Texas Government: Research on State House Member Tan Parker, GOVT 2306

This report provides a comprehensive overview of Texas State Representative Tan Parker, focusing on his role in the 86th Legislative Session. The report begins with basic biographical information, including his district (District 63), cities within the district, election details, political affiliation (Republican), education, professional ties, special memberships, and prior political experience. It then details his committee assignments (Business & Industry, House Administration, and State Affairs) and the number of bills he filed during the session (64 total, 44 sponsored/authored, and 20 coauthored). The report highlights key legislative initiatives, including tax reductions, streamlining government processes, protecting children, expanding local economic development opportunities, improving public health and safety, and strengthening family values. Specific bills and their impacts are discussed, such as legislation related to child abuse prevention, equine incentives, and human trafficking. The analysis also includes Parker's stance on government spending, his support for fiscal responsibility, and his efforts to address issues like human trafficking. The report concludes with a summary of his current committee assignments and his focus on economic development, job creation, border security, responsible government spending, education, public health, and family values. The provided sources include official Texas legislative documents and Parker's official website.

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State House Member Research Assignment
GOVT 2306
Provide the following for your assigned Texas State House Member:
A. Representative Information:
Name and District: Texas Representative Tan Parker, District 63 (R-Flower Mound)
Cities within the district: 24
Election Information: 86th Legislature Regular Session
Political Party Affiliation: Republican
Education/Degrees:
 Applied Business Strategies
 University of Dallas (BA)
 London School of Economics (MA)
Professional/Economic ties outside of being a legislator: Served on Several BOD’s and
advisory councils
Special Memberships/Positions/Interests: Businessman
Prior Political Experience: 10 Years
B. 86th Legislative Session
Committee Assignments: Business & Industry House Administration State Affairs
How many bills did your House member file in the 86th legislative session?
Total filed 64
Sponsored/Authored: 44
Coauthored: 20
Proposed bills/legislation:
Since joining the Texas House of Representatives in 2007, Representative Tan Parker
has written a noteworthy rundown of new state laws equipped on preservationist standards

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and creating genuine outcomes for the residents of Texas. Here is a gander at a portion of his
authoritative features:
Reducing Taxes and Government Spending
 Made state spending plans that have decreased general income spending and gave
record tax reductions.
 Co-composed legislation that disposed of the obsolete Telecommunications
Infrastructure Fund charge.
 Coordinated the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to send obligatory warnings of
detainee discharges by means of email, setting aside cash by bypassing costly stepped
letters.
 Solidified neighbourhood alternative races for exceptionally made metropolitan
administration locale into one uniform race date, sparing urban communities basic
dollars when facilitating decisions.
 Successful 2013, moved Texas' Sales Tax Holiday weekend to prior in August with
the goal that more families will have the chance to take part in this duty sparing end
of the week.
 Co-composed legislation making the independent venture exception to the
establishment charge lasting in Texas
Recovering the Government of the of Private Business
 Co-wrote fruitful legislation that raised the private company exception to the business
establishment charge, viably evacuating 40,000 independent ventures in Texas from
the assessment rolls.
 Decrease in recent repressive orders from congressmen by sending configuration
plans to the Texas Licensing and Administration Department.

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 Streamlined the credentialing procedure for certain medicinal suppliers looking to join
a gathering practice.
 Used the private area in overseeing drivers permit tests so as to fundamentally
decrease superfluous hold-up times
Protecting Our Children
 Develop a state-level strategy to reduce child abuse and neglect by directing school
districts, charter schools and public universities to provide applicable information and
instruction to students, parents and teachers on all forms of child abuse, how to
identify warning signs effectively and how to get immediate help if they are found
Themselves an unfortunate victim of this crime.
 Design an awareness program to improve the education of children and parents about
the need for child vaccines and where they can go so that their children can be
immunized properly.
 Establish a successful joint venture that has set up a pilot program in Denton County
to place children in attendance with adult volunteer counselors.
 Co-author of the Jessica Act, which provides for life sentences for children's
predators.
 New laws have been enacted to protect children from the coverings of household
sewage systems and to provide legal guidance to day care centers that ensure adequate
care for children with special medical needs.
 Higher fines faced by those who intentionally conceal their direct knowledge or
suspected ill-treatment.
 Allowed police authorities to register children suspected of being abducted by a
family member.

