Skip to content
Breadcrumbs

Capital Budget Rider Appropriations (APS 026)

FPP A.012

Definitions

Capital Budget

Capital budget appropriations are available for the acquisition of assets with a biennial project cost or unit cost of more than $500,000 within the following categories:

  • Acquisition of land and other real property (except for right-of-way purchases made by the Texas Department of Transportation [TxDOT]).
  • Construction of buildings and facilities.
  • Repairs or rehabilitation of buildings and facilities.
  • Construction of roads (except for such expenditures made by the TxDOT).
  • Acquisition of information resource technologies (including for purchase or contract for computer time, facility resources, maintenance and training).
  • Transportation items.
  • Acquisition of capital equipment and similar items with an estimated life greater than one year.
  • Lease payments to the Master Lease Purchase Program (MLPP), for items acquired prior to Sept. 1, 2025, only.
  • Cybersecurity projects.
  • Information resource technology legacy modernization.

Data center services and shared technology services: appropriations are available for the acquisition of assets with a biennial project cost or unit cost of more than $100,000 for data center services and shared technology services. Data center services and shared technology services for the purposes of this section are defined as services provided by the Department of Information Resources in accordance with Government Code, Chapter 2054, including software licensing services, application services, security services, and public and private cloud services.

Capital Budget Riders

Capital budget riders do not make additional appropriations, but are additional restrictions placed on appropriations made by the Legislature in the GAA.

These riders identify and limit the types of capital budget items agencies are allowed to purchase during a fiscal year and limit the total amount of appropriation that can be spent for such purposes. Capital budget riders also prohibit agencies from spending capital budget funds for any other purposes.

For most agencies, Rider 2 is the capital budget rider.