Vote Notice 4.10.2025
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for April 10th, 2025 Texas House of Representatives Subject: Senate Bill 1 (SB 1) – General Appropriations Act Author: State Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston), Sponsor: Rep. Greg Bonnen...
Vote Notice 4.9.2025
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for April 9th, 2025 Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Joint Resolution 4 (SJR 4) – Expands Rainy Day Fund Author: State Sen. Charles Schwertner...
The Texas Budget: A Progressive California Blueprint, Not the Texas We Deserve
Introduction The 2026–27 Texas proposed biennial budget should be rejected this week when brought to the House floor on Thursday, April 10th. This budget, and many before it over the last two decades since Republicans gained a trifecta in 2003, appropriates too much...
Why Texas’ 2026-27 Budget is Not Conservative
Taking a look at the budget and Texas’ $80 billion budget surplus Executive Summary Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s Biennial Revenue Estimate (BRE) biennium projects a budget surplus of $23.76 billion in state funds for the current 2024-25 fiscal biennium. But...
Vote Notice 4.8.2025
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for April 8th, 2025 Texas House of Representatives Subject: House Joint Resolution 99 (HJR 99) – Animal feed tax exemption Author: State Rep. Cody Harris (R-Palestine) Caption: Proposing...