Gary Gates is the incumbent State Representative for District 28 in Fort Bend County, first elected in 2020, and now chairs the House Land & Resource Management Committee.
He and his wife have adopted children, and he describes himself as fighting in the legislature to protect life at every stage from conception.
Gates’s take on Texas values
In 2025 Gates voted for the bill that created Texas's first private-school voucher program (only two House Republicans voted no, and he was not one of them). [campaign website; Ballotpedia]