Texas Budget Includes $4.5 Million for UT Quake Research

June 2, 2015

AUSTIN—The state will dedicate $4.5 million to the University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology to study seismic activity in Texas under a supplemental budget bill approved by the House Thursday.

House lawmakers voted 145-1 to give final approval to the supplemental budget, money to address needs in the current state budget, which ends August 31. The bill now goes to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it.

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