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The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
In the United States, federal assistance, also known as federal aid, federal benefits, or federal funds, is defined as any federal program, project, service, or activity provided by the federal government that directly assists domestic governments, organizations, or individuals in the areas of education, health, public safety, public welfare, and public works, among others.
Accommodation has its original meaning of a legal obligation entered into as a gratuitous favor without consideration, such as a signature guaranteeing payment of a debt. This is sometimes called an accommodation endorsement. [1] Its meaning has expanded to encompass a broader range of supportive actions, especially in terms of contracts and ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing to block a Harris County basic income program. The lawsuit follows a case in April that halted $500 monthly payments for low-income families.
Meanwhile, Bettencourt sponsored the Texas Senate’s $5.3 billion expansion of the state’s homestead exemption (the amount of a home’s value that can’t be taxed to pay for public schools ...
About 1,900 households residing in Harris county’s poorest neighborhoods would receive monthly, no-strings-attached cash payments of $500. Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks guaranteed ...
The federal government, through its Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program (which in 2012 paid for construction of 90% of all subsidized rental housing in the US), spends $6 billion per year to finance 50,000 low-income rental units annually, with median costs per unit for new construction (2011–2015) ranging from $126,000 in Texas to $326,000 ...
This increases the cost to creditors of litigating the transfer even more, and, together with the uncertainty about whether a Texas divisive merger constitutes a transfer in the first place, could result in creditors accepting a discounted settlement offer (which would guarantee payment and avoid the risks and costs of lengthy litigation). [1]