Bryan Slaton*

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First elected to the Texas House in 2020 and reelected for a second term in 2022.

*The Texas House voted to expel Slaton from the Legislature following an investigation of allegations that he behaved inappropriately with an underage staffer. The unanimous vote occurred May 9, 2023.

Slaton previously ran unsuccessfully for the same House seat in 2016.

Endorsed in the 2022 Republican primary election by the Texas Home School Coalition, which supports using public funds for private and home-schools, giving private and home-schooled students greater access to public education services, and limiting state oversight of private and home schools. Slaton also received the group's endorsement in the 2020 and 2016 elections.

Endorsed in the 2020 election by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility (Empower Texans), a group that has supported budget cuts and limiting state spending on public education; eliminating educators' and other public employees' rights to use payroll deduction for payment of their voluntary dues to professional organizations; private school vouchers; and privatizing the management of existing public schools. Slaton also received the group's endorsement in 2016.