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

9 votes recorded as “Nay”

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.	senate	—	Nay
Relating to the assessment of public school students, public school accountability and actions, and proceedings challenging the operations of the public school system.	house	4376	Nay
Relating to improvements to the Texas Information and Referral Network.	house	4669	Nay
Relating to the duty of the attorney general to represent the state in the prosecution of the criminal offense of trafficking of persons.	house	4711	Nay
Relating to public education and public school finance.	house	4207	Nay

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.