Dade Phelan

State Representative, District 021

TX House · Republican

Matthew McDade Phelan (born September 18, 1975) is an American real estate developer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he serves in Texas House of Representatives representing District 21, which includes most of Jefferson and all of Orange and Jasper counties in the southeast corner of the state. He served as the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 2021 to 2025.

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Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 182
Ballots cast: 170
Participation: 93.4%
Yea / Nay: 161 / 9

Yea161

Nay9

Absent12

Abstain0

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 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 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
Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.	house	4425	Nay
Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.	house	4424	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.