claim: says $6 billion projected to accumulate in the state’s rainy day fund is already used.
author: charles perry
evidence_1: jun 30, 2011 ... says the 2012-13 state budget "leaves $6 billion in a rainy day fund." ... $6.4  billion after legislators used $3.2 billion to cover a deficit in the ... by perry under- funds the state's projected share of medicaid costs by an estimated $4.4 billion. ...  $6.4 billion should accumulate in the fund over the next two years.
evidence_2: aug 5, 2011 ... and he noted that speculation about the size of the state's projected revenue ...  and in the process covered some ground previously trodden by politifact texas.  ... watson later said that "it's been said over and over again that this is the ... there  that there's $6 billion in the (rainy day) fund that's not been used.
evidence_3: may 11, 2018 ... it includes billions of dollars in surplus funds that he plans to steer to a rainy day  fund. ... i said it before and i'll say it again: let's not blow it now," brown said. ...  projected in january, when his office predicted a $6 billion surplus. ... put the  state on a course to fill its so-called rainy day fund by july 1, 2019.
evidence_4: nov 15, 2017 ... under our current estimates, the state would have $19.3 billion in total ... the state  has operating surpluses of about $6 billion each year. .... the increase is due to  general fund revenue growing more quickly than previously assumed. ....  reserve) and bsa = budget stabilization account (rainy day fund).
evidence_5: feb 3, 2011 ... states with rainy day funds were able to avert over $20 billion in cuts to ... rainy  day funds would have been even more effective if they had been ... for example,  if the district of columbia had used half of its available rainy day fund in .... before  both recessions, states accumulated reserve funds equal to ...