Parks and Wildlife Requests $35M IT Budget for 2026-27

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has requested a $35 million budget for information resources in its Fiscal Year 2026-27 legislative appropriations request.

According to the request, the agency requires $27 million for IT capital budget items and $8 million for a single IT exceptional item.

TPWD has requested $8 million in an exceptional item for technology modernization, including network expansions, expanded data center services, low-code application development, a data management program, robotic process automation software licenses and other relevant software procurements.

The following information resource items are included in the capital budget request:

• $10 million for data center/Shared Technology Services
• $8 million for capital information technology acquisitions
• $7 million for capital equipment acquisitions
• $1 million for cybersecurity

The agency’s IT capital budget request is about $1 million more than TPWD was granted for equivalent items in the General Appropriations Bill (HB 1) for FY 24-25.