Giovanni Capriglione

Texas state legislator

Giovanni Capriglione

Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 98th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 8, 2013
Preceded by	Vicki Truitt

Personal details
Born	(1973-03-08) March 8, 1973 (age 51)
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Elisa Capriglione
Children	3
Residence(s)	Southlake Tarrant County, Texas
Alma mater	Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Santa Clara
Occupation	Businessman

Giovanni Capriglione (born March 8, 1973) is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, having represented since 2013, District 98 in Tarrant County, Texas.^[1]

Biography

Capriglione lives in Southlake in suburban Tarrant County.^[2]

Capriglione studied for a Bachelor of Science in physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, and then a Master of Business Administration at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.^[3]

He and his wife, Elisa, whom he married in 2000, have three children who attend schools in the Carroll Independent School District.^[3]

Capriglione owns a private equity management company focusing on businesses located in Texas.^[3] He has also worked as a vice president of a private equity firm and prior to that was employed by various computer engineering companies.^[3]

Political career

In the 2012 Republican primary election, Capriglione, with 55.6 percent of the vote, unseated the incumbent Vicki Truitt of Keller in Tarrant County. Truitt, who had held the seat since 1999, polled the remaining 44.4 percent of the ballots cast.^[4]^[5]

In 2012, Capriglione won the general election with 85.6 percent of the vote. The Libertarian Party candidate, Michael Goolsby, polled the remaining 14.4 percent.^[4] Capriglione went unopposed in the 2014 primary and general elections.

During the 83rd Legislative Session, Capriglione caused controversy by voting "nay" on HB 950 also known as "the equal pay for women act".^[6]

Capriglione authored House Bill 1280, the Human Life Protection Act of 2021, also known as the Texas trigger law, which was signed into law by Governor Abbott in July 2021. The Texas trigger law outlaws any abortion starting thirty days after the Supreme Court overrules Roe v. Wade, without exception for rape, incest or viability of the fetus.^[7]

In the 84th Legislature Giovanni Capriglione sits on three committees: the House Appropriations Committee, the Investment and Financial Services Committee and the Local & Consent Calendars Committee. Rep. Capriglione also serves as the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on State & Local Debt. In 2015, Rep. Capriglione was elected Secretary of the House Energy Caucus and is a member of the Innovation & Technology Caucus. In the 83rd Legislature, Rep. Capriglione served on two committees: Government Efficiency and Reform and International Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs.^[3]

In 2015 he passed HB 1295, a new law that dramatically improves public access to government contracts given to elected officials. His bill was described by the San Antonio Express-News as the most important ethics bill of the 84th Legislative Session.^[8] Rep. Capriglione also passed HB 483 authorizing the creation of the Texas Bullion Depository to insure that Texas has first rights to its gold.^[9]

In the general election held on November 6, 2018, Capriglione won his fourth legislative term. With 56,694 votes (68.3 percent), he defeated the Democrat Mica J. Ringo, who polled 24,294 (29.3 percent). Another 2,002 ballots (2.4 percent) went to the Libertarian Party choice, H. Todd J. Moore.^[10]

References

^ "Giovanni Capriglione for Texas State Representative District 98". Teaparty911.com. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
^ "Texas House of Representatives District 98". The Texas Tribune. 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Representative Giovanni Capriglione's Biography". Project Vote Smart. 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Texas House District 98". The Texas Tribune. 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
^ "Vicki Truitt". Texas Legislative Reference Library. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
^ "Texas Legislature Online - 83(R) History for HB 950".
^ "House Bill 1280".
^ "Trade groups asking ethics panel to water down contract disclosure law". San Antonio Express-News. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
^ "A gold rush in Texas?". star-telegram. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
^ "Election Returns". Texas Secretary of State. November 6, 2018. Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved November 7, 2018.