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Special District Funding

Introduced

Introduced by Fiscal Policy

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Revising agency agreements that provide state financial assistance to recipients or subrecipients to include specified special districts as an entity to which such agency may provide for the payment of invoices under specified circumstances; requiring state agencies to expedite payment requests from certain counties, municipalities, and special districts for a specified purpose; revising the definition of "rural community" to include specified special districts, etc.

Where it stands

Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 273

March 6, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

SenateStage: Senate Fiscal Policy · March 2, 2026

18

Yes

0

No

2

Absent or Not Voting

20 senators recorded in this Senate vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

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Bill history

  1. Filed

  2. Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy

  3. Introduced

  4. On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 01/21/26, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building

  5. Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 10 NAYS 0

  6. Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development

  7. On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 02/04/26, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building

  8. CS by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 14 NAYS 0

  9. Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

  10. Now in Fiscal Policy

  11. CS by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development read 1st time

  12. On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/02/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building

  13. CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0

  14. Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

  15. CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time

  16. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

  17. Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/26

  18. Read 2nd time

  19. Substituted CS/HB 273

  20. Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 273

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