The agency asked for $664.9 million for the 2024-25 biennium and received $718 million.
This means $351,243,477 for the fiscal year (FY) ending in 2024, which began Sept. 1, and $366,962,955 for FY2025.
The Broadband Development Office, which has been under the CPA’s purview since inception, will have $2.5 million each fiscal year for administration and to promote and operate broadband programming.
Technology funds in the CPA’s capital budget are:
- Acquisition of information technology resources at $11.8 million each in FY2024 and FY2025
- Data Center/Shared Technology Services at $1.4 million each year
- Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel (CAPPS) at $48.4 million each year
- Legacy modernization at $6.6 million in FY2024 and $11.4 million in FY2025 — specifically, replacement of the Uniform Statewide Accounting System (USAS) and Texas Identification Number System (TINS)
- Maintaining a “statewide procurement system that ensures the state receives quality, cost-effective goods and services and maximizes competition while facilitating business opportunities for Historically Underutilized Businesses.”
- Continued “deployment of ... CAPPS. An estimated 92 percent of all state of Texas spending (excluding institutions of higher education) will be processed by CAPPS. In addition, an estimated 75 percent of state employee records, with the exception of higher education, will be administered.”
The agency CIO, Jay Waldo, is a featured speaker at the Nov. 16 Industry Insider — Texas Member Briefing. Waldo has been in Texas state government since 2000; prior to that he was a software engineer and consultant in the private sector.
The state’s enrolled budget is online.
