If the legislature grants a particular corporation an exception from a state law, it is called
  • True
  • a special bill
  • The lottery is played by large numbers of people from all social classes.
  • 1935 Social Security Act
The Robin Hood plan was found unconstitutional because it required
  • local voter approval of property tax levies and it prohibited a state property tax (?)
  • the power to overturn state supreme court decision with a two-thirds majority (?)
  • governor
  • fund primary and secondary schools in the state
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.
  • True
  • False
Public policy refers to the outputs of governmental institutions.
  • True
  • False
The current sales tax rate in Texas is?
  • 6.25%
  • False
  • True
  • 50 (?)
Which statement is correct?
  • In Texas, even though state sales taxes are high and income taxes are low, Texas still has some of the lowest taxes in the country
  • False
  • Legislators cannot be paid until a balanced budget is reached in both houses
  • personality and ambition, legislators, lobbies and state administrators, governor
One significant component of the budget process that is relatively unique to Texas is
  • the constitutional mandate that Texas legislators write a budget every two years
  • The comptroller informs the legislature how much money it has to spend on the budget.
  • the increasingly economically disadvantaged and at-risk student body (?)
  • US Department of Health and Human Services poverty index.
For a bill that starts in the House the steps are
  • introduction, referral, consideration by standing committee, floor action, action by a conference committee and approval by both houses
  • whenever the governor chooses to issue a call
  • pursuit of educational excellence, funding equity, desegregation
  • the state comptroller drafts requests from agencies and the LBB prepares the biennial revenue estimate to set a maximum limit on state legislative spending.
Operating costs of Texas prisons has sky rocketed over the past few years.
  • True
  • False
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.
  • 1 (?)
  • True
  • False
  • In Texas, even though state sales taxes are high and income taxes are low, Texas still has some of the lowest taxes in the country
Texas is known as a high tax state; because of this, it is a good place to do business.
  • True
  • False
The 1985 report by the National Commission on Education had no effect on Texas because of its existing excellent system of public education.
  • True
  • False
Ross Perot was appointed by Governor Mark White to chair a committee on education. As committee chair, he was partially scornful of
  • Pocket veto
  • The comptroller informs the legislature how much money it has to spend on the budget.
  • the constitutional mandate that Texas legislators write a budget every two years
  • the cost of education per pupil
The main purpose of the Permanent School Fund is to
  • validated state-imposed racial segregation in Texas public schools
  • fund primary and secondary schools in the state
  • pursuit of educational excellence, funding equity, desegregation
  • personality and ambition, legislators, lobbies and state administrators, governor
Rules of the legislature require that the bill be read
  • "low service, low tax"
  • it is a part-time job
  • House of Representatives
  • on three separate occasions
Which of the following can introduce legislation in Texas?
  • a Texas Legislator
  • Historically, partisanship has been rather low, but in recent years the legislature has moved in a more partisan era
  • the people
  • Pocket veto
What issues have helped shape education policy in Texas?
  • governor
  • whenever the governor chooses to issue a call
  • introduction, referral, consideration by standing committee, floor action, action by a conference committee and approval by both houses
  • pursuit of educational excellence, funding equity, desegregation
The _____ transformed the way in which the United States handled poverty and implemented welfare policy
  • False
  • 1935 Social Security Act
  • the focus on conservation and expanding and developing available surface water
  • the cost of education per pupil
Texas has a reputation of being a ______ state
  • economic (?)
  • "low service, low tax"
  • No Child Left Behind
  • House of Representatives
All of the following are challenges facing education policy in Texas EXCEPT
  • test scores were declining and functional illiteracy was increasing
  • the increasingly economically disadvantaged and at-risk student body (?)
  • removing, for suitable cause, the Speaker or lieutenant governor
  • Historically, partisanship has been rather low, but in recent years the legislature has moved in a more partisan era
In Texas, what kinds of issues provoke intense partisan battles?
  • school finance
  • 50 (?)
  • economic (?)
  • poor homeowners and renters would pay taxes at higher rates. (?)
Which of the following reasons would someone use to argue against more pay for members of the Texas Legislature?
  • Historically, partisanship has been rather low, but in recent years the legislature has moved in a more partisan era
  • it is a part-time job
  • less severe
  • the people
It is common for the governor to call a special session of the legislature to deal with budget issues.
  • True
  • False
Texas maintains a balanced budget because the state constitution requires it.
  • True
  • False
Members of the Texas House of Representatives are permitted to speak on the House floor for as long as they wish.
  • True
  • False
How is the state budget constructed in Texas?
  • the state comptroller drafts requests from agencies and the LBB prepares the biennial revenue estimate to set a maximum limit on state legislative spending.
  • poor homeowners and renters
  • the power to overturn state supreme court decision with a two-thirds majority (?)
  • introduction, referral, consideration by standing committee, floor action, action by a conference committee and approval by both houses
If the Texas Legislature fails to redistrict, the task of redistricting then falls to the federal district courts.
  • True
  • False
In 2012, Texas ranked _____ when compared to other states on the per capital federal dollars flowing into the state.
