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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 2009
Page
9
A summary of policy items proposing higher compensation for wrongfully imprisoned individuals, a broadened Texas film office incentive program, utilities issuing low-cost bonds to cover hurricane recovery costs, and a journalist shield law granting limited witness immunity.
Policy notes that children under eight must use booster seats in passenger vehicles. It states the current age limit is being increased from four, with changes to enforcement and safety expectations.
The plan outlines a 182 billion dollar two year budget with 12 billion in federal stimulus funding, mainly for education and health care. It covers top 10 percent automatic college admissions, windstorm insurance restructuring, disabled veterans tax exemptions, teen tanning ban, tobacco tax reform for a medical loan program, and small business tax breaks. It also expands oversight of state mental disability facilities, adjusts graduation and promotion standards, and allocates about 2 billion in school funding with an $800 pay raise for teachers.Additional items include Tier One university incentives, voter ID requirements, a wide smoking ban, and debate over guns on campus and at work with related storage rules.
Governor Rick Perry refused to rule out a special session to avert agency shutdowns after the Senate failed to pass measures keeping TxDOT and other agencies open. He said there are different options to ensure uninterrupted operation as Legislature adourned without action.
Senate Republicans pressed Governor Perry to call a special session to approve a $2 billion TxDOT budget, warning the agency and the Texas Department of Insurance could shut down by September 2010. Democrats said the delay wastes four and a half months of work and blamed the Legislature for the impasse.
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