Last updated Oct. 13, 2026
Ken Paxton FilesTexas’s attorney general, on the record
Legislative record

How did Ken Paxton vote on children and families?

  • Wrote a bill to make child-care quality funding optional (HB 2959, 2005)
1 Authored or sponsored

The votes

SessionBillMeasurePositionOutcomeSource
79th (2005)HB 2959
Wrote a bill to make child-care quality funding optional
HB 2959: Local use of federal child-care block grant funds. Would have made optional two requirements for local workforce boards: higher child-care reimbursement rates for designated quality providers, and set-asides of quality funds for infant and early-childhood care.
AuthorDid not become law.Bill history, 79(R) HB 2959

What these measures did