Homeowners already saw a property tax cut in 2023. The Texas Senate is taking it a step further this week by approving a bill to increase the homestead exemption from $100,000 to $140,000 for many property owners. State Sen. Paul Bettencourt, the author of the bill, said it would save...
Voucher bills have failed in Texas, most notably, last year, when 21 House Republicans voted against expanding school choice as part of an education-funding bill. …Abbott spent an unprecedented $8 million of his own campaign funds to support pro-voucher candidates. …AFC Victory Fund’s CEO ...
Under Bumgarner'sHouse Bill 3579, which passed the Legislature and was signed into law in 2023, police can contact theTexas Department of Licensing and Regulationabout a suspected illicit massage business and the TDLR can issue an emergency order to shut it down. The emergency order forces the ...
Both the Texas House and Senate have proposed two different bills that would create Education Savings Accounts for Texas parents. We asked some local educators want they think of the plans. Texas Amarillo police looking for wanted sex offender, believed to have missing kid Updated: Feb. 27, 202...
Back in April 2023, the Texas House of Representatives passed a bill to stay on Daylight Saving Time, which means we would stay on DST all the time, no more springing forward or falling back. Texas would join 19 other states. However, the bill has yet to move to stage 4 and that is...
Texas House swiftly passes property tax bill, abruptly adjourns Updated: May. 31, 2023 at 7:42 AM GMT+8| By JOSHUA FECHTER AND ALEX NGUYEN The move, basically telling the Senate to take the House bill or leave it, could exacerbate already heightened tensions at the Capitol. Texas Texas...
House Bill 3, which also passed during that session, included the same provisions for environmental flow protection. 34. Basically, unappropriated water means state-owned water that has not already been authorized for use under the state water rights system (Caroom and Maxwell 2020§10.5.1). ...
This is the early stages of the bill, now that it has been introduced, it will move to the committee for consideration, then it will need to be voted on by the Senate chamber, if it passes the Senate chamber, it will then move to the House and it will have to move through the sam...
All three affect public institutions only. That third bill, Senate Bill 16, passed the Senate 18 to 12 on 12 April and is now in the House of Representatives. All Democrats voted against it, all present Republicans voted for it and one Republican senator, Phil King, was absent. ...
Texas House Representative files bill to abolish Texas Parks and Wildlife DepartmentRead full article: Texas House Representative files bill to abolish Texas Parks and Wildlife Department The Texas House's sweeping school funding bill would include limits on which classes uncertified instructors can teach...