Senate Budget Proposal Would Cut $28.8 Billion
The Senate's version of a starting state budget is, at $158.7 billion, $2.3 billion bigger than the House's, but still would chop overall state spending by $28.8 billion, or 15.4 percent, from current levels.
The upper chamber's initial budget proposal includes a total of $69.8 billion for public and higher education; the House version provides $67.7 billion for education. Their overall spending on health and human services is about the same (though some details differ). If you're looking only at state money — general revenue funding — the Senate would spend $79 ...
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Jerry Thompson
I find it really inane, some might say criminally stupid, that neither house fo the Texas Legislature would support using money from the "Rainy Day" fund. If this isn't at least a "drizzly" day ..... ? If it was up to me, I would have used a portion of it, maybe half, to help solve our current funding problem. It is a cold, hard fact the money in the Rainy Day fund is doing NO ONE any good at all while it sits in the coffers of the state doing nothing. The fund is basically the same as your, or my, emergency fund that is still in the bank while the car is sitting inoperable in the driveway because I won't use the money to repair it for fear that I might need that money for something else later. DUH!!!! Reminds me of the episode of MASH when the 4077th needed an "autoclave" from the supply Captain, who had two of them. He wouldn't part with one of them because, if he did, then he would have only one - and one is not as many as two!