Overview
- Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock, who submitted his resignation on Wednesday, will leave the office on July 31.
- Gov. Greg Abbott appointed GOP primary winner Don Huffines to begin as comptroller on Aug. 1 and serve the remainder of the year.
- The comptroller’s office has already begun disbursing funds for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts after a first application cycle that drew roughly 270,000 applications and produced about 100,000 awardees.
- Hancock’s administration faced lawsuits over efforts that limited some Islamic schools from the program and a federal judge ordered the state to admit eligible schools and extend deadlines.
- The comptroller certifies revenue, collects taxes and runs the voucher program, so Huffines’s appointment—combined with his pledge to keep the same implementation—could shape oversight, program continuity and the November campaign against Democratic nominee Sarah Eckhardt.