---
type: Person
title: "Paul Bettencourt"
description: "TX Senate District 7 — TX State Senate District 7"
role: "TX Senate District 7"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "TX"
district: "TX State Senate District 7"
tenure:
  start: "2015-01-13"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "67fc37f9-cebe-4588-ac44-e86540a5d85e"
  office: "cb168e5a-3474-403e-a928-cce77c91f12e"
  tenure: "b774846f-35cc-45e9-b66a-bbe8ddad65c6"
  jurisdiction: "b40deeec-5ee9-4269-b3f5-457fc762bcbe"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, tx]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Paul Bettencourt

Current TX Senate District 7 (TX State Senate District 7).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).