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Will Metcalf

Will Metcalf

Republican Incumbent

Candidate for Texas House, Dist. 16

About

Texas House of Representatives, District 16 (2015–present). House Administration Chair; Culture, Recreation, & Tourism Chair; State Affairs Committee; and Congressional Redistricting Committee. Current Business Development Officer at Vera Bank and former Vice President at Spirit of Texas Bank.
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Conservative Endorsements

Candidate Videos

Stop State Investments in Foreign Adversary Nations
Quorum-Breakers & Election Integrity Bills
Protect Women’s Spaces & Out-of-State Abortion Pills

Survey Responses

Community Impact Q&A

Notable Quotes

“The Biden administration turned a blind eye to the border and Texas paid the price.”
“Texans must have confidence that their elections are run with integrity.”
“Texas has the responsibility — and the authority — to safeguard life and ensure women are not put at risk by dangerous, mail-order abortion drugs coming from out-of-state providers.”
“The Second Amendment isn’t negotiable. ”

Positions on Texas Eagle Forum Legislative Priorities

Border Security & Immigration
  • CO-SPONSORED BILLS MAKING ILLEGAL ENTRY INTO TEXAS A STATE CRIME and increasing penalties for human smuggling (Senate Bill 4, 2023, 4th Special Session & Senate Bill 4, 2023, 3rd Special Session).[1][2][3][4]
  • CO-SPONSORED THE BILL AUTHORIZING A STATE BORDER POLICE UNIT (Border Protection Unit) and related enforcement tools (House Bill 7, 2023).[1][2][3]
  • AUTHORED A BILL TO INCREASE THE OFFENSE FOR FENTANYL DISTRIBUTION, treating fentanyl distribution causing death as a distinct serious offense (House Bill 513, 2023).[1][2][3]
Secure Our Elections
  • CO-SPONSORED THE ELECTION INTEGRITY PROTECTION ACT to tighten mail-in voting rules, require ID matching on mail ballots, strengthen poll-watcher rights, ban drive-thru and 24-hour voting in some contexts, create new election offenses, and increase penalties for fraud (Senate Bill 1, 2021, 2nd Special Session).[1][2][3]
  • CO-AUTHORED THE BILL TO LIMIT FUNDRAISING WHEN HOUSE MEMBERS BREAK A LEGISLATIVE QUORUM by leaving the House without permission (House Bill 18, 2025, 2nd Special Session). This bill was in response to Democrats breaking quorum to block congressional redistricting during the 1st Special Session. Metcalf described this bill as a way to hold lawmakers accountable and protect election integrity.[1][2][3]
Education Issues
  • SERVED AS A HOUSE CONFEREE AND VOTED FOR THE PARENTS BILL OF RIGHTS, which addresses several aspects of government education, including curriculum, information available to parents, gender and DEI policies, and student clubs (Senate Bill 12, 2025).[1][2][3]
  • CO-SPONSORED THE TEXAS EDUCATION FREEDOM ACCOUNTS BILL, establishing Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) for school choice (Senate Bill 2, 2025).[1][2][3][4]
  • CO-AUTHORED OR VOTED FOR BILLS FOCUSED ON EDUCATION FUNDING, teacher pay raises, school safety, cell-phone restrictions, and parental input (House Bills 2, 260, 1481, and others, 2025).[1][2][3][4]
  • JOINT-AUTHORED THE BILL REFORMING THE STAAR TESTING SYSTEM, reducing the number of required tests to only what is federally mandated. (House Bill 8, 2025, Special Session).[1][2][3][4][5]
Protect Childhood Innocence
  • SPONSORED THE BILL TO STOP SEXUALLY EXPLICIT DRAG SHOWS AIMED AT MINORS and said he will “always stand against the sexualization of minors” (Senate Bill 12, 2023).[1][2][3]
  • SPONSORED THE BILL TO GIVE PARENTS MORE AUTHORITY over the materials their children are allowed to check out at school libraries. The legislation also creates statewide content standards and authorizes local school library advisory councils to help evaluate materials (Senate Bill 13, 2025).[1][2][3]
  • CO-AUTHORED THE READER ACT, restricting sexually explicit materials in public-school libraries (House Bill 900, 2023).[1][2][3][4]
Gender Issues
  • SPONSORED THE BILL TO BAN PUBERTY BLOCKERS, cross-sex hormones, and gender-transition surgeries for minors (Senate Bill 14, 2023).[1][2][3]
  • SPONSORED THE WOMEN’S PRIVACY ACT, requiring government buildings, public schools, and universities to designate multi-occupancy restrooms, locker rooms, showers, and changing rooms by biological sex (Senate Bill 8, 2nd Special Session, 2025).[1][2][3][4][5]
  • CO-SPONSORED THE SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS ACT and voted against amendments that would have weakened the bill (Senate Bill 15, 2025).[1][2][3]
Government-Sanctioned Addiction
