Texas State Representative

David Cook Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Session

Co-Author of Legislation

TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB118

Filed
3/13/25  
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the establishment and powers and duties of the Texas Advisory Committee on Geopolitical Conflict.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB119

Filed
3/13/25  
Out of House Committee
4/16/25  
Voted on by House
4/30/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/23/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the registration as a lobbyist of persons who engage in certain lobbying activities on behalf of a foreign adversary and to prohibitions on the receipt of compensation related to those lobbying activities; providing a civil penalty.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB12

Filed
3/6/25  
Out of House Committee
3/25/25  
Voted on by House
4/9/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/12/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the review and audit of certain state agency operations.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB120

Filed
2/20/25  
Out of House Committee
3/27/25  
Voted on by House
4/16/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/20/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to college, career, and military readiness in public schools, including career and technology education programs, the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program, and the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program, funding for those programs under the Foundation School Program, and workforce reporting to support those programs, to the public school accountability system, and to the new instructional facility allotment and the permissible uses of funding under the Foundation School Program.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB125

Filed
2/28/25  
Out of House Committee
4/16/25  
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the creation of the Tarleton State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB127

Filed
3/13/25  
Out of House Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
5/15/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/27/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to measures to protect institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; increasing a criminal penalty.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB128

Filed
3/13/25  
Out of House Committee
4/16/25  
Voted on by House
4/30/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/15/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to certain sister-city agreements between governmental entities and foreign countries and communities.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB129

Filed
3/13/25  
Out of House Committee
4/23/25  
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to a prohibition on certain governmental contracts with foreign adversary companies and federally banned companies; authorizing a civil penalty.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB1211

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of House Committee
4/21/25  
Voted on by House
4/30/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/26/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain students who were under the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Joint Author of Legislation

TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB1255

Voted on by House
 
Out of Senate Committee
 
Voted on by Senate
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for certain offenses committed by a professional who is required to report child abuse or neglect and against a child under the care of that professional.