Plan would give governor leeway in spending $100 million

Plan would give governor leeway in spending $100 million
Texas A&M University System's health science school to do clinical work in Round Rock, budget says.
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF - Plan would give governor leeway in spending $100 million
Texas A&M University System's health science school to do clinical work in Round Rock, budget says.
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz
Texas A&M University System's health science school to do clinical work in Round Rock, budget says.
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz - AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF - Saturday, May 26, 2007

Gov. Rick Perry created a dust-up concerning certain aspects of higher education spending. A two-year budget approved Friday by House and Senate negotiators appears to go a long way toward resolving it.

The plan would give Perry latitude in spending $100 million. The sum isn't anywhere near the $350 million Perry had sought. Still, it's more than the $75 million that had been penciled into the budget.

The governor also made gains in his effort to wield greater veto power over higher education "special items," earmarks of specific sums for construction projects and research.

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