Cecil Bell

State Representative, District 003

TX House · Republican

Cecil Ivan Bell Jr. (born May 17, 1962) is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 3, which initially encompassed Waller County and is now entirely a portion of populous Montgomery County in Southeast Texas. Bell was defeated in the March 3, 2026, Republican primary election by Kristen Plaisance by a 55.1% to 44.9% margin.

From the English Wikipedia article “Cecil Bell Jr.”, available under CC BY-SA.

Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 182
Ballots cast: 180
Participation: 98.9%
Yea / Nay: 171 / 9

Yea171

Nay9

Absent1

Abstain1

182 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

1 vote recorded as “Absent”

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
Relating to the operation and administration of and practices and procedures related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state government, including court security, court documents and arrest warrants, document delivery, juvenile boards, constitutional amendment election challenges, mandatory expunction for certain persons, record retention, and youth diversion; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees.	senate	—	Absent

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.