Posted on 02/08/2011 9:04:10 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry will ask the Legislature on Tuesday to indefinitely suspend funding for four Texas agencies and consolidate the functions of dozens more as part of a sweeping budget plan that would make deep spending reductions across state government.
Funding for the Texas Historical Commission and the Texas Commission on the Arts would be eliminated altogether.................
Those two agencies, which provide funding for the promotion of Texas arts and culture and the upkeep of state historic structures, were given over $100 million in the previous budget when bond proceeds and federal dollars are counted.
Two smaller agencies, the Board of Professional Geoscientists and the Board of Professional Land Surveying — which oversee licensing requirements for people in those professions — would also disappear under a list of "suspensions/consolidations" that will accompany the governor's budget proposal to the Legislature, documents obtained by the AP show. Those agencies got about $2.4 million to spend in the current budget.
Taken together, the proposals to zero out funding for some agencies while consolidating others would save the state about $50 million. That's a tiny fraction of the multibillion dollar budget shortfall confronting lawmakers this year, but it marks a significant departure from what other Republican leaders are discussing.
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Besides the four agencies that would go away, Perry would target at least 21 agencies for consolidation and put their responsibilities into 11. He would put the Texas Facilities Commission, which oversees government buildings, into the General Land Office, for example.
Perry would also create a new Health Professions Agency, and fold into it a variety of agencies that oversee health professionals — including the Texas Medical Board, the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners, the Texas Board of Nursing and the Board of Dental Examiners. .....
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Nothing about sanctuary cities. Tort Reform has brought a few incompetent doctors running to Texas for cover. I hope the Texas Medical Board is allowed to discipline doctors and review complaints. Or at least some agency is allowed to do that.
There is a lot of nasty mischief performed in the State’s professional commissions.
Nicely done sir. I thought I was the only Star Wars guy left. And I was quite certain I was the only guy that ever quoted it.
Can’t resist.
Two “P”s in a Presidential pod.
However this shakes out in 2012, I pray it will be a rout of epic proportions.
If I can I will, it’s surprizingly quotable. :)
I actually much prefer the Alec Guinness Kenobi.
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