Zwiener files for reelection

Driftwood, TX – Yesterday, joined by dozens of family, friends, and supporters, Representative Erin Zwiener filed for reelection.

Zwiener made headlines earlier this year as one of the Democrats that headed to D.C. to try to stop the Texas Election Integrity bill.

“I’m so honored by the trust residents of House District 45 have placed in me, and I look forward to continuing to fight on their behalf,” said Rep. Zwiener. “Texas is at a precarious moment in history, and we need everyone to stand firm against the waves of anti-science and anti-democratic extremism washing over our state and endangering our democracy.”

Rep. Zwiener is currently serving her second term in the Texas House. She serves as the Vice Chair of the Appropriations, Article III subcommittee, which oversees the education budget, and on the Public Health and House Administration Committees.

She also founded and serves as the Chair of the Texas House Caucus on Climate, Environment, and the Energy Industry, the first environmental caucus in the history of the Texas Legislature and serves as the Secretary of the Texas House LGBTQ Caucus.

“This year I passed legislation to protect workers from sexual harassment, funded an audit into local emergency communications, advanced legislation to decriminalize cannabis, secured funding for student financial aid, and stopped bad legislation that would have eliminated local worker protections and that would have taken away tools to fight climate change from our cities and counties,” said Rep. Zwiener. “There’s still so much work to do, and I intend to keep fighting for common sense solutions and equality for all Texans.”

Rep. Zwiener had a leading role in the fights against the six-week abortion ban and legislation on transgender youth.

With a bipartisan group of colleagues, she helped protect the Texas renewable energy industry after they were scapegoated for the February blackout and pushed for more state investment in resiliency.

She joined 56 of her colleagues in a historic quorum break to fight for the freedom to vote last summer, and she has secured thousands of COVID-19 tests and vaccines for House District 45.

Representative Zwiener was just named a Legislative Champion by the Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter. In 2019, Texas Monthly described her as: “the most savvy freshman and potential future leader of the House Democrats.”

In October, the Texas Legislature completed redistricting, the once a decade process of redrawing legislative districts across the state. The rapid growth in Hays County necessitated Hays being divided between multiple state house districts for the first time.

The new House District 45 will include approximately 201,000 Hays County residents in Kyle, Buda, San Marcos, Driftwood, and Austin, all of whom Rep. Zwiener represents currently.

40,000 Hays County residents in Wimberley, Driftwood, and Dripping Springs will join Comal County in House District 73, and Blanco County will join the western edge of Travis County and Gillespie, Burnet, and Kendall Counties in House District 19.