Myra Crownover

Representative Myra Crownover
Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 64th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2000
Preceded by	Ronny Crownover
Personal details
Born	April 26, 1947 (1947-04-26) (age 64) Colorado City, Mitchell County, Texas
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Widowed
Children	Scott Luke John Dan
Residence	Lake Dallas, Texas
Alma mater	Southern Methodist University Texas A&M University
Occupation	Real Estate (natural gas/petroleum production)
Website	http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/?district=64

Myra Crownover (born March 24, 1947) is a state legislator in the Texas House of Representatives. She has represented District 64 in the Texas House of Representatives as a Republican since 2000. As of 2011, her district is located completely in Denton County, Texas, including much or parts of Denton, Lake Dallas, Corinth, and Hickory Creek.^[1] Crownover earned a Bachelors of Science at Southern Methodist University and a Masters of Science at Texas A&M University, both in education.

Elections

When Crownover's husband, Denton veterinarian and representative Ronny Crownover, died after the 2000 Republican Primaries from Leukemia, Myra Crownover took his place in the general election that year and ran unopposed. Since 2000, Crownover has been reelected five times and has won against major party opposition in the general election twice.^[2]

Issues

Higher Education

The University of North Texas, Texas Woman's University, and North Central Texas College are all located within Crownover's district. After the November 2006 general election, she stated:

We have taken care of public school finance for right now, and I'm hoping this will be the higher education session. The state is growing rapidly, and we have great universities that needed to be funded.

—Myra Crownover, North Texas Daily, November 9, 2006

At the time, she said that she planned on Texas having a $5 to $10 billion surplus for the next year.^[3] After the 2008 election, Crownover reiterated her support for the right to higher education.^[4] In 2009, Crownover supported the increased athletics fee by authoring HB2024, which authorized the higher student fees at UNT to pay for Apogee Stadium.^[5] This was similar to when she created a bill to increase the athletics fee at Texas Women's University up to $125 per semester.^[6][7] In 2011, she strongly advocated for HB 1,^[8] which cut funding for higher education in Texas by $1 billion.^[9]

Natural Gas and Oil Drilling

As of 2008, Rep. Crownover had earned at least $25,000 in dividends from Devon Energy, a natural gas production company based in Oklahoma and owned large percentages of various wells in the state.^[10] Despite this, she has served on the Committee for Energy Resources since 2005.^[11] On her time on committee, she attempted to increase the tax credits for gas wells.^[12]

Committees

• Appropriations
  • Appropriations Subcommittee on Article III (Public & Higher Education)
• Energy Resources (Vice Chair)

Notes

1. ^ State of Texas (2011) (PDF). State House Districts, Enacted by 82nd Legislature, 2011 (Map) (PLANS283 ed.). Archived from the original on 2011-05-21. http://gis1.tlc.state.tx.us/?PlanHeader=PLANh283. Retrieved 2011-09-26. 
2. ^ Newell, Charldean; Prindle, David; Riddlesperger, David. Texas Politics. p. 175. http://books.google.com/books?id=l8VMq08KaIIC&lpg=PA175. Retrieved 2011-11-16. 
3. ^ Persinger, Hailey (2006-11-09). "Crownover reigns again". North Texas Daily (University of North Texas) 91 (42). http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145397/m1/1/zoom/?zoom=3&lat=4179&lon=956.5&layers=BT. Retrieved 2011-11-09. 
4. ^ Carlisle, Candace (2008-11-05). "Crownover, Parker retain posts". Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Texas). http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/southdenton/stories/DRC_Crownover__Parker_1105.18059588e.html. Retrieved 2011-11-16. 
5. ^ Pharris, Mary (2009-04-22). "Texas Senate to mull stadium fee". North Texas Daily (University of North Texas) 93 (48). http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145692/m1/2/zoom/?zoom=4&lat=4586&lon=1144&layers=BT. Retrieved 2011-11-09. 
6. ^ "STUDENT FITNESS AND RECREATIONAL FEE" (Texas Government Code § 54.054)
7. ^ Leg 2007, p. 384.
8. ^ Crownover, Myra (2011-04-01). "Of course we can cut the budget". Texas Tribune. http://www.texastribune.org/texas-taxes/2011-budget-shortfall/guest-column-of-course-we-can-cut-the-budget/. Retrieved 2011-11-16. 
9. ^ Mehlhaff, Rachel (2011-06-01). "Impact of cut to funding unclear". Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Texas). http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/stories/DRC_Universities-fundingcuts_0701.411e132c8.html. Retrieved 2011-11-16. 
10. ^ Crownover 2009, pp. 8-23.
11. ^ Leg 2007, p. 224.
12. ^ Leg 2007, p. 812.

References

• Crownover, Myra (2009-04-30) (PDF). Personal Financial Statement 2008 (Report). The Texas Tribune. http://records.texastribune.org/personal-finance/myra-crownover-2008-financials-00037222-412044.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-09. 
• Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Eightieth Legislature of the State of Texas. I. Austin, Texas: The State of Texas. 2007-01-09. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth97471/m1/1/. Retrieved 2011-11-09. 

External links

• Official biography at the Texas House of Representatives website.

Preceded by Ronny Crownover

Member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 64 (Lake Dallas) 2000 – present

Incumbent

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Name	Crownover, Myra
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Date of birth	April 24, 1947
Place of birth	Colorado City, Texas
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