Texas Spending Transparency

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Texas Spending Transparency is the effort to place all state spending online in a transparent format to allow for a truly accountable government.

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Contents 1 Legislation 2 Government tools 3 Watchdog efforts 4 References

[edit] Legislation

• Texas House Bill 3430 (2007)

[edit] Government tools

• Texas Window on State Government
• Collins County Check Register

[edit] Watchdog efforts

• Andrew Moylan, Government Affairs Manager for theNational Taxpayers Union (NTU), and David Williams, Vice President of Policy for the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, wrote a letter^[1] that encouraged Texas legislators to enact legislation that would create a publicly searchable database.
• Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) issued a press release^[2] to announce Texas House Bill 3430 (2007)'s unanimous passage through the House. Grover Norquist, president of ATR, wrote legislators in the Texas Senate, urging them to vote for Texas House Bill 3430 (2007),^[3] and an additional letter when the Texas Senate Finance Committee took the bill into consideration.^[4]
• Texas Budget Source
• The Texas Public Policy Foundation's discussion on aTransparency Panel

[edit] References

1. ↑ Taxpayers Support Creating Grant and Contract Database in Texas, April 2007
2. ↑ Two Cheers for Fiscal Transparency in Texas, May 2007
3. ↑ Letter to Texas senators urging passage of Texas House Bill 3430 (2007), May 2007
4. ↑ Letter to Texas senators urging passage of Texas House Bill 3430 (2007) upon its consideration by the Senate Finance Committee, May 2007

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