2019-20 TPPF Legislator’s Guide to the Issues

Complete 2019-20 TPPF Legislator’s Guide to the Issues Online

Table of Contents with direct links to each Issue.

1 – SPENDING

 1-1   Conservative Texas Budget
 1-2   Tax and Expenditure Limit
 1-3   Sales Tax Reduction Fund
 1-4   Transparency and Budgeting 
 1-5   Understanding Federal Funds 
 1-6   Controlling Federal Funds
 1-7   Transportation
 1-8   Economic Stabilization Fund
 1-9   Public Pension Reform
 1-10  State Debt

2 – TAXES

 2-1   Property Tax Reform
 2-2  Eliminating the School M&O Property Tax
 2-3  Margins Tax 
 2-4  Supermajority Requirement to Raise Taxes
2-5   Personal Income Tax

3 – LOCAL GOVERNMENT

 3-1   Local Control
 3-2   Forced Annexation
 3-3   Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) Reform
 3-4   Local Spending
 3-5   Local Debt
 3-6   Special Purpose Districts
 3-7   Local Pension Reform
 3-8   Property Rights and Local Government Permitting Process
 3-9   The California-zation of Texas: Tree-Cutting Ordinances
 3-10  Affordability
 3-11   Grace Commission

4 – K-12 EDUCATION

  4-1   Parental Choice
  4-2   Funding Public Schools for the 21st Century
  4-3   Encouraging Charter Innovation
  4-4   A-F Accountability
  4-5   Civic Education 
  4-6   Teacher Pay and Administrative Flexibility

5 – HIGHER EDUCATION

 5-1    Free Speech on Campus
 5-2   Higher Education Affordability
 5-3   Restoring Standards in Higher Education
 5-4   Tuition Revenue Bonds

6 – ENERGY

  6-1   Clean Power Plan
  6-2   Renewable Energy
  6-3   Resource Adequacy
  6-4   Capacity Market
  6-5   Regulation of the Texas Electricity Market
  6-6   Disgorgement

7 – ENVIRONMENT

  7-1   Climate Policy
  7-2   The EPA
  7-3   Endangered Species Act

8 – WATER 

  8-1   Water Supply
  8-2   Surface Water Rights
  8-3   Groundwater Rights

9 – FAMILIES & CHILDREN 

  9-1   Parents’ Rights, Children’s Best Interests
  9-2   Removal of Children from Parents
  9-3   Alternatives to Removal
  9-4   Community-Based Foster Care

10 – HEALTH CARE 

 10-1   Medicaid Reform
 10-2   APRNs and the PAA
 10-3   Telehealth
 10-4   Dental Therapy

11 – CRIMINAL JUSTICE

 11-1   Constitutional Policing
 11-2   Procedural Liberty and Asset Forfeiture
 11-3   Corrections Budget
 11-4   Juvenile Justice
 11-5   Records and Reentry
 11-6   Addressing the Growing Opioid Epidemic
 11-7   Pretrial Justice and Indigent Defense
 11-8   Overcriminalization

12 – PROPERTY RIGHTS

 12-1  Property Rights and the Texas Courts
 12-2  Regulatory Takings

13 – GOVERNMENT REFORM 

 13-1   Unions and Labor Policy
 13-2   Corporate Welfare
 13-3   Sunset Review
 13-4   Gambling
 13-5   Cracking Down on Mail-In Ballot Fraud
 13-6   Paycheck Protection
 13-7   Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying

14 – CONSUMERS 

 14-1   Title Insurance
 14-2   Homeowners’ Insurance
 13-3   Short-Term Consumer Lending
 13-4   Tax Lien Lending
 13-5   Telecommunications
 13-6   Windstorm Insurance

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