Speaker Straus calls for dedicated fees to go to intended purposes

By Tim Eaton | Monday, July 9, 2012, 09:05 AM
Austin Statesman

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus made a rare appearance today at a subcommittee hearing to call for ending the long-accepted practice of diverting fees generated for specific purposes to certify the state budget, instead of being spent on their intended purposes.

Straus called for lawmakers take a simpler, fairer and more transparent approach.

“When you pay a fee, you expect a service,” Straus said outside a hearing of an Appropriations subcommittee.

If the dedicated fees are not being spent on their intended purposes, then lawmakers should consider eliminating the fees, the speaker said.

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