions as Texas grows.

Sustainable Growth: Transparency

Push for clear, public transparency requirements for large water and energy users—like data centers—so residents can see how much water is being consumed, when electricity demand peaks, what upgrades are needed, and who pays for them.

Plan for growth responsibly. Ensure large new loads, especially high-demand industrial facilities and data centers, pay their fair share for needed infrastructure and reliability improvements.

Disaster & Infrastructure Preparedness

Build a resilient, weather-ready power grid. Prioritize reliability upgrades that keep the lights on during extreme heat and winter storms, with clear performance standards and consequences for repeated failures.

Drought Preparedness by investing in long-term supply and reliability. Strengthen statewide drought preparedness by funding conservation, reuse, efficiency, and regional projects that protect Texas’ water future for families, agriculture, and business.

Water Security & Air Quality

Safeguard communities during rapid growth. Require environmental impact reviews and public notice for high-pollution projects, and ensure local residents have a meaningful voice before permits are issued or expanded.

Reduce exposure to harmful emissions and dust. Support targeted measures that limit particulate pollution and toxic exposure, especially in areas near concrete batch plants, construction zones, and major roadways, through stronger permitting conditions, operational best practices, and compliance inspections.

Supports stronger groundwater management, responsible permitting, mitigation, and recharge-zone protections for high-impact projects.

Wants stronger groundwater management, responsible permitting, mitigation, and recharge-zone protections for high-impact projects.

Plans to pursue a weather-ready power grid, drought preparedness, groundwater safeguards, and pollution enforcement.

Advocates for public reporting by large water and energy users on consumption, peak demand, infrastructure upgrades, and costs.

Supports requiring high-demand industrial facilities and data centers to pay for infrastructure and grid-reliability improvements.

Supports weather-ready grid upgrades, performance standards, and consequences for repeated reliability failures.

Supports funding water conservation, reuse, efficiency, and regional projects for statewide drought preparedness.

Supports environmental-impact reviews, public notice, and community input before permits for high-pollution projects are issued or expanded.

Supports stronger permitting conditions, operating practices, and inspections to limit particulate pollution and toxic exposure.

- Wants stronger groundwater management, responsible permitting, mitigation, and recharge-zone protections for high-impact projects.
- Plans to pursue a weather-ready power grid, drought preparedness, groundwater safeguards, and pollution enforcement.
- Advocates for public reporting by large water and energy users on consumption, peak demand, infrastructure upgrades, and costs.
- Supports requiring high-demand industrial facilities and data centers to pay for infrastructure and grid-reliability improvements.
- Supports weather-ready grid upgrades, performance standards, and consequences for repeated reliability failures.
- Supports funding water conservation, reuse, efficiency, and regional projects for statewide drought preparedness.
- Supports environmental-impact reviews, public notice, and community input before permits for high-pollution projects are issued or expanded.
- Supports stronger permitting conditions, operating practices, and inspections to limit particulate pollution and toxic exposure.

Energy & the Environment

Voting Rights & Fair Maps

Protect equal access to the ballot box. Guarantee every eligible Texan can register and vote without needless barriers, intimidation, or partisan interference.

Fight for fair maps that reflect communities instead of politicians’ self-interest, and defend the basic democratic norm that winners take office and losers concede.

Strengthen whistleblower and anti-retaliation protections. Ensure Texans can report misconduct and demand transparency from elected officials and government agencies without retaliation.

Supports equal ballot access for every eligible Texan without unnecessary barriers, intimidation, or partisan interference.

Advocates for electoral maps that reflect communities and for losing candidates to concede results.

Supports stronger whistleblower and anti-retaliation protections for people reporting government misconduct.

- Supports equal ballot access for every eligible Texan without unnecessary barriers, intimidation, or partisan interference.
- Advocates for electoral maps that reflect communities and for losing candidates to concede results.
- Supports stronger whistleblower and anti-retaliation protections for people reporting government misconduct.

Voting & Elections

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Chris Jimenez

- Advocates for property-tax policies that help long-term residents remain in their homes.
- Proposes streamlining local permitting and reducing unnecessary regulations to increase housing supply and affordability.
- Proposes lowering the annual taxable-value increase cap for rental properties charging fair-market rent or less.
- Supports urban agriculture and community gardens to expand local food production and fresh-food access.
- Proposes property-tax relief or incentives for farms producing food for local markets.
- Supports agricultural workforce programs, apprenticeships, and partnerships for careers in farming, ranching, food production, and agribusiness.
- Prioritizes state and local contracting opportunities for Texas small businesses and entrepreneurs.
- Supports removing duplicative regulations and fees while maintaining worker and consumer protections.
- Supports policies to raise wages so full-time work covers basic living costs.
- Supports stronger workplace-safety enforcement.
- Supports Texans' rights to organize and speak up at work.

- Supports law enforcement and a public-safety strategy focused on prevention, crisis response, and public trust.
- Supports crisis-response teams, counseling, and recovery services rather than unnecessary incarceration during behavioral-health crises.
- Supports police training in de-escalation, trauma-informed response, and mental-health crisis intervention, alongside accountability measures.
- Supports increased funding for domestic-violence shelters, trauma counseling, legal advocacy, safety planning, and intervention programs.

- Advocates for treating mental health as part of preventive care.
- Advocates for further expansion of maternal and postpartum care.
- Supports Texans' ability to make private health care decisions based on medical expertise and personal circumstances rather than political mandates.
- Supports patient and physician autonomy in medically appropriate care.

