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Bryan Hughes
Republican · Senator

Bryan Hughes

Represents District 1 in the State Senate.

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Votes with Republicans
98%
on 970 party-line votes · Senate Republicans median 99%
Cast a vote
100%
Yea or Nay on 2,174 of 2,174 roll calls · Senate median 100%
Their bills that became law
242 of 415
as a primary sponsor, this session · Republicans median 102
Roll calls on record
2,174
89th Legislature Regular Session
Votes and bills updated Oct 6, 2026 from LegiScan (CC BY 4.0), which republishes the legislature’s own records. Profile details from OpenStates / Plural Policy. Figures cover 89th Legislature Regular Session.

How Bryan Hughes votes

A party-line vote is a roll call where most voting Democrats and most voting Republicans took opposite sides. Absences and not-voting are never counted. Same method as our Congress pages.

Where Bryan Hughes sits in the Senate

Each dot is one member of the Senate, placed by how often they voted on the Democratic side of party-line votes. Bryan Hughes is circled.

Always on the Republican sideAlways on the Democratic side
Times they broke with their party

17 of 970 party-line votes, most recent 10 shown.

HB5246 · Relating to the administration, powers, and duties of the Texas Space Commission and Texas Aerospace Research and Space Economy Consortium, to other governmental entities regarding aerospace, aviation, and space exploration initiatives and activities, and to the abolishment of the spaceport trust fund.
Nay
Senate adopts conference committee report · 2025-05-31 · Passed 21–10 · most Republicans voted the other way
SR715 · Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 5246.
Nay
Read & adopted · 2025-05-31 · Passed 20–11 · most Republicans voted the other way
HB5246 · Relating to the administration, powers, and duties of the Texas Space Commission and Texas Aerospace Research and Space Economy Consortium, to other governmental entities regarding aerospace, aviation, and space exploration initiatives and activities, and to the abolishment of the spaceport trust fund.
Nay
Senate adopts conference committee report · 2025-05-31 · Passed 21–10 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB986 · Relating to procedures under the public information law, including expedited responses and charges for bad faith requests.
Nay
Read 3rd time · 2025-05-07 · Passed 18–13 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB986 · Relating to procedures under the public information law, including expedited responses and charges for bad faith requests.
Nay
Record vote · 2025-05-07 · Passed 18–13 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB986 · Relating to procedures under the public information law, including expedited responses and charges for bad faith requests.
Nay
Rules suspended-Regular order of business · 2025-05-07 · Passed 18–13 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB2722 · Relating to the use of certain tolls and charges imposed by certain counties; authorizing a civil penalty and limiting the counties' authority to adopt an ad valorem tax rate.
Nay
Read 3rd time · 2025-04-29 · Passed 21–8 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB2322 · Relating to the findings required to be made by the comptroller of public accounts in order to recommend for approval an application for a limitation on the taxable value of eligible property for school district maintenance and operations ad valorem tax purposes under the Texas Jobs, Energy, Technology, and Innovation Act.
Nay
Read 3rd time · 2025-04-29 · Passed 20–11 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB2322 · Relating to the findings required to be made by the comptroller of public accounts in order to recommend for approval an application for a limitation on the taxable value of eligible property for school district maintenance and operations ad valorem tax purposes under the Texas Jobs, Energy, Technology, and Innovation Act.
Nay
Rules suspended-Regular order of business · 2025-04-29 · Passed 20–11 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB2722 · Relating to the use of certain tolls and charges imposed by certain counties; authorizing a civil penalty and limiting the counties' authority to adopt an ad valorem tax rate.
Nay
Vote recorded in Journal · 2025-04-29 · Passed 21–8 · most Republicans voted the other way
Closest votes they cast

Roll calls decided by the fewest votes, one per bill.

