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A Table With a First-Cut Comparison of House and Senate Budget Proposals for 2018-2019
January 20, 2017 | By: Jim Henson, Joshua Blank

 

The House and Senate released their initial budget proposals this week and there’s lot’s of places that you can go to read about each. A quick summary looks something like this: The Senate 2-year base budget proposal is $213.4 billion compared to $221.3 billion for the House proposal (point of reference: the last base budget was $209.4 billion). That includes federal dollars. Among the money that they actually have control over, the two chambers are about $5.3 billion apart, with the Senate slightly below Comptroller Hegar’s revenue estimate ($104.9 billion) at $103.6 billion and the House about $4 billion over the revenue estimate at $108.9 billion. Below is a table comparing the proposed House and Senate budget based on Legislative Budget Board analysis for your perusal.

85th Session: Proposed House and Senate Budgets (in millions)
    House Senate  
All Functions Estimated/Budgeted 2016-2017 Recommended 2018-2019 Biennial Change

Recommended 2018-2019

Biennial Change 2018-2019 Difference (House - Senate)
Article I - General Government $3,345.5 $3,280.3 -$65.2 $3,258.9 -$86.6

$21.4

Article II - Health & Human Services $33.621.7 $34,628.6 $1,006.9 $32,596.0 $164.3

$2,032.6

Article III - Agencies of Education $56,283.7 $56,882.8 $599.1 $54,696.4 -$1,587.3

$2,186.4

Public Education $41.594.1 $42,018.4 $424.3 $40,522.4 -$1,071.8

$1,496.0

Higher Education $14,689.6 $14,864.4 $174.8 $14,174.0 -$515.6

$690.4

Article IV - The Judiciary $503.3 $508.8 $5.6 $503.6 $0.3

$5.2

Article V - Public Safety & Criminal Justice $11,534.7 $11,425.8 -$108.9 $11,556.1 $21.4

-$130.3

Article VI - Natural Resources $835.0 $853.0 $17.9 $769.1 -$65.9

$83.9

Article VII - Business & Economic  Dev. $1,176.9 $553.4 -$623.5 $553.3 -$623.6

$0.1

Article VIII - Regulatory $337.1 $344.1 $6.9 $339.3 $2.2

$4.8

Article IX - General Provisions $0.0 $0.0 $0.0 -$1,058.0 -$1,058.0

$1,058.0

Article X - The Legislature $400.8 $384.1 -$16.7 $387.7 -$13.1

-$3.6

Total, All Articles $108,038.7 $108,860.9 $822.1 $103,602.3 -$3,246.3 $5,258.6

Source: Legislative Budget Board

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