Voter FAQ: Chris Jimenez for Texas House District 52
A guide to who Chris Jimenez is, what is most important to him to accomplish for the people in Texas House District 52, and how his priorities compare to his opponent’s
Tell me about Chris Jimenez
Chris Jimenez is the Democratic candidate challenging incumbent Republican Caroline Harris Davila for Texas House District 52, which covers most of Williamson County. including much or all of Round Rock, Georgetown, Taylor, Hutto, and Leander. Chris is a father, husband, farmer, veteran, and small business owner. He is a man of the people. Unlike his opponent, Chris doesn’t take large campaign contributions from companies or political operatives.
What are Chris' core priorities?
Public Education
Healthcare - lower premiums and prescription drug costs
Affordability - housing, food, utility and healthcare costs
How would Chris improve public education?
Fully fund public schools and reject programs that shift funding to private schools at the expense of local ISDs - that includes opposing school voucher programs, which channel public money mostly to parents of children who already attend private schools or are homeschooled
Increase the basic state allotment so school funding keeps pace with inflation
Help working people get higher education by expanding support for food insecurity, transportation, and child care for students and parents; improving broadband and hybrid learning access
How would Chris make housing more affordable?
Chris will pursue fair property tax policy that doesn't push long-time residents out of their homes
Help renters by lowering the current 20% annual cap on taxable value increases for landlords who charge fair-market rent (or less), with the stated goal of keeping renters from paying more than 40% of income on housing and utilities while giving a tax break to landlords who keep rents reasonable.
How would Chris improve healthcare?
Chris’s economic platform includes tiered incentives for employers who offer qualified health benefits, along with support for better, more affordable Direct Primary Care options (a model where patients pay a flat membership fee directly to a doctor's practice rather than routing routine care through insurance)
Bring hundreds of billions of Texans’ tax dollars home by expanding Medicaid — this would make 1.2 million Texans, and 8,700 Williamson County residents, eligible for affordable health insurance
Integrate mental health treatment into preventive care
Expand maternal and postpartum care access
Is Texas public school funding really falling behind inflation? What is the specific impact on HD52?
The Round Rock and Hutto ISDs, the largest districts in the county, have experienced significant impact from budget shortfalls driven by the school voucher program and per student spending not keeping up with inflation
Round Rock ISD has projected or ended with a budget shortfall for six consecutive fiscal years, including an anticipated $23.6 million deficit for FY 2025-26.
Its reserve fund now covers only about 30 days of its $486.1 million budget.
In an October 2025 message to the community, Superintendent Hafedh Azaiez directly named several compounding pressures, including "student funding allocations that have not kept pace with inflation" and "pressures from the state's school voucher programs."
The district has cut or considered cutting athletics and fine arts funding, phone stipends, and travel budgets, and has discussed increasing class sizes.
Hutto ISD ran deficit budgets for six straight years (roughly $3.5–4.5 million annually) before finally passing a balanced budget this year — achieved only through "extensive budget cuts" plus a boost in commercial/multifamily property tax revenue, not through new state funding
Who actually benefits from Texas's new voucher program?
According to the Texas Comptroller's office, of the 118,441 students who had received voucher awards through the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (ESA) program as of August 2026, 70% previously attended private school or were homeschooled, while up to 30% previously attended public school.
Since the voucher program allots roughly $10,000 per student, this student-level split closely tracks how the program's roughly $1 billion budget is being spent — meaning most of the money is subsidizing families already in private school or homeschooling rather than creating new access for families switching from public schools.