Paid by the city

TEXAS STATE COMPTROLLER

The city's published checkbook records $109,179,180 paid to TEXAS STATE COMPTROLLER across 45 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2026.

Name as the city files it — often the legal name, not the trading name. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018$13,538,346

FY2019$14,280,371

FY2020$12,621,449

FY2021$8,450,912

FY2022$12,259,357

FY2023$11,883,993

FY2024$11,956,666

FY2025$11,392,417

FY2026$12,795,669

A dash means no payment to this vendor appears in that year's file. The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.

Which department paid

Municipal Courts Department$109,179,180

How these purchases were made

Vendor Invoice — $109,179,180

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded. None of this vendor's payments were flagged sole-source or emergency.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page is summed from the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗, FY2018–FY2026. PlainDocket stores the totals; the individual payments stay on the city's portal, where you can filter them yourself.

These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
This covers what the city paid — not what a council vote approved. A contract approved years ago can still be generating payments, and money approved recently may not have been paid yet.