(Austin) The state will be well served by a forward-looking, conservative budget that represents only modest growth over last biennium, according to Senate Finance chair and Flower Mound Senator Jane Nelson. She offered a proposal to the full Senate on Tuesday to spend $116.8 billion in discretionary general revenue, a 7.6 percent increase over last biennium. That’s well within the constitutional spending caps. “In all of those measures, we are under,” she said. “There are […]
