Our Mission

State Gov Scorecard gives voters in Denton County (and contiguous counties that share a legislator) a simple way to track the progress our state representatives and senators are making on advancing the priorities we elected them to advance during each legislative session. Voters can review the priorities, view updated priority scores for each state legislator, and contact each one directly to express their thanks, encouragement or displeasure—all in one convenient place.

State Gov Scorecard also gives state legislators a way to measure their own progress on each priority vs the progress of their fellow legislators, through the eyes of the voters. Our scoring system puts legislators and voters on the same page, in order to maximize transparency.

Grading Process

We use an objective, not arbitrary, standard. Each Denton County legislator is tracked throughout the legislative session. A D3C panel examines the exact language of the eight official 2025 Republican Party of Texas Legislative Priorities and the RPT Platform language. The panel then examines the bills considered by the RPT to be those advancing the priority and platform language. Finally, the panel compares the words and actions of the legislator regarding the bills carrying the priority. The following criteria are used:

1. Bills legislators have filed.
2. Bills legislators have co-authored or co-sponsored prior to the last 6 weeks of session (this time limit screens out “late sponsorship tricks”—the practice of endorsing a bill after it is known to be dead due to committee delay).
3. Amendments legislators have offered (if any).
4. Committee actions and votes taken by Denton County legislators that involve the legislative priorities for that session and/or high priority bills such as votes on Speaker of the House, property taxes, grid bills, highway bills, etc.
5. Verbal support for any of the bills being tracked.
6. Number of bills each legislator support within each category of legislative criteria?  Was it only one or two, half of them or most of them per category?

Weekly updates are made by the D3C legislative affairs committee, and spreadsheets and internal quantitative scores assigned.