On May 20, Governor Ferguson signed the operating and capital budgets into law. The Governor did exercise some partial vetoes in both budget bills. However, the State Conservation Commission did not receive any further cuts to our programs.
This means that the budget tables we shared at the conclusion of the legislative session remain the same. You can find our final budget documents at this link.
While we are pleased to see the Governor’s acceptance of the budget for SCC, there were some steep cuts to our agency before it reached his desk, particularly for the Forest Health and Community Wildfire Resiliency Program and the Engineering Grants.
Over the next few weeks, we will be engaging with conservations districts about their pressing needs to inform the decision packages we will be submitting for the supplement budget that will be determined in the 2026 legislative session.
