Unit 4
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| The chief law-enforcement officer in county governments is the | show 🗑
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| show | administering water districts
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| show | Texas voters in the areas that will be covered
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| show | A general-law city is chartered for localities with a population of fewer than 5,000 persons.
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| show | the provision of emergency welfare assistance.
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| Which of the following statements about counties in Texas is incorrect? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements about the commissioner form of government is false? | show 🗑
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| show | auditor
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| Which of the following is not provided by a special district? | show 🗑
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| show | the principle of “one person, one vote” applied to county commissioners courts.
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| show | constable
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| show | Many of them are too small and underpopulated to function well.
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| show | They are a regional board meant to coordinate local planning and economic development.
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| show | a special district.
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| show | flooding is seldom contained in a single city or county.
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| What is the main difference between a special district and a county? | show 🗑
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| show | an election in which voters elect officials from the entire geographical area, rather than from a smaller district within the area
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| show | No city in Texas today has a pure commissioner system, but a handful claim a variation of the system.
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| show | special districts
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| show | council-manager style
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| show | in 1918, during the Progressive era.
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| show | flood control.
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| show | specifies the number of members serving on the city’s governing body.
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| show | Houston
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| show | They provide the main form of government in rural areas.
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| show | property taxes and user fees
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| Which of the following is not a key difference between the mayor-council and the council-manager forms of local government? | show 🗑
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| show | County Judge
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| Which of the following is the most common form of local government in Texas? | show 🗑
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| show | smaller general-law cities.
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| show | They are run by a board elected by residents within the district.
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| show | draft standardized evaluation exams.
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| The Permanent School Fund (PSF) was created in | show 🗑
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| According to our text, what determines the amount of tax revenue generated from oil and natural gas produced in Texas? | show 🗑
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| show | Rainy Day Fund
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| show | It is required by the Texas Constitution.
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| According to the text, just as the economy began to improve and state revenues started increasing, a new threat arose to threaten the newly balanced budget. It was the | show 🗑
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| show | not It is a fairer but a highly unreliable source of revenue./t makes Texas more attractive to businesses that are considering relocating from out of state.
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| show | Markup
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| Authorized state lottery generates a sizeable sum for the state budget. Which of the following statements regarding the Texas lottery is true? | show 🗑
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| show | not about even with the national average.
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| )()Compared to other states, which statement regarding revenue sources for the state of Texas is true? | show 🗑
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| )((Who pays the greatest portion of their income in property taxes? | show 🗑
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| show | not among the highest, particularly in education.
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| show | not between $24 and $27 billion.
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| show | not are too insignificant to be included in the state budgetary process.
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| ()(Which of the following are not generally considered to be an example of regressive taxes or fees? | show 🗑
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| show | not based on the tax rate for school districts.
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| show | not the taxpayers.
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| show | not gasoline taxes
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| Nationally, what two factors caused the bubble in the real estate market? | show 🗑
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| show | not low-income Texans, collectively, would contribute less to the state budget than wealthy Texans would.
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| The Permanent University Fund (PUF) was established in 1876 with a land grant of 1 million acres. It contributes to the support of | show 🗑
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| show | Texas has historically participated in matching funds at a relatively low rate.
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| show | The legislative session was particularly difficult because the Great Recession had significantly reduced state revenue.
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| The Legislative Budget Board (LBB) is chaired by the | show 🗑
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| Who prepares the BRE? | show 🗑
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| The National Research University Fund (NRUF) was established through a constitutional amendment to provide a source of funding for | show 🗑
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| Prior to 2003, tuition for public colleges and universities in Texas was set by | show 🗑
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| show | less severe.
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| show | student tuition and fees
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| The purpose of the Biennial Revenue Estimate (BRE) is to | show 🗑
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| show | increasing health care costs due to recent efforts to reform the health care system.
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| Which statement regarding state-federal spending in Texas is true? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements is true? | show 🗑
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| show | The LBB, in conjunction with the State Auditor’s Office,
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| Texas spending on a per capita basis is | show 🗑
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| The Texas Constitution specifies that state payments for assistance to needy children and their caretakers shall not exceed ______ percent of the states’ budget in any biennium. | show 🗑
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| Which phrase best characterizes Texas’s reputation in terms of taxes and services? | show 🗑
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| show | the constitutional mandate that Texas legislators write a budget every two years.
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| show | the comptroller
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| Which of the following is at the heart of the budget process in Texas? | show 🗑
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| Federal money for Medicaid programs | show 🗑
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| Under the Gilmer-Aikin Laws | show 🗑
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| show | Texas leads the nation in the percentage of residents who lack health insurance coverage.
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| During the 1980s, a growing number of critics alleged that welfare programs | show 🗑
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| show | encourages landowners to take as much water as possible from groundwater sources.
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| show | athletic programs.
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| show | whether the phrase “an efficient system of free public schools” included school financing.
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| show | lower than
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| show | required Texas schools to adopt a number of policies that would protect religious speech on campus.
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| show | President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
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| show | a policy of minimizing the cost to Texas while maximizing the use of federal dollars.
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| By the late 1960s, de facto segregation | show 🗑
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| show | undue reliance upon property taxes to fund public education violated the Texas Constitution.
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| San Antonio v. Rodriguez dealt with the | show 🗑
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| Two of the strategies that have been developed by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to meet the long-term needs of Texas include | show 🗑
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| The percentage of Texans living in poverty is approximately | show 🗑
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| The ______ transformed the way in which the United States handled poverty and implemented welfare policy. | show 🗑
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| show | The policies of the national government influence Texas, but, for the most part, large segments of public policy, such as education, infrastructure, and legal matters, are state and local matters.
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| The single most important issue confronting Texas policy makers with regard to Medicaid is | show 🗑
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| Federal money for Medicaid programs | show 🗑
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| show | The highest in the nation
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| In March 2010, Congress passed ______, substantially altering the nation’s health care system. | show 🗑
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| show | they had the rights to the water based upon their ownership of the land above it.
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| show | a complicated system of private property rights.
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| A 1983 report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education was called | show 🗑
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| The primary purpose of TANF was to | show 🗑
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| show | desegregate their schools “with all deliberate speed.”
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| show | In Texas, the poverty rate among children is much higher than in the rest of the United States.
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| show | various bureaucratic institutions were established to be responsible for public education in the state of Texas.
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| One important consequence of the “law of capture” concept is that it | show 🗑
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| Most of the water in Texas is for | show 🗑
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| show | the tax penalizing people who failed to purchase medical insurance was constitutional.
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