Gov & Politics
Texas House, Senate Approve Budget Deal for Next Two Years
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The Texas Legislature on Sunday advanced a $250.7 billion two-year budget, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott, who could veto individual line items.
Gov & Politics
Texas Tax Collectors Predict Another $500 Million for the State Budget
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Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar on Tuesday dropped a half-billion dollar gift into the laps of budget negotiators.
Gov & Politics
Texas Senate Budget Includes Money for Property Tax Cuts, But No Plan for Spending It
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The two-year, $248 billion spending plan includes $2.7 billion for property tax relief but contains no specifics on how to spend those funds.
Education
House Committee Backs Budget Plan With $9 Billion for School Finance, Property Tax Reform
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The Texas House Appropriations Committee has approved the 2020-21 spending plan, House Bill 1, which moves to the floor of the 150-member House.
Gov & Politics
Texas House Proposes Massive Increase for Public School Funding
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Budget documents show the Texas House has offered up a whopping 17 percent increase in K-12 public education funding if certain reforms are made.
Gov & Politics
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar: More Revenue Available for Next State Budget
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Hegar projected there would be about $119.1 billion in state funds available for the next two-year budget, up from $110.2 in the last two-year budget.
Gov & Politics
At the Texas Capitol, Victims of Sexual Harassment Must Fend for Themselves
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Interviews with current and former lawmakers and legislative aides indicate sexual harassment regularly goes unchecked at the Texas Capitol.
child welfare system
Texas Has Hired Its First-Ever Director of Human Trafficking Prevention
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Earlier this year, the Texas Tribune’s Sold Out series examined how state policies – including a severely underfunded child welfare system – failed to help child sex-trafficking victims. Since then, lawmakers set aside a budget increase of more than $500 million for the foster care system, and the governor’s office approved new funds for trafficking prevention initiatives — which includes the state’s first-ever Director of Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation.
Gov & Politics
Texas Sen. Carlos Uresti Indicted on Fraud Charges
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Uresti, a personal injury attorney, has been entwined in a complicated saga involving FourWinds Logistics, which sold sand used in hydraulic fracturing
Gov & Politics
Senate Budget ‘Unambiguously’ Unconstitutional, House Leadership Says
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At issue is a controversial accounting maneuver intended by the Senate to free up $2.5 billion by strategically delaying a payment to the state’s highway fund.
