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Raises for state employees in new budget? Only for select law enforcement and correctional officers
A state employee union leader and a disability rights activist lambaste the budget as miserly, especially to care attendants who help elderly Texans.
Practically the only state workers who will receive pay bumps in the newly passed Texas state budget are several thousand law enforcement officers and some prison guards – just a fraction of the more than 200,000 Texans whose jobs depend on the budget.(Bob Daemmrich / Bob Daemmrich/CapitolPressPhoto)
6:30 PM on Jun 3, 2021 CDT
AUSTIN When the newly passed state budget takes effect in September, practically the only state workers who will receive pay bumps are several thousand law enforcement officers and some prison guards just a fraction of the more than 200,000 Texans whose jobs depend on the budget.
On the morning of Aug. 28, 2019, Todd Smith was running late for a meeting. It would be a busy few days for Smith, a lobbyist and Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller’s top political adviser.
He had to go to Houston later in the day, but this breakfast meeting was too important to skip. Before he left Austin, he stopped in at an I-HOP right off I-35, just a few miles from his home. He had a meeting with Nathaniel Czerwinski, a musician and activist who working at an Austin CBD shop at the time.
The Texas Agriculture Department was in the middle of crafting its regulations for hemp cultivation. After 88 years of prohibition, the non-psychoactive cousin of marijuana had become legal to grow once again in Texas earlier in 2019.
On the morning of Aug. 28, 2019, Todd Smith was running late for a meeting. It would be a busy few days for Smith, a lobbyist and Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller’s top political adviser.
He had to go to Houston later in the day, but this breakfast meeting was too important to skip. Before he left Austin, he stopped in at an I-HOP right off I-35, just a few miles from his home. He had a meeting with Nathaniel Czerwinski, a musician and activist who working at an Austin CBD shop at the time.
The Texas Agriculture Department was in the middle of crafting its regulations for hemp cultivation. After 88 years of prohibition, the non-psychoactive cousin of marijuana had become legal to grow once again in Texas earlier in 2019.