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

Proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption to $140,000 cleared a key hurdle when a bipartisan ...

Texas state lawmakers have proposed ... Joan Huffman, R-Houston, filed the Senate’s $332.9 billion budget last week, which would allocate $5.3 billion in additional funds for public education ...

Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, on the Senate floor during the second day of the 89th regular session at the Texas ... $3.5 billion for new property tax relief by reducing school district tax rates ...

“Texans love to gamble, they’re doing it every place else, but here,” said Senator Carol Alvarado, who represents Texas Senate District 6 in ... with more than 4.5 million developing some ...

At least 111 school districts across Texas have now switched to four-day school weeks, often in a bid to prevent teacher ...

District 7 under the previous district map — will be partially represented under the new State Senate District 5, which is currently occupied by Eggman. When you donate to keep journalism local, your ...

Many district leaders argued ... or cutting student programs. The Senate budget also boosts Texas' aggressive border security efforts, allocating $6.5 billion to Abbott's Operation Lone Star ...

Both chambers voted to approve the final proposal, known as the Sparrow map ... by the state legislature at its discretion. [9] Glen Vilhauer defeated Dennis Solberg in the general election for South ...

One key topic of discussion in Austin will be school district ... Texas Senate has budgeted only $3 billion for new property tax relief this session and the Texas House has proposed $3.5 billion.

Election administrators say letting people cast a ballot at any polling site is more convenient for voters and cheaper for ...

$5 billion for teacher pay raises Burrows, who was elected to the speakership position in January but has served as the representative of House District 84 in West Texas since 2014, served as ...