Publications
State Budget
SB 1, State Budget for 2026-27; Items of Interest to Texas Counties – includes SB 5 Disaster Relief (Dec. 31, 2025)
SB 1, State Budget for 2026-27: Items of Interest to Texas Counties (July 28, 2025)
SB 1, Items of Interest to Counties: Side-by-Side of House and Senate Budget Decisions (May 16, 2025)
House and Senate Baseline Bills: Items of Interest to Counties (Jan. 31, 2025)
Spending Caps and Remaining Spending Capacity for the 2026-27 Biennium (as of Sine die, June 2, 2025)
2026-27 Biennium
- Conference Committee Releases Budget Report (May 2025)
- State Budget Advances to Conference (April 2025)
- House Appropriations Committee Readies its Version of SB 1 (March 2025)
- Senate Finance Advances Budget Bill (March 2025)
- House Supplemental Appropriations Bill Filed (March 2025)
- House Appropriations Committee Begins Hearings (February 2025)
- Senate Finance Committee Reviews HHSC Budget (February 2025)
- Senate Finance Committee Begins Budget Review (January 2025)
- Legislative Budget Board Adopts State Budget Growth Rate, Spending Caps (January 2025)
- Comptroller Projects $194.6 billion for 2026-27 (January 2025)
- State Budget Requests: Key Updates for Counties (November 2024)
- Hearings on State Budget Requests Begin (September 2024)
Helpful Resources
- SB 1 - Conference Committee Report (2026-27 State Budget)
- Summary of Conference Committee Report for Senate Bill 1, Appropriations for the 2026-27 Biennium
- Conference Committee on SB 1: Issue Docket Decisions
- SB 1, As Passed 2nd House (HOUSE) and Summary
- SB 1, As Passed by Senate and Summary
- HB 1 (House baseline bill) and Summary
- SB 1 (Senate baseline bill) and Summary
- HB 500 (2025 Supplemental Appropriations Bill) and Latest Info-graphic
- 2026-27 Biennial Revenue Estimate
- Fiscal Size-Up 2024-25 Biennium
- 2024-25 State Budget (General Appropriations Act)
- Texas 2036: A quick guide to Texas’ state budget
- Senate Research Center Budget 101
- House Research Organization’s report on writing the budget for the 88th Legislature
2024-2025 Biennium
- State Budget (archived)
2022-2023 Biennium
- State Budget (archived)
For more information contact:
Senior Fiscal and Policy Analyst
Zelma Smith
(800) 456-5974