“I’m honored by the trust Governor Abbott has placed in me,” Huffines said in a statement. “My commitment is simple: run government lean, protect every tax dollar, and keep Texas the best place to live, raise a family, and run a business.”<\/p>\n
Huffines defeated Hancock, who became acting comptroller one year ago<\/a>, in the March Republican primary<\/a>. He’ll now face former state Sen. Sarah Eckhardt in the November general election for a four-year term.<\/p>\n In his acting role, Hancock has overseen the rollout<\/a> of Texas\u2019 education savings account program<\/a>, which he identified as an early priority at his 2025 swearing-in. The state comptroller is also responsible for collecting taxes and fees, fiscal reporting and monitoring, and other financial initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I’m honored by the trust Governor Abbott has placed in me,” Huffines said in a statement. “My commitment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,66187,392,5621,27,2794],"class_list":["post-359638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-don-huffines","tag-greg-abbott","tag-kelly-hancock","tag-texas","tag-texas-comptroller-of-public-accounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}