Legislative Priorities
2026-2028 Legislative Priorities
As Approved by the State Convention
June 13, 2026 – Houston, Texas
Secure Texas Elections:
To safeguard election integrity, to ensure that only eligible citizens participate, to promote transparency, and to restore public trust in Texas elections, we propose these core reforms:
- Strict Voter Registration and Eligibility: Require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, stipulate English-only ballots, and mandate that counties and the Secretary of State update voter rolls quarterly with cross-checks that reject commercial or mail-house addresses as residential locations.
Secure In-Person Voting with Photo ID: Mandate a U.S. or Texas government-issued photo ID for every election, with no exceptions; restrict mail-in ballots to voters with disabilities, active-duty military, and citizens absent from the state; limit elections to single-day, precinct-only voting with the discretion to consolidate precinct voting locations.
Paper Ballot Security and Counting: Use only hand-marked, sequentially numbered, anti counterfeiting paper ballots signed by election officials; conduct precinct-level counting with dumb (offline) scanners at each polling location immediately upon the close of polls; publish precinct-level results before submission to the county; and provide for cost effective precinct auditing.
Closed Primaries and Party Accountability: Restrict voting in party primaries to registered members only, require candidates on the ballot to be registered with that party, and mandate that local and municipal candidates declare a party affiliation.
Strengthen Administration and Finance Rules: Make the Secretary of State an elected office; remove existing waivers from Election Code; enact legislation that penalizes the unlawful altering of election procedures – including unauthorized waivers and advisories
– by public and election officials; limit out-of-state donations; and prohibit foreign and terrorist-linked donations.
Standardize Elections and Oversight: Align all local, municipal, and school district bond elections with county and state general election dates (requiring two-thirds approval for bonds); school districts shall be prohibited from conducting, administering, or overseeing their own elections; and all elections must be conducted under one uniform statewide election administration system to ensure consistency, transparency, accountability, and election integrity across Texas.
Don’t Sharia Our Texas
Texas government must stop Sharia Law by declaring that Sharia Law is an incompatible, seditious, subversive, competing enemy system in opposition to the Texas and U.S. Constitutions, and that its advocacy or implementation is a seditious criminal act, deserving disqualification from public, military, and law enforcement service, and justifying criminal punishment, denaturalization, and deportation.
Sharia Law should also be resisted in the following ways:
Immigration Reforms: Formally request that the federal government denaturalize and deport advocates of Sharia Law.
No Taxpayer Funds: Taxpayer funds shall not be granted, contracted, disbursed, or otherwise provided to any entity or program that promotes or advocates allegiance to a foreign legal system – such as Sharia Law – that conflicts with the Constitution of Texas or of the United States; nor shall Texas public schools and taxpayer-funded institutions be permitted to provide meals or services to comply with Sharia Law.
Sharia-Compliant Developments: Stop any residential or non-residential development that advocates the application of Sharia Law or discriminates against those who do not submit to it.
Funding Prohibitions: Stop religious and educational institutions in Texas from receiving funding from hostile foreign or domestic sources that have any affiliation with any organization that advocates Sharia Law or has been designated as a Foreign Terror Organization (FTO) or Transnational Criminal Organization (TCO).
Enforce and Expand Our Laws: Enforce Texas sedition laws against the advocacy of Sharia Law, and rigorously enforce other Texas laws that already criminalize aspects of Sharia Law, such as terroristic threat, female genital mutilation, animal cruelty, domestic violence, rape, polygamy, and pedophilia; modify existing statutes to explicitly reference Sharia inclusion; expand the jurisdiction of the Office of the Attorney General to prosecute such laws; eliminate taxpayer assistance to women who in reality are wives under Sharia Law; and enact legislation to eliminate the fraud related to Sharia-compliant financing.
Expand American Law For American Courts (ALAC): Expand the legal applications of the American Law for American Courts (HB 45, 85(R)) and adopt a Texas Domestic Terrorist Organization Designation Act to define and prohibit domestic terrorists and sponsors of terror; create a private civil cause of action allowing RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) provisions to be pursued by victims of terrorism.
Completely Eliminate All Property Tax
We call on the Legislature to immediately develop and implement a plan that eliminates property taxes for all property owners: the plan should be a net tax cut, thus requiring fiscal discipline, zero-based budgeting, and spending restraint at all levels of government, and the plan should require two-thirds of voters to increase the overall tax burden, adopt new debt, or exceed spending limits.
Ban Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying
Prohibit all forms of taxpayer-funded lobbying by any taxing entity, including the use of tax dollars to hire lobbyists, direct use contractors, third parties, and non-elected public employees who are registered lobbyists; prohibit associations or other entities that receive tax dollars and also collect premiums, dues, fees, or subscriptions from engaging in any lobbying activities; establish civil and criminal penalties, including enforcement by local prosecutors and the Texas Attorney General, for using taxpayer funds to lobby.
Secure Texas Grid, Water, Energy, Agriculture, and Property Sovereignty
Electric Grid Protection: Protect the Texas grid from large-scale EMP (electromagnetic pulse) and foreign-adversary cyber threats by removing vulnerable control equipment; pause uneconomical 765 kV transmission projects; ensure fair electricity rates for families and small businesses; and recapture federal incentives to preserve grid independence through conventional generation.
