René Oliveira is an attorney and former Democratic member of the

Texas House of Representatives The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. As of the 2010 United States census, each member represents abou ...

. He was first elected to represent the 37th District in 1981. After losing a 1986 bid for the

Texas State Senate The Texas Senate ( es, Senado de Texas) is the upper house of the Texas State Legislature. There are 31 members of the Senate, representing single-member districts across the U.S. state of Texas, with populations of approximately 806,000 per cons ...

, he was out of office from 1987 until he regained his seat in the Texas House in the 1990 election. Oliveira was defeated for reelection in the May 2018 primary runoff election by Alex Dominguez.

Texas House of Representatives

Oliveira served on the Business & Industry Committee, which he chaired; the State Affairs Committee; and the Redistricting Committee. He is a former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

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Legislative page

René Oliveira at the Texas Tribune
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