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Janis Holt

Janis Holt

Republican Incumbent

Candidate for Texas House, Dist. 18

About

Texas House of Representatives, District 16 (2025–present). House Committees: Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs; Pensions, Investments & Financial Services. Silsbee ISD Board of Trustees (2014–present). State Commission on Judicial Conduct Executive Committee Vice Chair (2014-2024). Fourth grade teacher for 10 years and current owner of Hi-Tech Air Purification Systems.
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Notable Quotes

“Protect our gun rights against threats, such as red-flag laws, federal, state or other restrictions, by strengthening and preserving our inalienable rights under the Second Amendment to protect our life, liberty and property.”
“Texas shall immediately deny all taxpayer funded services and subsidies to illegal aliens.”

Positions on Texas Eagle Forum Legislative Priorities

Border Security & Immigration
  • MADE COLONY RIDGE HER TOP ISSUE. Blamed federal inaction and prior legislation for the growth of Colony Ridge and said Texas must “deport all illegal aliens,” deny taxpayer-funded services to illegal aliens, and stop developers from selling land to undocumented people. [1][2][3][4]
  • CO-SPONSORED THE BILL REQUIRING LARGER COUNTIES TO WORK WITH ICE by entering 287(g) agreements for local immigration enforcement. The bill created a state grant program to offset costs. (Senate Bill 8, 2025).[1][2]
  • CO-AUTHORED THE BILL TO REGULATE EPIC CITY-STYLE 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]
Secure Our Elections
  • VOTED FOR THE BILL TO GIVE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AUTHORITY TO PROSECUTE ELECTION-CODE CRIMES and mandates local law-enforcement cooperation (Senate Bill 12 & companion House Bill 12, 2025, 2nd Special Session).[1][2]
  • VOTED FOR 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. [1][2][3]
  • PLATFORM COMMITMENT TO DEFEND ELECTION INTEGRITY and wrote that “the most recent Election Integrity Law (Senate Bill 1, 2021, 2nd Special Session) is a great first step in guaranteeing free and fair elections. Penalties should be stronger for those who break these laws.” [1][2]
Education Issues
  • CO-SPONSORED THE TEXAS EDUCATION FREEDOM ACCOUNTS BILL, establishing Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) for school choice (Senate Bill 2, 2025).[1][2][3][4][5]
  • VOTED FOR THE PARENTS BILL OF RIGHTS, which addresses several aspects of government education, including curriculum utilized, information available to parents, gender and DEI policies, and student clubs (Senate Bill 12, 2025). [1][2][3][4][5]
  • 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]
  • STATED, “As a former public school teacher and school board member, I appreciate and support our public schools. But we also need to recognize that not every child thrives in a public school setting. Parents should have the opportunity to move their child to a different setting with some tax dollars following them to help with that process.”[1][2]
Protect Childhood Innocence
  • CO-AUTHORED THE BILL REQUIRING CITY LIBRARIES TO REMOVE SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIALS from children's/young-adult sections, require parental consent for anyone under 18 to check those materials out, and authorized civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation (House Bill 3225, 2025).[1][2][3]
  • CO-AUTHORED THE READER ACT, restricting sexually explicit materials in public-school libraries (House Bill 900, 2023).[1][2][3]
  • VOTED FOR 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]
Gender Issues
  • JOINT-AUTHORED THE TOTH AMENDMENT TO THE PARENTAL BILL OF RIGHTS that bars school employees from assisting a student in social transition using name/pronouns inconsistent with biological sex (Senate Bill 12, Amendment 9, 2025).[1][2][3][4]
  • CO-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]
  • PLATFORM COMMITMENT TO BAN GENDER MODIFICATION OF CHILDREN and to “always stand up for fairness in women’s sports.”[1][2][3]
Government-Sanctioned Addiction
  • 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]
  • JOINT-AUTHORED A FLOOR AMENDMENT THAT RESTORED 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][4]
Protect Life
  • CO-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). Posted that she was proud to vote for this bill, which “restricts the flow of abortion pills into the state of Texas.”[1][2][3][4]
  • PLATFORM COMMITMENT TO ENDING ABORTION by “ensuring the right to life and equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization, including adopting effective tools to ensure the enforcement of our laws to protect life when district attorneys fail to do so.”[1][2][3][4]
Islamification of Texas
  • FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE TEXAS HOUSE SHARIA-FREE TEXAS CAUCUS. “As a Founding member of the Sharia-Free Texas Caucus, I stand ready to defend our Judeo-Christian values that have, and will continue, to shape the values of the great state of Texas.”[1][2]
  • CO-AUTHORED THE BILL TO REGULATE EPIC CITY-STYLE 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]
National Security
  • CO-SPONSORED THE ADVERSARIAL NATIONS LAND BAN to ban 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]
  • See “Islamification of Texas” and “Border Security & Immigration” sections above for additional actions.
Other Constitutional Issues
  • 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]
  • 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).[1][2][3]
  • PLATFORM COMMITMENT TO SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS. Voted for passage of measures including House Bill 3053 (2025) to ban local gun buybacks and related self-defense/civil-immunity bills.[1][2]
  • CO-SPONSORED A BILL TO PROHIBIT PRESCRIPTION, ADMINISTRATION, ADVERTISEMENT, OR SOLICITATION OF mRNA COVID VACCINES (House Bill 3737, 2025). Stated that government, schools, or employers should never be allowed to require vaccinations.[1][2][3]
  • CO-AUTHORED THE BILL TO RECOGNIZE GOLD AND SILVER as legal tender in Texas (House Bill 1056, 2025).[1][2]
  • CO-AUTHORED THE 2025 APPLICATION for a limited Convention of States under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to propose amendments imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government, limiting its power and jurisdiction, and imposing term limits. (HJR 98, 2025).[1][2][3]
Bonus Issue - Property Tax Relief
  • VOTED TO INCREASE THE SCHOOL-DISTRICT HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION from $100,000 to $140,000 (SJR 2 and related Senate Bill 4, 2025). Holt later described the session’s work as insufficient and called for “REAL property tax relief.” [1][2][3][4][5]
  • SENT A 2025 LETTER with House colleagues asking Governor Abbott for a third special session to deliver “necessary property tax relief” that would make it harder for taxing entities to raise taxes on all Texans.[1][2][3]