Don Huffines
What this job does: The state's chief tax collector, accountant and money forecaster. The comptroller collects state taxes, pays the state's bills and estimates how much money the state will have; the Legislature cannot pass a budget that spends more than that estimate. A term is four years.
- Current office
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (appointed; in office since Aug. 1, 2026)
- Occupation
- Real estate developer; comptroller
- Lives in
- Dallas
Background
- Born in Dallas in 1958; business degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Co-founded Huffines Communities, a Dallas-Fort Worth real estate company, with Huffines's twin brother in 1985. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Texas Senate, District 16, 2015 to 2019. Ran for governor in the 2022 Republican primary. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Won the March 3, 2026 Republican primary over acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock. Gov. Abbott appointed Huffines on July 2, 2026 to serve the rest of the term after Hancock resigned. source: tpr.org
In their own words
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- "DOGE" state spending: audit for waste and return savings as property tax relief source: click2houston.com
- End regulations that burden businesses source: click2houston.com
- Study the cost of illegal immigration to the state source: click2houston.com
- Run the new school voucher program with transparency source: click2houston.com
- Audit highway construction contracts to fix traffic source: click2houston.com
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