This letter explains concerns shared by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texas Eagle Forum, Free Market Foundation, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, and Americans for Prosperity-Texas on several transportation tax proposals pending before the Texas House.
My Journey to Understand El Paso’s Lobbying Expenses
In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed a law (House Bill 1495) to help correct “unethical political behavior” at the local level. One key provision in the law requires political subdivisions to disclose the amount of money being spent to lobby the legislature in their proposed budgets. As more fully articulated in Sec. 140.0045 (b)(2) of...