Meet Diana: I am in a native Abilenian. I was born at Hendrick hospital. I was one of the first students at Ortiz Elementary and I graduated from Cooper high School.( Go Coogs!) When we were able to buy a home, I wanted to buy a house in AISD because I am proud of my public school heritage in this community.

Diana Luna Democrat for House District 71

Diana Luna is from Abilene, where she was born at Hendrick Hospital. She graduated from Cooper High School.

I've worked in non-profit for the last almost 20 years . I've operated, supervised and audited non profit programs, many of which rely on government funding. I know first hand how good and bad policy effects real people. I have been a local organizer with the Liberal Mom's of Abilene group , Taylor County Democratic party and honestly anywhere I feel I can help.

Diana currently works in the nonprofit sector.

Texas House of Representatives District 71 - Ballotpedia

Diana is a first-time candidate for political office.

2026 Texas General Election

We support expanding investment into refurbishing existing vacant homes and reforming exclusionary zoning laws that block the construction of diverse, affordable housing options.

Rental Relief and Stability: Approximately 4 million Texas households, almost 40%, rent their homes. According to a study by Princeton University, evictions in 2024 spiked past pre-pandemic levels in many major cities, and Abilene is no different. I would work with the State Legislature to strengthen the current Texas "Renter's Bill of Rights ", that would include statewide legal protections against exorbitant and predatory rent increases.

It would provide legal resources for families who are facing eviction or landlord abuses. And it would explore providing targeted rent relief for long-term residents facing displacement due to increased commercial redevelopment that prices long-time residents out of the homes they’re lived in for years under the guise of “urban renewal” or “neighborhood revitalization”.

Dramatically increasing state investment into affordable housing trusts and incentivizing counties and companies to rehab these existing structures and to build new units specifically for working-class and middle-income Texans (like teachers, nurses, and first responders) would both help alleviate the issue of housing insecurity in our state, but study released by the Texas State Comptroller’s Office shows that a lack of affordable housing is directly leading to an estimated loss of $1.6T to the national GDP each year.

Path to Homeownership: Create a First-Time Texas Buyer's Fund to provide down payment and closing cost assistance, especially for families who have been historically locked out of the housing market.

And fight back against legislation that allows banks to potentially make 50-year mortgages the standard, which would stand to only benefit banks, lenders, and home builders while increasing the already heavy financial burden on homeowners forced to pay far more in interest before they even begin paying on principal, which would be yet another deterrent to home ownership for Texans.

Fair Pay for a Fair Day: Raising Wages and Fighting Corporate Greed. Wages have been stagnant while the cost of living—especially housing and groceries—has skyrocketed. The minimum wage in Texas remains at the 2009 level of $7.25/hr. According to the Department of Health and Human Services’ own 2025 Poverty Guidelines, this falls below what they consider a “poverty wage” for a single adult with 0 children in Texas. We will ensure that Texas workers earn a wage they can actually live on, which in turn would further stimulate the economy and increase sales tax revenue, which would provide more funding for the State to use on other initiatives to help the poor and working class.

Protect Workers' Rights: Reverse policies that weaken Texas workers' ability to organize and bargain for fair wages, benefits, and working conditions. Companies that fight against their worker unionizing are fighting against their workers to protect their own interests. Unions are why we now have things like workplace safety regulations, child labor laws, regulations against worker exploitation, and the minimum wage to begin with.

End Corporate Exploitation: Hold large corporations and big box stores accountable for price gouging and using inflated prices to boost record profits. We will strengthen consumer protection laws to bring down the cost of essential goods like groceries.

Supports investment in refurbishing vacant homes and reforming zoning laws that limit diverse affordable-housing construction.

Proposes strengthening the Texas Renter's Bill of Rights with protections against predatory rent increases, eviction legal resources, and targeted rent relief.

Advocates increasing investments in affordable-housing trusts and incentivizing rehabilitation and construction of homes for working-class and middle-income Texans.

Proposes a First-Time Texas Buyer's Fund for down-payment and closing-cost assistance.

Opposes legislation that would make 50-year mortgages a standard option.

Supports wages that Texas workers can live on.

Advocates reversing policies that weaken workers' ability to organize and bargain over wages, benefits, and working conditions.

