AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas Comptroller Susan Combs has certified the state’s $182 billion budget.
Lawmakers approved the budget covering the 2010-11 spending cycle before adjourning their session June 1. Gov. Rick Perry is still reviewing the budget.
In her role as comptroller, Combs must decide whether to certify the plan.
Combs said Monday that she did and that the state has sufficient revenue to support all the budget legislation that was approved. She also certified the supplemental budget, an emergency spending plan to cover the rest of 2009. That includes money to cover damage costs from Hurricane Ike.
Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said Monday the governor is pleased the comptroller certified a budget that provided a tax cut to 40,000 small businesses and increased financial aid for college students by more than 40 percent.
She also said the budget cut state general revenue spending by $1.6 billion.