Charles Schwertner

State Senator, District 005

TX Senate · Republican

Charles Jeffrey Schwertner (born May 29, 1970) is an American orthopedic surgeon and politician who has represented the 5th district in the Texas Senate since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, he served as president pro tempore of the Texas Senate from 2023 to 2025 and represented the 20th district in the Texas House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013. Schwertner serves as chairman of the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce. He is also a member of the Senate Committees on Economic Development, Finance, State Affairs, and Disaster Preparedness and Flooding.

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Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 66
Ballots cast: 66
Participation: 100%
Yea / Nay: 63 / 3

Yea63

Nay3

Absent0

Abstain0

66 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

3 votes recorded as “Nay”

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
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	—	Nay
Relating to the regulation of new HUD-code manufactured housing.	senate	—	Nay
Relating to the regulation of new HUD-code manufactured housing.	senate	—	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.