  • CO-OFFERED A FLOOR AMENDMENT TO RESTORE A FULL BAN ON CONSUMABLE HEMP-DERIVED THC PRODUCTS (delta-8, delta-9, and similar intoxicating cannabinoids sold as legal marijuana alternatives) after a House committee version had shifted toward regulation (Senate Bill 3, 2025) .[1][2][3]
  • VOTED AGAINST ADVANCING CASINO/DESTINATION RESORTS AND SPORTS-BETTING EXPANSION BILLS in the House State Affairs Committee. Was one of three Republicans who voted no on these measures, which sought constitutional amendments to legalize forms of gambling currently prohibited under the Texas Constitution. (House Bills 1942 and 2843, 2023).[1][2][3][4]
  • VOTED TO ABOLISH THE SCANDAL-PLAGUED TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION, moving the lottery to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Voted for an amendment that would have eliminated the Texas Lottery entirely (SB 3070, 2025, Amendment 4).[1][2][3][4][5]
Protect Life
  • CO-SPONSORED THE TEXAS HEARTBEAT ACT, which bans abortion after a detectable heartbeat, typically around six weeks (Senate Bill 8, 2021).[1][2][3]
  • CO-AUTHORED THE HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION ACT, which banned nearly all abortions in Texas once Roe v. Wade was overruled (effective after Dobbs in 2022), with a life-of-the-mother exception (House Bill 1280, 2021).[1][2][3]
  • JOINT-AUTHORED THE WOMAN AND CHILD PROTECTION ACT that restricts manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, including out-of-state mailing (House Bill 7, Second Session 2025).[1][2][3]
Islamification of Texas
  • JOINT-AUTHORED THE BILL TO REGULATE "EPIC CITY" STYLE ENTITY-OWNED HOUSING (House Bill 4211, 2025). Governor Abbott said the bill targets EPIC City and blocks imposing Sharia law through that structure. The statute makes violations a deceptive trade practice and prohibits key control features of that ownership model: it requires disclosure that the buyer is purchasing an interest in the entity rather than the home, allows resale without entity approval, bans transfer fees, requires disputes to be heard in Texas or U.S. courts, and limits use of the religious housing exemption on large parcels.[1][2][3][4]
  • SPONSORED THE ADVERSARIAL NATIONS LAND BAN to prevent adversarial nations and terrorist organizations named by the Governor, including the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), from owning Texas real estate, timber, water, oil and gas, water rights, rare earth minerals, and other natural resources (Senate Bill 17, 2025).[1][2][3][4]
National Security
  • AUTHORED A BILL THAT PROHIBITS STATE INVESTMENTS IN ADVERSARIAL NATIONS through companies tied to China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and other designated adversarial countries (House Bill 34, 2025).[1][2][3][4]
  • See “Islamification of Texas” and “Border Security & Immigration” sections above for additional actions.
Other Constitutional Issues
  • CO-SPONSORED THE CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY LAW (House Bill 1927, 2021) for permitless handgun carry in Texas.[1][2][3][4]
  • CO-SPONSORED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS LAW, requiring public elementary and secondary schools in Texas to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom (Senate Bill 10, 2025).[1][2][3][4]
  • CO-SPONSORED THE BILL ALLOWING VOLUNTARY PRAYER AND RELIGIOUS TEXT READING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS during designated times set aside by school boards with parental consent (Senate Bill 11, 2025) and co-authored the bill to protect display of “In God We Trust” in public schools (House Bill 2012, 2023).[1][2][3][4]
  • CO-SPONSORED THE LAW BANNING PRIVATE EMPLOYER COVID VACCINE MANDATES (Senate Bill 7, 2023) and joined an amicus brief against Biden’s federal vaccine mandate.[1][2][3][4][5]
  • CO-AUTHORED THE BILL TO RECOGNIZE GOLD AND SILVER as legal tender in Texas (House Bill 1056, 2025).[1][2]
Bonus Issue - Property Tax Relief
  • AUTHORED HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 2 AND SPONSORED SENATE BILL 2 (2023, 2nd Special Session), delivering what he described as the "largest tax cut in Texas history" and raising the school homestead exemption from $40,000 to $100,000.[1][2][3][4]
  • AUTHORED/FILED BILLS TO LOWER THE HOMESTEAD APPRAISAL CAP from 10% to 5%, make the commercial-property cap permanent, and extend caps to additional commercial properties (House Bills 202, 273, and 356 plus related HJRs, 2025).[1][2][3]
  • PLATFORM COMMITMENT to “put Texas on the path to eliminate property taxes.”[1]