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flag Texas faces legal challenge over dismantling minority/women business program, replacing it with veteran-focused initiative.

flag A federal lawsuit challenges Texas’ dismantling of its HUB program, which supported minority and women-owned businesses in state contracting. flag Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock used an emergency rule in December to remove about 15,000 such businesses, replacing the program with one prioritizing service-disabled veterans. flag The lawsuit, filed by civil rights attorney Alphonso David, argues Hancock exceeded his authority by altering a decades-old law passed by the legislature. flag Critics, including original co-author State Sen. Royce West, call the change politically driven and harmful to underrepresented entrepreneurs. flag Business owners say they lost active contract opportunities. flag Hancock defends the shift as fairer and constitutional, but the state has not yet responded to the legal action.

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