Southwest

Kansas closed its fiscal year with tax collections running 9.3% over estimates and its highest reserves since 1980, officials said.

Fund inflows are a demand component unlikely to slow during the heavy reinvestment season, keeping the yield environment squarely in issuers' favor.

A strong resurgence from last year's pandemic-driven recession is reflected in record revenue for June and the fiscal year in Oklahoma.

The governor's 11-item agenda for the special legislative session covers a wide array of social issues along with funding for the legislative branch.

With the effects of the pandemic fading, Texas tax collections showed strength across all sectors, Comptroller Glenn Hegar said.

Voters in Texas' most populous county approved the flood control bonds after the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, but matching funds have been slow to arrive.

Locke Lord's Texas public finance team continues to expand with the addition of Arnold Cantu from Norton Rose Fulbright.

With just a few days before the new fiscal year, Arizona lawmakers passed a $12.8 billion budget that largely neutralizes a tax measure voters passed in 2020.

Following the change, S&P now views all U.S. public finance sectors as stable with the exception of higher education.

Governor expected to call for more crackdowns on voting, teaching of race theory in public schools.