Calls for stronger consumer-protection laws to hold large corporations accountable for price gouging and lower essential-goods costs.

- Supports investment in refurbishing vacant homes and reforming zoning laws that limit diverse affordable-housing construction.
- Proposes strengthening the Texas Renter's Bill of Rights with protections against predatory rent increases, eviction legal resources, and targeted rent relief.
- Advocates increasing investments in affordable-housing trusts and incentivizing rehabilitation and construction of homes for working-class and middle-income Texans.
- Proposes a First-Time Texas Buyer's Fund for down-payment and closing-cost assistance.
- Opposes legislation that would make 50-year mortgages a standard option.
- Supports wages that Texas workers can live on.
- Advocates reversing policies that weaken workers' ability to organize and bargain over wages, benefits, and working conditions.
- Calls for stronger consumer-protection laws to hold large corporations accountable for price gouging and lower essential-goods costs.

Economy

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

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Healthcare

Pillar 1: Direct Funding and Finance Reform. The primary legislative action would be to structurally increase the state's financial contribution to public education, decreasing reliance on local property taxes.

Boost the Basic Allotment (BA): Enact a substantial and immediate increase to the Basic Allotment (the core per-student funding amount) to account for recent inflation and rising operational costs.

Indexing for Inflation: Establish a mechanism to automatically adjust the BA annually based on the Consumer Price Index or a similar measure of economic growth to prevent future purchasing power erosion.

Boost the Basic Allotment (BA): Enact a substantial and immediate increase to the Basic Allotment (the core per-student funding amount) to account for recent inflation and rising operational costs.

Indexing for Inflation: Establish a mechanism to automatically adjust the BA annually based on the Consumer Price Index or a similar measure of economic growth to prevent future purchasing power erosion.

Prevent Voucher Programs: Legislate a permanent block on any new or existing school voucher or "Education Savings Account" (ESA) program, ensuring all public funds are dedicated exclusively to the public school system.

Indexing for Inflation: Establish a mechanism to automatically adjust the BA annually based on the Consumer Price Index or a similar measure of economic growth to prevent future purchasing power erosion.

Prevent Voucher Programs: Legislate a permanent block on any new or existing school voucher or "Education Savings Account" (ESA) program, ensuring all public funds are dedicated exclusively to the public school system.

Special Education Funding: Overhaul the special education finance system to adopt a higher-weighted, needs-based model that funds services based on the intensity of a student's required support, rather than the current system's historical inadequacy.

Compensatory Education: Increase the funding weight for educationally disadvantaged students (e.g., low-income, limited English proficiency) to better fund intensive academic support, tutoring, and behavioral health services.

Early Childhood Education: Expand the state allotment to fund and mandate full-day Pre-K for all three- and four-year-olds, prioritizing early literacy and numeracy to close achievement gaps.

Mandatory Statewide Salary Increase: Implement a state-funded, mandatory, and significant salary increase for all public school teachers, bringing Texas teacher pay competitive with the national average.

Support Staff Compensation: Provide state funding to increase salaries for other essential staff, including bus drivers, nurses, and instructional aides.

Mandatory Statewide Salary Increase: Implement a state-funded, mandatory, and significant salary increase for all public school teachers, bringing Texas teacher pay competitive with the national average.

Support Staff Compensation: Provide state funding to increase salaries for other essential staff, including bus drivers, nurses, and instructional aides.

Teacher Pipeline: Create a dedicated state allotment to fund teacher residency programs and high-quality mentorship initiatives focused on recruiting and retaining educators in high-need subjects and rural areas.

Support Staff Compensation: Provide state funding to increase salaries for other essential staff, including bus drivers, nurses, and instructional aides.

Teacher Pipeline: Create a dedicated state allotment to fund teacher residency programs and high-quality mentorship initiatives focused on recruiting and retaining educators in high-need subjects and rural areas.

Corporate Franchise Tax Reform: Review and reform the state's corporate franchise tax by closing loopholes and/or adjusting the rate to ensure large corporations contribute more substantially to the state's general revenue fund.

Dedicated Severance Tax: Dedicate a greater percentage of state oil and gas severance tax revenue directly to the Permanent School Fund or the state's Foundation School Program

Proposes increasing and annually indexing the Basic Allotment, the core per-student funding amount, for inflation.

