Toth’s Lies and 2025 Voting Record Exposed
2/3/26 – On 2/1/26, I printed a story about Steve Toth’s shocking voting record in 2021 and 2023. He called me dishonest, claiming I misrepresented his votes on five of the first six bills he checked on my list. See his text and my response below.
Twenty-four hours after my offer above, Toth has not asked for one legitimate correction. Nor has he sent me a rebuttal. So…onward to Toth’s 2025 voting record.
Overview of Toth’s 2025 Voting Record
In 2025, Toth continued voting against a majority of Republicans on common-sense issues. See the list below. I boiled it down from 53 pages of NO votes on important measures. Toth changes his votes frequently. But as in my previous post, I only included FINAL votes…or the way he clarified he intended to vote.
In my opinion, Toth doesn’t deserve to be called a Republican; he’s an anarchist disguised in Republican clothes who consistently votes against the safety and welfare of his constituents.
For starters, in 2025, Toth voted against flood mitigation, free speech, food banks, cybersecurity, conservation, grid reliability, open meetings, transparency, ethics, border security, fraud protections, and disclosure of campaign finance information.
Groups Toth Voted Against
Despite what he claims, Toth also voted against groups such as law enforcement, first responders, consumers, patients, motorists, veterans, educators, CPAs, dentists, dental hygienists, farmers, restauranteurs, insurers, aviators, heath-care providers, seniors, schoolchildren, whistleblowers, correctional officers, manufacturers, attorneys, college students, utility employees, people who work from home, flood victims, crime victims, and rural Texans.
Toth Even Voted Against Voters
Why? By voting NO on virtually everything, Toth improved his so-called “conservative rating.”
Toth’s trolls make you think he walks on floodwater – while you’re neck-deep in it. They ignore Toth’s own record, while blasting his opponent, Dan Crenshaw with lies and half truths.
If you want to know what Steve Toth stands FOR, look at what he voted AGAINST.
Bob Rehak
For instance, he’s voted multiple times against measures to control fraud, sexual abuse and family violence.
Toth NO Votes on 2025 Bills
For more information about each bill below (including the full text), visit the Texas Legislature Online website. In 2025:
| Steve Toth Voted AGAINST | BILL # |
| Land, water and wildlife conservation | HB 4212 |
| Disclosing social-media impacts on minors | HB 499 |
| Improving public access to occupational therapy | HB 932 |
| Simplifying licensing of CPAs | SB 522 |
| Improving access to dentistry and dental hygiene | HB 1803 |
| Speeding up permits for people working from home | HB 2464 |
| Verifying a purchaser’s age for liquor sales | SB 650 |
| Making social-media companies investigate explicit deep-fake images | HB 3133 |
| AI protections for consumers | HB 149 |
| Banning e-cigarettes disguised as school supplies and toys | SB 2024 |
| Requiring hand-counted ballots to be machine readable for tally verification | HB 3113 |
| Disclosure of campaign finance information | HB 4406 |
| Timely filing of campaign finance reports | HB 1804 |
| Accurate and complete voter registrations | HB 2785 |
| Legible ballots | HB 3697 |
| Letting voters use cell phones while standing in long lines outside | HB 3909 |
| Publishing regulations for placement of political signs | HB 3918 |
| Fining lobbyists who violate restrictions on political contributions | SB 2781 |
| Helping electricity providers recover faster from weather disasters | SB 1963 |
| Protecting oil/gas infrastructure from natural disasters, cyberthreats, and terrorism | HB 1169 |
| Recognizing importance of natural gas during electricity shortages | HB 5224 |
| Inspecting well sites for wildfire susceptibility | HB 3334 |
| Fire safety standards and emergency operations plans | HB 3824 |
| Nuclear energy workforce-development program | SB 1535 |
| Grid-reliability measures that protect customers from outages | SB 6 |
| Recognizing the strategic importance of the Panama Canal | SCR 37 |
| Curbing mass importation of foreign shrimp | HCR 76 |
| Moving NASA headquarters to Houston | HCR 141 |
| Making first responders’ emergency-communication equipment interoperable across Texas | HB 13 |
| All appropriations for 2026-2027 | SB 1 |
| Job creation and economic development in Texas | HB 1268 |
| Developing an artificial-intelligence group within the State’s information resources group | HB 2818 |
| Selling surplus DPS vehicles to economically disadvantaged school districts | HB 1851 |
| Planning for severe weather | HB 2618 |
| Bullet-resistant windows for police vehicles | HB 2217 |
| Putting teeth into the state’s open-meetings law | HB 3711 |
| A statewide inventory of equipment available to respond to wildfires | SB 767 |
| Using captured floodwater to expand water supplies | SB 1967 |
| Aerospace, aviation, and space exploration initiatives | HB 5246 |
| Quantum computing | HB 4751 |
| Exempting non-profit food-bank trucks from gasoline taxes | HB 4226 |
| Creating a Texas Severance Tax Revenue and Oil and Natural Gas defense fund (Texas STRONG) | HJR 47 |
| Sharing information about cybersecurity threats and best practices | HB 876 |
| Modernizing manufacturing | SB 2925 |
| Attorney education re: open meetings | HB 4991 |
| Hedging state funds against inflation | SB 21 |
| Making Texas R&D more competitive | SB 2206 |
| Artificial Intelligence regulation | SB 1964 |
| Cybersecurity and AI training for state employees | HB 3512 |