SB568 · Relating to special education in public schools, including funding for special education under the Foundation School Program.
Nay
Rules suspended · 2025-05-31 · Failed 0–1
SR709 · Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 568.
Nay
Read & adopted · 2025-05-31 · Failed 0–1
HB4134 · Relating to a convenience fee for processing electronic payments for motor vehicles.
Nay
Three day rule suspended · 2025-05-27 · Failed 0–1
SB19 · Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying and certain other activities.
Nay
FA5 Nichols · 2025-03-19 · Passed 15–13
SB715 · Relating to reliability requirements for certain electric generation facilities.
Yea
Vote recorded in Journal · 2025-05-08 · Passed 17–14
Democrats they vote with most

Share of contested roll calls (the losing side got at least 10%) where both voted and landed on the same side. Unanimous votes are left out, because on those everyone agrees.

Chuy HinojosaDemocrat · District 20 · 1,637 shared contested votes
49%
César BlancoDemocrat · District 29 · 1,615 shared contested votes
39%
Judith ZaffiriniDemocrat · District 21 · 1,635 shared contested votes
28%
Their session, month by month

Dark bars are roll calls they were recorded on each month; the red part is the ones without a Yea or Nay (0 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.

2025-02: 35 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2025-03: 229 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2025-04: 766 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2025-05: 1125 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2025-06: 19 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or NayFeb 2025Jun 2025
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Their bills, from filing to law

Bills Bryan Hughes was a primary sponsor of this session. Most bills from either party never leave committee; in Illinois many never get past the Assignments or Rules committee.

Introduced415
Out of committee298
Passed one chamber288
Passed both chambers243
Became law242
Never left committee117

For comparison, the median Republican member of the Senate has 102 bills that became law this session.

What their bills are about
Resolutions 153Resolutions–Memorial 90Education 37Courts 33Civil Remedies & Liabilities 33Resolutions–Congratulatory & Honorary 33
Relating to the procedural requirements applicable to interbasin transfers of water involving the Northeast Texas Municipal Water District.
Became lawEffective immediately · 2025-06-22
Relating to the operation and administration of and practices and procedures related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state government, including court security, court documents and arrest warrants, document delivery, juvenile boards, constitutional amendment election challenges, mandatory expunction for certain persons, record retention, and youth diversion; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees.
VetoedVetoed by the Governor · 2025-06-22
Relating to prohibiting the recognition, service, and enforcement of extreme risk protective orders; creating a criminal offense.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-22
Relating to the recognition of gold and silver specie as legal tender and the establishment of a transactional currency based on gold and silver; authorizing a fee.
Became lawSee remarks for effective date · 2025-06-22
Relating to the creation of the Fannin County Improvement District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Congratulating Nathan L. Hecht on his retirement as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.
Became lawSigned by the Governor · 2025-06-20
Recognizing Austin Oaks Church on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
Became lawSigned by the Governor · 2025-06-20
In memory of Deputy Melissa Pollard of the Wood County Sheriff's Office.
Became lawSigned by the Governor · 2025-06-20
Relating to the operation of Wood County Central Hospital District of Wood County, Texas.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Relating to exceptions to otherwise prohibited abortions based on a physician's reasonable medical judgment.
Became lawEffective immediately · 2025-06-20
Relating to the business court.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Relating to the eviction from real property of certain persons not entitled to enter, occupy, or remain in possession of the premises.
Became lawSee remarks for effective date · 2025-06-20
Relating to a permit issued by the Parks and Wildlife Department for certain hunting dog field trials; authorizing a fee.
Became lawEffective immediately · 2025-06-20
Relating to the penalty for the crime of election fraud; increasing a criminal penalty.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 64 in Smith County as the Fire Marshal Jimmy W. Seaton Memorial Highway.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20

Descriptions are the legislature’s own synopsis. Bill data from LegiScan, CC BY 4.0.

