State of Texas: Minority and women-owned businesses cut from HUB program

Texas HUB program change sparks confusion for business owners

The decision to limit certification to companies owned by disabled veterans will shrink the Historically Underutilized Business program from more than 15,000 to 485 participants

Women, minority small business owners confused, worried after Texas kicks them off HUB program

The decision to limit certification to companies owned by disabled veterans will shrink the Historically Underutilized Business program from more than 15,000 to 485 participants

State of Texas: Minority and women-owned businesses cut from HUB program

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 female and minority-owned businesses from the eligibility standards.

BLK ALERTS - Texas scraps women and minority-owned business support in sweeping contracting shift

Brenda Sangi Arruda / GettyBrenda Sangi Arruda / Getty A decades-old program designed to level the playing field is now reserved exclusively for service-disabled veterans under a new emergency rule. 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 veterans. The Texas Comptroller’s office announced Tues…