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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Allen Blakemore

MONDAY JUNE 19, 2017 713-526-3399

State Rep. Mike Schofield to seek reelection


KATY - State Representative Mike Schofield (R-Katy) announced today he will seek re-
election to a third term representing Katy and Cypress as State Representative, District
132, in the 2018 election.

"Its been an honor to serve my neighbors in Katy and Cypress in the Texas legislature,"
Schofield said. "I am committed to continuing to fight for the principles of limited
government, low taxes, free enterprise, and family values."

Schofield passed a landmark statute in the 2017 session to protect the integrity of Texas
elections by allowing the state's Attorney General to prosecute conspirators in illegal "vote-
harvesting" organizations that steal mail ballots, organize fraudulent voting at polling
places, and register fake voters. Schofield filed this bill in response to an increasing number
of cases of mass voter fraud, including recently-prosecuted cases in Dallas County, Tarrant
County and the Rio Grande Valley. The bill ultimately passed as part of HB 1735.

Schofield serves on the influential Republican Caucus Policy Committee, which


recommends to GOP House members which bills to support or oppose, also passed
measures preventing school districts from circumventing the law requiring their meetings
to be recorded and placed on the district's website, requiring school districts to give
information to school board members so they can do their job overseeing the district,
appropriating an additional $20 million to programs providing alternatives to abortion,
preventing thousands of divorces, child custody decisions, and adoptions from being
nullified due to procedural mistakes, and preventing activist judges from throwing out
state statutes without the attorney general being notified and having the opportunity to
defend the statutes. Schofield also killed a proposed amendment to the state budget that
would have placed burdensome reporting requirements on faith-based foster care
providers that the state does not require of other providers.

Schofield is preparing for the special session of the legislature called by Governor Greg
Abbott, where he will be filing bills to limit the growth of state spending to the increase in
the state's population plus inflation, limit the ability of cities to control land outside their
city limits (known as "extraterritorial jurisdiction") without providing services to those
landowners, limit the ability of homeowner's associations to make residents remove
religious displays, and crack down on mail ballot fraud in Texas elections.

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