Issues
Passing Record Border Security Funding
Keeping Neighborhoods Safe, Criminals Behind Bars
Defending Life: Historic Accomplishments
Protecting Girls From Being Forced to Compete with Boys in Sports
Fighting for Medical Freedom: Coercion is not Consent!
Ensuring Election Integrity
Expanding Second Amendment Freedoms; Endorsed by NRA
Protecting Religious Liberty
Opposing Critical Race Theory (CRT)
Improving Education, Respecting Parent Rights
More Property Tax Relief
Back the Blue: Defending Law Enforcement from the Liberal Mob
Banning A State Income Tax
Passing Record Border Security Funding
Working to Stop Drug Cartels, Human Trafficking and Illegal Immigration
With the Biden/Harris administration turning a blind eye to the crisis at the border (largely created by them), Stephanie Klick voted for the largest border security funding plan in Texas history.
- Rep. Klick voted to allocate $3 billion to beef up border security, including $250 million for the border wall.
- Additionally, these funds will pay for a wide range of tools such as more patrol boats, surveillance cameras, aircraft, and more boots on the ground: troopers, Texas Rangers, the State Guard, and the National Guard.
- Stephanie will continue to support resources to secure the border so we can end the humanitarian crisis and combat the drug cartels, human traffickers, and potential terrorists intent on harming our country.
Keeping Neighborhoods Safe, Criminals Behind Bars
Rep. Klick Voted to Make it Harder for Dangerous Criminals to Get Out on Bail
After a series of incidents where criminals were released on bond and went on to murder innocent Texans, Rep. Klick supported new legislation to help to keep these violent offenders behind bars and off the streets by reforming our state’s bail system. The Damon Allen Act was named after the state trooper murdered in Central Texas in 2017 on Thanksgiving Day. His killer was out on bond despite previously being arrested for assaulting a deputy two years earlier. Rep. Klick knows that to keep citizens safe, we must stop the “revolving jailhouse door” prevalent in some counties due to abuse of the bail system.
Stephanie worked with Rep. Shelby Slawson, author of the Texas Heartbeat Bill, to ensure passage of this landmark legislation which states that if a baby’s heartbeat is detected, the baby must be protected.
Defending Life: Historic Accomplishments
Rep. Klick honored as a “Pro-Life Champion”
Stephanie Klick is known as one of the strongest pro-life legislators to ever serve in the Texas House, and she has been honored and endorsed by leading pro-life organizations for her efforts in protecting the unborn.
- She was one of four Joint Authors of the Texas Heartbeat bill, ensuring that abortions cannot occur when a baby’s heartbeat is detected. For her strong, unapologetic leadership on this bill, Rep. Klick was named as a defendant in at least 14 lawsuits seeking to overturn this law.
- Stephanie authored and passed into law a bill to ban the dangerous practice of mail order chemical abortions. Lax enforcement by the Biden Administration allowed out-of-state doctors to prescribe abortion-inducing drugs that are delivered through the mail with no medical supervision. As a nurse, Stephanie believed we had to act in order to go after these individuals who flagrantly violated Texas laws.
- Stephanie voted for the “trigger” law that would enact a ban on abortion in Texas if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe V. Wade.
- Stephanie helped pass a law banning the heinous, barbaric practice of partial birth abortion, and passed legislation banning the gruesome practice of dismemberment abortions. After being held up in the courts, this bill was recently upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
- In 2019, Rep. Klick was a joint author of the Texas Born Alive Protection Act, which outlawed practices that amounted to legalized infanticide. This bill required appropriate medical treatment for infants born alive after an abortion, imposing criminal penalties on any doctor who failed to attempt to save the life of the baby.
State Representatives teaming up for life: the medical team of Registered Nurse Stephanie Klick and Dr. Tom Oliverson beating back Democrat amendments attempting to kill key pro-life legislation.
Stephanie shown here with her Republican colleagues, voting to pass a bill to stop boys who claim to be girls from competing in girls’ sports. Rep. Klick served as one of four joint authors of the legislation that was staunchly opposed by liberal activists.
Protecting Girls From Being Forced to Compete with Boys in Sports
One of Four Joint Authors to Save Women’s Sports
Despite widespread opposition from liberal activists, Stephanie protected young girls by helping pass a bill stop boys who claim to be girls from competing in girls’ sports. This commonsense measure prohibits biological males from competing in University Interscholastic League (UIL) sports meant for biological females. Males have more size and more muscle strength, giving them an unfair advantage over females. Stephanie believes this is about fairness, and quite frankly reducing the safety risk to young girls when they are forced to compete against biological males.
Fighting for Medical Freedom: Coercion is not Consent!
A Registered Nurse, Stephanie Opposes Vaccine Mandates
As a registered nurse, Stephanie opposes vaccine mandates and believes consent must be voluntary and without coercion. Initially, President Biden said that he would not impose vaccination mandates, yet he has now betrayed his promise. Stephanie supports the legal challenges to these actions which trample on our constitutional freedoms. These draconian mandates remove our voice in making our medical decisions, set a dangerous precedent, and must be opposed. No Texan should be forced to choose between keeping their job and protecting their medical freedom.
Ensuring Election Integrity
Klick Stood Firm Against Texas Democrats Who Fled the State to Kill Election Reforms
Stephanie believes that we must have every confidence in the integrity of our elections, that every vote must be counted, and safeguards must be in place to prevent fraud. She co-sponsored SB 1, a strong, tough election reform bill that made it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
- Last summer, Democrats fled the state and shut down the legislative process to try and kill these important election reform bills. Stephanie Klick and other Republicans held firm, forcing Democrats to get back to work so that landmark Election Integrity bills passed the House and became law.
