SB1, as passed by the Texas Legislature, appropriates approximately $248.6 billion for the FY 2022-23. After the Governor’s line-item veto proclamation, roughly $248.1 billion of those appropriations became law as part of the biennial state budget.
The Senate passed SB1 on May 26, 2021, by a vote of 31 to 0. We have assigned minues to the yeas because Texas’ spending plan for 2022-23 includes $84.8 billion of mostly unconstitutional federal funding, representing 34.2% of the state’s entire budget. It not only continues participation in a number of the state’s Medicaid programs, which have expanded to more than 5 million recipients, but relies on $13.8 billion in funds available through the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). States should oppose the use of federal taxpayer money for purposes not authorized under Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution.