Phil King

Phillip Stephen King (born February 29, 1956) is an American attorney from Weatherford, Texas serving as a member of the Texas Senate since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2023.

Election history King was nominated without opposition in the 1998 Republican primary when the incumbent, Ric Williamson, did not seek re-election. In the general election, King defeated the Democratic candidate, Brenda Brown Rotramble, 21,200 (65%) to 11,626 (35%). (At the time, the district included a portion of neighboring Cooke County.)

2000 - King ran unopposed. 2014 - King again defeated candidate Matthew Britt (who ran under the Democratic banner), 36,466 (83%) to 7,451 (17%). 2022 - King won the Republican nomination for the District 10 state Senate seat with 75.5 percent of the Republican primary vote.

Legislative history King has supported legislation that would institute parental notification and parental consent.

In the regular and then the three special legislative sessions of 2003, King authored the congressional redistricting legislation favored by the Republican Party, which won more than 55 percent of the total votes cast in thirty-two separate congressional races in the 2002 midterm elections even though the Republican Party obtained just fifteen of the U.S. House seats. The result gave the Texas delegation to the U.S. House a temporary 21–11 Republican majority.

In 2005, King was the House sponsor of Senate Bill 5, which deregulated Texas telecommunications laws and banned Texas cities from participating in projects that offer free wi-fi in airports and public spaces.

King was involved in other legislative matters, including the testing of high school athletes for steroid use,

In 2023, King introduced SB 1515 of the 88th Session of the Texas Senate, which would require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom of every public school in Texas. The bill failed to pass.

It was later passed in 2025 as Texas Senate Bill 10.

Personal life Prior to his legislative service, King was a captain in the Fort Worth Police Department. He was also an instructor at Dallas Baptist University which is his alma mater, and he served as a justice of the peace in Parker County, Texas. He currently serves as an officer in the Texas State Guard, but never served in the U.S. Armed Forces. He also attended Texas Wesleyan University where he obtained his Juris Doctor degree.