Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for March 12th, 2025  Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject:  Senate Joint Resolution 18 (SJR 18) – No Capital Gains Tax Subject: Senate Concurrent Resolution 9 (SCR 9) –…

HB 3 Is a Good Start, But More Is Needed. Today, the Texas House Committee on Public Education is hearing testimony (watch here) on HB 3, the school choice bill in the House. This could be the first school choice…

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for March 11th, 2025  Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject:  Senate Bill 11 (SB 11) – Prayer in Schools Subject: Senate Bill 20 (SB 20) – Criminalizes AI-generated Child…

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for March 6th, 2025  Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Joint Resolution 34 (SJR 34) – Parental Rights Constitutional Amendment Subject:  Senate Bill 10 (SB 10) – Ten…

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for March 5th, 2025  Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Bill 21 (SB 21) – State Bitcoin Reserve Subject:  Senate Bill 764 (SB 764) – Standardizes regulatory processes…

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for March 4th, 2025  Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Bill 5 (SB 5) – Creating Dementia Research Institute Subject: Senate Joint Resolution 3 (SJR 3) – Constitutional Amendment…

Since 2011, market participants, regulators, and watchers have understood that intermittent energy sources—wind and solar—are causing three major problems in the ERCOT electric market.  First, their intermittency has increasingly pushed the grid towards unreliability. Second, they have driven reliable thermal…

Texas taxpayers have an urgent need for property tax relief, which should include a clear path to eliminating school district maintenance and operations (M&O) property taxes—the largest portion of Texans’ property tax bills. Despite claims of historic tax cuts, Texans…

The failure of property tax relief efforts over the last six years is a perfect example of how local governments are using taxpayer money to lobby against the interests of Texans.  Most local governments have abandoned any semblance of fiscal…

Texas must take advantage of this moment to rein in its bloated government workforce and put taxpayers first. The resignation of 77,000 federal employees out of 2.2 million—and nearly 3 million including contractors—proves what we already knew: government is too…

For far too long, Texas taxpayers have been forced to foot the bill for lobbyists who often work against their own interests. Taxpayer-funded lobbying by local governments is an unethical practice that drains public funds and undermines the will of…

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for February 26th, 2025  Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Bill 28 (SB 28) – Texas Lottery Restrictions Reminder: Vote Notices are provided to both Texas state lawmakers and…

The Texas House sells HB 2 and HB 3 as a package deal for education reform, calling them the “Texas Two-Step.” But this so-called two-step is a misstep.  The package prioritizes billions more taxpayer money for a broken public education…

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for February 25th, 2025  Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Bill 26 (SB 26) – Teacher pay increases at expense of taxpayers. Reminder: Vote Notices are provided to both…

Texas House Leadership Sidesteps Full House Vote In a move that bypasses traditional legislative procedures and disrespects taxpayers, the Texas House Administration Committee has unilaterally approved significant budget increases for legislative offices, including a controversial new stipend for Democrat vice…