Rep. Steve Toth to Run in 2024

THE WOODLANDS, TX -- State Representative Steve Toth (R-The Woodlands) announced he would seek reelection in the March 2024 Republican Primary. Rep. Toth is currently serving his third consecutive term as a member of the Appropriations Committee in the Texas House. He is a small business owner known for his accessibility, down-to-earth communication style and tenacious problem solving.

'Babette and I have been blessed to live in The Woodlands Area for 26 years,' said Rep. Toth. 'We're grateful to have had the opportunity to raise our family in a community that shares our conservative values. Today, we humbly ask to continue boldly defending your values in the Texas House.'

During his time on Appropriations, Representative Toth has crafted three budgets for a state that has the ninth largest economy in the world. He helped pass a cap on state spending that was instrumental in saving the funds budgeted towards $17.6 billion in property tax relief. Rep. Toth also passed a budget rider designating $23.7 million to operate a school safety training center in a former Montgomery County school building, his counterproposal to DPS' plan to build a $1.2 billion facility in Austin. In addition to his work on Appropriations, Rep. Toth passed HB 5311 for The Woodlands Township to keep for local use an estimated $1.4 million of beverage tax revenue they were required to collect and send away.

On family values, Rep. Toth has passed several educational reforms. In his first term, he carried legislation that led to the removal of CSCOPE's revisionist history from our schools. He then passed a bill protecting the rights of non-custodial parents to attend school lunches.

The following session his legislation eliminated Critical Race Theory from the classroom. To strengthen his ban on Critical Race Theory, this Session he added the Parent Portal Amendment to HB 1605. Parents will now have access to all classroom material. This year Representative Toth worked tirelessly on The Beckley Wilson Act to give students with dyslexia access to specialized education.

'My vision for 2025,' said Rep. Toth referencing the next regular legislative session, 'is securing the border. I know our work on Appropriations has made history – we nearly tripled border funding in 2021 and raised that to $5.1 billion this session. But we must stop this invasion. Young girls and boys are trafficked across the Texas border for a life of misery and pain. And the fentanyl the cartels are bringing in is 100 times as lethal as the criminals.'

Steve Toth is consistently ranked as one of the most conservative Republicans in the Texas Capitol. In 2023, Rep. Toth earned one of only four Taxpayer Champion awards designated for House members by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility. And the biennial Rice University study ranked him #4 out of 150 representatives for his top conservative voting record in the Texas House.

Outside of his legislative role, Toth serves as a pastor and chairman of the board of Mighty Oaks Foundation, bringing veterans with post-traumatic stress the message that Christ longs to heal the broken hearted. Steve and Babette, his wife of over 38 years, have three children and two grandchildren.