Dan Patrick
Property tax collections are coming front and center in Texas this holiday season as state officials make calls to drastically reduce them even further, spurring concerns about the practical consequences. The feeling that property taxes are too high is a very common one in the Lone Star State. It’s literally one of those 80/20 issues,…
Yesterday was the last day of the 89th Texas Legislative Session, during which over 140 days state lawmakers passed a number of bills concerning real estate development and housing. Here’s some of what we’ve been tracking at the state legislature this year. Mind you that bills in Texas can become law even without the governor’s…
After two special sessions and more than a few proverbial shots fired from both chambers of the Texas Legislature, Republican lawmakers reached an agreement Monday to provide property tax relief. The Texas Tribune broke the news Monday morning: The $18 billion compromise between the Texas House and Senate — which includes more than $5 billion…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott promised voters a property tax cut and his latest action appears to send a clear message that the legislative session won’t end until he gets one. Abbott called another special session Tuesday, less than two hours after the House and Senate failed to reach an agreement on how to distribute $17.6…
In a swift special session Tuesday, the Texas House of Representatives gave their counterparts in the Senate an option: take their proposal to use $12.3 billion to reduce school property taxes statewide or nothing passes this session. The move — hailed as the biggest property tax relief plan in Texas history — came just hours…