  • the people
  • True
  • high
  • False
The typical Texas legislature is a white, upper-class, male Protestant.
  • True
  • False
Robin Hood funding schemes required poor school districts to transfer some property tax revenues to wealthy school districts.
  • True
  • False
Which of the following is NOT a non legislative power of the Texas legislature?
  • personality and ambition, legislators, lobbies and state administrators, governor
  • the state comptroller drafts requests from agencies and the LBB prepares the biennial revenue estimate to set a maximum limit on state legislative spending.
  • the power to overturn state supreme court decision with a two-thirds majority (?)
  • whenever the governor chooses to issue a call
The presiding officers of the Texas Legislature are
  • test scores were declining and functional illiteracy was increasing
  • US Department of Health and Human Services poverty index.
  • the increasingly economically disadvantaged and at-risk student body (?)
  • considered by most to be more powerful than the Texas Governor
In 2004 and 2005, three special sessions were called in the Texas Legislature to deal with
  • No Child Left Behind
  • it is a part-time job
  • school finance
  • 2 years
The Legislative Budget Board's draft budget, NOT the governor's budget, is the on voted upon by the legislature.
  • True
  • False
What action forced the legislature to bring the 2012-2013 state budget into balance?
  • The federal government loaned Texas enough money to balance the Texas budget (?)
  • the focus on conservation and expanding and developing available surface water
  • removing, for suitable cause, the Speaker or lieutenant governor
  • US Department of Health and Human Services poverty index.
Which of the following statements about partisanship in the Texas legislature is correct?
  • Conservatives tried to require that welfare recipients must participate in job training as a condition overachieving benefits.
  • Historically, partisanship has been rather low, but in recent years the legislature has moved in a more partisan era
  • the increasingly economically disadvantaged and at-risk student body (?)
  • The federal government loaned Texas enough money to balance the Texas budget (?)
Like the President of the United States, the Texas Governor does not have line item veto power.
  • True
  • False
The agenda for special sessions in the Texas legislature is set by the
  • True
  • governor
  • whenever the governor chooses to issue a call
  • pursuit of educational excellence, funding equity, desegregation
Who pays the greatest portion of their income in property taxes?
  • poor homeowners and renters
  • anyone at all
  • governor
  • various bureaucratic institutions were established to be responsible for public education in the state of Texas
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
  • governor
  • local voter approval of property tax levies and it prohibited a state property tax (?)
  • the power to overturn state supreme court decision with a two-thirds majority (?)
  • validated state-imposed racial segregation in Texas public schools
Which of the following is NOT a legislative power of the Texas governor?
  • removing, for suitable cause, the Speaker or lieutenant governor
  • Pocket veto
  • it is a part-time job
  • a Texas Legislator
Among the most important findings of the 1983 report were that
  • test scores were declining and functional illiteracy was increasing
  • The comptroller informs the legislature how much money it has to spend on the budget.
  • the constitutional mandate that Texas legislators write a budget every two years
  • Conservatives tried to require that welfare recipients must participate in job training as a condition overachieving benefits.
According to the video, who can introduce a bill in the Texas state legislature?
  • anyone
  • local voter approval of property tax levies and it prohibited a state property tax (?)
  • whenever the governor chooses to issue a call
  • anyone at all
Texas's 6.25% sales tax is the tenth highest in the nation.
  • True
  • False
What is the rule in the Texas Constitution that requires the state to balance its budget?
  • True
  • Legislators cannot be paid until a balanced budget is reached in both houses
  • Congress was sharply split along party lines.
  • In Texas, even though state sales taxes are high and income taxes are low, Texas still has some of the lowest taxes in the country
The Texas case Edgewood ISD v. Kirby involved the funding of schools using the property tax system.
  • True
  • False
Under the Gilmer-Aikin Laws,
  • anyone at all
  • various bureaucratic institutions were established to be responsible for public education in the state of Texas
  • poor homeowners and renters
  • local voter approval of property tax levies and it prohibited a state property tax (?)
Which of the following is/are NOT options available to the Governor when he receives a bill from the Legislature?
  • Pocket veto
  • Historically, partisanship has been rather low, but in recent years the legislature has moved in a more partisan era
  • the people
  • a Texas Legislator
In Texas, who can write a bill?
  • governor
  • whenever the governor chooses to issue a call
  • anyone at all
  • various bureaucratic institutions were established to be responsible for public education in the state of Texas
Since the program's creation, participation rates for Medicaid have remained fairly constant throughout the nation and in Texas.
  • True
  • False
What is the term of office for a member of the Texas House of Representatives?
  • the people
  • 2 years
  • a Texas Legislator
  • False
A 1983 report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education was called
  • it is a part-time job
  • a Texas Legislator
  • No Child Left Behind
  • less severe
If Texas instituted a progressive income tax,
  • considered by most to be more powerful than the Texas Governor
  • The comptroller informs the legislature how much money it has to spend on the budget.
  • "low service, low tax"
  • poor homeowners and renters would pay taxes at higher rates. (?)
Much of the money in the state budget lies outside the direct control of the legislature.
  • False
  • True
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