AUSTIN, Texas (KVIA) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is reviewing nearly 1,000 cities to ensure they are following SB 1851, a recently enacted state law that bars cities that do not strictly follow the state’s financial statement audit and transparency requirements from raising taxes above the no-new-revenue rate. El Paso is one of the cities under review, Paxton’s office says.
“To enforce that law, Attorney General Paxton previously sent letters to La Marque, Odessa, Tom Bean, and Whitesboro to stop their unlawful tax raises,” Paxton’s office explained.
The office says that during that process, they discovered some cities allegedly fail to comply with the requirement. In response, Paxton has launched an initiative to look into these cities and to request audit information from them…