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 ...

Since Texas passed a law in 2023 requiring public school districts to have an armed officer at each campus, districts have ...

A Texas Senate bill to raise the homestead exemption and provide relief to the state's property taxpayers quickly passed out ...

A 2017 law requires all newly purchased school buses to be outfitted with three-point seatbelts but does not require ...

SB 4 promises to provide more tax relief for homeowners and cash payments to local schools to replace a chunk of the revenue stream districts would lose.

Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has hinted at a possible run, has more support than the four-term senator among Republicans, ...

A Texas Senate committee Tuesday quickly and unanimously advanced a proposal to provide billions of dollars in tax breaks to homeowners in a bid to blunt the state’s ...

Education is dominating the debate at the Texas Capitol this session, including a push to reform the way money is redistributed among districts though a policy known as "recapture".

Attendees of the Natchez-Adams Chamber of Commerce Legislative Breakfast Monday morning were treated to a debate on the issue ...