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John Smithee
Republican · Representative

John Smithee

Represents District 86 in the House of Representatives.

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Votes with Republicans
77%
on 785 party-line votes · House Republicans median 87%
Cast a vote
86%
Yea or Nay on 3,658 of 4,272 roll calls · House median 95%
Their bills that became law
29 of 77
as a primary sponsor, this session · Republicans median 30
Roll calls on record
4,272
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 John Smithee 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 John Smithee sits in the House

Each dot is one member of the House, placed by how often they voted on the Democratic side of party-line votes. John Smithee is circled.

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

179 of 785 party-line votes, most recent 10 shown.

SB2753 · 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.
Nay
House adopts conference committee report RV#4157 · 2025-06-01 · Passed 84–45 · most Republicans voted the other way
HB5658 · Relating to the creation of the Craver Ranch Municipal Management District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments and fees; granting a limited power of eminent domain.
Yea
House concurs in Senate amendment(s) RV#4075 · 2025-05-30 · Passed 85–52 · most Republicans voted the other way
HB5682 · Relating to the creation of the Colmena Ranch Municipal Management District No. 1; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments and fees.
Yea
House concurs in Senate amendment(s) RV#4082 · 2025-05-30 · Passed 82–53 · most Republicans voted the other way
HB5666 · Relating to the creation of the Fenske Road Municipal Utility District of Harris County; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Yea
House concurs in Senate amendment(s) RV#4072 · 2025-05-30 · Passed 93–44 · most Republicans voted the other way
HB3966 · Relating to requiring owners or operators of commercial passenger bus services to provide certain notifications to residents concerning operations.
Yea
House concurs in Senate amendment(s) RV#4022 · 2025-05-29 · Passed 89–44 · most Republicans voted the other way
HB4530 · Relating to water rights placed in the Texas Water Trust and the Texas Water Bank.
Yea
House concurs in Senate amendment(s) RV#4002 · 2025-05-28 · Passed 90–42 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB1563 · Relating to county jailer training on interacting with veterans in the criminal justice system.
Yea
Read 3rd time RV#3852 · 2025-05-28 · Passed 96–44 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB646 · Relating to repayment of certain mental health professional education loans.
Yea
Laid out as postponed business RV#3941 · 2025-05-28 · Passed 75–58 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB1164 · Relating to emergency detention of certain persons evidencing mental illness and to court-ordered inpatient and extended mental health services.
Yea
Read 3rd time RV#3854 · 2025-05-28 · Passed 94–47 · most Republicans voted the other way
SB2073 · Relating to the authority of an appraisal district to purchase, finance the purchase of, or lease real property or construct or finance the construction of improvements to real property.
Yea
Read 3rd time RV#3888 · 2025-05-28 · Passed 93–49 · most Republicans voted the other way
Closest votes they cast

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

SB1 · General Appropriations Bill.
Nay
Amendment as amended fails of adoption RV#143 · 2025-04-11 · Failed 72–72
HB871 · Relating to the residential and commercial building codes of municipalities.
Nay
Amended RV#2718 · 2025-05-15 · Failed 64–63
HB3045 · Relating to a franchise tax exemption for corporations operating a spaceport for certain national defense purposes.
Nay
Read 3rd time RV#1802 · 2025-05-08 · Failed 70–69
HB3556 · Relating to the construction of structures exceeding a certain height in certain counties containing national wildlife refuges and in adjacent counties.
Yea
1-Villalobos RV#1525 · 2025-05-06 · Failed 72–71
SB30 · Relating to recovery of health care-related damages in certain civil actions.
Nay
Amendment amended RV#3582 · 2025-05-26 · Passed 72–70
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.

Richard RaymondDemocrat · District 42 · 1,757 shared contested votes
81%
Sergio MuñozDemocrat · District 36 · 1,713 shared contested votes
73%
Eddie MoralesDemocrat · District 74 · 1,733 shared contested votes
72%
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 (614 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.

2025-01: 5 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2025-02: 5 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2025-03: 1 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2025-04: 1129 roll calls, 28 without a Yea or Nay2025-05: 3086 roll calls, 586 without a Yea or Nay2025-06: 46 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or NayJan 2025Jun 2025
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Their bills, from filing to law

Bills John Smithee 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.

Introduced77
Out of committee59
Passed one chamber46
Passed both chambers30
Became law29
Never left committee18

For comparison, the median Republican member of the House has 30 bills that became law this session.

