Dan Huberty

Huberty’s successes have earned him many honors. Capitol Inside named him one of the "Top Texas House Floor Fighters" in 2017 and a "Top Ten Legislator" in 2015. After his first session in 2011, the Texas Monthly Best & Worst Legislator List included him as the "Rookie of the Year". Also, the Lake Houston Area Chamber of Commerce honored him as the Dr. Hayden McKay “Citizen of the Year” in 2016.

After many legislative sessions which did not result in major education finance reform legislation passing through the Texas Legislature, Huberty authored House Bill 3, a sweeping and historic school finance bill was passed by the 86th Texas Legislature in 2019 and signed by Governor Greg Abbott. The bill provides more money for Texas classrooms, increases teacher compensation, reduces recapture and cuts local property taxes for Texas taxpayers. HB 3 is one of the most transformative Texas education bills in recent history. The bill is the result of months of work beginning with the Texas Commission on Public School Finance and culminating in bipartisan work between the members of the Texas House and Senate.

In the general election held on November 6, 2018, Huberty handily won his fifth legislative term. With 44,550 votes (80.3 percent), he defeated the Libertarian choice, Ryan Woods, who polled 10,964 (19.7 percent). No Democrat sought the position.

Additionally, he has received multiple awards for his individual achievements, including the 2017 "Legislator Appreciation Award" from the Fastgrowth School Coalition, the 2015 Associated Builders & Contractors "Free Enterprise Champion" award, the 2015 Texas Association for the Education of Young Children "Elected Official of the Year" award, the 2015 Houston Apartment Association "Distinguished Service Award", the 2015 Texas Association on Business "Champion for Free Enterprise", the 2015 & 2011 Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas "Best of the Texas House" award, the 2011 Academic Language Therapy Association "Champion for Children with Dyslexia" award and the 2011 Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education "Legislator of the Year" award.

In 2016, Huberty was challenged in the Republican primary by Mitchell Bosworth. Huberty eventually defeated Bosworth, 78% to 22%. Huberty defeated challengers from the Libertarian Party and Green Party in the 2016 General Election, taking 82% of the vote.

Huberty ran unopposed for his third term in the state House in the general election on November 4, 2014. and won again for his fourth term in the Republican primary held on March 1, 2016. In the general election held on November 6, 2018, Huberty overwhelmed his lone opponent, Libertarian Ryan Woods, 44,550 votes (80.3 percent) to 10,964 (19.7 percent).

In the 2012 general election, Huberty defeated Democrat Cody D. Pogue, an organizer for former mayor of Houston, Bill White, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2010 against Rick Perry. Huberty received 45,813 votes to Pogue's 19,435.

When Republican Representative Joe Crabb declined to seek reelection in 2010, Huberty and three others entered the primary election to choose a successor. With the help of Republican Strategist, Allen Blaekmore, Huberty nearly won with 7,465 votes (48.8 percent) but was forced into a runoff election with anesthesiologist Susan Dobbs Curling (born 1957) of Kingwood, another Houston suburb, who received 3,063 votes (20 percent). Two other candidates, businesswoman Addie Sturgeon Wiseman (born 1963) and physician Martin C. Basaldua (born 1951), also of Humble, held the remaining 31.3 percent of the vote. Huberty then defeated Curling. In the general election, Huberty defeated Democrat Joe A. Montemayor, 37,725 (75.3 percent) to 12,406 (24.7 percent).

From 2006 to 2010, Huberty was an elected trustee of the nonpartisan Humble Independent School District. He was the board president from 2009 to 2010.

Huberty is a native of Parma, Ohio, a suburb south of Cleveland. In 1991, he received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Cleveland State University in downtown Cleveland. In 1998, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix. He currently serves as President and Chief Operating Officer of The Parking REIT, a real estate investment trust where he works to acquire income-producing parking assets. Previously he was an executive with a parking company; before that, a natural gas fueling company.

Huberty has served on the Committee on Public Education each of his previous sessions and as the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Educator Quality in the 84th Session. In previous sessions, he was a member of the Committees on State Affairs, Pensions and Calendars. He has also served on the Select Committee on Redistricting and a Select Committee on Transportation Funding, Expenditures & Finance.

Daniel G. Huberty (June 21, 1968) is an American businessman, who has been since 2011 is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 127 in Harris County.