Frequently Asked Questions

Amelia Rabroker is the Democratic candidate for Texas House District 55 (central Bell County, including Belton, Harker Heights , Nolanville, Temple, and part of Killeen). Rabroker is an educator, an artist, a small-business owner, and a community advocate, and has lived in Central Texas her entire life.

Early voting starts Oct. 19. October 23 is the last day an application for a ballot to vote by mail can be received by the voter’s early-voting clerk. Early voting ends Oct. 30. The general election is November 3, 2026.

Education

  • A: Vouchers are a scam that takes taxpayer money away from your child's public school and gives it to private schools. I spent 11 years teaching in the Killeen ISD, and I believe strong schools are the foundation of opportunity and freedom for all our citizens. I will fight to fully fund Texas public schools.

  • A: I will push for wages that match the importance of teachers' and school staff members' work, and I want to end STAAR over-testing so teachers can teach. I also believe every district should have school-based mental-health counselors. Further, Texas students should learn honest history that reflects every Texan's story.

Affordability and Working Families

  • A: The middle class is being squeezed. Housing, healthcare, education, childcare, and groceries cost more, but wages haven’t kept up. Everyday Texans are struggling to catch up, while billionaires are getting tax breaks. I will support fair pay, stronger enforcement of labor laws against wage theft and unsafe conditions, and property tax relief focused on working families and seniors rather than large developers and corporations.

  • A: Not without accountability. I will require stronger standards for corporations that receive state tax incentives or subsidies, and I oppose wasteful giveaways that drain resources from schools, infrastructure, and communities. Taxpayer dollars should be invested responsibly and produce real benefits for all Texans.

Trust Texans Initiative

  • A: People want to feel like they still have a say in the decisions that affect their lives, their families, and their communities. The Trust Texans Initiative is my day-one proposal to bring Texas in line with 24 other states that allow citizens to propose laws, collect signatures of support to put them on the statewide ballot, and let every voter have their say on the proposed laws at the ballot box. Right now, Texans do not have a statewide citizen initiative process. With a ballot initiative and referendum process, Texas voters could make the decisions on important issues such as funding for public schools, marijuana, reproductive rights, and more.

  • A: No. It is about accountability and trust. Republicans will not always be in charge, Democrats will not always be in charge, and Texans should have some sort of recourse when the people representing us are not listening.When people are trusted with real decision-making power, civic participation increases and the government becomes more responsive.

Healthcare

  • A: When my husband, a firefighter, was diagnosed with cancer, he had health insurance but we still had to raise money for his chemotherapy. No family should go through that. I will fight to require insurance plans to cover cancer treatment without loopholes, and cap out-of-pocket costs for life-saving care.

    I’ll also push the state to expand Medicaid to cover more than a million uninsured Texans.

  • A: I will work to keep rural hospitals open and bring federal healthcare dollars home to Texas. Mental health is essential healthcare, which is why I support school-based counselors in every district and investment in mental-health care and reentry programs.

Veterans and Military Families

  • A: Our veterans have made incredible sacrifices, and we should make sure they are taken care of. I will push to fully fund local programs that support veterans, childcare, and housing, and expand job pathways for veterans in energy, education, and public service.

  • A: I have always supported the property tax exemption for disabled veterans, and I will vigorously fight against any proposal to restrict it or eliminate it. But the state should fully reimburse Bell County and our local communities for the tax revenue lost to fulfill that state mandate. 

    Bell County is proud to host Fort Hood, one of the largest military installations in the country, and a large population of active-duty military and veterans and their families. They’re my neighbors, and I’ve worked with many of their children when I taught art on the base, and through my art school. The problem is that the state is not meeting its responsibility to reimburse local taxpayers for the veterans’ tax exemption. Bell County alone lost $16 million in tax revenue this year, but the state reimbursed only $2 million, according to the Texas Comptroller. Our towns are seeing the same disproportionate ratio. I will fight to make the state stop shifting the costs of state mandates onto our communities–and their taxpayers.

Energy and the Power Grid

  • A: I support an all-of-the-above energy policy, including oil, gas, wind, solar, LNG, and new technologies, along with community-owned renewable projects that keep energy profits in Texas. That diversity of energy resources will help keep the grid reliable. According to ERCOT (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas) , demand for power hit new, record highs this summer, but solar energy helped keep the power flowing, with plenty of reserves. I want ERCOT to strengthen the grid so we never go through another winter disaster like February 2021, while keeping power affordable and reliable. I also want to end tax breaks that let large energy companies pay less in taxes than Texas teachers.