| Establishing a Texas Cyber Command at UT | HB 150 |
| Strengthening education-to-workforce pipelines | SB 1786 |
| Free EMS courses for Texas paramedics | HB 1105 |
| Property tax exemptions for charities supporting medical education | HB 4240 |
| Rights of students to protest peacefully | SB 2972 |
| Nutrition counseling for Medicaid recipients | HB 26 |
| Reducing insurance losses by making property more wind resistant | HB 1576 |
| Reducing Texas windstorm-insurance costs | HB 2518 |
| Requiring written, detailed explanations of auto-repair costs | HB 722 |
| Requiring health benefit plans to cover telemedicine costs | HB 1052 |
| Covering general anesthesia costs for pediatric dental services | SB 527 |
| Insuring first responders on deployment across Texas | HB 4464 |
| Reducing recidivism of juvenile drug addicts | HB 1831 |
| Alzheimer’s and dementia training for guardians | HB 3376 |
| Penalizing fraudulent use of gift cards | SB 1809 |
| Training correctional officers in de-escalation and crisis-intervention | HB 2756 |
| Prohibiting government retaliation against whistleblowers | HB 1232 |
| Prosecuting the fraudulent use of credit cards | HB 272 |
| Studying ways to prevent theft of petroleum products in Texas | SB 494 |
| Letting the PUC screen criminal records of employees and contractors | HB 4344 |
| Combatting human trafficking | SB 610 |
| Preventing interference with utility employees performing their duties | HB 1160 |
| Requiring assisted-living facilities to be licensed | HB 2510 |
| Increasing the minimum duration for emergency-protection orders | SB 2196 |
| Protecting animal-control officers removing carcasses from roadways | SB 305 |
| Creating liabilities for online impersonators who harm others | HB 783 |
| Alleviating court backlogs with retired judges | HB 1664 |
| Protecting family-violence victims from their alleged abusers | HB 4027 |
| Updating laws that reduce electronic card-skimmer fraud | SB 2371 |
| Penalizing those who publish personal information of others with the intent to threaten or harm them or their families | HB 3425 |
| Clarifying conduct that constitutes exploitation and coercion of children, the elderly, and disabled | HB 1347 |
| Increasing penalties for assaulting utility employees performing their duties | SB 482 |
| Requiring convicted child sex traffickers to pay restitution to victims | SB 1804 |
| Making road-rage shootings an aggravated-assault offense | SB 3031 |
| Combatting misuse of AI to generate false harmful, intimate visuals | SB 441 |
| Increasing penalties for driving while intoxicated in school zones | SB 826 |
| Letting municipalities suspend or revoke certificates of occupancy for hotels involved in human trafficking | HB 5509 |
| Creating a Lake Houston Dredging and Maintenance District | HB 1532 |
| Establishing qualifications for county fire marshals | HB 3687 |
| Increasing higher-education tuition exemptions for military service members | HB 290 |
| Studying obstacles that Texas veterans face when accessing veterans’ cemeteries | HB 1875 |
| Studying ways to improve mental health services for vets | HB 1965 |
| Studying ways to deliver veterans’ benefits more efficiently | HB 2193 |
| Studying ways to use government-surplus real estate to house veterans and low-income families | HB 158 |
| Coordinating activities for the 200th anniversary of Texas’ independence | SB 1350 |
| Training appraisal-district board members | HB 148 |
| Requiring landlords to inform tenants of flood risks in writing | SB 2349 |
| Addressing fraudulent property claims and providing a remedy for affected owners | SB 1734 |
| Streamlining college admissions | SB 2314 |
| Improving early learning for children with disabilities or developmental delays | HB 2310 |
| Providing instructional materials for career education in health care to ISDs | HB 2189 |
| First-aid training on “airway clearance” in public schools | HB 549 |
| Civics instruction in high schools | HB 824 |
| Grants for Texas-history education | SB 519 |
| Preventing sexual abuse of students by school employees | HB 4623 |
| Telemedicine for rural Texans | HB 18 |
| Establishing a Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and supporting dementia research | SJR 3 |
| Emergency contraceptives for sexual assault victims | HB 220 |
| Requiring assisted-living facilities to adopt power-outage emergency plans that include climate-controlled areas | HB 3595 |
| Tracking distribution of opioid antagonists to help prevent drug overdoses | HB 4783 |
| Minimum training requirements for day-care centers | HB 4665 |
| Helping opioid-users on Medicaid who are pregnant | HB 5155 |
| Educating college freshmen about fentanyl and other drugs | HB 3062 |
| Increasing accountability for nursing homes in the Medicaid program | SB 457 |
| Creating regional mobility authorities | HJR 144 |
| Requiring the Texas Transportation Commission to back projects that improve border security | HB 3849 |
| Prohibiting trains from blocking roads for 30 minutes or more | HB 4207 |
| Requiring seatbelts in older buses to protect schoolchildren | SB 546 |
I Believe NOTHING Toth Says Anymore
I no longer believe anything the do-nothing Mr. Toth and his hired trolls say. Toth paints himself as a conservative purist…while lying about his opponent who gets results for his constituents. Toth also lies about his own record. That’s yet another reason why I’m voting for Dan Crenshaw and I hope you do, too.
Posted by Bob Rehak on 2/3/26
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