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By Curt W. Olson l Texas Budget Source
AUSTIN — Leaders of state agencies, commissions and institutions of higher education have been instructed to make room for up to a 10 percent cut in funding in the 2014-15 biennial budget.
At a minimum, state agencies will spend in 2014-15 no more than what they have now.
As agency heads prepare their Legislation Appropriation Requests this summer they must provide a supplemental plan for 2014-15 funding that would identify a 5 percent worth of reductions per fiscal year for a total of a 10 percent. The budget instructions also reveal cuts in the 2013 fiscal year could be forthcoming, if economic conditions deteriorate.
The instructions came in a joint letter from Ursula Parks, acting director of the Legislative Budget Board, and Jonathan Hurst, Gov. Rick Perry’s Office of Budget, Planning and Policy.
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