TPPF Publishes Perspective Analyzing Oklahoma’s District Attorney Supervision Programs

AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Right on Crime initiative published the paper Oklahoma District Attorney Supervision: An Unpopular Patchwork Policy. “District attorney supervision is unique to Oklahoma and creates several issues pertaining to effectiveness, conflicts of interest, and appropriate funding of the prosecutorial branch of the judicial system,” said Joe Griffin, communications and policy...

Press Release March 20, 2019

TPPF Launches Major Media Campaign Calling for End of Corporate Property Tax Breaks

AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation launched a second statewide, six-figure radio and digital campaign within a week. This new campaign calls for the end of massive corporate tax breaks for solar and wind projects that threaten the reliability of the electric grid through Chapter 312 agreements. The buy includes major media markets across the...

Press Release March 20, 2019

TPPF Applauds Key Reforms in School Finance Bill

AUSTIN— Today, the House Committee on Public Education unanimously advanced HB 3, a $9 billion school finance and property tax reform bill. Kara Belew, senior education policy advisor with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, made the following statement: “In a historic move, HB 3 requires that school boards can only hold tax increase elections after they have conducted...

Press Release March 19, 2019

TPPF Cheers Committee Passage of Bill to Eliminate Forced Annexation

AUSTIN— Yesterday, the House Committee on Land and Resource Management voted to move HB 347 out of committee and on to the full House. “The reforms enacted by the last Texas Legislature were commendable; however, forced annexation still remains a problem,” said Shelby Sterling, policy analyst with the Center for Local Governance at the Texas...

Press Release March 19, 2019

TPPF Launches Major Media Campaign to Promote Property Tax Relief

AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation launched a statewide, six-figure radio and digital campaign to promote real property tax relief. The radio buy includes major media markets across the state. TPPF has been a leading voice in fighting for property tax cuts, including promoting a plan that would provide real relief for Texans while protecting...

Press Release March 18, 2019

TPPF Releases Paper Examining Physician Dispense Laws in Texas

AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published the policy perspective Physician Dispense Makes Sense. “Forty-five states allow physicians to dispense medications out of their offices to some extent, while Texas only allows the practice in limited situations,” said Jennifer Minjarez, policy analyst with the Center for Healthcare Policy. “Physician dispense can make prescription-filling more convenient and...

Press Release March 14, 2019

Ron Simmons Joins TPPF as Distinguished Senior Fellow for Right on Work

AUSTIN— Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation announced former Texas State Representative Ron Simmons has joined the Foundation as a distinguished senior fellow.  Simmons will head up Right on Work, a new initiative of the foundation to ensure workers develop the skills needed to attain quality jobs and to encourage the private sector to lead...

Press Release March 14, 2019

Coalition Demands Eliminating Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying

AUSTIN— Today, a coalition of conservative groups called on the Texas legislature to support measures that would significantly limit or eliminate the ability of local governments to use taxpayer dollars to pay for lobbyists. In the last session, local Texas governments spent some $41 million of taxpayer money on contract lobbyists. A poll taken last December...

Press Release March 13, 2019

Texas Adds 10,600 Private Sector Jobs in January

AUSTIN— Today, the Texas Workforce Commission released labor market data for Texas in January 2019. Vance Ginn, Ph.D., senior economist and director of the Center for Economic Prosperity at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, issued the following statement: “Texas continues to be the beacon of job creation to support greater prosperity for Texans across the state....

Press Release March 8, 2019

TPPF’s Right on Crime Initiative Releases Report on Arizona Mandatory Drug Sentencing

Austin— Today, Right on Crime, an initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, released a policy perspective on mandatory drug sentencing in Arizona—All Talk and No Action: Arizona’s Mandatory Drug Sentencing. Arizona has some of the strictest mandatory drug sentencing laws in the country, yet the research shows that mandatory prison time does not reduce...

Press Release March 5, 2019

TPPF Releases Paper Examining the High Cost of Renewable Energy

AUSTIN— Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, published the paper Intermittent Generation Comes to Texas: The High Cost of Renewable Energy. “Low average power prices rooted in the subsidized growth of renewable energy are at variance with rationales for competitive markets,” said the paper’s author Robert Michael, Ph.D. “Texas ought to address the economic inefficiency of renewables...

Press Release March 4, 2019

TPPF Applauds the Senate Committee on State Affairs for the Passage of Senate Bill 15

AUSTIN– Today, the Senate Committee on State Affairs voted 5-1 to pass Senate Bill 15, the Consistent Employment Regulations Act, on to the full Senate. “With the passage of this bill out of committee, Texans are one step closer to a freer, more competitive economy that will benefit everyone,” said Think Local Liberty’s Shelby Sterling....

Press Release February 28, 2019