Angela Paxton

State Senator, District 008

TX Senate · Republican

Angela Suzanne Paxton (née Allen; born February 14, 1963) is an American politician from the state of Texas. A member of the Republican Party, she has represented District 8 in the Texas Senate since 2019. Her political career has been closely tied to her estranged husband, Ken Paxton, the current Attorney General of Texas. She filed for divorce from him on "biblical grounds" on July 10, 2025.

From the English Wikipedia article “Angela Paxton”, available under CC BY-SA.

Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 65
Ballots cast: 65
Participation: 100%
Yea / Nay: 64 / 1

Yea64

Nay1

Absent0

Abstain0

65 total ballots recorded.

Participation counts yea and nay ballots votes where a position was taken as a share of all roll calls on file.

Voting Record

64 votes recorded as “Yea”

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.	senate	—	Yea
Relating to election procedures regarding accepting a voter with a residence address that is not current and the immediate effect of a voter's registration after the registrar's receipt of certain change of address notices.	senate	—	Yea
Relating to election procedures regarding accepting a voter with a residence address that is not current and the immediate effect of a voter's registration after the registrar's receipt of certain change of address notices.	senate	—	Yea
Relating to election procedures regarding accepting a voter with a residence address that is not current and the immediate effect of a voter's registration after the registrar's receipt of certain change of address notices.	senate	—	Yea
Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.

Bill title and chamber are the only bill details held locally for these votes. Bill number, status, summary and sponsor are not part of this dataset see Bills for the fuller bill record. “Roll call” is the upstream roll-call identifier, not a date; no vote date is recorded in this dataset.