∙ Water Security: Ban large-scale export or sale of groundwater and surface water to any single private entity; prohibit data centers and new large industrial users from consuming fresh groundwater and surface water by mandating nonpotable water such as oil and gas wastewater; ban fluoridation of public water supplies; and expedite permitting, funding, and construction of desalination, wastewater reuse, produced water treatment, reservoirs, and conveyance infrastructure while protecting rivers and streams.
∙ Texas Is Not for Sale: Expand prohibitions on foreign and adversary ownership or control of all critical infrastructure and adjacent land; require full beneficial-ownership disclosure to prevent shell company evasion; and strengthen oversight of local authorities through Texas Local Government Code Chapter 391 Regional Planning Commissions and related tools.
∙ Eminent Domain and Property Rights: Require proof of immediate public necessity for all eminent domain actions with transparent hearings and prohibit the use of eminent domain for speculative private projects or by non-elected entities. If any revenue is generated on private property involuntarily taken, then that revenue shall be returned proportionally to the affected landowners.
∙ End Civil Asset Forfeiture: Abolish civil asset forfeiture entirely; ensure private property can only be forfeited following a criminal conviction that is upheld on appeal.
∙ Protect Texas Agriculture: Prohibit foreign governments, adversaries, and their proxies from owning or controlling Texas farmland, farms, and ranches; promote strong biosecurity measures and rapid-response eradication of harmful parasites such as the invasive New World Screwworm, while fully respecting farmers’ and ranchers’ rights and minimizing regulatory burdens.
Border Enforcement
To secure the Texas border, strengthen immigration enforcement, deter illegal immigration, and protect Texas taxpayers and sovereignty, we propose these core reforms:
Local Cooperation with Federal Enforcement: Require all local jurisdictions to fully cooperate with federal immigration authorities, including maximum participation in the 287(g) Program (Immigration and Nationality Act) for removals.
∙ Penalties for Sanctuary Policies: Empower the Texas Attorney General to prosecute local government officials who interfere with or obstruct immigration enforcement.
∙ Strengthen Border Operations: Overhaul the Texas border mission by establishing a dedicated Border Protection Unit focused on preventing illegal entry, combating human trafficking and cartel activity, and facilitating the removal of individuals unlawfully present in the United States.
∙ E-Verify and Employment Controls: Mandate E-Verify for all Texas employers with significant penalties for noncompliance; prohibit state agencies and local governments from employing foreign visa workers or contracting with companies that use them directly or indirectly.
∙ End Benefits and Incentives for Illegal Presence: Terminate all non-emergency public benefits for individuals unlawfully present in the United States, including in-state college tuition and enrollment in public schools (while preserving emergency medical care); deny all taxpayer-funded grants, incentives, and subsidies (including Texas Enterprise Fund grants and tax abatements) to companies that employ foreign visa workers.
∙ Remittance Tax for Enforcement: Impose a tax on cash and app-based remittances to foreign nations to help fund Texas immigration enforcement efforts.
Protect Texas Kids
To protect Texas children, strengthen families, and ensure safe schools, we propose these core reforms:
School Employee Screening and Enforcement: To prevent abuse in schools, mandate rigorous employment screening procedures before hiring and again before every new contract for all public school employees. Codify an Independent Inspector General with broad authority, including subpoena power, criminal investigative referral, and the ability to apply Do Not Hire enforcement retroactively. Give the Education Code teeth: implement a tiered system of penalties and fines as enforcement; prohibit NDAs (non disclosure agreements) and other attempts to hide educator misconduct through separation agreements and employment settlements; and provide clear whistleblower protections for reporters of misconduct.
Promote Marriage and Strong Families: As marriage and strong families are the best protection for children, promote and respect marriage, family unity, parenting, and parental rights across all state agencies, including CPS (child protective services) and schools. Ban same-sex adoption. End no-fault divorce. When a marriage breaks down, family law proceedings should respect 50/50 equal parenting presumptions in the best interest of children.
∙ Protect Family Sovereignty and Privacy: In order to protect the rights of the family and end the collection of student data using harmful and deceptive practices, eliminate the funding and implementation of programs or materials that interfere with healthy family formation, family sovereignty, and student privacy – including Social Emotional Learning (SEL), harmful materials, school-based mental health surveys, health programming and clinics, online platforms, apps, other technology products, and the use of artificial intelligence.
∙ Sales and Display: Ban the sale or display of obscene devices in family-friendly stores and allow them only in sexually oriented businesses.
Protect life
Protect the Sanctity of Every Human Life: We call on lawmakers to affirm the sanctity of every human life, created in the image of God, by securing the right to life and equal protection under the law from the moment of fertilization until natural death. The Legislature must repeal Penal Code Sections 19.06, 22.12, and Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 71.003(c); pass strong criminal penalties and new enforcement tools to fight abortion and abortion pill trafficking; hold rogue officials accountable for failing to defend life; protect fetal life from destructive practices, such as IVF (in vitro fertilization) and commercial surrogacy; promote Natural Procreative Technologies (NaPro) to help women conceive children naturally; protect vulnerable patients at any stage of life from involuntary termination in medical settings.
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