Effective Oct. 22, email will no longer be a multifactor authentication (MFA) option in the CAPPS non-production environments, which are User Acceptance Testing (UAT1, UAT3), Maintenance (MNT1) and the Training Sandbox (SBX1).
Employees at agencies using any of these non-production environments with their TDIS stage credentials must use a passkey, an authenticator application, or a one-time passcode received via SMS or voice call. See New MFA and Password Changes to TDIS for more information.
[posted 10/16/26]
Final copies of the 2026 Equal Employment Opportunity Report (FPP F.016) will be available for agencies and institutions of higher education via electronic file transfer on Oct. 29.
Oct. 27 is the deadline for making data corrections. Corrections entered or submitted after this date will not be reflected in the final report. The Comptroller’s office will send the final report to the Civil Rights Division of the Texas Workforce Commission on Oct. 29.
[posted 10/16/26]
State agencies and institutions of higher education are required to ensure payments of benefit costs are proportional to the agency’s or institution’s method of finance, unless another legal provision prohibits proportionality.
Benefits Proportional by Method of Finance reports and related adjustments are due Nov. 19.
Agencies and institutions funded with a single method of finance must submit a letter confirming this status by Nov. 19.
See Benefits Proportional by Method of Finance (APS 011) (FPP A.010) for more information, including forms and sample letters.
[posted 10/16/26]
State agencies that permit eligible employees to level their benefit replacement pay must update their payroll/personnel systems for December payrolls paid in calendar year 2027.
See Benefit Replacement Pay (BRP) Leveling Election (FPP F.035) for more information.
[posted 10/16/26]
Expenditure audit reports for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 are available.
See the Audit page for all reports, forms, fiscal policies and procedures, and audit contact information.
[posted 10/16/26]
On Nov. 2, at 7 a.m., the effective start date for USAS budget T-codes 001, 003, 006, 009, 012, 015, 018, 021, 036, 039, 040, 041, 042 and 043 will change to 09/01/2026.
Fiscal Management’s Financial Reporting section verifies general revenue (GR) information submitted by state agencies and must ensure agencies cannot backdate entries, which would change the agency’s GR amount.
Contact your financial reporting analyst or appropriation control officer with questions.
[posted 10/16/26]
State agencies and institutions of higher education may enter payment information in the invoice number and description fields on USAS and CAPPS transaction entry screens.
Never enter confidential or sensitive information such as complete or partial Social Security numbers or information covered by the protected health information prohibition.
See USAS and CAPPS Financials Invoice Number Field Requirements (FPP E.023) for more information and to review your agency’s procedures for compliance with field requirements.
[posted 10/09/26]
By Oct. 30 each year, state agencies and institutions of higher education must lapse appropriation balances above the level needed to satisfy outstanding binding encumbrances and/or payables. All agencies must also submit the online annual certification form by Oct. 30. (Sept. 30 is the recommended due date for general revenue (GR) consolidated agencies to lapse appropriation balances and submit annual certifications.)
An automatic lapse program will run in USAS as early as the Nov. 1 nightly cycle to lapse all unencumbered nonconstruction appropriation balances for all prior appropriation years.
See Encumbrance Reporting and Lapsing of Appropriations (APS 018) (FPP A.019) for details.
[posted 10/09/26]
Security coordinators are required to certify that their records are up to date through a semiannual security verification process that is concurrent for all Fiscal Management applications.
Email ssa.security@cpa.texas.gov with any questions.
[posted 10/08/26]
A CAPPS HR/Payroll user group meeting will be held Oct. 27, 9–10:30 a.m.
A CAPPS Financials user group meeting will be held Oct. 29, 9–10:30 a.m.
See CAPPS HR/Payroll User Group Meetings or CAPPS Financials User Group Meetings for more information.
[posted 10/02/26]
On Oct. 15, preliminary copies of the 2026 Equal Employment Opportunity Report (FPP F.016) will be available for agencies and institutions of higher education via electronic file transfer with each agency’s regular daily downloads.
Deadlines:
Data corrections entered or submitted after Oct. 27 will not be reflected in the final report issued Oct. 29.
[posted 10/02/26]
State agencies must reconcile SPA ending balances with their annual financial reports (AFRs) each year. The deadlines for submitting fiscal balances in SPA and certifying Note 2 in the Capital Asset Note Submission System (CANSS) are:
See SPA Fiscal Year-End Close Process (FPP N.008) for more information.
[posted 10/02/26]
The annual State Employee Charitable Campaign (SECC) runs Sept. 1 – Oct. 31. During the SECC, state employees may choose to deduct contributions to participating charities from their paychecks.
CAPPS Central will be updated for December payrolls to reflect changes to the SECC, including participating charities’ payee codes, Texas identification numbers and contact information. Agencies and institutions of higher education not using CAPPS Central must update their own payroll/personnel systems.
See State Employee Charitable Campaign Participation (FPP F.033) or the SECC website for participating statewide federations, local campaign areas and more information.
[posted 10/02/26]
The deadline to submit Fiscal Management’s online customer service survey is Oct. 2.
You can access the survey until close of business Friday.
The survey has three main questions that should take less than a minute to answer, plus an opportunity to provide more feedback.
If you already completed our Fiscal Management customer service survey, thank you! Your feedback helps us improve our operations and support.
Email us at fiscal.documentation@cpa.texas.gov with any questions.
[posted 10/01/26]
