This paper highlights Texas budget trends in Articles VI and VII since the 2004-05 budget and notes the natural resources and business and economic development functions that increase faster than population growth plus inflation in the 2016-17 budget.
Local Government
Let My People Go: Empowering Texans Through Disannexation Reform
The Texas Legislature can promote Texans’ right to self-determination consensual governance, and political representation by reforming the municipal disannexation process. Key points A more equitable disannexation process should be established for qualified voters to disassociate themselves from a municipality whenever they are no longer well-served by their city government. Current law permits property owners to...
March 28, 2023