DALLAS — The Texas Comptroller’s Office on Tuesday announced it has restructured the state’s Historically Underutilized Business Program (HUB) and stripped away the designation for women and minority-owned businesses, now only giving that status to disabled veterans.

“It's race-based and gender-based criteria, and in Texas, we don't want race-based or gender-based,” said Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock. “We don't want any discrimination. We want a level playing field for all businesses.”

Hancock told WFAA’s Inside Texas Politics that HUB was restructured under new emergency rules and will now become VetHUB, giving preferential treatment only to disabled veterans with a 20% or greater service-connected disability.

“The emergency rules, submitted today in the Texas Register, redu

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