Former member of Congress · last served 116th Congress

Will Hurd

REPUBLICAN U.S. Representative · TexasHouse 2015–2021 (TX-23)

Will Hurd was a Republican U.S. representative from Texas, first elected to Congress in 2015, who sponsored 7 bills that became law (114th–116th Congress).

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38Bills & resolutions sponsored114th–116th Congress (excludes amendments)

15Passed a chamberof 32 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

7Became law6 substantive + 1 ceremonial · 114th–116th Congress

—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)

—Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: not in office

How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.

Recent votes

No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.

5 most recent bills

H.R. 4785 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1305 U.S. Highway 90 West in Castroville, Texas, as the "Lance Corporal Rhonald Dain…
Dec 21, 2020 · Became Public Law No: 116-240.
H.Res. 1250 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the principles that should guide the national artificial intelligence strategy of the…
Dec 8, 2020 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
H.R. 8221 Blackwell School National Historic Site Act
Sep 16, 2020 · Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
H.Con.Res. 116 Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the principles that should guide the national artificial intelligence strategy of the United States.
Sep 16, 2020 · Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Oversight and Reform, Foreign Affairs…
H.R. 8093 Big Bend National Park Boundary Adjustment Act
Sep 10, 2020 · Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Elections Rep. Hurd has won

Rep. Hurd has won 3 U.S. House elections (2014–2018). Of the contested races, margins ran from 0.4 to 2.1 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won3 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 0.4 points2018, TX-23

Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 3 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, Texas’s 23rd districtWinners, most recent three: Pete P. Gallego (D) 2012 → Will Hurd (R) 2014–2018 → Tony Gonzales (R) 2020–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

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Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.

How has Texas’s 23rd district done while Rep. Hurd served?

2015 to 2019 in TX-23: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 2.0 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 3.7 points.

Typical household income · after inflation

TX-23: $71.6K in 2015 → $72.7K in 2019

TX-23 about the sameTexas up 7%U.S. up 9%

Share of people below the poverty line

TX-23: 17.5% in 2015 → 15.5% in 2019

TX-23 down 2.0 pointsTexas down 2.2 pointsU.S. down 2.4 points

Share of workers looking for a job

TX-23: 7.1% in 2015 → 3.5% in 2019

TX-23 down 3.7 pointsTexas down 1.1 pointsU.S. down 1.8 points

Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Texas’s 23rd district during Hurd’s time representing it (2015 to 2021). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

One set of district lines. TX-23 was redrawn in 2007, 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Hurd’s term so far (2015 to 2019) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

116th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 11 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	11	Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement	7	See the 7 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed	1	See the 1 →
With a committee report listed	0	None listed

Evidence

How counted: Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 116th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
Fields: cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
PORKER copy refreshed: October 26, 2026 (nightly)

Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.