In the early hours of Friday morning, the Texas House of Representatives passed SB 1, the proposed state budget for the 2026–27 biennium, after over 14 hours of debate that stretched from noon on April 10 into 3 a.m. on…

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 Subject: Senate Bill 1 (SB 1) – General Appropriations Act – Specific…

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 Subject: Senate Joint Resolution 40 (SJR 40)…

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,…

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…

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 Subject: House Bill 1399 (HB 1399) – Animal feed tax…

The saga of Housing Finance Corporations (HFCs) in Texas, a system ripe with cronyism, tax exemptions, and insider deals, has taken another troubling turn. Following our last report, the legislative maneuvering has continued with new developments exposing the entrenched interests…

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for April 7th, 2025  Texas House of Representatives Subject: House Bill 10 (HB 10) – Regulatory Reform and Efficiency Subject: House Bill 12 (HB 12) – Sunset review transparency and…

The machinery of government should not be used to facilitate the financial operations of private organizations—regardless of their mission or membership. While state and local governments exist to serve the people of Texas, they were never intended to act as…

This headline in last week’s Houston Chronicle captured all that is wrong with the Texas electricity market: Since 2013, when the Operating Reserve Demand Curve was approved, the Texas Legislature has sought to deal with the grid reliability problems caused…

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for April 3rd, 2025  Texas House of Representatives NONE Texas Senate Subject: Senate Bill 414 (SB 414) – Transparency on Bonds Subject: Senate Bill 609 (SB 609) – Closes education…

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for April 2nd, 2025  Texas House of Representatives Subject:  House Joint Resolution 1 (HJR 1) – Tax cut for small businesses Subject:  House Joint Resolution 2 (HJR 2) – Ban…

Like most Texans, I am fed up with the rapidly growing Texas budget filled with waste, corporate cronyism, and funding for leftwing causes like DEI. Unlike most Texans, I am able to go to the Texas Capitol and testify against…

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for April 1st, 2025  Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject:  Senate Joint Resolution 12 (SJR 12) – Parental rights in education Subject:  Senate Bill 27 (SB 27) –…

Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for March 31th, 2025  Texas House of Representatives Subject:  House Joint Resolution 4 (HJR 4) – Ban on financial transaction taxes Subject:  House Joint Resolution 6 (HJR 6) – Subject: …