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The Texas Budget & Tax Primer

  

Authors:
Dick Lavine /(512) 320-0222 x 101
Eva DeLuna Castro /(512) 320-0222 x 103

August 1, 2002

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The "state budget" for Texas is the General Appropriations Act, which the Legislature must enact every two years in order for state government to continue operating.