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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1979
Texas LBB proposed budget trimmed
Bill set for House debate next Tuesday
United Press International
AUSTIN — The House Approp
riations Committee has trimmed
almost $70 million from the budget
proposed by the Legislative Budget
Board, and a rider calling for an
across-the-board 2 percent cut in
state spending could reduce the
panel’s appropriation bill by an
additional $400 million.
Rep. Bill Presnal, D-Bryan, said
Monday that work on the bill is
completed and the inch-thick bill
will be printed and available for
members today.
“It’s all wrapped up and ready to
go,” he said.
A series of last minute cuts in the
$20.8 billion bill reduced it to be
tween $64 million and $70 million
below the budget recommended by
the LBB, Presnal said.
The committee members also ap
proved a provision in the bill man
dating a 2 percent across-the-board
reduction in the authorized spend
ing for all but some educational pro-
irams.
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“We originally estimated that
/ould save about $400 million, but
lit will be slightly less because of
some exemptions we made for edu
cation,” Presnal said.
He said the House bill would
leave about $570 million available
for use on school finance. It also
makes allowances for a $450 million
tax relief bill already passed by the
House and pending in the Senate,
and includes $314 million for an in
crease in teacher salaries.
Presnal said the bill will be ready
for House debate when the lawmak
ers return from their Easter recess
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next Tuesday, and predicted action
on 'it could be completed within two
or three days.
“We’d like to go ahead and get it
over to the Senate because the Se
nate is dragging on their bill.
They’re a week away from finishing
a bill,” Presnal said.
In its final session on spending
matters Monday, the committee
added $3.7 million more than the
Legislative Budget Board had rec
ommended for the agricultural ex
tension service and experiment sta
tions, but trimmed $10 million from
funding for a highway program to
grade crossings.
A $2.4 million appropriation for
creation of a new extension service
center in San Antonio accounted for
the bulk of the increased spending
in that area.
Rep. Lou Nelle Sutton, D-San
Antonio, said the city of San Antonio
had donated $1 million and about
100 acres of land had been contrib
uted for the center.
The House rejected, however, a
$416,000 appropriation in the ex
tension service budget for “rural
sociological research.”
Rep. Don Rains, D-San Marcos,
said officials of the agency had been
unable to explain that research and
asked that it be eliminated.
“It sounds like a cross between
welfare and public relations,” said
Rep. Bill Hollowell, D-Grand
Saline.
The item was removed from the
budget without objection.
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By LIZ NEWLIN
Battalion Staff
Writing the budget for a major state university is really quite
pie —just follow the steps. Here, in brief outline, are those
On the left is the process now in use for generating the Legisl
Budget Request for the next biennium, fiscal years 19791
1980-81.
The procedure for writing an operating budget isontherigii
During the first year of a biennium, the process usually be|i
May, when the Legislature is pretty firm on how much of the Lq
tive Budget Request it will appropriate. During the second;
the biennium, the University already knows how much it will
the process begins earlier, usually in December or Januaryft
following September.
While the University is writing the operating budget forthe
year, the System and the universities also are involved in prepaj
new Legislative Budget Request — for the September more
year and a half away.
Legislative
Budget Request...
...presented in Spring 1979
Early 1978 and before — The
Coordinating Board decides
formula changes, if any, and
general guidelines.
Spring 1978 — “Raw” requests
are submitted, using Coor
dinating Board guides and
hope for a big budget surplus.
Put your wildest dreams
here.
bill. Senate Hearings
fore the Finance Coi
The Higher Education
mittee, which revici
other related
policies, doesn’t even
crack at the budget. Fi
nate debates and ap|
the general approprii
bill.
July 1978 — Official requests are
given to the Legislative
Budget Board (LBB) and
Governor’s Office of Budget
and Planning (GOB). Some
wild dreams have been cut al
ready.
August 1978 — Hearings, usu
ally on the campus, are held
with the staffs of the LBB and
GOB. Top administrators
plead for their wildest
dreams.
October 1978 — Revise budget
— mostly downward — for
the Legislature. Ax all but the
most essential wild dreams.
May 1979 (maybe) -
operating budget for tin
beginning Sept. 1,19
preparation. The
Senate conference coi
hashes out differencs
tween the two versionn
appropriations bill, and:
it to the governor. Hi
probably sign it, but u
fore he vetoes his pith
items; usually, special
(wild dreams). Them
sary changes are made
near-complete opei
budget.
A Few Months Later-
again.
Operating Budget
Early 1979 — LBB and GOB
recommendations come out.
If wild dream makes it this
far, it’s probably made it for
good. Also, review University
budget to see where more
cuts can be made. Pieter
Groot, Texas A&M Univer
sity’s assistant vice president
for academic budgets, notes:
“We constantly adjust it as we
get vibrations back from Aus
tin.”
Spring 1979 — Legislative ac
tion, listed in sequence:
H ouse of Representatives
Hearings are before a sub
committee of the Committee
on Higher Education. Hear
ings are before the Appropria
tions Committee. The full
House debates and approves
the general appropriations
The lump sum has beena|
priated for the Systeml
Legislature.
First, preliminary pie-ci
starts from the top and
its way down: The regei
vide it within the Systen
presidents divide it
their colleges, the di
vide it among their
ments, and the departa
heads write their opei
budgets, using their pre
requests and legislative
dates (salary increases,
stance) as guides.
Then the budgets are seat
up the chain, with eacii
making its own changes.
Finally the regents appro
and it goes into effect Se
But circumstances can
do —alter the way the
are spent.
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