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PolitiFact Texas has compiled promises that Gov. Rick Perry made during the 2010 campaign and is tracking their progress on our Perry-O-Meter.

We rate their status as Not Yet Rated, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken. (See our About the Perry-O-Meter page for details on our ratings.)

The report card at right provides an up-to-the-minute tally of all the promises.

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Latest Perry-O-Meter Promises

Fund state water plan

Pass law permitting prosecutors to seek life without parole for certain repeat sex offenders

Serve full four-year term as governor

Expand Advanced Placement training program to 50 additional high schools

Expand Texas Virtual School Network

Require active monitoring of high-risk sex offenders for three years on release from prison

Will work for constitutional amendment limiting growth in budget to changes in population and inflation combined

Establish statewide inspector general

Create teams to arrest sex offenders who have violated parole

Require the legislature to say when it creates a new cause of action in statute

Increase access to courts for legitimate claims

Let Texas judges dismiss frivolous lawsuits

Pursue state aid to pay share of education center at Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington

Create $100 million Texas-Science, Technology, Engineering and Math scholarship fund

Double Texas-Science, Technology, Engineering and Math academies

Create criminal penalties for employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers

Require students to stay in high school or be earning GED to keep driver's license

Won't run for president

Oppose and veto tax increases

Make small business tax cut permanent

Provide business tax credit to help workers get high-school diplomas

Cut backlog of pending veterans claims

Fund up to 12 more veterans counselors

Balance the budget without a tax increase

Freeze public-college tuition increases for four years

Seek constitutional amendment requiring two-thirds vote of Legislature to raise taxes

Fund additional border security efforts

Make “losers” pay for frivolous lawsuits

Toughen law against human traffickers

Sign eminent-domain reform into law before end of 2011 legislative session

Ensure Legislature acts on a proposal requiring voters to present photo IDs

Secure $830 million in federal education funding denied to Texas because of non-compliance with congressional amendment requiring state to spend the aid on public education.

Designate eminent-domain reform as an emergency for 2011 Legislature

Declare repeal of Houston's "sanctuary city" rules to be emergency

Purge unneeded laws and regulations that stifle entrepreneurs