LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD Austin, Texas
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HB 1335 would establish an Education Savings Account Program administered by the Comptroller of Public Accounts to provide funding for education-related expenses for eligible children with special needs and other educational disadvantages, including those who are disabled, in state conservatorship, homeless, bullying victims, truant, at-risk dropouts, or crime victims. The fiscal note estimates a negative impact to General Revenue Related Funds ranging from ($63.7 million) to ($211.7 million) through August 31, 2019, depending on payment schedule scenarios, with costs escalating significantly through 2022 to approximately ($1.1 billion) annually while the Foundation School Fund would receive corresponding increases. The bill would require no appropriation but could provide the legal basis for appropriations and would necessitate adding 22 to 40 state employees through fiscal year 2022.
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The 2024-2025 Texas Budget, signed by Governor Abbott on June 18, 2023, allocates approximately $321 billion from all funds and $144 billion in general revenue for the two-year period from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2025. The Legislature began the session with $188.2 billion in general revenue, including a record $32.7 billion carryover balance and $23.5 billion in the state's rainy-day fund. While the budget shows 10% and 6% increases in general revenue and all funds respectively compared to the previous biennium, the analysis notes that after adjusting for inflation and population growth, actual spending increases are considerably smaller, and lawmakers prioritized property tax cuts over long-overdue investments in public education and health care despite the surplus opportunity.
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