The Texas Legislative session begins Tuesday.
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to Empower Texans' Michael Quinn Sullivan: 'You are destroying our party'
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE –Lt ... During the 2019 legislative session, Patrick sided with Bonnen and Gov. Greg Abbott in pushing a bread-and-butter agenda that included items such as property tax and school ...
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How state lawmakers approached Gov. Abbott’s emergency items this session
Greg Abbott sets the tone for how Texas ... the State address Feb. 5, he listed half-a-dozen emergency items for lawmakers to prioritize during the 140-day sprint. Those emergency items included ...
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Legislative session boosts Texas' pro-business rep
The buffing by Texas lawmakers included reauthorizing a key publicly funded economic development program, constraining the growth of property taxes ... in the upcoming budget, from $32 million ...
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From schools and taxes to medical marijuana and Chick-fil-A: Here's what Texas lawmakers did for you
As a result of the work by Texas lawmakers ... calls for the tax rate to be lowered as property values increase, so the state’s share of public education funding will increase every year. But the ...
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Texas House, Senate pass school finance bill mandating teacher raises and cutting taxes
the Texas House and Senate approved the final legislation Saturday, bringing mandated teacher pay raises and property tax cuts one step closer to becoming law. "In my inaugural address I said that ...
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Texas House passes school finance bill mandating teacher raises, cutting taxes
AUSTIN, Texas — Days after top Republican leaders announced they had a deal on a school finance bill long in the making, the Texas House on Saturday approved the final legislation, bringing mandated ...
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Texas House, Senate pass school finance bill mandating teacher raises and cutting taxes
RELATED: Texas lawmakers reach agreement on school finance, property tax reform ... a $2 billion increase from the upcoming biennium. “Many of you have asked how we’re going to pay for it as we go ...
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The property tax reform package is heading to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk
Greg Abbott’s desk for approval, capping a yearslong effort to address a pocketbook issue that has animated Republican leaders and angered their voters. If signed by the governor — who has proclaimed ...
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Top Texas lawmakers cut deal on $4.5B boost in education, $5B for property tax relief
Greg Abbott and leaders of the Texas House ... see it on Thursday. Lawmakers failed to broker similar, yet smaller deals reforming school funding and property taxes in 2017. Those plans failed in the ...
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Texas Legislature Close To Passing Highly Contested Property Tax Reform
Meet the major Houston players at one of our upcoming events! Property tax reform has been a hot button issue at the Texas Capitol this legislative session. Republican lawmakers — Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt ...
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While One Tax Hike Was Defeated This Week In Texas, Another Tax Increase Passed
The need to address rising ... the legislative session in Austin. Vance Ginn, director of the Center for Economic Prosperity at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, explains how Texas lawmakers still ...
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Top Texas lawmakers double down on tax swap as fiscal analysis fuels opposition
In a press conference Friday, the leaders did not address ... that lawmakers say would be used to buy down school property tax rates across the state. The owner of a $200,000 house would see a ...