Category Archives: State Senator Craig Estes, Senate District 30

Texas House passes SB 1857 (Texas School Safety Training Act)

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 Senator Craig Estes

Texas State Senate District 30

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For Immediate Release

May 17, 2013

Contact: Liz White

512.463.0130

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“Texas School Safety Training Act” Sent to Governor

Act empowers courageous teachers to voluntarily seek training for active-shooter scenarios

 Austin – Today the Texas House finally passed SB 1857, the Texas School Safety Training Act, which empowers qualified Concealed Handgun License (CHL) instructors to earn a “school safety certification” that would allow them to train teachers to save lives should an active-shooter scenario occur inside a Texas school. The bill now goes to Governor Perry to await his signature.

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Estes: The Medicaid Mousetrap

Op-Ed from the Office of State Senator Craig Estes, District 30

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March 11, 2013

Contact: Liz White

512-463-0130

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The Medicaid Mousetrap

My granddad often told me, “there’s always free cheese in a mousetrap.” Those words have never rung more true than with Medicaid expansion. I can’t help but think Texas is being lured by “free” federal dollars into expanding Medicaid. Mousetraps don’t work out well for mice, and Medicaid expansion won’t work out well for Texans.

First, Texas can’t afford Medicaid expansion.

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A Call for Truth in Budgeting

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Senator Estes files “Truth in Budgeting” constitutional amendment

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Press Conference on State and Local Park Funding

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Estes files RFID bill

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 Austin – State Senator Craig Estes (R-Wichita Falls) today filed SB 173, a bill that prohibits the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology by school districts to track or transmit information regarding public school students.

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Kick Off of 83rd Legislature

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Fate of “Flying Pigs” vs “Slaughtered Hogs”

Op-Ed: 01/02/2013, By State Senator Craig Estes (R- Wichita Falls) -

 Texas State Senator considers asking Texas Rangers to find missing Texas congressional conservatives

State Senator Craig Estes

State Senator Craig Estes

Where have all the federal budget-cutting Texas conservatives gone?As Chairman of the Texas Senate Committee responsible for our state’s Homeland Security, I am contemplating calling out the Texas Rangers to find them.

It appears that somewhere between Texas and Washington, they got lost.

That’s right! Some of our Texas congressional Republicans voted to pass Obama’s “fiscal cliff compromise” legislation.

This legislation looks like, smells like and tastes like a tax increase. Why?  Because it is a tax increase bill!

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Estes fights higher taxes

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Meet Senator Craig Estes

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