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Fort Worth Business Press, Oct. 10, 2019
Months after approving the state’s first quarter-trillion-dollar budget, lawmakers got word Thursday that the state’s income forecasts are even better than they expected. In his latest official revenue estimate, which figures in the costs of legislation passed by...
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Fox 34, June 16, 2019
Gov. Greg Abbott signed the state’s roughly $250 billion budget Saturday, bringing a session-long effort to address the Legislature’s top priorities — school funding and property taxes — to a close. A spokesman for Abbott confirmed that the governor signed...
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Corsicana Daily Sun, June 5, 2019
The 86th legislative session wrapped up Monday, May 27 after 140 days, culminating in a major breakthrough for school finance and property tax reform. The Texas Legislature advanced a $250.7 billion two-year budget Sunday, May 26 ending weeks of...
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The Texas Tribune, May 29, 2019
The Texas Legislature did a lot in the 86th regular session, especially if you judge by their spending...
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Your Basin, May 15, 2019
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar on Tuesday dropped a half-billion dollar gift into the laps of budget negotiators. The news comes as a relief to legislative budget-writers, who are in the midst of closed-door meetings about how much state lawmakers should spend...
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The Austin Chronicle, May 3, 2019
The careful choreography of the session's marquee budget, property tax, and school finance measures advanced Tuesday, April 30, with the House's approval of Senate Bill 2, the revenue cap plan opposed vociferously by local mayors, county judges, and...
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Texas Tribune, May 2, 2019
After revisions made in the Texas House, more than a thousand smaller taxing units may not have to abide by a key provision in the Legislature's priority property tax reform bill that requires them to hold an election before raising 3.5% more property tax...
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Texas Tribune, May 2, 2019
Behind closed doors at the Texas Capitol, a panel of House and Senate budget writers is negotiating which public programs will receive state funding over the next two years. Both chambers approved separate spending plans in recent weeks...
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Houston Chronicle, May 1, 2019
One of the biggest sticking points in the debate over property tax reform in Texas has been resolved in the Legislature after nearly 6 years of haggling, offering the best hope in years that a bill limiting how much local governments can raise taxes is close to becoming law...
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KVUE ABC, May 1, 2019
Texas lawmakers have been clear about their priorities this session. In the Senate, it's property tax reform in the form of Senate Bill 2 (SB 2). In the House, it's school finance reform in House Bill 3 (HB 3). And this week both bills have made significant progress...
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WOAI, May 1, 2019
The Texas House, on a 107 to 40 vote, last night approved what many Texans feel is the main responsibility of the 2019 session, a bill to limit the steady increase of property taxes, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports. The bill significantly lowers what is called...
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KVUE ABC, Apr. 30, 2019
The Texas House of Representatives debated an amended version of Senate Bill 2 (SB2), the property tax reform bill, Tuesday. It was initially passed by a vote of 107-40 later in the evening. Rather than calling it a "property tax reform bill" as is done in...
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Denton Record-Chronicle, Apr. 30, 2019
A massive property tax overhaul — one lawmakers say will help home and business owners who are buried by skyrocketing tax bills — is nearing its final approval, much to the dismay of city leaders who have for months warned the legislation will hurt...
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The Marshall News Messenger Apr. 30, 2019
Blasting the Senate for taking a symbolic approach on school district taxes, a panel of House lawmakers heavily altered then approved the upper chamber’s version of priority property tax legislation late Thursday. And committee members pointedly included a...
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The Madisonville Meteor, Apr. 23, 2019
After Easter weekend, conferees for the Texas House and Senate must work out differences in the two chambers' versions of a fiscal 2020-2021 state budget to send to Gov. Greg Abbott. Concurrence is required on how to spend an estimated $250 billion in...
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Fort Bend Herald, Apr. 18, 2019
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has appointed five Senators to serve on the powerful budget conference committee which is tasked with producing the final version of the state budget; the only piece of legislation lawmakers must constitutionally pass during...
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Houston Chronicle, Apr. 16, 2019
A plan for a tax swap that would raise Texas sales taxes to among the highest in the nation has run into trouble in the state Senate, less than a week after it was first pitched by top Republican lawmakers...
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Texas Monthly, Apr. 16, 2019
One of the most pervasive myths about Texas is that it's a low-tax, low-spending state. It's true that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. But Texas's per-capita government spending isn’t that much lower than the national average, and its tax system is highly...
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The Times - Freestone County, Apr. 15, 2019
The state will be well served by a forward-looking, conservative budget that represents only modest growth over last biennium, according to Senate Finance chair and Flower Mound Senator Jane Nelson...
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Texas Tribune, Apr. 9, 2019
The Texas Senate on Tuesday approved a two-year, $248 billion spending plan that includes $2.7 billion for a nebulous goal of property tax "relief" — but with seven weeks left in the 2019 legislative session, the upper chamber has yet to rally behind a way to spend those funds...
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Statesman, Mar. 27, 2019
After a marathon session, lawmakers in the Texas House on Wednesday night approved a funding plan for state government for the next two years. The lawmakers had sifted through more than 300 amendments on matters large and small related to House Bill 1...
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KXAN, Mar. 27, 2019
The Texas House unanimously approved its $251 billion state budget Thursday morning just after midnight. The plan now goes to the Senate. The budget discussion lasted late into the night as lawmakers considered hundreds of amendments to House Bill 1...
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Corsicana Daily Sun, Mar. 25, 2019
The Navarro County Commissioners Court approved a resolution Monday asking Texas legislators to prohibit unfunded mandates, which local officials say are the state's way of kicking costs down the road to county taxpayers...
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Statesman, Mar. 24, 2019
As state lawmakers convene this week to refine proposals to fund the state government for the next two years, the marquee issues of the legislative session remain unresolved: how much money to direct to schools and how to structure property tax relief...
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The Texas Tribune, Feb. 8, 2019
More than in any legislative session since the Great Recession, Texas lawmakers are signaling a willingness this year to dip into the state’s massive savings account...
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Star-Telegram, Feb. 2, 2019
It has been a year since I took issue with some leaders in our state who were blaming out-of-control property taxes on local governments...
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The Marshall News Messenger, Jan. 29, 2019
Jane Nelson, chairwoman of the Senate Finance Committee, on Jan. 22 said she would follow an aggressive agenda to deliver a budget ready for floor debate by the end of February...
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Nov. 11, 2018
The latest state budget document showing both the Legislative Appropriation Requests (LAR’s) baseline amounts and any exceptional item requests for the various programs that directly impact counties for the upcoming fiscal years (2020-21)...
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Revised Aug. 7, 2017
Fiscal Impact on County State Funded Programs. Governor's veto items included...
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Jan. 13, 2017
The day before the 85th Legislature convened, Comptroller Glenn Hegar released the latest Biennial Revenue Estimate (BRE), which shows that the state is projected to have $104.9 billion available for general purpose spending in the 2018-19 biennium...
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Jan. 27, 2017
The release of both proposed budgets (SB 1 in the Senate and HB 1 in the House) marks the beginning of the budget process for both chambers...
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County Issues, Oct. 23, 2013
As part of what has been a regular practice over the past two decades, General Revenue-Dedicated Funds were used to certify the state budget for the coming fiscal years, according to a report released by the Comptroller’s office...
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