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SB2753 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the integration of early voting by personal appearance and election day voting, including the manner in which election returns are processed and other related changes. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 20-11
Yea
HB40 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the business court. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 24-7
Yea
SB268 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health care practitioners. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 19-12
Yea
HB2885 · 2025-06-01
Relating to allowing the governing bodies of certain political subdivisions to call for a local option election relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 28-3
Nay
HB493 · 2025-06-01
Relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 23-8
Yea
SB1637 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of deadly conduct. (Senate concurs in House amendment(s))
Passed · 28-3
Yea
SB2972 · 2025-06-01
Relating to expressive activities at public institutions of higher education. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 22-9
Yea
HB2885 · 2025-06-01
Relating to allowing the governing bodies of certain political subdivisions to call for a local option election relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 28-3
Nay
SR708 · 2025-06-01
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction on S.B. No. 2972. (Read & adopted)
Passed · 22-9
Yea
SR713 · 2025-06-01
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 40. (Read & adopted)
Passed · 24-7
Yea
SB2972 · 2025-06-01
Relating to expressive activities at public institutions of higher education. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 22-9
Yea
SB2753 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the integration of early voting by personal appearance and election day voting, including the manner in which election returns are processed and other related changes. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 20-11
Yea
HB40 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the business court. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 24-7
Yea
SB268 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health care practitioners. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 19-12
Yea
HB2885 · 2025-06-01
Relating to allowing the governing bodies of certain political subdivisions to call for a local option election relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 28-3
Nay
HB493 · 2025-06-01
Relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 23-8
Yea
SB2972 · 2025-06-01
Relating to expressive activities at public institutions of higher education. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 22-9 · 2 roll calls that day, voted the same way on each
Yea
HB40 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the business court. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 24-7
Yea
SB3059 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the preservation, maintenance, restoration, and protection of the Alamo complex and surrounding area by the Alamo Commission. (Rules suspended)
Passed · 29-2
Yea
SB2337 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the regulation of the provision of proxy advisory services. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 21-10
Yea
HB3556 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the construction of structures exceeding a certain height in certain counties containing national wildlife refuges and in adjacent counties. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 22-9
Yea
HB5246 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the administration, powers, and duties of the Texas Space Commission and Texas Aerospace Research and Space Economy Consortium, to other governmental entities regarding aerospace, aviation, and space exploration initiatives and activities, and to the abolishment of the spaceport trust fund. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 21-10
Nay
SB1405 · 2025-05-31
Relating to increasing access to and reducing taxation of Internet services. (Rules suspended)
Passed · 27-4
Nay
SB568 · 2025-05-31
Relating to special education in public schools, including funding for special education under the Foundation School Program. (Rules suspended)
Failed · 0-1
Nay
HB3909 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the use of a wireless communication device at a polling place. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 27-4
Nay
HB2017 · 2025-05-31
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty and changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for certain persons convicted of intoxication manslaughter. (Rules suspended)
Passed · 26-5
Yea
SB13 · 2025-05-31
Relating to a school district's library materials and catalog, the establishment of local school library advisory councils, and parental rights regarding public school library catalogs and access by the parent's child to library materials. (Rules suspended)
Passed · 23-8 · 2 roll calls that day, voted the same way on each
Yea
SB37 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the governance of public institutions of higher education, including review of curriculum and certain degree and certificate programs, a faculty council or senate, training for members of the governing board, and the establishment, powers, and duties of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 20-11
Yea
SB8 · 2025-05-31
Relating to agreements between certain sheriffs and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration law and a grant program to cover the costs of implementing those agreements. (Rules suspended)
Passed · 20-11
Yea
SB8 · 2025-05-31
Relating to agreements between certain sheriffs and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration law and a grant program to cover the costs of implementing those agreements. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 20-11
Yea
HB3595 · 2025-05-31
Relating to an emergency preparedness and contingency operations plan, including temperature regulation, for assisted living facility residents during an emergency; providing penalties. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 21-10
Yea
SB12 · 2025-05-31
Relating to parental rights in public education, to certain public school requirements and prohibitions regarding instruction, diversity, equity, and inclusion duties, and social transitioning, and to student clubs at public schools. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 20-11
Yea
