Senate approves major spending bills

  • Texas Capitol Chamber
    Texas Capitol Chamber
The Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed the session’s two major appropriations bills: one that sets the state budget for the next two years and another to align state accounts with what was budgeted in 2019. That latter bill, HB 2, was also amended to require legislative input on allocation of discretionary federal aid dollars, ensuring that the governor has to call lawmakers back into Austin…

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