GOVT 2306 Unit 3

A special session of the Texas legislature may be called

Which, if any, would be considered limits on the presiding officers?

Which of the following reasons would someone use to argue against more pay for members of the Texas Legislature?

The presiding officers of the Texas Legislature are

Today, Texas uses legislative districts based on geography.

Which of the following is/are NOT options available to the Governor when he receives a bill from the Legislature?

Which of the following does not play a part in the final passage of a bill in the Legislative process in Texas?

Which of the following can introduce legislation in Texas?

Like the President of the United States, the Texas Governor does not have line item veto power.

Debate will proceed in the Texas Legislature following:

How is the state budget constructed in Texas?

According to the video, who can introduce a bill in the Texas state legislature?

What is the term of office for a member of the Texas House of Representatives?

What is the rule in the Texas Constitution that requires the state to balance its budget?

Which statement is correct?

If the Texas Legislature fails to redistrict, the task of redistricting then falls to the federal district courts.

In Texas, who can write a bill?

In Texas, what kinds of issues provoke intense partisan battles?

Members of the Texas House of Representatives are permitted to speak on the House floor for as long as they wish.

In the Texas legislature, if the filibustering senator is successfully called on three points of order, a simple majority of the Senate may vote to prevent the senator from continuing his or her remarks.

Revenue bills must start in the

Why is the comptroller of public accounts so important to the legislature?

In 2004 and 2005, three special sessions were called in the Texas Legislature to deal with

If the legislature grants a particular corporation an exception from a state law, it is called

Which is the most important bill that applies to all people and property throughout the state?

The Texas Legislature meets in regular session once every two years.

Conference committees are designed to make Texas House and Senate bills identical to each other.

Like the US president, the governor of Texas can kill a bill by refusing to sign it.

The agenda for special sessions in the Texas legislature is set by the

Which of the following is NOT a non legislative power of the Texas legislature?

The typical Texas legislature is a white, upper-class, male Protestant.

Which of the following is NOT a legislative power of the Texas governor?

Rules of the legislature require that the bill be read

Which of the following statements about partisanship in the Texas legislature is correct?

For a bill that starts in the House the steps are

Robin Hood funding schemes required poor school districts to transfer some property tax revenues to wealthy school districts.

The current sales tax rate in Texas is?

Operating costs of Texas prisons has sky rocketed over the past few years.

The welfare spending limit states that the state of Texas expenditures on temporary assistance to needy families cannot be more than _____ percent.

What issues have helped shape education policy in Texas?

In 2012, Texas ranked _____ when compared to other states on the per capital federal dollars flowing into the state.

Who pays the greatest portion of their income in property taxes?

Much of the money in the state budget lies outside the direct control of the legislature.

It is common for the governor to call a special session of the legislature to deal with budget issues.

Texas's 6.25% sales tax is the tenth highest in the nation.

If Texas instituted a progressive income tax,

Authorized by voters in 1991, the Texas state lottery generates a sizable sum for the state budget. Which of the following statements regarding the Texas lottery is true?

The main purpose of the Permanent School Fund is to

The Texas Constitution specifies that state payments for assistance to needy children and their caretakers shall NOT exceed ______ percent of the state's budget in any biennium.

When compared to the rest of the nation, the real estate collapse in Texas was

One significant component of the budget process that is relatively unique to Texas is

Texas has a reputation of being a ______ state

Texas is known as a high tax state; because of this, it is a good place to do business.

Under Texas's budgetary system, there is NO power to shift monies between agencies or programs when the legislature is NOT in session.

The Legislative Budget Board's draft budget, NOT the governor's budget, is the on voted upon by the legislature.

In addition to the state sales tax of 6.25 percent, county, city, and metropolitan transit authorities are allowed to impose an additional 2 percent sales tax.

What action forced the legislature to bring the 2012-2013 state budget into balance?

Texas maintains a balanced budget because the state constitution requires it.

The 1985 report by the National Commission on Education had no effect on Texas because of its existing excellent system of public education.

Which statement regarding the Affordable Care Act is true?

Since the program's creation, participation rates for Medicaid have remained fairly constant throughout the nation and in Texas.

Public policy refers to the outputs of governmental institutions.

The generally accepted standard by which poverty is measured in the United States is the

The Texas case Edgewood ISD v. Kirby involved the funding of schools using the property tax system.

All of the following are challenges facing education policy in Texas EXCEPT

The debate over public education in Texas goes back to the

Which statement is true concerning welfare in the 1980s?

Two of the strategies that have been developed by the Texas Water Development Board to meet the long-term needs of Texas include

Under the Gilmer-Aikin Laws,

Texas, because of its widespread support for public education, has a long-standing history of spending more per pupil than most states do.

A 1983 report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education was called

The Robin Hood plan was found unconstitutional because it required

Among the most important findings of the 1983 report were that

The percentage of Texans living in poverty is approximately ______ percent

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Ross Perot was appointed by Governor Mark White to chair a committee on education. As committee chair, he was partially scornful of

The _____ transformed the way in which the United States handled poverty and implemented welfare policy