This Week’s News

Fiscal Year 2020 Comes to a close This week Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar released totals for fiscal 2020 state revenues, in addition to announcing monthly state revenues for August. Overall tax collection was down 3% from FY 2019. General Revenue-related revenue for fiscal 2020 totaled $56.98 billion, down 1.5 percent from fiscal 2019. All Funds…

This Week’s News

Sales Tax Revenue Rebound in July  This week, Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced that state sales tax revenue totaled $2.98 billion in July, 4.3% more than in July 2019. “Collections from e-commerce were up sharply, as many consumers chose to shop online rather than at brick-and-mortar stores,” Hegar said. “Also, more online marketplace and remote vendors…

This Week’s News

Governor Abbott Announces School Flexibility and Funding On July 17, Governor Greg Abbott and several other state officials announced that Texas is apportioning $200 million of Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds to the Texas Education Agency (TEA). These funds will be used for technologies that will enable remote learning, particularly for…

Election Update

On July 14, the Republican and Democratic primary runoffs and a special election were held across Texas. Four Texas House incumbents lost their runoff elections – Rep. J.D. Sheffield, Rep. Dan Flynn, Rep. Anna Eastman and Rep. Lorraine Birabil. In the Democratic runoff for U.S. Senator, Mary “MJ” Hegar took 52.13% of votes in a…