Elon Musk urged Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows to advance a bill that would subsidize private schools with public dollars ...

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

The Texas Senate gave unanimous approval Thursday to proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption ...

The package of bills would tighten the state's bail laws to keep more people in jail — including undocumented immigrants — ...

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

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

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 approved SB 4, which raises the homestead exemption, potentially saving homeowners on property taxes.

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

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