SB 1 Conference Committee Complete

Speaker Joe Straus announces the five reps that will negotiate budget with Senate

"...released the list of House conferees to the budget conference committee: Appropriations Committee Chair Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie and his..."

April 27, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

School Finance Agreement? Maybe

Conference committee nearing deal, but let's see what chambers say

"...because wherever she was going was where the school finance deal was being brokered. Now there may be a..."

May 27, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

School Finance Reform Dead

House Bill 1759 disappears, taking $800 million with it

"...blame to go around for the failure of school finance reform...."

May 14, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines: School Finance Math; Tax Plans Diverge; Veteran Benefits Restricted; and More

Is school finance dead this session?; House and Senate tax plans split; Lege restricts veterans' benefits; and more

"...School Finance: Add Cash, Subtract Reform..."

May 15, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines: School Finance Bill Passes House With Flying Colors

Stickland only holdout on ambitious “Texas Plan” finance bill

"...House Bill 3, the session's marquee school finance legislation, survived over three hours of debate on April..."

April 12, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Lawmakers Pitch Income Tax, School Finance Reform Plan

Quixotes saddle up their horses

"...Two lawmakers used last week's ongoing debate over school finance as a well-timed opportunity to pitch an income tax..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Public Notice: Government by Committee

Council committees get up to speed

"...is City Council's busiest period of the month for committee meetings: Austin Energy is this Thursday, a prelude to..."

April 24, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

How Much Will Texas Spend?

The Legislature's conference committee spending proposals

"...arguably best that the joint House and Senate Budget Conference Committee does most of its work behind closed doors...."

May 21, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Carona Says He'll Filibuster TxDOT Sunset Bill

Senator angered by removal of local-option gas tax

"...his local-option gas tax and it got stripped in conference committee from House Bill 300, the Texas Department of..."

May 31, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

The Budget Implosion

School finance runs aground, but health spending will follow soon

"...Does anyone really know what's happening with school finance reform? Quick answer, no, but if there is no..."

May 24, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Special Session? Sure

GOP's bad timing opens door to Dem filibuster

"...With Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, filibustering the school finance reforms in Senate Bill 1811, and House Public Education..."

May 30, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Scratch That: Lege Ends Lottery, Then Changes Mind

House avoids $2 billion school funding hole by saving scratch cards

"...the agency, the lottery, and $2 billion in school finance with it. Then, less than four hours later, the..."

April 23, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Carona's Costly Compromises

Senate Transportation chair guards local option funding bill from death by a thousand opt-outs

"...one of the big goals of the Senate Transportation Committee was to reform the unresponsive TxDoT. Committee Chair John..."

April 9, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

School Finance Shell Game

"...Senate's plan to "end Robin Hood" and reform public-school finance is making plenty of legislative and political waves. Under..."

May 9, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Carona Push-Starts Stalled Bill

Local option transport funding proposal gets out of committee, but still under a cloud

"...instead it passed quickly. Bill author and Senate Transportation Committee Chair John Carona, R-Dallas, explained the lack of a..."

April 15, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Who Could Vote Against Cheap Gas?

A proposed gas-tax holiday means it may be cheaper to get to all those state facilities closed due to lack of funds.

"...traction in the influential Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee. It will be interesting to see how Shapleigh's fellow..."

May 9, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Compare and Contrast

Why has the Senate Finance Committee chair suddenly become so up-beat about the budget?

"...two years. He was talking as chair of Senate Finance Conference Committee to Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Houston, on May..."

May 25, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Show Them the Need

The great GOP wave breaks on the realities of the actual cost of government

"...it) Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, filibustered the school finance bill. In reality, the Lege had to come back..."

June 10, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines: Billpocalypse!

Bills start dying as sine die draws near; schools get new A-F grading system; and more

"...on second reading. Basically, if your bill hasn't escaped committee and gotten a second vote on the floor by..."

May 22, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lege Notes

Odds and ends – mostly odds – from beneath the pink granite dome

"...legislation from the 79th session sputtered and croaked in committee, allocating some $2.75 billion in funds for campus improvement,..."

July 22, 2005 News Column

On the Lege

The Lege special session gets down to business, and it's woefully business as usual

"...than one business day for the House public school finance plan – awkwardly cobbled together over the last two..."

May 7, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Road Funding Screeches to a Halt

Tensions clear between Perry and Straus, Dewhurst and Patrick

"...2 and House Bill 16 – emerged from the conference committee process dramatically changed from what either the House..."

July 30, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Capitol Chronicle

The Lege battle over ethics covers a multitude of sins -- and hidden agendas.

"...House over several weeks, slogged through the Senate and conference committee, nearly expired from the bloodletting, and then --..."

June 6, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...in Washington, D.C. at the meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Mayor Wynn used the occasion to barnstorm..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature

Republicans Search for New Normal

GOP rift appears in approach to education cuts

"...House and Senate passed two key pieces of school finance legislation: the funding reforms in Senate Bill 1 and..."

June 17, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lege Notes

"...Wednesday. The issues aren't nearly as divisive as school finance. The governor says he expanded the agenda because the..."

July 15, 2005 News Column

On the Lege

The redistricting conference committee doesn't look like Texas, and Strayhorn gets slapped

"...limits: Consider the appointed membership of the House-Senate Redistricting Conference Committee. Of the 10 members (five from each chamber),..."

Oct. 3, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Lege Lines

School finance debate heats up, HHSC consolidation on hold?, and more

"...A Fix for School Finance?..."

April 3, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

There They Go ... Here They Come Again

A no-drama session ends – will a high-drama special follow?

"...going back into recess until Thursday, May 30. Senate Finance Committee Chair Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, commented that the..."

May 31, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

House Gives Perry the Finger

House Bills 2 and 3 die; it's back to square one

"...chamber today (Thursday) to try to salvage a school finance plan, along with the governor's political reputation...."

July 29, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

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