- Supports fully funding public schools and rejects programs that shift public-school funding to private schools.
- Supports religious freedom and separation of church and state in public schools.
- Supports school and community partnerships addressing food insecurity, transportation, and child care for student parents.
- Supports free speech, peaceful protest, and academic freedom for students and faculty on college campuses.
- Supports reliable high-speed internet and hybrid-learning infrastructure for students.

- Plans to pursue a weather-ready power grid, drought preparedness, groundwater safeguards, and pollution enforcement.
- Advocates for public reporting by large water and energy users on consumption, peak demand, infrastructure upgrades, and costs.
- Supports requiring high-demand industrial facilities and data centers to pay for infrastructure and grid-reliability improvements.
- Supports weather-ready grid upgrades, performance standards, and consequences for repeated reliability failures.
- Supports funding water conservation, reuse, efficiency, and regional projects for statewide drought preparedness.
- Supports environmental-impact reviews, public notice, and community input before permits for high-pollution projects are issued or expanded.
- Supports stronger permitting conditions, operating practices, and inspections to limit particulate pollution and toxic exposure.

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Chris is a small business owner. He works at his rural farm in Williamson County, where he produces pecans and other crops. He previously served in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Chris Jimenez - Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee

Chris Jimenez's campaign for Texas State Representative, District 52 is his first entry into politics.

Supports providing property tax relief or incentives for farms that produce food for local markets.

Supports labor unions and workers' rights.

Supports creating tiered incentives for employers offering qualified health benefits and Direct Primary Care (DPC) options to improve access and reduce overall healthcare costs.

Supports reducing unnecessary regulations and fees.

Supports strengthening workplace safety and enforcement to ensure hard work is rewarded with stability, respect, and economic advancement.

Supports policies that raise wages to ensure full-time work covers essential costs like housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation, preventing families from falling behind.

Supports streamlining local permitting processes and reducing regulations to increase housing supply and make homes more affordable for working families.

Supports lowering the cap on annual increases of rental property’s taxable value for landlords who charge fair-market rent or less.

Supports equipping officers with training, tools, and standards to serve effectively.

Supports strengthening domestic violence prevention and survivor protection by increasing funding for shelters, trauma counseling, legal advocacy, and safety planning, and expanding access to evidence-based intervention programs.

Supports reducing repeat offenses by providing re-entry, employment, and stability supports, and expanding education, workforce training, job placement, transitional housing, and case-management services for formerly incarcerated individuals.

Supports law enforcement and wants to invest in a public-safety strategy that prevents harm, responds effectively to crises, and builds trust between residents and protective institutions.

Supports expanding maternal and postpartum care to improve outcomes and support healthy families.

Supports normalizing mental health care as preventive care to encourage early help-seeking, leading to better outcomes and lower long-term costs.

Supports the separation of church and state.

Supports improving access to high-speed internet and hybrid learning infrastructure for students.

Supports protecting free speech and academic freedom on college campuses.

Supports expanding school-based and community partnerships to address food insecurity, transportation, and child care for student-parents.

Supports strengthening groundwater management, responsible permitting for high-impact projects, and protecting recharge zones to prevent over-pumping and long-term supply degradation.

Supports building a resilient, weather-ready power grid and wants to prioritize reliability upgrades that keep the lights on during extreme heat and winter storms, with clear performance standards and consequences for repeated failures.

Supports investing in long-term water supply and reliability.

Supports requiring environmental impact reviews and public notice for high-pollution projects and ensuring local residents have a voice before permits are issued or expanded.

Supports measures to reduce pollution and toxic exposure, particularly near concrete batch plants, construction zones, and major roadways, through stronger permitting, best practices, and compliance inspections.

Supports accessible voting for all eligible Texans without "needless barriers, intimidation, or partisan interference."

Supports fair district mapping and upholding the democratic principle of conceding by the losing candidate.

Chris is the owner and operator of a rural pecan farm in Williamson County. He works on the farm, where he produces and sells pecans and other crops. He previously served in the United States Marine Corps.

Chris Jimenez’s campaign for Texas State Representative, District 52 is his first entry into politics.

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Supports providing property tax relief or incentives for farms that produce food for local markets, helping family farms stay viable while strengthening regional food systems.

Supports streamlining rules and removing outdated regulations and fees.

Supports raising wages to ensure full-time work covers essential costs like housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation, preventing families from falling behind.

Supports expanding access to crisis response teams, counseling, and long-term recovery services to provide care and clinical support for individuals in acute behavioral-health crises, rather than resorting to incarceration.

Supports law enforcement and wants to invest in a public-safety strategy that prevents harm, responds effectively to crises, and builds lasting trust between residents and protective institutions.

Supports expanding maternal and postpartum care to improve health outcomes and support families.

Opposes political mandates in healthcare, advocating for private healthcare decisions guided by medical expertise and personal circumstances.

Supports increasing the basic allotment for schools to ensure funding keeps pace with inflation, providing all students access to quality teachers, safe environments, and necessary resources.

Supports improving access to high-speed internet and modern hybrid learning infrastructure for students.

Supports defending free speech and academic freedom on college campuses.

Supports reducing exposure to harmful emissions and dust through stronger permitting, operational best practices, and compliance inspections, especially near concrete batch plants, construction zones, and major roadways.

Supports protecting Texas rivers, aquifers, and rural wells.

Supports accessible voting for all Texans without "needless barriers, intimidation, or partisan interference."

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