1. Steve Toth is a commentator on the political show FOX Faceoff which appears on Fox 26 Houston.
37 Facts About Steve Toth
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Steve Toth won the 2012 election to the State House district 15.
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In February 2013, newly inaugurated Representative Steve Toth was elected by his colleagues to the House Republican Caucus Policy Committee as the East Texas representative on the panel.
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Steve Toth authored the Firearms Protection Act restricting federal control and regulations of firearms, which made it a Class A misdemeanor to interfere with a Texan's Second Amendment rights.
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Steve Toth received assistance from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in drafting the bill.
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On January 11,2019, Steve Toth filed House Bill 792 with the 86th Legislature and entitled it the Jones Forest Preservation Act.
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On February 7,2019, Steve Toth filed the JD Lambright Local Government Ethics Reform Act, which requires cities, counties, and other political subdivisions statewide to post contracts they have with taxpayer-funded lobbyists and to post how much they are paying the lobbyists.
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In February 2019, Steve Toth co-authored Texas House Bill 1500 which would ban abortions after the detection of an unborn child's heartbeat.
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Steve Toth co-authored Texas House Bill 896 which would prohibit abortion.
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In March 2019, Steve Toth became a cosponsor of SB 22 which prohibits government entities from providing taxpayer-funded resources to Planned Parenthood.
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On March 5,2019, Steve Toth introduced Texas HB 3145, the School Lunch Bill.
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In March 2019 Steve Toth introduced Texas House Bill 2518 which aims to reduce cannabis possession from a Class B to a Class C misdemeanor.
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In May 2020, Steve Toth protested Abbott's lockdown order by getting a haircut.
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In November 2020, during the 87th Texas legislative session, Steve Toth filed again the Texas Firearm Protection Act, basically the same piece of legislation that he originally filed in January 2019.
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Governor Greg Abbott assisted Steve Toth in writing the bill in 2013 when Abbott was serving as Texas Attorney General.
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Steve Toth was ranked the fourth most conservative House member of the 2021 Texas legislature by Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University.
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On July 19,2021, Steve Toth introduced a bill to conduct a forensic audit of the November 2020 election in the 13 counties with the largest populations in Texas, which tend to lean for the Democratic Party.
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On February 8,2023, Steve Toth was appointed to the Appropriations and Corrections committees of the 88th Session.
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Steve Toth has served on the Appropriations Committee every legislative session since 2019.
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On March 7,2023, Steve Toth filed HB 3928, which is known as the Beckley Wilson Act.
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On May 27,2023, Steve Toth voted no to impeach Ken Paxton.
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In November 2015, Steve Toth announced his candidacy for Texas's 8th congressional district seat held at the time by Kevin Brady.
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In January 2016, Steve Toth received the endorsement of all Tea Party organizations in Montgomery County, Texas.
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Steve Toth criticized Brady for compromising too often with President Obama, supporting the omnibus federal budget bill, and voting to revive the US Export-Import Bank.
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On May 31,2017, Steve Toth announced that he would be running for his old Texas House seat, District 15, since the incumbent, Mark Keough, announced he would not be running for re-election but instead run for Montgomery County Judge.
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Steve Toth stated that he wanted to reduce property taxes for homeowners by implementing an acquisition-based appraisal system.
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Steve Toth wants to encourage the San Jacinto River Authority to work on the flood control aspects of its mission statement, instead of keeping Lake Conroe at full capacity for recreational purposes.
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Steve Toth has advocated for the directors of the SJRA board to be elected positions and for the directors to have a civil engineering background, to encourage effective floodplain models.
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Steve Toth indicated that in the general election against McGill he would be focusing on lowering property taxes, passing tax reform, and raising teacher salaries.
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Steve Toth was unopposed in the March 3,2020 Republican primary.
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Steve Toth faced Democrat Lorena Perez McGill again in the 2020 general election in November.
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Steve Toth said that the county exceeded their state constitutional authority by allowing drive-thru voting as an alternative to walk-in voting during the COVID-19 pandemic, a change that Steve Toth argued that should have only been decided by the Texas Legislature.
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Steve Toth faced an opponent in the March 1,2022, Republican primary.
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Steve Toth's opponent was attorney Maris Blair of The Woodlands, whose law firm primarily collects taxes.
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Steve Toth faced schoolteacher Democrat Kristin Johnson of The Woodlands in the general election.
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Steve Toth faced an opponent in the March 2024 Republican primary named Stephen "Skeeter" Hubert of Conroe, Texas.
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Steve Toth campaigned on demanding an end to Democratic committee chairs in the Texas House, supporting school choice, and limiting the House Speaker to two terms to reduce his power over individual Texas House members.