The two Texas government chambers are still negotiating the final budget, but the lottery has been in the legislative ...

The budget for the Texas Lottery Commission, which brings about $2 billion a year to the state treasury, has been reduced to ...

Texas lawmakers have started the process of finalizing the budget, but it wasn't easy getting there. Members of the Texas House got bogged down in several debates that included: tracking undocumented ...

Combined, both measures will blueprint how the state spends its money (including its $24 billion surplus) in the next two ...

Among the hundreds of amendments were ones that focused on school vouchers, the attorney general’s office and the Texas ...

Greg Bonnen, R – Friendswood, if the Texas Lottery Commission will remain defunded as it was voted in González’s amended amendment at the beginning of the budget debate. Bonnen responded ...

Greg Bonnen, R-Friendswood, on whether he supported the defunding of the Texas Lottery Commission and economic ... were relegated to Article XI before debate on the floor began, effectively ...

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