89th Legislative Session
Vote Notice 3.24.2025
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for March 24th, 2025 Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Concurrent Resolution 8 (SCR 8) – Opposing federal central digital currency Subject: Senate Bill 315 (SB 315)…
Texas Legislature on Track to Approve $48 Billion in New Spending
Texans to Receive Only $6 Billion in Property Tax Relief New Spending Reduces Potential Tax Cuts Now and in the Future When the Texas Senate meets this week to debate and adopt the 2026-27 budget for the state of Texas,…
Vote Notice 3.20.2025
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for March 20th, 2025 Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Bill 1 (SB 1) – State Budget Subject: Senate Bill 213 (SB 213) – Prevents forced insurance…
Vote Notice 3.19.2025
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for March 19th, 2025 Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Bill 24 (SB 24) – Anti-communism education Subject: Senate Bill 112 (SB 112) – Parental rights and…
Vote Notice 3.18.25
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for March 18th, 2025 Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Bill 3 (SB 3) – Hemp Regulation and THC Ban Subject: Senate Bill 6 (SB 6) –…
Vote Notice 3.13.2025
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has issued the following vote notice for March 13th, 2025 Texas House of Representatives None Texas Senate Subject: Senate Bill 14 (SB 14) – Regulatory efficiency Reminder: Vote Notices are provided to both Texas state lawmakers and…
Vote Notice 3.12.2025
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) –…
Texas Must Lead on School Choice
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…
Vote Notice 3.11.2025
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…
Vote Notice 3.6.2025
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…
Vote Notice 3.5.2025
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…
Vote Notice 3.4.2025
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…
More Government Intervention Will Not Solve the Problems Facing the Texas Grid
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 Need Urgent Relief
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…
Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying and Property Tax Relief
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…