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Judge Rules in favor of Plaintiffs in HUB Case – Update as of 04/16/26

Texas Politics written by: Dylan McKim. Judge temporarily blocks changes to the Historically Underutilized Business Program.

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — A Travis County district court judge granted a request for a temporary injunction to block the latest rule changes to the state’s Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program. The injunction reverts the HUB program back to its original regulations, but the judge said her ruling only affects the six businesses that filed suit against the state.

The Honorable Amy Clark Meachum said she ruled in favor of the temporary injunction because no court in the state had voided the HUB program in its more than three decade existence, and added that no executive agency had the authority to interpret the laws passed by the legislative branch of government.

The decision comes after a group of female-owned and minority-owned businesses sued the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, and acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock, after the agency drastically overhauled the program late last year.

“This is a victory for the rule of law. This is a victory for the separation of powers. And this is a victory for every single small business owner in Texas who has had the courage to stand up and fight,” Alphonso David, the co-counsel for the plaintiffs, said in a news conference following the ruling.

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