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As the year comes to a close, Jessica Scanlon, founder of Hot Dog Marketing, can already cross one item off of her 2026 to-do list: renewing her Historically Underutilized Business program status.

Last week, the Texas comptroller’s office announced the removal of women- and minority-owned businesses from the state’s Historically Underutilized Business program, which is known as HUB. In doing so ...

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Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . Julie Irvin Hartman started her Tuesday with welcome, but confusing news.

Julie Irvin Hartman started her Tuesday with welcome, but confusing news. The application she had submitted weeks ago to renew her business’s certification as a Historically Underutilized Business had ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) – The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts overhauled a program designed to provide more exposure to historically underutilized businesses in the state procurement process by removing ...

Texas has abruptly rewritten the rules of its state contracting system, stripping women and minority-owned businesses of a long-standing support program and reshaping it entirely around disabled ...