SB2373 · 2025-05-31
Relating to financial exploitation or financial abuse using artificially generated media or phishing communications; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense. (Senate concurs in House amendment(s))
Passed · 29-2
Yea
SR709 · 2025-05-31
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 568. (Read & adopted)
Failed · 0-1
Nay
SR715 · 2025-05-31
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 5246. (Read & adopted)
Passed · 20-11
Nay
SR703 · 2025-05-31
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 2308. (Read & adopted)
Passed · 27-4
Yea
SR687 · 2025-05-31
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 3556. (Read & adopted)
Passed · 23-8
Yea
HB3556 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the construction of structures exceeding a certain height in certain counties containing national wildlife refuges and in adjacent counties. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 22-9
Yea
HB5246 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the administration, powers, and duties of the Texas Space Commission and Texas Aerospace Research and Space Economy Consortium, to other governmental entities regarding aerospace, aviation, and space exploration initiatives and activities, and to the abolishment of the spaceport trust fund. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 21-10
Nay
HB3909 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the use of a wireless communication device at a polling place. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 27-4
Nay
SB12 · 2025-05-31
Relating to parental rights in public education, to certain public school requirements and prohibitions regarding instruction, diversity, equity, and inclusion duties, and social transitioning, and to student clubs at public schools. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 20-11
Yea
SB2337 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the regulation of the provision of proxy advisory services. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 21-10
Yea
SB2373 · 2025-05-31
Relating to financial exploitation or financial abuse using artificially generated media or phishing communications; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense. (Senate concurs in House amendment(s))
Passed · 29-2
Yea
SB568 · 2025-05-31
Relating to special education in public schools, including funding for special education under the Foundation School Program. (Rules suspended)
Failed · 0-1
Nay
SB13 · 2025-05-31
Relating to a school district's library materials and catalog, the establishment of local school library advisory councils, and parental rights regarding public school library catalogs and access by the parent's child to library materials. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 23-8
Yea
SB37 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the governance of public institutions of higher education, including review of curriculum and certain degree and certificate programs, a faculty council or senate, training for members of the governing board, and the establishment, powers, and duties of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 20-11
Yea
HB3595 · 2025-05-31
Relating to an emergency preparedness and contingency operations plan, including temperature regulation, for assisted living facility residents during an emergency; providing penalties. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 21-10
Yea
SB2308 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the establishment of a consortium to conduct United States Food and Drug Administration's drug development clinical trials with ibogaine to secure the administration's approval of the medication's use for treatment of opioid use disorder, co-occurring substance use disorder, and any other neurological or mental health conditions for which ibogaine demonstrates efficacy and to the administration of that treatment. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 27-4
Yea
SB2337 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the regulation of the provision of proxy advisory services. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 21-10
Yea
HB2017 · 2025-05-31
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty and changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for certain persons convicted of intoxication manslaughter. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 26-5
Yea
SB3059 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the preservation, maintenance, restoration, and protection of the Alamo complex and surrounding area by the Alamo Commission. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 29-2
Yea
SB1506 · 2025-05-30
Relating to the frequency with which the Board of Pardons and Paroles reconsiders inmates for release on parole. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 27-4
Yea
SB17 · 2025-05-30
Relating to the purchase or acquisition of an interest in real property by certain aliens or foreign entities; creating a criminal offense; providing a civil penalty. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 23-8
Yea
SJR27 · 2025-05-30
Proposing a constitutional amendment regarding the membership of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, the membership of the tribunal to review the commission's recommendations, and the authority of the commission, the tribunal, and the Texas Supreme Court to more effectively sanction judges and justices for judicial misconduct. (Senate concurs in House amendment(s))
Passed · 27-4
Yea
SB21 · 2025-05-30
Relating to the establishment and administration of the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve for the purpose of investing in cryptocurrency and the investment authority of the comptroller of public accounts over the reserve and certain other state funds. (Senate adopts conference committee report)
Passed · 23-8
Nay
SB1362 · 2025-05-30
Relating to prohibiting the recognition, service, and enforcement of extreme risk protective orders; creating a criminal offense. (Senate concurs in House amendment(s))
Passed · 20-11
Yea
SB905 · 2025-05-30
Relating to the licensing and regulation of speech-language pathologists and audiologists. (Senate concurs in House amendment(s))
Passed · 29-2
Nay
SB710 · 2025-05-30
Relating to the establishment and use of a written electronic communications system accessible to the public by certain municipal entities. (Senate concurs in House amendment(s))
Passed · 29-2
Nay
Complete voting record from LegiScan (showing the 60 most recent of 2174 total roll-call votes this session).
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