Naming Them and Shaming Them
Texas Comptroller data shows 972 state-paid foreign trips across 48 agencies in FY2024-FY2025, totaling $3.29 million. Roughly half is General Revenue tax dollars; the rest comes from pension trust funds and university accounts not appropriated by the Legislature. Full breakdown by agency, fund source, and frequent traveler.
https://guestworkervisas.com/texas_foreign_travel_spending.php
Following up on the TWC 2026 vendor list published this week, we ran the same H-1B cross-reference against Staff Augmentation contracts at every Texas state agency going back to 2013 — 5,853 contracts worth $1.346 billion, with the Health and Human Services Commission alone accounting for 44% of it. Of the 60 largest vendors, 29 are certified H-1B sponsors, several of them H-1B dependent staffing shops where 80-100% of their own LCA filings are for H-1B workers.
https://guestworkervisas.com/tx_staff_augmentation_h1b_sponsors.php
The full 5,853-contract dataset is also browsable and exportable by agency, vendor, and status:
https://guestworkervisas.com/tx_staff_augmentation_contracts.php
Texas Workforce Commission awarded .95M across 126 contracts in 2026. Cross-referencing that vendor list against this site’s own FY2026 H-1B LCA data turns up two IT vendors — including one hired for explicit Staff Augmentation — that are simultaneously certified H-1B sponsors elsewhere in their business.
https://guestworkervisas.com/twc_2026_contracts_h1b_sponsors.php