If the Legislature approves SB 4, Texas voters would have to approve the amendment to the state Constitution to make the tax ...

Increasing the homestead exemption would cost the state roughly $3 billion over two years and add to a growing tab of ...

The Senate Finance Committee seemed interested Monday in funding specific education priorities, instead of a large investment ...

Since Texas passed a law in 2023 requiring public school districts to have an armed officer at each campus, districts have ...

The marquee proposal would increase the amount of a home’s value exemption from school taxes to $140,000 from $100,000. The ...

The marquee proposal would increase the amount of a home’s value exemption from school taxes to $140,000 from $100,000.

Proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption to $140,000 cleared a key hurdle when a bipartisan ...

For the past several years, Republican state lawmakers have pushed to rein in rising property tax bills. That push culminated ...

The Texas Senate sent two bills to the Texas House on Thursday that will cut property taxes by again increasing the Homestead ...

Senate Bill 4 would raise tax exemptions on Texans’ primary homes to $140,000 and would apply only to taxes levied by public ...

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One month into the 89th legislative session, all Texas lawmakers have been assigned to committees. All bills must be ...