Texas Budget

After a few years, money from dormant bank accounts, uncashed paychecks, unclaimed refunds and deposits all get handed over to the Texas Comptroller.

Per student funding in Texas has been stagnant since 2019, and another legislative session ended this week without any increase to the basic allotment.

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…

At a time when legislators are vowing to spend more money on public schools and slow the growth of Texans’ property tax bills, the state should have…

On a vote of 30-1, the Texas Senate has passed a two-year budget that would spend more than $211 billion dollars on everything from education and…

At 5:39 a.m. Wednesday, the Texas House gave preliminary approval of its state budget bill for 2016-2017.House lawmakers spent nearly 18 hours going…

Members of the Texas Senate Finance Committee have begun meeting regularly to work on the state budget for the next two fiscal years.Texas has an…

It's that time of the biennium.The 84th Texas Legislature is just a few short months away, and state lawmakers are already filing their bills for the…