Priority #1: Representative Miles Fought to Keep us Safe.
- Authored and passed legislation creating an Independent Office of the Ombudsman for the Texas Youth Commission
- Joint authored and passed a bill to allow for continuing education for inmates
- Fought to defeat legislation allowing police to stop and detain individuals and ask for identification without probable cause
Priority #2: Representative Miles Fought to Build a Bright Future for our Children.
- Voted to maintain the Top 10% law that guarantees admission of our best students into our best Texas universities
- Led the fight against SB 4 that would have closed many charter schools around the state and redirected their money to college preparatory schools that were not teaching at-risk children of our community
- Authored and passed legislation to allow automatic admission into state universities for children of peace officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty
- Authored and passed leglslation mandating that law enforcement officers return truant children to a school campus in lieu of local police departments
Priority #3: Representative Miles Fought to Keep Our Kids Healthy.
- Passed legislation appropriating funding for a Statewide HIV Prevention Media Campaign
- Co-authoried legislation to restore cuts made to the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
- Authored legislation providing grandparents who serve as caregivers supplemental payments
Priority #4: Representative Miles Fought to Revitalize our Neighborhoods.
- Authored and passed legislation to reunify the Greater Southeast Management District
- Authored and passed legislation to expand the Greater Southeast Management District
- Authored and passed legislation to create the Clean Management District over the old Astroworld land
- Authored and passed legislation to create a new Sunnyside Management District
The passing of these pieces of legislation will spur economic development and growth and also help to keep our communites clean.
Priority #5: Fought to Help Small Businesses.
- Authored and passed legislation that would require state agencies when contracting with a historically underutilized business to establish their own goals and be accountable for those goals when submitting their Legislative Appropriations Request
- Authored and passed legislation that would require a public online databse for historically underutilized businesses to be kept by the Comptroller
Representative Miles authored, joint authored or amended 25 pieces of legislation that are meaningful to our District, our Community and our Great State of Texas.
