- City council members collaborate to create and enforce city policies, including legislation on essential services like police, fire, parks, libraries, and utilities.
- They work alongside the mayor to manage city departments, including transportation and parks and recreation.
- Council members can be elected to represent specific districts or the entire city at-large.
- The structure of city councils, including the number of members, their terms, term limits, and partisanship, differs by county.

Passes laws and regulations for your city.

River Oaks

Texas

2025 Texas Contitutional Amendemnt Election

Housing & Urban Development

Public Services

Public Safety

Energy & the Environment

Transportation & Infrastructure

City Council Member

Rockwall

Administration

Board of Directors Member

Saint Jo

School Curriculum

School Facilities & Resources

Student Wellbeing

Teachers

Access to Education

School Board Member

Sherman

Passes laws and regulations for your town.

Sunnyvale

Town Council Member

- Your state senator represents the interests of your district in the Texas State Senate. The State Senate, along with the State House of Representatives, makes up your state lawmaking body: the Texas Legislature.
- Your state senator can author, sponsor, and vote on bills that may become state laws after going through the legislative process.
- There are 31 Texas state senators, each representing a single district with a constituency of around 1 million.
- State senators are elected to 4-year terms and one 2-year term per decade, and there are no term limits.
- They are paid a salary of $7,200/year and a per diem of $221/day.

Your representative and state lawmaker in the Texas State Senate

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Healthcare

Education

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State Senator

OLIVER CREEK RANCH MUD

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Rockwall Board of Directors Member

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0 candidate

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How this impacts you

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