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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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The Austin Independent School District adopted its FY2023 budget on June 24, 2022, as a governmental funds budget document covering the district's operations and resource allocation. The budget document includes an executive summary, organizational and financial sections, and references the district's 2020-2025 strategic plan, board budget parameters, and budget policies, along with discussion of COVID-19 impacts and Elementary & Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funding. The district received an ASBO-Meritorious Budget Award in recognition of the budget document's quality.
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HB 247 would establish a property tax exemption for the appraised value of real property in border counties that results from border security infrastructure installation or construction, contingent on passage of HJR 34. The bill defines "border security infrastructure" and "qualified border security infrastructure agreements," prohibits appraisers from considering prices paid by state or federal entities when valuing property purchased for border security, and would reduce school district property tax revenue with minimal anticipated state costs through the school finance formula. No significant fiscal implication to the state is expected overall.
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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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