Opposes school voucher and Education Savings Account programs and calls for public education funding to remain exclusively in public schools.

Proposes a higher-weighted, needs-based special-education funding model based on the intensity of required student support.

Supports increasing funding weights for educationally disadvantaged students for academic support, tutoring, and behavioral-health services.

Proposes state-funded, mandatory full-day prekindergarten for all three- and four-year-olds.

Proposes state-funded salary increases for public-school teachers and other essential school staff.

Proposes a dedicated state allotment for teacher residency and mentorship programs in high-need subjects and rural areas.

Proposes reforming the corporate franchise tax so large corporations contribute more to Texas general revenue.

Supports dedicating a greater share of oil and gas severance-tax revenue to Texas public-school funds.

- Proposes increasing and annually indexing the Basic Allotment, the core per-student funding amount, for inflation.
- Opposes school voucher and Education Savings Account programs and calls for public education funding to remain exclusively in public schools.
- Proposes a higher-weighted, needs-based special-education funding model based on the intensity of required student support.
- Supports increasing funding weights for educationally disadvantaged students for academic support, tutoring, and behavioral-health services.
- Proposes state-funded, mandatory full-day prekindergarten for all three- and four-year-olds.
- Proposes state-funded salary increases for public-school teachers and other essential school staff.
- Proposes a dedicated state allotment for teacher residency and mentorship programs in high-need subjects and rural areas.
- Proposes reforming the corporate franchise tax so large corporations contribute more to Texas general revenue.
- Supports dedicating a greater share of oil and gas severance-tax revenue to Texas public-school funds.

Education

Make Corporations Pay Their Fair Share: Repeal or reform corporate tax giveaways, especially those given to high-energy-consumption industries like data centers, and redirect those funds to lower utility costs for residential customers.

Replacing Chapter 313, which was a major tax giveaway to corporations, with the Jobs, Energy, Technology, and innovation Act was a good first step, because it provided far more restrictions as well as oversight on who and how these incentives could be used, but there is still more work to be done.

Utility Ratepayer Protection: Implement an "Affordable Utilities Cap" to prevent sudden, devastating spikes in residential electricity and water bills. A major part of that would be to fix our insufficient power grid. Invest state funds into modernizing the Texas power grid, prioritizing resiliency, and holding energy providers accountable to residential customers, not just corporate profit margins.

Fund robust weatherization programs for low-income homes to permanently reduce utility consumption and save money as well as reduce the overall stress on the grid itself, which benefits all users.

Proposes reforming corporate tax incentives for energy-intensive industries and directing the revenue toward lowering residential utility costs.

Proposes an "Affordable Utilities Cap" to prevent sudden increases in residential electricity and water bills.

Advocates state investment to modernize the Texas power grid, prioritize resiliency, and hold energy providers accountable to residential customers.

Supports weatherization programs for low-income homes to reduce utility use and demand on the power grid.

- Proposes reforming corporate tax incentives for energy-intensive industries and directing the revenue toward lowering residential utility costs.
- Proposes an "Affordable Utilities Cap" to prevent sudden increases in residential electricity and water bills.
- Advocates state investment to modernize the Texas power grid, prioritize resiliency, and hold energy providers accountable to residential customers.
- Supports weatherization programs for low-income homes to reduce utility use and demand on the power grid.

Energy & the Environment

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Diana Luna

- Proposes strengthening the Texas Renter's Bill of Rights with protections against predatory rent increases, eviction legal resources, and targeted rent relief.
- Advocates increasing investments in affordable-housing trusts and incentivizing rehabilitation and construction of homes for working-class and middle-income Texans.
- Proposes a First-Time Texas Buyer's Fund for down-payment and closing-cost assistance.
- Opposes legislation that would make 50-year mortgages a standard option.
- Supports wages that Texas workers can live on.
- Advocates reversing policies that weaken workers' ability to organize and bargain over wages, benefits, and working conditions.
- Calls for stronger consumer-protection laws to hold large corporations accountable for price gouging and lower essential-goods costs.

Diana Luna is from Abilene, Texas. She graduated from Cooper High School. Diana has worked in non-profit for almost 20 years. She has been a local organizer with the Liberal Mom's of Abilene group and the Taylor County Democratic party.

