AUSTIN — The North Texas legislator who cast the sole House vote Wednesday against a plan to overhaul school funding says lawmakers can do more to cut property taxes and boost education aid — especially for schools in his district.

Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, said Thursday he landed on the lonely end of the House's 148-1 vote sending the measure to the Senate after keeping in touch with his home school districts, especially Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD.

“I feel like my district was getting the shaft,” Stickland said. He also said he wants more of a focus on cutting property taxes and doesn’t cotton to a House provision giving school districts the option of extending the school year which, he said, could threaten summer tourism.

Stickland’s House district includes four school districts. According to Legislative Budget Board projections, the House plan would send a little more than $300 more per student to two of the districts, $401 more per student to the third and $609 per student more to Arlington ISD.

For Dallas ISD, the legislation boosts funding by $823 per student, or $114 million in 2020. It would lower the property taxes of a house valued at $191,000 by $153.

Stickland said: "This was a hard vote because I understand that politically it would be the easiest thing to do to just go along with what’s going on here. But my constituents demand that I look at the details and look at the long-term effects."

Asked to unpack "what's going on here," Stickland said: "I think that people have a desire to put more money into public education and they are listening to the 10,000-foot-view rhetoric, which is hard to argue with. But details matter in this building."

"I’m frustrated that I could not vote yes for it — because I want to. I want to find a way to do this. But I refuse to do what’s politically easy and risk not getting what is right," Stickland said.

House Bill 3 was authored by Rep. Dan Huberty, R-Humble, who chairs the House Public Education Committee. The bill pumps $6.3 billion of new money into public schools over the next two years, increasing the minimum per-pupil funding from $5,140 to $6,030.

Austin correspondent Rebekah Allen contributed to this report.