Texas Republicans have been trying to reduce the state’s high property taxes for years, but some acknowledge eliminating them would be too expensive.

The county plans to ID eligible voters and send them registration forms. GOP officials say it’s an end-run around state law.

A special committee of the Texas Senate has convened to hear executives from Houston's largest utility provider explain the massive electricity failure that occurred when Hurricane Beryl hit the city on July 8.

Housing advocates say Texas laws fall short when it comes to property trespassers but they warn changes could worsen the state’s evictions crisis.

In the state’s larger counties, voters can now elect people to the agencies that appraise property values.

Justice John Devine’s comments at a conservative event are the latest to prompt concerns about his impartiality as a jurist.

Voters in Texas’ 50 largest counties will now elect new three members of their respective property appraisal district boards.

The $18 billion property tax-cut package is aimed squarely at lowering school district property taxes, which make up the lion’s share of a Texas landowner’s property tax bill.

Democrats, however, said their GOP colleagues “caved” to outside pressure in voting to acquit and return Ken Paxton to his job as attorney general.

The package could land on Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk by the end of the week. Voters must pass the plan in a constitutional election in November for it to take effect in the 2023 tax year.

A stalemate among Texas’ top Republicans has dragged on for months. Tax-cut proponents in the House and Senate made their first pitches to end the impasse Wednesday.

With several hundred bills awaiting action by the governor, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called the veto threat an affront to Texans and the legislative process.

The proposals target the taxes homeowners pay and require school districts to lower their tax rates.

Housing advocates, builders and real estate experts agree that the state simply isn’t building enough homes to keep up with its booming population and economic growth.

Cuts to school property tax bills. Bigger tax benefits for homeowners. A controversial idea to limit property tax growth. Here’s what you need to know about the brewing property tax debate at the Texas Legislature.

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan’s proposal reveals the different roads the Texas House and Senate want to take on property taxes — and the fight that might emerge between the two chambers this session.

Senators in the finance committee asked questions Monday about the pros and cons of basing the amount of money that schools get per student on enrollment instead of attendance. Districts say the change could mean millions in additional funding.

The state has spent $4 billion on border initiatives in the past two years, including $40 million to bus migrants out of Texas into Democrat-led cities.

State policymakers have mapped out familiar territory early in the legislative session, with Democrats seeking to expand voting access and Republicans pledging to make elections more secure.

While the Legislature will soon start its new session, some laws passed in 2021 are just now taking effect.

The propositions on the May 7 ballot would lower property taxes by shifting more public school costs to the state. But the measures’ language can be hard to understand.

If voters approve the measure next year, it will raise the state’s homestead exemption from $25,000 to $40,000 for school district property taxes, netting the average homeowner about $176 in savings.

Democrats criticized Republicans for “targeting” a North Texas district that had been trending Democratic and for not drawing any new districts where people of color would represent a majority of eligible voters.

Tax relief for property owners joins a packed to-do list for Texas lawmakers — which includes redistricting, COVID-19 vaccine mandates and a spending plan for $16 billion in federal stimulus dollars.

The bill, approved by the Senate and never considered by the House, would have allowed state and local party chairs to file requests to launch audits, but Republicans say the legislation would not have spawned a debacle akin to the controversial review underway in Arizona.

Abbott said the bills proposed to the legislature would bolster trust in a free and fair election and root out election fraud, a Texas constitutional obligation. Despite the increased attention on election security, Abbott said he is unaware of any Texas election in 2020 that was altered due to voter fraud. That would increase rural voters’ access to the polls, but handcuff urban areas like Harris County, who increased drive-through voting locations and established a 24-hour polling place. “It helps rural Texans feel like they have the same opportunity as urban Texans.”The election bills have been sharply criticized by voting advocacy groups like MOVE Texas and the Texas Civil Rights Project, who believe the bills would suppress voters rather than increase access. “MOVE Texas condemns in the strongest terms the Governor’s blatant attempts to suppress the voices of eligible voters in our state.