[1] From 1995, with the advent of the George W. Bush gubernatorial administration, until 2019, Elkins represented District 135 in Harris County.
[2] Elkins won his eleventh term in the state House in the general election held on November 4, 2014, when he defeated Democrat Moiz A. Abbas of Houston.
He subsequently earned a Bachelor of Science in Practical Theology from the private Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxachachie in Ellis County in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
He has worked in real estate[1][4] and since 1985 has owned Personal Credit Corporation, which operates a dozen payday-lending locations in Houston.
[8] In 2017, Representative Elkins introduced HB 3418, which would make it more difficult for local governments to designate historic landmarks.