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 Implement new programs and procedures to help encourage children to graduate from
high school on time.
Expanding on Local Economic Development Opportunities
 Approved TxDOT to extend I-35E from north Dallas to the city of Denton, making a
noteworthy monetary movement, developing occupations, improving versatility and
expanding the security of this focal transportation supply route.
 Upgraded the Development Corporation Act of 1979 by giving networks the whole
way across the North Texas area the adaptability to utilize 4B monetary advancement
dollars to improve each part of their foundation as to pull in and hold huge scale
financial advancement ventures.
 Co-wrote legislation that made the Texas Equine Incentive Program, a crucial device
to the accomplishment of the pony hustling industry, which has solid roots in North
Texas.
 Framed various neighbourhood uncommon utility regions and furthermore added to
the abilities to existing unique utility areas, which fill in as incredible devices for
nearby monetary improvement.
Improving Public Health/Safety
 Stretched out the Good Samaritan Act to volunteer crisis people on call aiding a
medicinal circumstance so they can make every effort to spare a Texan's existence
without dreading lawful plan of action.
 Structured Texas' first pontoon administrator training law, which mirrors the moderate
stage in seeker instruction law in Texas that prompted a half decrease in chasing
mishaps and fatalities. Additionally passed another law that will furnish understudies
with an expansive comprehension of lake wellbeing by incorporating its guidance in
drivers training educational program.

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 Composed the Britteny Lindt Act that bandits the risky move of pontoons revolving
around powerless water-skiers.
 Engaged emergency clinics in Texas with the devices important to all the more
proficiently and precisely get fundamental patient data imperative to giving successful
restorative treatment.
Fortifying Family Values/Other Accomplishments
 Finished the "abundance framework" of paying people a set sum for each voter
enrollment card they turn in, a framework that prompted a great part of the ongoing
voter enlistment extortion found in Texas and the country over.
 Co-composed legislation to include the expression "under God" into the state promise.
 Co-composed legislation that further ensures the privilege of willful religious
articulation in our state-funded schools.
 Co-created legislation that assigns budgetary awards for projects that give marriage
instructions administrations and bolster the improvement of increasingly solid
relational unions in Texas.
Rep. Tan Parker (R-Flower Mound) recorded four bills intended to battle human dealing in
Texas. In introducing his legislation, Parker accentuated the requirement for the Legislature
to address what is turning into a developing issue in Texas. It basically everybody in Texas is
contacted somehow or another by this wrongdoing," Parker expressed. "We live in an express
that records for in excess of 14 per cent of all calls gotten by the national human dealing asset
focus. The opportunity has arrived for us to put our foot down and get much increasingly
genuine about taking action against this ghastly wrongdoing that is a cutting edge type of
subjugation."
As recorded, House Bill 2319 would address the interesting side of human dealing by
raising the punishments confronting the individuals who might request prostitution. House

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Bill 2291 would expand the punishments confronting people with various feelings of
ownership of tyke sex entertainment. So as to reveal insight into the predicament of human
dealing exploited people and help them further down the road, Parker additionally
documented House Bill 2290 to assign January as Human Trafficking Prevention Month and
House Bill 2286 to give a road to unfortunate casualties to conceivably upset feelings of
prostitution gathered in the event that they were, truth be told, a casualty of human dealing.
In Texas, in excess of 10,000 youngsters flee from home annually and 33% of them end up
casualties of human dealing, he said. Most kids are between the ages of 12 to 14 when they
initially become a human dealing unfortunate casualty, and many are lamentably dead inside
seven years. However in spite of this, as of January 2014, just 99 prisoners were in a Texas
remedial office as a consequence of a conviction for human dealing related wrongdoings.
Parker included, "We are going to tackle this issue at the two closures. First we are going to
get serious about the individuals who might exploit youngsters, and afterwards, we are going
to make ready to get unfortunate casualties the assistance they have to recoup, bounce back
and proceed onward to beneficial lives."
Serving in his fifth term in the Texas Legislature, Parker is concentrating his
endeavours on monetary improvement, work creation, fortifying fringe security, advancing
monetarily dependable government spending, giving a solid training framework, upgrading
open wellbeing and ensuring family esteems (Legislature, 2017). Parker is the director of the
Investments and Financial Services Committee. He likewise serves on the Ways and Means
Committee, the Redistricting Committee and the Select Committee on State and Federal
Power and Responsibility.
Representation:
Parker's fails to understand that the government has acquired its quality of character.
He accepts that he has always voted in favor of an Obama-like expansion of Medicaid in

