The Issues

Strong schools are the foundation of opportunity and freedom. School vouchers are a scam that take away your money from your child’s school.

As your representative, I will fight for students and teachers to ensure they have every dime they deserve.

My priority will be to:

• Fully fund Texas public schools.

• Pay teachers and staff wages that match the importance of their work.

• End STAAR over-testing; trust educators to do their jobs.

• Teach honest history that reflects every Texan’s story.

• Provide school-based mental-health counselors in every district.

Texas families are working harder than ever, yet too many people still feel like they’re falling behind while powerful interests get special treatment.

Amelia believes the Texas economy should reward work, strengthen local communities, and invest in the people who actually keep this state running.

• Support fair pay and economic policies that help working Texans keep up with rising costs.

• Require stronger accountability standards for corporations receiving state tax incentives or public subsidies.

• Prioritize local hiring and workforce development partnerships with community colleges, trade schools, and veterans’ programs.

• Protect workers from wage theft and unsafe working conditions through stronger enforcement of existing labor laws.

• Support the right of workers to advocate for fair wages, benefits, and workplace protections.

• Oppose wasteful corporate giveaways that drain resources from public schools, infrastructure, and local communities.

• Support property tax relief focused on working families and seniors, not just large developers and corporate interests.

• Ensure taxpayer dollars are invested responsibly and produce real public benefit for Texas communities.

Taking care of those who served is how we honor their sacrifice.

• Fully fund local programs that support veterans, childcare, and housing.

• Expand job pathways for veterans in energy, education, and public service.

• Fully fund local mandates and stop shifting costs onto communities, because when our communities benefit, veterans benefit.

Texans built this energy state with our own hands. We should be leading the next chapter, responsibly, proudly, and for the people, not the powerful.

• Support an all-of-the-above energy approach that keeps Texans working in oil, gas, wind, solar, LNG, and new technologies.

• Protect local resources: require data centers and energy giants to invest in the water, roads, and power they use.

• Keep profits in Texas by encouraging community-owned renewable projects and local reinvestment.

• Strengthen the grid to prevent another winter disaster and ensure affordable, reliable power for families.

• End the corporate giveaways that let billion-dollar energy companies pay less in taxes than Texas teachers.

• We welcome innovation and technology, but large data centers should share responsibility for upgrading local power grids, water systems, and roads. Bell County families shouldn’t foot the bill for corporate expansion.

Healthcare isn’t a luxury, it’s a promise every Texan deserves. When my husband, a Killeen firefighter, was diagnosed with cancer, we had to raise money for his chemo even though he had insurance. No family should go through that.

• Expand Medicaid to cover more than a million uninsured Texans.

• Require insurance plans to cover cancer treatment without loopholes.

• Cap out-of-pocket costs for lifesaving care.

• Keep rural hospitals open and bring federal healthcare dollars home.

• Treat mental health as essential healthcare.

We can’t build strong communities by locking people up for profit.

• Legalize and regulate cannabis for medical and adult use. This will create jobs, new tax revenue, and a safer market.

• Use that revenue to fund schools, healthcare, and veteran services.

• Clear non-violent cannabis convictions and help Texans rebuild their lives.

• End for-profit prisons and shift to rehabilitation and treatment.

• Invest in mental-health care and reentry programs that actually reduce crime.