The following bills passed during the Second and Third Called Special Sessions either appropriated General Revenue (GR) directly or had state fiscal impact as estimated by the Legislative Budget Board.
87(2) HB 5 (Bonnen) Relating to making supplemental appropriations and giving direction regarding appropriations.
- Roughly $316m in Article X funding for the Texas Legislature
- $71.6m for the Texas Senate
- $91.7m for the Texas House
- $26.4m for the Legislative Budget Board
- $83.7m for the Legislative Council
- $288k for the Commission on Uniform State Laws
- $4.6m for the Sunset Advisory Commission
- $34m for the State Auditor’s Office
- $3.4m for the Legislative Reference Library
- $35m for foster care providers and expansion of foster care capacity
- $20m for targeted foster care capacity grants
- $17.4m to the Department of Information Resources to fund endpoint detection and response, multifactor authentication expansion, and the Security Operations Center
- $701m for a supplemental payment of benefits under the Teacher Retirement System, also known as the “13th check”
- $180m to support the Texas Anti-Gang Center in the Office of the Governor’s Trusteed Programs
- 87(2) SB 1 (Hughes) – $4.3m for auditable voting machine reimbursement
- 87(2) SB 3 (Hughes) – $14.625m for the implementation of civics training programs and civics curriculums in public schools
- 87(2) SB 6 (Huffman) – $2.286m for the Office of Court Administration to implement safety reporting in bail proceedings and training provisions for magistrates
- 87(2) SB 8 (Bettencourt) – $100m to the Texas Education Agency to implement a homestead property tax exemption
87(2) HB 9 (Bonnen) Relating to making supplemental appropriations relating to border security and giving direction regarding those appropriations.
- $32.5m to OCA for indigent legal defense, foreign language interpreters, staffing support
- $301m to the Texas Military Department for additional personnel
- DPS Funding
- $133.5m for Operation Lone Star surge costs
- $3.4m for two marine vessels
- $17.8m for two new FTEs
- $273.7m to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for corrections operations
- $214k to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards for FTEs and employee costs
- $1.02b to Trusteed Programs within the Office of the Governor for border security funding and grants, including the acquisition of property and construction of physical barriers, $3.8m for additional FTEs
- Out of the $1.20b, $28m across the biennium is designated as grants to border counties
- $16.4m to the Department of State Health Services for ambulance services
87(3) HB 133 (Jetton) Relating to education benefits at public institutions of higher education for certain survivors of public servants.
- LBB notes that extending education benefits could have a fiscal impact, but cannot determine the amount due to the unknown number of eligible individuals
87(3) SB 1 (Bettencourt) Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district and the protection of school districts against the resulting loss in local revenue.
- LBB estimates a negative GR impact of $355.3m through the next biennium to the Foundation School Program to offset reductions in ad valorem tax revenue
87(3) SB 52 (Creighton) Relating to the issuance of revenue bonds to fund capital projects at public institutions of higher education, the oversight of certain capital projects at those institutions, and the designation of certain appropriated funds allocated to those institutions.
- LBB estimates a potential negative GR impact of $319.4m over the next biennium, highlighting that historically GR has been used to pay debt service on capital construction bonds and other appropriations could be made to implement the bill