Gary VanDeaver, Texas State Representative of 1st district | Facebook
Gary VanDeaver, Texas State Representative of 1st district | Facebook
More specifically, the official text was summarized by the state legislature as ’’Relating to notification and disclosure of records and information concerning an investigation of a report of child abuse or neglect to county or district attorneys’’.
The following is our breakdown, based on the actual bill text, and may include interpretation to clarify its provisions.
This bill mandates that on receiving a report of suspected child abuse or neglect, the relevant department must immediately notify the county or district attorney with jurisdiction over the case. Upon request from the attorney, the department is required to provide a copy of the report along with all related investigation information, even if it is ordinarily confidential. However, any information shared with the attorney cannot be publicly disclosed under Chapter 552 of the Government Code and may only be used in ways that align with specific articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The act is set to take effect Sept. 1, 2025.
Gary VanDeaver, chair of the House Committee on Public Health and member of the House Committee on Higher Education, proposed another 11 bills during the 89(R) legislative session.
VanDeaver graduated from Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Gary VanDeaver is currently serving in the Texas State House, representing the state's 1st House district. He replaced previous state representative George Lavender in 2015.
Bills in Texas go through a multi-step legislative process, including committee review, debates, and votes in both chambers before reaching a final decision. Each session, there are typically thousands of bills introduced, but only a portion successfully navigate the process to become law.
You can read more about the bills and other measures here.
| Bill Number | Date Introduced | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| HB 4058 | 03/27/2025 | Relating to self-settled asset protection trusts |
| HB 3485 | 03/24/2025 | Relating to the availability and instruction on the use of automated external defibrillators and a cardiac emergency response plan at public schools and certain private schools in this state |
| HB 3484 | 03/24/2025 | Relating to agreements between border municipalities |
| HB 2620 | 03/18/2025 | Relating to the inclusion of certain sources of water supply in regional water plans |
| HB 2195 | 03/14/2025 | Relating to a public school campus's election under a campus turnaround plan to operate as a community school |
| HB 1833 | 03/14/2025 | Relating to an honorably retired peace officer serving as an armed security officer at a public school |
| HB 1469 | 03/11/2025 | Relating to the County Court at Law of Bowie County |
| HB 1118 | 03/07/2025 | Relating to the creation of a Texas Commission on Assessment and Accountability |
| HB 1117 | 03/07/2025 | Relating to an exemption to the fishing license requirement for certain residents engaged in fishing in public waters |
| HB 1115 | 03/07/2025 | Relating to the employment of honorably retired peace officers as school district security personnel and the applicability to those officers of certain law governing private security |
| HB 1108 | 03/07/2025 | Relating to motorcycle profiling by peace officers |
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