- Stephanie voted for a bill to stop the influence of outside forces, such as when Mark Zuckerberg was pouring large sums into Texas’ largest counties in an attempt to influence local elections.
- Stephanie supports voter ID to ensure that we can verify who is actually voting, and voted to extend voter ID requirements to those who vote by mail.
- Stephanie supports the $4 million appropriation dedicated to fund forensic election audits in Texas.
Expanding Second Amendment Freedoms; Endorsed by NRA
Passing Constitutional Carry; Fighting Liberals Who Threaten Our Gun Rights
In the recent past, it has become even more evident we must be vigilant in defending our constitutional right to defend our family, property, and even our lives. That’s why Stephanie has consistently voted to protect our Second Amendment freedoms, and will continue to oppose efforts by liberal gun-grabbers who try to impose restrictions on law abiding citizens. In the last session alone, she supported 12 pro-Second Amendment bills that passed into law.
- Rep. Klick co-authored Constitutional Carry, which allows law-abiding adults, 21 or older, to carry a handgun concealed or unconcealed for personal protection without paying a fee and obtaining a license from the state.
- Rep. Klick supported a bill to ensure that your constitutional right to purchase and own firearms during future disasters or emergencies will not be infringed.
For her conservative legislative record, Rep. Klick was named a “Faith and Family Champion” by pro-family organization Texas Values
Protecting Religious Liberty
Ensuring Government Can Never Close Churches
The events of the past year and a half made clear: during times of trials and tribulations, we need strong, responsive churches that are open and available to be the hands and feet of Christ and meet the needs of our people. Religious expression and the freedom to worship is foundational to our nation, but these freedoms are increasingly under assault.
Representative Klick took action to protect religious liberty, including giving voters the opportunity to amend the Constitution and ban local officials from closing houses of worship. In the November 2021 Constitutional election, voters strongly approved this amendment, ensuring that the right to worship in Texas is enshrined in the state Constitution.
In response to restrictions imposed during COVID, Stephanie voted to pass legislation which allows your minister, priest, pastor or spiritual advisor to visit you while in the hospital.
Opposing Critical Race Theory (CRT)
Rep. Klick Voted to Ban CRT in Texas Classrooms
Stephanie opposes Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a dangerous and divisive movement that assumes the very worst about people, without any evidence, simply because of their skin color. CRT even promotes the false view that our nation was founded based in racism, and teaches our kids that they belong to one of two groups: the oppressed, or the oppressor. This toxic, false viewpoint has its roots in identity-based Marxism, pits people against one another, and judges people by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character. That’s why Stephanie worked to pass a bill to ban the teaching of CRT in our public school systems, and she will remain vigilant in ensuring this teaching does not take root in student’s curriculum.
Improving Education, Respecting Parent Rights
Parents always have the final say in the education of their children
Stephanie supports policies which improve the quality of education and protect the parent as the ultimate and final decision maker in their child’s education. Families alone know what is best for their child: public schools, charter schools, private schools, or home school. More education choices and options mean more opportunity for a quality education.
More Property Tax Relief
Skyrocketing property taxes place a burden on family budgets, whether a young growing family struggling to make ends meet or retirees and the elderly. Stephanie has worked to provide property tax relief and to empower taxpayers with a stronger voice in decisions that affect their property tax bill.
- Stephanie passed a Constitutional Amendment that will allow voters to increase their homestead property tax exemption by sixty percent.
- Rep. Klick worked to ensure that cities, counties, and other taxing units must receive voter approval before raising taxes or issuing more debt.
- She also supported changes that will bring more accountability and transparency to the process of protesting appraisals.
- In the 2021 special session, an additional $100 million was dedicated to property tax relief. Stephanie will continue to fight for a plan she supports that would gradually abolish property taxes to ensure homeowners can truly own their own home.
Sen. Donna Campbell and Stephanie Klick shown here with Gov. Greg Abbott at the signing of HB 9. Rep. Klick authored this bill in the Texas House to stop anti-police protestors from endangering the lives of police offers at a hospital.
Back the Blue: Defending Law Enforcement from the Liberal Mob
Stephanie authored and passed a bill to protect injured police officers from rioters
Stephanie is a staunch supporter of the men and women in blue who protect our communities and keep us safe. In 2020, two Sheriff’s deputies in California were critically wounded. Anti-police protesters then blocked emergency vehicle access and entrances to the hospital where the officers were treated, putting lives at risk. Sadly, one of the protestors yelled, “We hope they die.”
Stephanie Klick vowed to ensure that never happens in Texas, writing and passing a bill to impose a state jail felony for anyone who blocks emergency vehicle access to a hospital or health care facility.
Additionally, Rep. Klick helped pass legislation to stop cities from defunding their police departments by freezing their ability to collect any new property tax revenues and removing their power of annexation. Under this new law, the state can withhold sales tax revenue from any city that defunds their police, then send that money to the Texas Department of Public Safety to cover the cost of providing protection for those cities.
Banning A State Income Tax
Texas is one of only seven states without an income tax, and Stephanie worked to ensure we never do. In 2017, Stephanie was the House author of a bill to ban a state income tax in Texas. In the 2019 session, she worked to support legislation that would give voters the chance to amend the Texas Constitution and ensure our state will never follow the disastrous paths of high-tax states like California. In November 2019, Texans overwhelmingly approved this measure to protect taxpayers from big-spending politicians.