Where Hall stands.

Rule: The customer creating a major new grid cost should not quietly transfer that cost to Texas families and small businesses.

• Require large new loads to fund their own incremental interconnection and infrastructure costs before public incentives apply.
• Make rate treatment and cost-allocation decisions visible to the public.
• Judge grid investments by reliability delivered and household cost—not announcements.

Rule: Texas should welcome useful investment without giving any industry a blank check on power, water, or taxes.

• Require annual facility-level electricity and water reporting when a facility receives a public tax benefit.
• Publish the public cost, promised jobs, delivered jobs, and measurable local benefit.
• Protect proprietary information narrowly; do not use secrecy to hide public costs.

Rule: Communities should know how publicly supported industrial growth affects a shared and limited water supply.

• Tie public incentives to consistent facility-level water-use reporting.
• Give local residents a clear record before major commitments are approved.
• Measure consumption and wastewater impacts alongside economic claims.

Rule: A tax exemption is public spending through the tax code and should face the same scrutiny as an appropriation.

• Cap or sunset exemptions unless the responsible agency certifies measurable jobs and revenue above the public cost.
• Publish recipients, value, duration, performance promises, and review dates.
• End or revise incentives that cannot demonstrate the promised Texas benefit.

Rule: Measure fraud—do not estimate it from a national percentage. If government cannot join the contract, the payment, the deliverable, and the responsible official on one record, it does not control the money.

• Measure, don’t pretend. Public claims about fraud must be labeled measured, estimated, or unknown—with method disclosed. Recoveries are not a fraud rate.
• Persistent contract key. Require a single identifier that travels from award through amendments, invoices, and payments so contract systems and payment systems actually join.
• Controls before the check clears. Pre-payment risk checks, enforced segregation of duties, and special rules for sole-source and emergency procurement—not only after-the-fact scandal audits.
• Open findings with due dates. Material findings belong on a public register with an owner, corrective action, and status—not buried in PDFs that nobody reopens.
• Protect the truth-tellers. Inspectors, auditors, lawful whistleblowers, and access to source records are infrastructure, not optional courtesy.
• Consequence for repeated failure. Publish performance measures with the spend; require a corrective plan, redesign, or sunset when a program repeatedly misses its stated purpose.

Hall standard of success: the join rate of payments to contracts and deliverables goes up. No “zero fraud” theater—honest residual risk, visible fixes.

Rule: Evidence does not get a party label.

• Use the same documentation and correction standard for both major parties.
• Separate verified facts, campaign arguments, allegations, and unresolved questions.
• Publish meaningful corrections when new evidence changes the record.