TH Legislative Session, addressing several top priorities. Mitchell provided insight to those priorities and the Legislative session. The Texas Legislative Session is held every other year, Mitchell said. All state agencies converge on Austin to testify before the Senate Finance Committee and the House of Appropriations to walk through their budgets and explain additional needs or wants. Some agencies, like Tech, testify before the Higher Education Committee as well. The Senate Finance Committee and House of Appropriations testimonies focus on the budget, Mitchell said. The primary ways the state raises money for the budget is through sales tax revenue, which were impacted by COVID-19 and through the severance tax revenues, which comes from oil and gas production.