Linda Koop

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name= Linda Lee Fielding Koop | image = | image_size = | caption= | state_house=Texas | district=102nd | party=Republican | term_start=January 13, 2015 | term_end=January 8, 2019 | preceded=Stefani Carter | succeeded=Ana-Maria Ramos | office2=Member of the Dallas City Council | term_start2=2005 | term_end2=2013 | birth_date={{birth date and age|1950|6|21}} | death_date= | death_place= | resting_place= | birth_place=Dallas, Texas, U.S. | occupation=Businesswoman | spouse= {{marriage|Myron Lee Koop<br />|1973}} | children= 2 | alma_mater=Hillcrest High School (Dallas) University of Texas at Dallas | footnotes= }} '''Linda Lee Fielding Koop''' (born June 21, 1950)<ref name=dmn>{{cite news | url = http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20140910-editorial-we-recommend-linda-koop-in-texas-house-district-102.ece | title = Editorial: We recommend Linda Koop in Texas House District 102 | newspaper = Dallas Morning News | date = October 8, 2014 | accessdate = December 7, 2014}}</ref> is a former eight-year member of the Dallas City Council and a Republican former two-term state representative from Dallas County, Texas.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=5781&searchparams=chamber=H~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=~gender=~last=Koop~leaderNote=~leg=84~party=~roleDesc=~Committee= | title = Linda Koop | publisher = Texas Legislative Reference Library | accessdate = December 7, 2014}}</ref>

==Legislative Voting History== In 2015, Linda Koop voted for Joe Straus as speaker of the house. She voted in favor of HB 80, which placed a ban on texting and driving.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&Bill=HB80 | title = Texas Legislature Online - 84(R) History for HB 80 | website = capitol.texas.gov}}</ref> Koop regularly has voted in favor of bills relating to occupational licensing such as HB 2267 (which would require an anesthesiologist assistant to obtain a license before practicing)<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://journals.house.texas.gov/hjrnl/84r/pdf/84RDAY62FINAL.PDF | page=6 | title = Monday, May 4, 2015 — 62nd Day | work = House Daily Journals | publisher = Texas House of Representatives | date = March 22, 2016 | access-date = November 1, 2019}}</ref> and HB 1260 (which would require an occupational license for shrimp loading and off loading).<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://journals.senate.texas.gov/sjrnl/85r/pdf/85RSJ05-22-F.PDF | page = 60 | title = Monday, May 22, 2017-62nd Day | work = Senate Journal Online | publisher = The Texas State Senate | date = March 5, 2018 | access-date = November 1, 2019}}</ref> Additionally, Koop voted in favor of HB 486 which would allow school districts to raise taxes without voter approval.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://journals.house.texas.gov/hjrnl/85r/pdf/85RDAY62FINAL.PDF | page = 40 | title = Monday, May 3, 2017 — 62nd Day | work = House Daily Journals | publisher = Texas House of Representatives | date = October 24, 2017 | access-date = November 1, 2019}}</ref> Koop also voted in favor of the Garen Amendment of SB 19, which sought to grant special privileges to legislators and legislative staff members by categorizing their communications as confidential, reducing government transparency.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://journals.house.texas.gov/hjrnl/84r/pdf/84RDAY80FINAL.PDF | page = 137 | title = Monday, May 26, 2015 — 80th Day | work = House Daily Journals | publisher = Texas House of Representatives | date = July 22, 2016 | access-date = November 1, 2019}}</ref>

==Unseated by 3,181 votes== Koop lost her bid for a third term in the state House in the general election held on November 6, 2018, when Democrats ran strongly in Dallas County. With 26,648 votes (47.2 percent), she was unseated by Democrat Ana-Maria Ramos, who led with 29,829 (52.8 percent).<ref>{{cite web | url = https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/nov06_331_state.htm?x=0&y=0&id=545 | title = Election Returns | date = November 6, 2018 | publisher = Texas Secretary of State | accessdate = November 13, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181110200011/https://enrpages.sos.state.tx.us/public/nov06_331_state.htm?x=0&y=0&id=545 | archive-date = November 10, 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

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