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As the year comes to a close, Jessica Scanlon, founder of Hot Dog Marketing, can already cross one item off of her 2026 to-do list: renewing her Historically Underutilized Business program status.

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Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . Julie Irvin Hartman started her Tuesday with welcome, but confusing news.

Julie Irvin Hartman started her Tuesday with welcome, but confusing news. The application she had submitted weeks ago to renew her business’s certification as a Historically Underutilized Business had ...

Texas has abruptly rewritten the rules of its state contracting system, stripping women and minority-owned businesses of a long-standing support program and reshaping it entirely around disabled ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas’ interim Comptroller Kelly Hancock said he believed the original statute that created the Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program was unconstitutional and ...

Texas State Sen. Royce West discussed the restructuring of the state’s Historically Underutilized Business Program (HUB) Trump admin sending Taliban $45M sparks Republican backlash After winning his ...

State Sen. Kelly Hancock, R-North Richland Hills, speaks with Sen. Mayes Middleton on March 25, 2025. Hancock, now the state comptroller, announced major changes to the state’s Historically ...

Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock has sharply curtailed a 30-year-old program designed to give women- and minority-owned businesses a boost when they compete for state contracts, narrowing it instead ...

The Texas Legislature created the Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program in 1995 to give the "economically disadvantaged" a boost in procuring state contracts. To qualify, a business must ...

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