Myra Crownover

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We have taken care of public school finance for right now, and I'm hoping this will be the higher education session. The state is growing rapidly, and we have great universities that needed to be funded.

— Myra Crownover, North Texas Daily , November 9, 2006

At the time, she said that she planned on Texas having a $5 to $10 billion surplus for the next year. [11] After the 2008 election, Crownover reiterated her support for the right to higher education. [12] In 2009, Crownover supported the increased athletics fee by authoring HB2024, which authorized the higher student fees at UNT to pay for Apogee Stadium. [13] This was similar to when she created a bill to increase the athletics fee at Texas Woman's University up to $125 per semester. [14] [15] In 2011, she strongly advocated for HB 1, [16] which cut funding for higher education in Texas by $1 billion. [17]

Energy and the environment

With numerous investments in natural gas and oil production, Crownover earns dividends from Devon Energy, a natural gas production company based in Oklahoma City, Apache Corporation, and various other energy companies. [18] Despite this, Crownover has served on the Committee for Energy Resources since 2005 and currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Energy Resources Committee in the Texas House of Representatives. [19] On her time on committee in 2007, she has attempted to increase the tax credits for gas wells. [20] In 2009, she authored House Bill 2259 that required oil and gas drilling companies to clean up the surface of the land associated with inactive wells. In 2011, Crownover coauthored House Bill 3328, which required natural gas drilling operators engaged in hydraulic fracturing to disclose the chemicals used in the fracking process; however, operators are only required to report the information to the immediate landowners, and the bill includes measures to protect industry trade secrets to avoid disclosure. [21] She has also filed legislation requiring that pipelines use public right-of-way instead of private property and legislation strengthening the requirement that oil and gas companies disclose the well logs used by the Railroad Commission to protect Texas natural resources.

Health care

Representative Crownover attempted to pass a smoking ban in the Texas House of Representatives in 2007 and in 2011, but both times the measure failed in the Texas Senate. [22] In 2005, Representative Crownover authored House Bill 790, which increased the number of genetic disorders newborns are screened for in Texas to 29. According to a news release from Crownover's office, since enactment of the legislation, more than 500 Texas newborns have been diagnosed and treated for disorders that, undetected, could have caused significant health problems or even death. In 2005, the March of Dimes named her "Advocate of the Year" for her work on newborn screening. Representative Crownover was also awarded the "Heart of Honor" award in 2008 and in 2012 by the American Heart Association. [23]

In March 2012, an aide publicly left her position from Crownover's office and criticized the lawmaker for her position on women's health programs in Texas. [24] Crownover also supported House Bill 15 during the 2011 session of the Texas Legislature, which requires a woman seeking to have an abortion in the state to first be subjected to a transvaginal ultrasound. [25]

Committees

84th Session

Retirement in 2016

Crownover won re-nomination in the Republican primary election held on March 4, 2014. With a low turnout, she received 6,001 votes (54.9 percent) and defeated conservative challenger Read King, who polled 4,937 votes (45.1 percent). [26]

Read King ran again ran for the seat in the Republican primary in 2016 but lost in a runoff to Lynn Stucky, like the late Ronny Crownover a veterinarian. He resides in Sanger, Texas, but is originally from Kansas. Stucky then prevailed over Democratic opposition in the November 8 general election and hence succeeded Crownover in the state House.

Notes

  1. ↑ State House Districts, Enacted by 82nd Legislature, 2011 (Map) (PLANS283 ed.). State of Texas. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 21, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  2. ↑ Newell, Charldean; Prindle, David; Riddlesperger, David (January 1, 2010). Texas Politics. Cengage Learning. p. 175. ISBN   9780495802242 . Retrieved November 16, 2011.
  3. ↑ Peterson, Amy (2011). "Appropriations Committee". Austin, Texas: State of Texas. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Vertuno, Jim; Tomlinson, Chris (June 2, 2011). "Texas Legislature OKs $4 billion in education cuts". WFAA.com. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  5. ↑ Stutz, Terrence; Garrett, Garrett. "$4 Billion Cut from Texas Schools in Finance Plan Passed by Legislature". Dallas Morning News . Dallas, Texas. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Eighty-eighth day". House Journal: Eighty-second Legislature, Regular Session (PDF). Austin, Texas: State of Texas. May 2, 2011. p. 6427. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 20, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  7. ↑ Crownover, Myra. "State Representative Myra Crownover". MyraCrownover.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  8. ↑ Southwell, Stephen (January 2, 2012). "Crownover Tells a Whopper on Texas School Funding: Claims Increase". Lewisville, Texas . Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  9. ↑ Selby, Gardner (February 2, 2012). "Myra Crownover says the 2011 Legislature increased state spending on education". Austin American-Statesman . Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  10. ↑ Crownover, Myra. "State Representative Myra Crownover". MyraCrownover.com. Archived from the original on March 22, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  11. ↑ Persinger, Hailey (November 9, 2006). "Crownover reigns again". North Texas Daily. Vol. 91, no. 42. University of North Texas . Retrieved November 9, 2011.
  12. ↑ Carlisle, Candace (November 5, 2008). "Crownover, Parker retain posts". Denton Record-Chronicle. Denton, Texas. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
  13. ↑ Pharris, Mary (April 2, 2009). "Texas Senate to mull stadium fee". North Texas Daily. Vol. 93, no. 48. University of North Texas. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
  14. ↑ "STUDENT FITNESS AND RECREATIONAL FEE" (Texas Education Code § 54.5251)
  15. ↑ Leg 2007, p. 384.
  16. ↑ Crownover, Myra (April 1, 2011). "Of course we can cut the budget". Texas Tribune . Retrieved November 16, 2011.
  17. ↑ Mehlhaff, Rachel (June 1, 2011). "Impact of cut to funding unclear". Denton Record-Chronicle. Denton, Texas. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
  18. ↑ "Lawmaker Explorer: Myra Crownover". TexasTribune.org. The Texas Tribune . Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  19. ↑ Leg 2007, p. 224.
  20. ↑ Leg 2007, p. 812.
  21. ↑ Heinkel-Wolfe, Peggy (April 1, 2011). "Drilling Bills Queued up in Committee". Denton Record-Chronicle. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
  22. ↑ Ramshaw, Emily (May 2, 2011). "Crownover: Smoking Ban Dead, Again". Texas Tribune. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  23. ↑ "Crownover Honored as Health Advocate" (Press release). February 1, 2012. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  24. ↑ Smith, Jordan (March 7, 2012). "GOP Aide Jumps Ship Over Women's Health Policy" . Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  25. ↑ "Caucus Vice Chair Myra Crownover's Statement on House Bill 15" (Press release). Texas House Republican Caucus. March 7, 2011. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  26. ↑ "Republican primary election returns". team1.sos.state.tx.us. Archived from the original on March 7, 2014. Retrieved March 6, 2014.

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Myra Crownover
Member of the TexasHouseofRepresentatives
from the 64th district
In office
May 10, 2000 –January 9, 2017
Preceded by
Ronny Crownover
 Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from District 64  (Lake Dallas)
2000–2017		Succeeded by
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