2026 Texas General Election

Shelley Luther

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Shelley Luther has a bachelor 27s degree. She and her husband, Tim Georgeff, live just outside Tom Bean, Texas. They are members of King 27s Trail Cowboy Church.

Rep. Shelley Luther - Texas State Directory Online

State Rep. Shelley Luther - Texas Policy Research

Shelley is a small business owner and former school teacher. She owns and operates a hair salon. She and her husband also run a horse and animal rescue. 

Texas House of Representatives District 62 - Ballotpedia

Shelley is currently a Texas state representative for District 62. She was elected in 2024 and is serving her first term.

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Supports mandating E-Verify, a system that confirms the immigration status of employees, for all employers in Texas, with strict penalties for non-compliance.

Supports ending all subsidies and public services, including in-state college tuition and enrollment in public schools, for undocumented immigrants, except for emergency medical care.

Supports banning taxpayer-funded lobbying, including using tax dollars to hire lobbyists and pay associations that lobby the Legislature.

Supports banning the sale of real property in Texas, and discontinuing taxpayer funding and incentives, to governments, entities, and proxies of China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, and to individuals from these nations who are not legal permanent residents or citizens of the United States.

Supports banning taxes on investment gains.

Economy

Supports the 287(g) program, which allows and requires local law enforcement in Texas to work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport undocumented immigrants.

As a state senator, sponsored Senate Bill (SB) 4 to increase property tax exemptions for homeowners and seniors over 65.

Public Safety

Opposes vaccine mandates by public or private entities.

Co-authored legislation that prohibits discrimination against unvaccinated patients in need of organ transplants.

As a state representative, co-authored House Bill (HB) 4535, which mandates informed consent prior to administering a COVID-19 vaccine.

As a state senator, sponsored Senate Bill (SB) 4 to increase property tax exemptions for homes from $100,000 to $140,000 and for seniors over 65 years of age from $200,000 to $400,000.

Healthcare

Supports providing parents funding to choose their child's school, especially for low-income families and children with disabilities.

Supports banning instruction on sexual orientation and gender in schools and libraries.

Supports establishing an independent Inspector General for Education to investigate fraud, waste, abuse, and criminal conduct within schools.

Supports legislation that requires school superintendents to report sex crimes in schools to external law enforcement and seeks to remove legal immunity for schools and their employees in such cases.

Supports funding for pre-kindergarten and early learning programs.

As a state senator, sponsored Senate Bill (SB) 10, which allows the Ten Commandments to be displayed in schools.

As a state senator, supported Senate Bill (SB) 11, which allows school prayer.

As a state senator, sponsored Senate Bill (SB) 17, which bans "the CCP and other adversaries from owning land in Texas."

Education

As of July 22, 2026, Shelley Luther’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Energy & the Environment

Supports requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Supports mandatory photo identification for every election.

Supports restricting mail-in ballots to disabled, military, and eligible citizens who are out of their county for the entire voting period.

Supports using only hand-marked, sequentially numbered paper ballots that are signed by an election official at the voting location.

Supports standardizing in-person voting with a maximum of nine days of early voting, no gap before Election Day, and assigned-precinct voting locations.

Supports allowing voters to use a "dumb-scanner" to count ballots in precincts.

Supports closing party primaries to only registered Republicans.

Voting & Elections

Catherine Thorne

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