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TX HB104

Bill

Status

Engrossed

5/5/2025

Primary Sponsor

Greg Bonnen

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Origin

House of Representatives

89th Legislature Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates the Texas Future Fund as a $5 billion separately managed account within the Economic Stabilization Fund (Rainy Day Fund), administered by the comptroller and invested by the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company

  • Establishes a 9-member Texas Future Fund Investment Review Board with appointments by the comptroller (3), governor (2), lieutenant governor (2), and governor from speaker's list (2), serving staggered 6-year terms

  • Authorizes investments in frontier technology infrastructure, national defense-critical industries, and innovative technologies, with limits of 20% per project and 30% per entity, prioritizing companies with Texas presence and employment expansion

  • Requires board members to have expertise in private equity, venture capital, frontier technology, or public fund management, and mandates adoption of a code of ethics with conflict of interest standards

  • Mandates biennial reports to the legislature summarizing investments and economic impact, annual independent audits, and public disclosure of investment recipient names, amounts, returns, and board recusals

Legislative Description

Relating to the creation of the Texas future fund and the Texas future fund investment review board and to the permissible uses of money in the Texas future fund.

State Finances

Last Action

Committee report printed and distributed

5/25/2025

Committee Referrals

Finance5/6/2025
Appropriations3/14/2025

Full Bill Text

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