The Legislature goes to Austin on Tuesday, but lawmakers will find out a day before that what kind of budget they’re going to write. Spoiler alert: Money is tight.
Glenn Hegar
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Economy
Texas lawmakers set a spending cap they likely won’t reach
The Legislative Budget Board picked 8 percent as the growth rate in the state’s two-year budget, capping how much lawmakers can spend in next year’s legislative session. Lawmakers say the state doesn’t have enough money to reach that cap.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
UT/TT Poll: Bathrooms, the Constitution and other hot Texas issues
A slight majority of Texas voters — and an overwhelming majority of Republican voters — think transgender people should use the restrooms that match their birth gender, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Politics
Far Ahead of 2018, Some Statewide Officials Build Big War Chests
It may be the political offseason, but some statewide officials are already building sizable war chests with more than two years until they are up for re-election.
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Abbott, Hegar Order Agencies To End De Facto Severance Payments
Gov. Greg Abbott and Comptroller Glenn Hegar on Wednesday ordered state agencies to stop paying departing employees by placing them on “emergency leave.”
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Politics
Scenes from the Texas GOP Convention
Scenes from the 2016 state Republican Party convention in Dallas, Texas.
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Criminal Justice
Former Death Row Inmate Fights for Compensation
Freed after a decade on Texas death row for a murder he says he didn’t commit, Alfred Dewayne Brown thinks he’s entitled to compensation from the state, but Comptroller Glenn Hegar is saying no.
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Economy
Video: A Conversation with Glenn Hegar
At our 4/29 symposium on the Texas economy, I talked with Comptroller of Public Accounts Glenn Hegar about the price of oil, economic incentives, taxes, spending, Texas vs. D.C., and more.
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Economy
As Oil Prices Plunge, Small Producers Could Get Tax Relief
After a 20-month free fall, West Texas crude prices thudded to a milestone last month — one that could bring some tax relief to small-time producers in Texas, state Comptroller Glenn Hegar said this week.
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Economy
Texas Supreme Court Grapples With Billion-Dollar Tax Question
With billions of dollars at stake, the Texas Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a tax showdown whose outcome could shake up the next legislative session while providing a boost to struggling petroleum drillers.