What their bills are about
Criminal Procedure 21Resolutions 18Courts 15Crimes 14Criminal Procedure–Bail & Pretrial Release 10Resolutions–Congratulatory & Honorary 9
Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution.
VetoedVetoed by the Governor · 2025-06-22
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 the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 67 in Dallas and Ellis Counties as the Eddie Bernice Johnson Memorial Highway.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Relating to programs to promote economic development in the Office of the Governor and to the repeal of the governor's broadband development council.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Relating to an exemption from required disclosure of information related to the next of kin of deceased persons.
Became lawEffective immediately · 2025-06-20
Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages in areas annexed by certain municipalities.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Relating to the duty of a magistrate to make written findings in certain criminal proceedings.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Relating to the use of a consumer's credit score in the underwriting or rating of certain personal lines property and casualty insurance policies.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Relating to the assertion of legislative privilege by the attorney general in certain legal challenges to the constitutionality of state statutes.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the criminal offense of organized retail theft; increasing criminal penalties.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Relating to the subject matter jurisdiction of the criminal trial courts of this state.
Became lawEffective immediately · 2025-06-20
Urging Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification the "Keep Nine" amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Became lawSigned by the Governor · 2025-06-20
Relating to creating the criminal offense of jugging.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-20
Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds; authorizing injunctive relief.
Became lawEffective on 9/1/25 · 2025-06-16
Relating to the confinement or release of defendants before trial or sentencing, including regulating charitable bail organizations, and the conditions of and procedures for setting bail and reviewing bail decisions.
Became lawSee remarks for effective date · 2025-06-16

