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Gigs Hodges earned an associate's degree in secondary education and teaching from Austin Community College and a bachelor's degree in youth and community studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Austin.

Gigs works as a legislative director in the Texas House of Representatives and as an organizer for Education Austin, a union for non-supervisory educators in Austin Independent School District public schools. She previously worked as a legislative intern in the U.S. House of Representatives, as a student teacher in the Austin Independent School District, and as a barista for Spokesman Coffee.

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Gigs's campaign for the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 49 is her first run for public office.

Supports increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Supports increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour and ending sub-minimum wages for tipped and gig workers, people with disabilities, and prisoners.

Supports allowing public employees to negotiate their pay and benefits as a group.

Supports allowing public employees to negotiate their pay and benefits as a group via collective bargaining rights.

Supports the Omnibus Tenant Bill of Rights, which would provide "baseline protections with real enforcement, freedom from repercussions for organizing..."

Supports the Omnibus Tenant Bill of Rights, which would provide "baseline protections with real enforcement, freedom from repercussions for organizing".

Supports legalizing cannabis for adults 21 and over and implementing taxes on it.

Supports legalizing cannabis for adults 21 and over and implementing taxes on it, while expunging past cannabis records and reinvesting revenue into "the communities most harmed" and discontinuing it as one of the drugs state employees, contractors, and individuals can be tested for.

Supports protecting non-recreational hemp businesses with predictable standards and fair enforcement.

Supports the creation of a cannabis and hemp oversight committee that provides "predictable standards and fair enforcement" of regulations for small businesses and more-established businesses.

- Supports increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour and ending sub-minimum wages for tipped and gig workers, people with disabilities, and prisoners.
- Supports allowing public employees to negotiate their pay and benefits as a group via collective bargaining rights.
- Supports the Omnibus Tenant Bill of Rights, which would provide "baseline protections with real enforcement, freedom from repercussions for organizing".
- Supports legalizing cannabis for adults 21 and over and implementing taxes on it, while expunging past cannabis records and reinvesting revenue into "the communities most harmed" and discontinuing it as one of the drugs state employees, contractors, and individuals can be tested for.
- Supports the creation of a cannabis and hemp oversight committee that provides "predictable standards and fair enforcement" of regulations for small businesses and more-established businesses.

Economy

Supports criminal justice reform, including reducing harm, expanding re-entry support for formerly incarcerated people, and ending the practice of using jails as mental health facilities.

Wants to stabilize the foster care system.

Supports stabilizing the foster care system by treating it as "essential infrastructure".

Supports regulating surveillance and increasing privacy protections in transit, public spaces, and online.

- Supports gun control.
- Supports criminal justice reform, including reducing harm, expanding re-entry support for formerly incarcerated people, and ending the practice of using jails as mental health facilities.
- Supports stabilizing the foster care system by treating it as "essential infrastructure".
- Supports regulating surveillance and increasing privacy protections in transit, public spaces, and online.

Public Safety

Supports expanding Medicaid to cover low-income adults.

Supports dedicated funding for mental health services and strengthening community care, including coordinated specialty care teams and fully funded local mental health services.

Sponsored an omnibus bill aimed at reducing the transfer of individuals from mental health facilities to prisons, emphasizing non-institutional and harm-reducing strategies.

Plans to introduce an omnibus bill aimed at reducing the transfer of individuals from mental health facilities to prisons, emphasizing non-institutional and harm-reducing strategies.

Supports access to abortion and gender-affirming care.

Supports abortion access and gender-affirming care.

- Supports expanding Medicaid to cover low-income adults.
- Supports dedicated funding for mental health services and strengthening community care, including coordinated specialty care teams and fully funded local mental health services.
- Plans to introduce an omnibus bill aimed at reducing the transfer of individuals from mental health facilities to prisons, emphasizing non-institutional and harm-reducing strategies.
- Supports abortion access and gender-affirming care.

Healthcare

Supports restructuring the "recapture" school tax to fully fund all public schools in Texas.

Opposes "MAGA extremist censorship of the truth" in K-12 schools.

Supports limiting Texas Education Agency (TEA) takeovers of local districts and wants to reinvest power in communities.

Supports dismantling policy structures that contribute to the "school to prison pipeline."

Supports guaranteeing academic freedoms and accessibility in higher education.

Supports introducing a collegiate Student Bill of Rights to grant students autonomy and equal participation in their education.

Supports introducing a collegiate Student Bill of Rights to "grant students autonomy and equal participation in their education."

- Supports restructuring the "recapture" school tax to fully fund all public schools in Texas.
- Opposes "MAGA extremist censorship of the truth" in K-12 schools.
- Supports limiting Texas Education Agency (TEA) takeovers of local districts and wants to reinvest power in communities.
- Supports dismantling policy structures that contribute to the "school to prison pipeline."
- Supports guaranteeing academic freedoms and accessibility in higher education.
- Supports introducing a collegiate Student Bill of Rights to "grant students autonomy and equal participation in their education."

Education

Supports ending government subsidies for major polluters and having Texas move on from fossil fuel reliance through expansion of public investment in renewable energy.

Supports protecting Texas natural resources and public lands through "true collaboration with Indigenous nations" and fully funding the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

Supports investment into Fund Texas Forever and fixing the Texas power grid to prepare, recover, and rebuild from climate change and other future events.

- Supports ending government subsidies for major polluters and having Texas move on from fossil fuel reliance through expansion of public investment in renewable energy.
- Supports protecting Texas natural resources and public lands through "true collaboration with Indigenous nations" and fully funding the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
- Supports investment into Fund Texas Forever and fixing the Texas power grid to prepare, recover, and rebuild from climate change and other future events.

Energy & the Environment

Supports expanding ballot access and preventing voter suppression and intimidation.

- Supports expanding ballot access and preventing voter suppression and intimidation.

Voting & Elections

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Gigs Hodges

Supports ending sub-minimum wages for tipped workers, gig workers, people with disabilities, and prisoners.

Supports expunging past cannabis records and reinvesting revenue into communities most harmed.

Supports removing cannabis from the list of drugs that state employees, contractors, and individuals on probation and parole can be tested for.

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