The Texas House on a recorded vote concurred with Senate amendments to House Bill 500, the supplemental appropriations act that closes out the 2024–25 biennium, advancing a package of funding that House authors and supporters said ties up the current budget and directs money to water projects, corrections, teachers and emergency response.

The measure matters because it finalizes actual spending for the current two‑year budget period and directs one‑time and near‑term funding for infrastructure, public safety and agency needs that lawmakers said could not wait for the next biennial budget.

Doctor Bonin, the House sponsor, told members the supplemental closes out the current biennium with Texas remaining ‘‘well under all of our required spending limits.’’ He described major line items that went into the final package: $2.5 billion for the Texas Water Development Board to fund water infrastructure projects and implement provisions of Senate Bill 7; roughly $1.3 billion for the Department of Criminal Justice, including about $410 million to increase facility capacity; about $369 million for teacher retirement system premium support; $100 million for Railroad Commission work to plug orphan wells; and funds for the Division of Emergency Management, the Texas Forest Service and deferred maintenance at state armories. Bonin also said the package includes approximately $41 billion in property tax relief over the biennium as presented in the overall budget picture.

Representative Hinojosa and others questioned differences between the House and Senate packages for school funding and said some districts would feel the loss of federal Medicaid‑related reimbursements (sharps/SHARS). Bonin replied that some items were adjusted between the supplemental and the forthcoming main budget (House Bill 2) and framed the changes as part of a broader funding strategy for the next biennium.

On the floor the House recorded 112 ayes and 24 nays on concurrence with Senate amendments. Doctor Bonin moved the motion to concur; the measure was adopted ‘‘subject to Article III, Section 49(a) of the Texas Constitution’’ as read into the record.

Less central details in the bill include funding for Alamo renovations, additional operational support for state responders and a set of legacy pension payments intended to reduce actuarial liabilities. Supporters said the supplemental allowed agencies to address immediate shortfalls and discrete capital needs before the next budget cycle; critics on the floor said some decisions in the final package removed or altered items the House originally approved and urged those differences be addressed in the upcoming budget process.

The House took the vote on concurrence after the sponsor’s floor explanation and several members’ questions; the motion passed and the supplemental will proceed according to constitutional and legislative processes for enacted appropriations.