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Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar will speak at Star Republican Women's Tuesday, January 19 meeting at Quail Point Community Center. The program will begin at 1 p.m. Due to COVID-19 protocol, SRW will not be able to offer its traditional complimentary light lunch prior to the meeting. Attendees are requested to wear masks and comply with social distancing.
Glenn Hegar was elected as the 36th Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts in November 2014. Hegar is Texas' chief financial officer — the state's treasurer, check writer, tax collector, procurement officer and revenue estimator. As CFO for the world's ninth-largest economy, Hegar monitors Texas' financial health to ensure it maintains strong fund balances. During his term in office, he has emerged as a passionate advocate for conservative financial management and fiscal transparency at all levels of government. Among other initiatives, Hegar founded the "Transparency Stars" program, which recognizes Texas local governments that provide the public with detailed information on various aspects of their finances. Hegar has worked hard to bring public and legislative attention to long-term financial obligations facing the state, such as health care coverage for public school teachers and employees, infrastructure maintenance and state employee pensions — needs that have caused major financial difficulties in other states. These obligations rarely receive adequate attention in the give-and-take of Texas' biennial legislative budgeting process, and the longer the state waits to address them, the greater their ultimate costs will be to Texas taxpayers. To avoid potential risks to the health of the state's finances and the maintenance of its triple-A credit rating, Hegar is recommending a more prudent and fiscally responsible approach to managing the state's $11 billion Economic Stabilization Fund — the "rainy day fund" — to create a Texas Legacy Fund, a permanent endowment for the state that would earn investment income to begin paying down Texas' long-term obligations. Before his election as Texas Comptroller, Hegar served in the Texas House of Representatives and Texas Senate, where he worked on a wide range of common-sense solutions to problems affecting Texans in areas such as public education, transportation, tax reform, government transparency, Second Amendment rights, water issues and tort reform. As chair of the Sunset Advisory Commission, Hegar eliminated inefficiencies in state agencies and abolished six, saving Texas taxpayers more than $160 million. In his last session as a state senator, Hegar oversaw state and local revenue matters and helped cut $1 billion worth of taxes. Hegar is a 1993 graduate of Texas A&M University and a graduate of St. Mary's University, where he earned a Master of Arts and his law degree. At the University of Arkansas, he earned his Master of Laws. |
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