Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Glenn Hegar will deliver a lecture at Texas State University on Monday, April 15.
Hegar will speak at 4 p.m. in the Undergraduate Academic Center, room 105. The event, sponsored by Discourse in Democracy and the Department of Political Science, is free and open to the public.
Hegar will discuss long-term financial obligations Texas faces in areas such as state employee pensions, healthcare benefits for retired teachers, the state’s prepaid tuition program and deferred maintenance for state-owned buildings. In anticipation of these financial threats, the Texas comptroller’s office has proposed the Texas Legacy Fund, a permanent endowment created from a portion of the state’s rainy day fund. The Texas Legacy Fund would generate investment earnings specifically for addressing such long-term obligations.
Hegar was elected as Texas comptroller in November 2014. He is a sixth-generation Texan who grew up farming land that has been in his family since the mid-1800s. He’s a 1993 graduate of Texas A&M University and earned his law degree at St. Mary’s University. Hegar has served in the Texas Legislature, where he worked on issues including public education, transportation, tax reform, government transparency, Second Amendment rights, water issues and tort reform.
As comptroller, Hegar is chief finance officer for the world’s 10th-largest economy. He has emerged as a passionate advocate for conservative financial management and government transparency who has focused on creating a more efficient and customer-oriented agency. He founded the state’s Transparency Stars program, pushed for smarter ways of investing the state’s rainy day fund to protect it for future generations and guided the formation of the nation’s first state-administered precious metals depository.
For more information, contact Marc Wallace, Department of Political Science, at [email protected].
