Dustin Burrows

Speaker Dustin Burrows of Lubbock has served House District 83 as State Representative since 2014 and was elected by his colleagues as the 77th Speaker of the Texas House in January 2025. Prior to assuming the speakership, he chaired the House Calendars Committee in the 87th and 88th Legislatures and the Ways & Means Committee in the 86th. His legislative service includes key roles on standing committees overseeing state elections, higher education, agriculture, international trade, and financial services, among other issues, as well as chairing the House Investigative Committee on the Robb Elementary Shooting in Uvalde in 2022 and as a member of the Investigative Committee on the Texas Panhandle Wildfires in 2024. Throughout his tenure, Speaker Burrows has championed landmark legislation and emergency items, including the Texas Taxpayer Transparency Act (2019) – requiring voter approval for property tax increases above a certain threshold; the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act (2024) – eliminating patchwork local regulations and restoring uniform regulatory authority to the state; historic school safety legislation – mandating armed security personnel on every Texas school…