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Texas, which could give future legislatures billions of expanded expenses. As a lawmaker
who accepts that the client's options are good for the benefit, Parker was also honest in
helping the Attorney General Greg Abbott to apply for the State Social Insurance Scheme.
Over the heading of more than one administrative class, he has upheld several
measures planned to absolved Texas from a large portion of the new government medicinal
services necessities. Multiple times analyzed for his endeavours by Texans for Fiscal
Responsibility, Representative Parker has confidence in a legitimate budgetary method this is
centred on responsible spending and diminishing expenses.
In 2007, it became part of the most significant resource expense reimbursement in the
records of the district. That equivalent a year, he upheld hit legislation that marked down
after which refroze property duty costs for seniors and impaired natives. In 2009,
Representative Parker co-wrote guideline that expelled an extra 40,000 little partnerships
from the establishment expense rolls. Since Representative Parker joined the Texas
Legislature, state-funded training venture has reached out by method for extra than $5 billion
dollars, Texas educators multiple times got compensation to improve and resigned teachers
have been given a reward thirteenth check-in 2008. Agent Parker gladly upheld the present
open staff venture plan that completely spending understudy increment in our school locale
and adds over $3 billion to the motivation schools programming. In the past, Representative
Parker has upheld key undertakings at the movement change the front. He joint-wrote fruitful
legislation that punishes companies who be given citizen supported offers while purposely
utilizing undocumented workers.
Also, Representative Parker has co-created attempts to apply the e-confirm
contraption for checking the citizenship of ability country labourer employs, make evident
the expense of administrations and advantages provided to non-occupants in Texas and make
certain the requirement of government movement lawful rules through adjacent law

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authorization. Agent Parker advanced his monetary system from extra than sixteen years as a
triumph representative in the individual segment. He immovably has faith in a limited
government, free business endeavour approach wherein non-open venture can depend upon a
capable, unsurprising administrative atmosphere where specialists energize work presentation
through sound expense inclusion. While we have endured this worldwide monetary downturn
in a miles more prominent reasonable style than different states and countries, Representative
Parker comprehends that we by the by have work to do that enables you to get progressively
persevering Texans again to compositions. That is the reason he is committed to a dependable
state spending technique that keeps up to lessen business undertaking charges, keeping a
modest administrative climate that doesn't limit money related side interest, well instruction
our next time's assemblage of laborers to contend in a worldwide financial framework, and
fortifying assessment motivating forces that draw in new employment to Texas.

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Work Cited
Legislature, T. (2017). The Senate. An Act Relating to the Creation of the Council on
Workforce and Economic Competitiveness, the Creation of Local Workforce
Development Boards, and the Development of an Integrated State and Local Program
Delivery System Serving all Texans, 73.
Texas House Member, Tan Parker https://house.texas.gov/members/member-page/?
district=63
Tan Parker. (2018). The Senate. http://www.tanparker.com/files/1584
Texas Legislation Online Information for Rep. Tan Parker 86th Legislature
https://capitol.texas.gov/reports/report.aspx?ID=author&LegSess=86R&Code=A4090
Texas Legislation, Bill Authored / Joint Authored 86th Legislature Regular Session 7/9/2019
https://capitol.texas.gov/reports/report.aspx?
ID=author&LegSess=86R&Code=A4090#jointauthor
Texas Legislation, Bill Coauthored 86th Legislature Regular Session 7/9/2019