Molly Cook

State Senator, District 015

TX Senate · Democrat

Molly Cook (born June 6, 1991) is an American registered nurse and politician who is a member of the Texas Senate for the 15th district. A Democrat, she was elected in a May special election to fill the vacancy from John Whitmire resigning to become Mayor of Houston. Cook is openly bisexual, and her win in the May special election was the first time an openly LGBTQ+ person was elected to the Texas Senate. She is also the first woman to represent the 15th district of the Texas Senate.

From the English Wikipedia article “Molly Cook”, available under CC BY-SA.

Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 67
Ballots cast: 64
Participation: 95.5%
Yea / Nay: 7 / 57

Yea7

Nay57

Absent3

Abstain0

67 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 “Absent”

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.	senate	—	Absent
Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.	senate	—	Absent
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	—	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.