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

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SCR55 · 2025-06-02
Instructing the enrolling clerk of the senate to make corrections in S.B. No. 1964. (Adopted RV#4168)
Passed · 126-12
Yea
HCR172 · 2025-06-02
Instructing the enrolling clerk of the senate to make corrections in S.B. No. 441. (Adopted RV#4169)
Passed · 132-0
Yea
HCR171 · 2025-06-02
Instructing the enrolling clerk of the house to make corrections in H.B. No. 46. (Adopted RV#4167)
Passed · 138-0
Yea
SB293 · 2025-06-02
Relating to the discipline of judges by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, notice of certain reprimands, judicial compensation and related retirement benefits, and the reporting of certain judicial transparency information; authorizing an administrative penalty. (Rules suspended RV#4170)
Passed · 127-15
Yea
SB293 · 2025-06-02
Relating to the discipline of judges by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, notice of certain reprimands, judicial compensation and related retirement benefits, and the reporting of certain judicial transparency information; authorizing an administrative penalty. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4171)
Passed · 114-26
Yea
HB2017 · 2025-06-01
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty and changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for certain persons convicted of intoxication manslaughter. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4128)
Passed · 96-38
Yea
SB8 · 2025-06-01
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. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4130)
Passed · 89-52
Yea
SB2900 · 2025-06-01
Relating to certain advisory entities and work groups under the jurisdiction of the comptroller of public accounts or on which the comptroller's office is represented and to the repeal or redesignation of certain of those entities. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4140)
Passed · 107-28
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. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4127)
Passed · 101-27
Yea
SB650 · 2025-06-01
Relating to requiring the use of electronically readable information to verify a purchaser's age in the retail sale of alcoholic beverages. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4149)
Passed · 82-57
Nay
HB3642 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the designation of portions of the state highway system as memorial highways, to certain memorial markers on certain highways, and to the installation of highway signs for certain cultural attractions. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4142)
Passed · 135-0
Yea
SB3059 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the preservation, maintenance, restoration, and protection of the Alamo complex and surrounding area by the Alamo Commission. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4136)
Passed · 104-31
Yea
HB1545 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the sunset review process and certain governmental entities subject to that process. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4161)
Passed · 122-13
Yea
HB5246 · 2025-06-01
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. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4129)
Passed · 83-52
Yea
HR1499 · 2025-06-01
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 650. (Adopted RV#4148)
Passed · 86-48
Nay
SB568 · 2025-06-01
Relating to special education in public schools, including funding for special education under the Foundation School Program. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4139)
Passed · 126-6
Yea
HB2516 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the eligibility of certain individuals younger than 65 years of age to purchase Medicare supplement benefit plans. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4147)
Passed · 132-5
Yea
HB2963 · 2025-06-01
Relating to diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic equipment. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4150)
Passed · 132-6
Yea
HR1514 · 2025-06-01
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 40. (Adopted RV#4155)
Passed · 108-24
Yea
SB2024 · 2025-06-01
Relating to a prohibition on marketing, advertising, offering for sale, or selling certain e-cigarette products; increasing a criminal penalty; creating a criminal offense. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4165)
Passed · 96-35
Yea
SB1405 · 2025-06-01
Relating to increasing access to and reducing taxation of Internet services. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4134)
Passed · 102-36
Yea
SB2878 · 2025-06-01
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. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4131)
Passed · 136-2
Yea
SCR54 · 2025-06-01
Instructing the enrolling clerk of the senate to make a correction in S.B. No. 2268. (Adopted RV#4126)
Passed · 127-5
Yea
SB15 · 2025-06-01
Relating to size and density requirements for residential lots in certain municipalities; authorizing a fee. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4137)
Passed · 78-57
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. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4157)
Passed · 84-45
Nay
HB119 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the registration as a lobbyist of persons who engage in certain lobbying activities on behalf of a foreign adversary and to prohibitions on the receipt of compensation related to those lobbying activities; providing a civil penalty. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4135)
Passed · 101-36
Yea
SB268 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health care practitioners. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4144)
Passed · 79-46
Yea
HB46 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis under and the administration of the Texas Compassionate-Use Program; requiring registration. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4162)
Passed · 128-12
Yea
SB1610 · 2025-06-01
Relating to sexually violent predators, to the Texas Civil Commitment Office, and to the prosecution of the offense of harassment by sexually violent predators and other persons confined in certain facilities; amending certain sex offender registration requirements; increasing criminal penalties. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4151)
Passed · 121-16
Yea
HB40 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the business court. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4156)
Passed · 95-39
Yea
HB705 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the Cosmetology Licensure Compact; authorizing fees. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4153)
Passed · 127-10
Yea
HR1523 · 2025-06-01
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 46. (Adopted RV#4162)
Passed · 128-12
Yea
SB2972 · 2025-06-01
Relating to expressive activities at public institutions of higher education. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4159)
Passed · 97-39
Yea
HB493 · 2025-06-01
Relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4145)
Passed · 90-44
Yea
HR1501 · 2025-06-01
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 568. (Adopted RV#4138)
Passed · 123-11
Yea
SB1660 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the retention and preservation of toxicological evidence of certain intoxication offenses. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4160)
Passed · 109-25
Yea
SB2217 · 2025-06-01
Relating to certain election practices and procedures. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4146)
Passed · 130-7
Yea
HR1519 · 2025-06-01
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 705. (Adopted RV#4152)
Passed · 96-36
Yea
SB1540 · 2025-06-01
Relating to maintaining the confidentiality of the personal information of election officials and their employees. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4154)
Passed · 128-9
Yea
HR1515 · 2025-06-01
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 2972. (Adopted RV#4158)
Passed · 109-27
Yea
HR1496 · 2025-06-01
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 3642. (Adopted RV#4141)
Passed · 133-0
Yea
HR1495 · 2025-06-01
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 2308. (Adopted RV#4132)
Passed · 121-15
Yea
HB46 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis under and the administration of the Texas Compassionate-Use Program; requiring registration. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4163)
Passed · 138-1
Yea
HB3909 · 2025-06-01
Relating to the use of a wireless communication device at a polling place. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4143)
Passed · 127-9
Yea
SCR56 · 2025-06-01
Instructing the enrolling clerk of the house of representatives to make corrections in H.B. No. 46. (Adopted RV#4164)
Passed · 137-0
Yea
SB2308 · 2025-06-01
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. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4133)
Passed · 134-4
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. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4104)
Passed · 83-47
Yea
SB447 · 2025-05-31
Relating to authorizing certain municipalities to change the date on which their general election for officers is held. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4113)
Passed · 129-1
Yea
SB1566 · 2025-05-31
Relating to connection of utilities by certain entities in certain subdivisions formerly located in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4112)
Passed · 132-0
Yea
SB1506 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the frequency with which the Board of Pardons and Paroles reconsiders inmates for release on parole. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4111)
Passed · 121-9
Yea
HB3372 · 2025-05-31
Relating to prohibiting certain personal services performed by school district administrators; providing a civil penalty. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4108)
Passed · 121-6
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. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4106)
Passed · 110-23
Yea
HB300 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the Texas Armed Services Scholarship Program. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4099)
Passed · 121-8
Yea
SB441 · 2025-05-31
Relating to criminal and civil liability related to sexually explicit media and artificial intimate visual material; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4122)
Passed · 90-33
Yea
HB2067 · 2025-05-31
Relating to declination, cancellation, or nonrenewal of insurance policies. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4110)
Passed · 128-0
Yea
SB457 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the regulation of certain nursing facilities, including licensing requirements and Medicaid participation and reimbursement requirements. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4109)
Passed · 111-19
Yea
SB2018 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the strong families credit against certain taxes for entities that contribute to certain organizations. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4116)
Passed · 97-27
Yea
SB2337 · 2025-05-31
Relating to the regulation of the provision of proxy advisory services. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4121)
Passed · 82-41
Yea
SB763 · 2025-05-31
Relating to standard permits for certain concrete plants. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4114)
Passed · 104-29
Yea
HB145 · 2025-05-31
Relating to risk mitigation planning and associated liability for providers of electric service; providing an administrative penalty. (House adopts conference committee report RV#4120)
Passed · 103-21
Yea
Complete voting record from LegiScan (showing the 60 most recent of 4272 total roll-call votes this session).
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📍320 S. Polk First Floor, Amarillo, TX 79101
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