Candidate · State Senate, District 5
Charles Schwertner
What this job does: Your district's vote in the Texas Senate. Senators write and vote on state laws and the state budget, approve the governor's appointments, and propose amendments to the state constitution. The Legislature meets in a regular session every two years. A term is four years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- State Senator, Senate District 5 (since 2013)
- Occupation
- Orthopedic surgeon
- Lives in
- Georgetown
Background
- B.S. in pharmacy from the University of Texas at Austin; M.D. from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. source: senate.texas.gov
- Orthopedic surgeon. source: senate.texas.gov
- Texas House of Representatives, 2011 to 2013; Texas Senate, District 5, since 2013. source: senate.texas.gov
- Chair of the Senate Business and Commerce Committee; serves on the Legislative Budget Board. source: senate.texas.gov
- Authored the state's constitutional carry law; has worked on electric grid reform, foster care and landowner rights legislation. source: senate.texas.gov
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