'A voice for everyday people': Diana Luna running for Texas House ...

Diana has worked in the nonprofit sector for nearly 20 years. She has operated, supervised, and audited nonprofit programs, many of which rely on government funding. 

Diana's campaign for Texas State Representative, District 71, is her first time running for public office.

Supports increasing state investment in affordable housing and incentivizing rehabilitation and construction of housing for working-class and middle-income Texans to alleviate housing insecurity and its economic impact.

Supports ensuring Texas workers earn a livable wage to stimulate the economy and increase funding for state initiatives.

Aims to hold large corporations accountable for price gouging and strengthen consumer protection laws to reduce the cost of essential goods like groceries.

Believes that when Texas consumers struggle, the Texas economy struggles, particularly regarding the cost of utilities.

Supports repealing or reforming corporate tax giveaways, particularly for high-energy-consumption industries, to redirect funds towards lowering utility costs for residential customers.

Supports implementing an "Affordable Utilities Cap" to prevent spikes in utility bills, modernizing the Texas power grid, and funding weatherization programs for low-income homes to reduce consumption and stress on the grid.

Opposes school voucher programs and seeks to legislate a permanent block on any new or existing voucher or Education Savings Account programs, ensuring public funds are dedicated exclusively to the public school system.

Supports expanding the state allotment to fund and mandate full-day Pre-K for all three- and four-year-olds, with a focus on early literacy and numeracy to close achievement gaps.

Supports creating a dedicated state allotment to fund teacher residency programs and mentorship initiatives to recruit and retain educators in high-need subjects and rural areas.

Supports implementing a state-funded, mandatory salary increase for all public school teachers to make Texas teacher pay competitive with the national average.

Supports funding robust weatherization programs for low-income homes to reduce utility consumption and alleviate stress on the energy grid.

Supports strengthening consumer protection laws to reduce essential goods' costs, like groceries, by holding corporations accountable for price gouging.

Supports implementing an "Affordable Utilities Cap" to prevent sudden spikes in residential electricity and water bills.

Supports repealing tax incentives for corporations, specifically data centers, and using those funds to lower utility costs for residential customers.

Supports protecting workers' rights to organize and bargain for fair wages and working conditions.

Supports banning school voucher programs, which are systems that allow parents to use public funds to enroll their children in schools beyond their local options, including private schools.

Supports expanding state funding to mandate full-day pre-kindergarten for three- and four-year-olds, focusing on early literacy and numeracy to address achievement gaps.

Supports increasing funding for educationally disadvantaged students, such as those who are low-income or have limited English proficiency, to provide intensive academic support, tutoring, and behavioral health services.

Opposes incentivizing corporations like Stargate to set up operations in Texas, citing hidden costs of increased utility rates and environmental harm from their natural gas plant, with minimal job creation.

Diana Luna is from Abilene, Texas. She graduated from Cooper High School. 

Supports strengthening consumer protection laws to reduce essential goods' costs, like groceries.

Supports implementing an "Affordable Utilities Cap" to prevent spikes in residential utility bills, modernizing the Texas power grid, and funding weatherization programs for low-income homes to reduce consumption and grid stress.

Supports repealing tax incentives for corporations, especially those in high-energy-consumption industries like data centers, and redirecting those funds to lower utility costs for residential customers.

Supports expanding state funding to mandate full-day pre-kindergarten for all three- and four-year-olds, focusing on early literacy and numeracy to address achievement gaps.

Supports increasing salaries for public school teachers.

Supports providing state funding to increase salaries for essential school staff, including bus drivers, nurses, and instructional aides.

Diana is from Abilene, Texas. She attended Ortiz Elementary School and Cooper High School.

Diana Luna's campaign for Texas State Representative, District 71, is her first entry into politics.

Supports implementing an "Affordable Utilities Cap" to prevent spikes in residential utility bills.

Supports reversing policies that hinder Texas workers from organizing and negotiating for fair wages and working conditions.

Opposes school voucher programs, which are programs that allow families to use public funds to access schools beyond their local option, including private schools.

Opposes incentivizing "out of state corporations" for job creation, citing negative impacts on local utility costs and environmental pollution from natural gas plants.

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