Budget Bills for 88th Session Filed
Today both the House (HB 1) and Senate (SB 1) base budget bills have been filed and published on the Legislative Budget Board website. The base budget is a starting [...]
Today both the House (HB 1) and Senate (SB 1) base budget bills have been filed and published on the Legislative Budget Board website. The base budget is a starting [...]
In December 2022, Texas added 29,500 positions, reaching a total of 13,705,500 nonfarm jobs in Texas. December marked the 14th consecutive record employment high in Texas, after the state first [...]
The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) open meeting on January 12th provided some guidance on the commissioners’ bias toward the next round of changes to electric market design. At [...]
Today the Governor's office released the following statement: Governor Greg Abbott today sent a letter to the Public Utility Commission (PUC) supporting the adoption of a reliability standard and new [...]
HillCo Partner’s subject experts have been closely monitoring the winter weather situation. Below is the status of what the team is seeing currently: ERCOT has performed admirably over the last [...]
Americans have been focused on the nation’s energy supplies due to the winter storm that blanketed the eastern two-thirds of the country. Texas was spared the coldest temperatures as the [...]
There are currently 121 comments for Public Utility Commission (PUC) filing #54335: REVIEW OF MARKET REFORM ASSESSMENT PRODUCED BY ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS, INC. (E3). Approximately 70 of those comments [...]
The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) announced the appointment of Neil Cooke as the Statewide Chief Data Officer, overseeing the state’s data management program. DIR’s Executive Director and State [...]
Governor Greg Abbott has appointed L’Oreal Stepney, P.E. to the Texas Water Development Board, effective January 2, 2023, for a term set to expire on February 1, 2023. The Board [...]
The Legislative Budget Board met on November 30 and set the spending limit for the upcoming biennium to $114.1 billion General Revenue subject to adjustments from the 2022-23 biennium. They [...]