21.   Rep. Michael Bilirakis, R-Fla., chairman of the Commerce subcommittee, said he was disappointed that the governors had not proposed greater savings.

22.   Still, what the governor has proposed falls far short of repeal of the Rockefeller laws, a step that some critics have urged.

23.   The budget also includes a promise from the Legislature to pass an environmental bond act that the governor proposed last month.

24.   The governor also proposed giving tenants and community organizations legal power to evict drug dealers from their neighborhoods.

25.   The governor first proposed in March the politically pleasing idea of ending school property taxes, which make up over half of the average property tax bill.

26.   The governor proposed a bill that would do away with many of the technical rules that had long kept candidates off the ballot in New York.

27.   The governor proposed a pilot project that would allow parents to send their children to public schools outside their school districts.

28.   The governor proposed many of the same initiatives last year, only to see them blocked in the Legislature.

29.   The governor proposed that all income from the new business tax and higher sales taxes go into a new Texas School Trust Fund to be dedicated to education.

30.   The governor proposes to make local governments responsible for overseeing the law.