Alvarado continues her impressive record, focusing on health care for Senate District 6.
When Carol Alvarado was elected to represent state Senate District 6 in a special election in 2018, she already had an impressive record under her belt.
After serving on Houston City Council and as the city’s mayor pro tem, she was elected in 2008 to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 145. She was appointed chair of the Urban Affairs Committee and worked with Republican colleagues to get bills passed, including a 2015 grand jury reform bill that became law.
In her freshman term as a state senator, Alvarado has continued that run.
She co-sponsored 32 bills, 29 of which became law. The legislation ranged from a bill requiring insurance companies to cover diagnostic mammograms to one that gives every student the option of having an ECG heart screening as part of his or her athletic physical exam.
Alvarado has also helped sponsor bills to provide funding for survivors of child sex trafficking and another that requires transportation hubs such as rest stops, airports and bus stations to post signs with the National Human Trafficking Hotline phone number.
The legislation reflects some of Alvarado’s long-standing priorities and her familiarity with the concerns of her district, which runs through southeast Houston, portions of the Heights and the cities of South Houston and Pasadena.
The coronavirus pandemic, which has ravaged Black and Latino communities, has focused attention on the lack of access to health care and insurance in communities of color, Alvarado said. In April, Alvarado and the other members of the Texas Senate Democratic Caucus, which she chairs, called on Gov. Greg Abbott to expand Medicaid via executive action.
Alvarado, 52, whose opponent in the race is Libertarian Timothy Duffield, told the editorial board that Medicaid expansion would be her top goal in the 2021 Legislature.
That’s an especially worthy goal during the current economic downturn as thousands lose employer-sponsored insurance. We strongly recommend Alvarado for state Senate District 6.