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Legislative Budget Hearings

Hello everyone! It?s Ana Yáñez-Correa again. Just wanted to share with all of you a new link we created on TCJC's Public Policy Center web page titled Legislative Budget Hearings that included some of the following below. The Texas Juvenile Probation Commission (TJPC) presented its Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR) for fiscal years 2012 and 2013 to the Budget, Planning and Policy Division of the Governor's Office and to the Legislative Budget Board on Thursday, August 19, 2010. To view TJPC's LAR, please click here. Our concern: Cuts will have a drastic impact on the number of youth committee to the Texas Youth Commission (TYC). According to TJPC, cuts to the base budget in the amount of $14.9 million are expected to result in over 300 new commitments to TYC at a cost to the State of over $60 million for the biennium...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).