SB 1315 Testimony before the Senate Committee on Property Tax

April 2, 2019

James Quintero

James Quintero is the policy director for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Government for the People campaign. Since joining the Foundation in 2008, Quintero has focused extensively on: state & local government spending, taxes, debt, public pension reform, annexation, and local regulations.

As introduced, SB 1315 would require certain counties, cities, and school districts to undergo a periodic zero-based budgeting (ZBB) review every 12 years. The ZBB requirement would apply to:

School districts with 50,000 or more students;
A county department of education in a county with a population of 3.3 million or more;
Cities and counties with a population of 225,000.

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