On April 22nd the Texas House is set to debate 240 amendments to the state budget. Below are TFR’s vote recommendations for the Fiscal Responsibility Index.
Month: April 2021
Devil in the Details: Senate Bill 6 Jeopardizes Texans
Quickly moving through the Texas Senate is a bill sold as a measure to protect businesses and healthcare providers from liability during the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic, but if implemented would likely accomplish the inverse of what is intended. Authored by State Sen. Kelly Hancock (R-N. Richland Hills), Senate Bill 6 has been sold as a…
TFR Statement on Senate Passage of SB 1
Following the unanimous passage of Senate Bill 1, the state budget, in the Texas Senate, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility president Cary Cheshire issued the following statement: “The Texas Senate’s budget provides only a modest increase in total state spending below population and inflation, a traditional standard of a conservative budget. That fiscal restraint is noteworthy,…