Legislation authored by Gary Gates

Includes legislation with Gary Gates as the primary author for the 86th through 87th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System. Author information is not available for the 87th Legislature.

87th Regular Session
HB 334	Last Action: Referred to Public Education Caption: Relating to funding for career and technology programs in public schools.
HB 571	Last Action: Placed on General State Calendar Caption: Relating to the establishment of a bundled-pricing program to reduce certain health care costs in the state employees group benefits program.
HB 806	Last Action: Referred to Natural Resources Caption: Relating to nonsubmetered billing for water or wastewater service.
HB 1004	Last Action: Committee report sent to Calendars Caption: Relating to the selection of the board of directors of municipal management districts created under general law.
HB 1028	Last Action: Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Caption: Relating to requiring the Employees Retirement System of Texas to establish a defined contribution plan to provide retirement benefits to certain employees.
HB 1096	Last Action: Referred to Ways & Means Caption: Relating to the taxation of a leasehold or other possessory interest in a public facility granted by a public facility corporation.
HB 1098	Last Action: Left pending in committee Caption: Relating to reports of child abuse or neglect and certain preliminary investigations of those reports.
HB 1146	Last Action: Referred to Public Education Caption: Relating to placement on the minimum salary schedule for certain public school career or technology education teachers.
HB 1204	Last Action: Referred to Human Services Caption: Relating to the procedures required before an individual's name is added to the central child abuse or neglect registry.
HB 1219	Last Action: Recommitted to committee Caption: Relating to the dissolution by petition of a municipal management district.
HB 1411	Last Action: No action taken in committee Caption: Relating to funding under the transportation allotment for transportation related to career and technology education and the use of transportation allotment funds by school districts to provide prepaid fuel cards to certain students.
HB 1437	Last Action: Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Caption: Relating to requiring the Employees Retirement System of Texas to establish a hybrid retirement plan to provide retirement benefits to certain employees.
HB 1438	Last Action: Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Caption: Relating to requiring the Employees Retirement System of Texas to establish a cash balance retirement plan to provide retirement benefits to certain employees.
HB 1439	Last Action: Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Caption: Relating to the payment of certain lump-sum benefits by the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
HB 1473	Last Action: Referred to Natural Resources Caption: Relating to the requirements for meetings held and Internet websites developed by certain special purpose districts.
HB 1527	Last Action: Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Caption: Relating to the establishment of a bundled-pricing program to reduce certain health care costs in the school employees and retirees group benefits programs.
HB 1528	Last Action: Referred to Public Education Caption: Relating to the posting of certain information regarding programs of study offered under a school district's career and technology education program.
HB 1542	Last Action: Referred to Public Education Caption: Relating to the reporting of certain information on career and technology education in public schools.
HB 1547	Last Action: Committee report sent to Calendars Caption: Relating to the inclusion of territory of a municipality in a county assistance district.
HB 1700	Last Action: Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Caption: Relating to certain procedures in suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
HB 1871	Last Action: Referred to Land & Resource Management Caption: Relating to the release and inclusion of extraterritorial jurisdiction by a municipality involving certain areas.
HB 1872	Last Action: Referred to Public Education Caption: Relating to the use of certain disease detection devices in public schools.
HB 1873	Last Action: Referred to Natural Resources Caption: Relating to late payment fees charged by a municipally owned water utility.
HB 1877	Last Action: Left pending in committee Caption: Relating to county and municipal regulation of repairs to vacant residential buildings.
HB 1878	Last Action: Placed on General State Calendar Caption: Relating to municipal and county permitting requirements to conduct certain repairs on residential buildings.
HB 1895	Last Action: Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Caption: Relating to procedures in suits affecting the parent-child relationship involving the Department of Family and Protective Services and to reports of child abuse or neglect; creating a civil cause of action.
HB 2186	Last Action: Referred to Appropriations Caption: Relating to the state's contributions to the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
HB 2187	Last Action: Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Caption: Relating to the service retirement eligibility and benefits of and contributions to the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
HB 2200	Last Action: Referred to Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Caption: Relating to certain procedures in suits affecting the parent-child relationship involving the Department of Family and Protective Services.
HB 2239	Last Action: Referred to Ways & Means Caption: Relating to providing automatic tax relief to certain parties affected by an emergency order, proclamation, or regulation.
HB 2308	Last Action: Removed from local & uncontested calendar Caption: Relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
HB 2554	Last Action: Placed on intent calendar Caption: Relating to the operation by a school district of a vocational education program to provide eligible high school students with vocational and educational training under a plan for the issuance of a high school diploma and the application of certain student-based allotments under the public school finance system.
HB 2997	Last Action: Placed on General State Calendar Caption: Relating to exceptions to municipal plat requirements for certain property developments.
HB 2999	Last Action: Recommendations filed with the Speaker Caption: Relating to the composition of the board of directors of the Fort Bend Subsidence District, including a director's qualifications and term.
HB 4353	Last Action: Referred to Land & Resource Management Caption: Relating to the use of sales tax revenue collected under certain contracts.
HB 4451	Last Action: Referred to Land & Resource Management Caption: Relating to the consolidation of municipal utility districts.
HB 4525	Last Action: Placed on intent calendar Caption: Relating to the approval of career and technology courses by the State Board of Education.
HB 4534	Last Action: Received from the House Caption: Relating to a study by the Employees Retirement System of Texas of certain state retirement system reforms.
HB 4615	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the creation of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 249; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
HB 4616	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the creation of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 246; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
HJR 56	Last Action: Referred to Appropriations Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for periodic transfers of money from the economic stabilization fund to fully fund the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
HJR 157	Last Action: Referred to Ways & Means Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for a credit against the ad valorem taxes imposed on the property of certain businesses that are required to close by an order, proclamation, or other instrument issued by a state or local official as a result of a disaster.
87th 1st Called Session
HB 127	Last Action: Filed Caption: Relating to procedures in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.
HB 128	Last Action: Filed Caption: Relating to the operation by a school district of a vocational education program to provide eligible high school students with vocational and educational training under a plan for the issuance of a high school diploma and the application of certain student-based allotments under the public school finance system.
87th 2nd Called Session
HB 129	Last Action: Filed Caption: Relating to the operation by a school district of a vocational education program to provide eligible high school students with vocational and educational training under a plan for the issuance of a high school diploma and the application of certain student-based allotments under the public school finance system.