Texas Insight’s Recent Reports:
- Texas Legislature: Legislative Budget Board: Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar revised the Certification Revenue Estimate (CRE). Hegar announced better-than-expected revenue growth in FY 2018 and an improved economic outlook for FY 2019. According to the report, Texas will have $110.17 billion in General Revenue-Related funds available for general purpose spending for the 2018-19 biennium, resulting in a projected fiscal 2019 ending balance of $2.67 billion, an increase from the $94 million ending balance projected in the October 2017 CRE.
Looking Ahead
- July 16, 2018: Newborn Screening Advisory Committee Meeting
- July 17, 2018: Intellectual and Developmental Disability System Redesign Advisory Committee
- July 18, 2018: Perinatal Advisory Council
- July 19, 2018: Healthcare Safety Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda
State and Federal Healthcare News:
Texas
- Should abortion clinics have to bury fetal remains? Suit over Texas law goes to trial next week
- Texas looks small and mean if it kills local efforts to require paid sick time for all workers
- Mandatory paid sick leave shaping up as major local control fight at the Texas Capitol
Federal
- Report: 1.6 Billion Opioid Doses Poured Into Missouri Over 6 Years
- Democrats Say Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee Is A Threat To The ACA
- A Surge In Meth Use In Colorado Complicates Opioid Recovery
- Breast-Feeding or Formula? For Americans, It’s Complicated.
- Drug to Treat Smallpox Approved by F.D.A., a Move Against Bioterrorism
- Ex-Health Secretary Tom Price Wasted $341,000 on Improper Travel, Inquiry Finds
- Declaring War on Poverty ‘Largely Over,’ White House Urges Work Requirements for Aid
- Pfizer to Postpone Some Drug Price Increases, After Criticism from Trump
- Trump Officials Slash Grants that Help Consumers Get Obamacare