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 ...

Republican Texas lawmakers are renewing a push to infuse a greater religious influence in the state's public schools with a ...

Twenty-nine Texas senators, headed by Sen. Paul Bettencourt, made the move to lower property taxes, right on the heels of Gov ...

Senate Bill 4 would raise the Texas homestead exemption to $140,000 and ensure school districts would not lose money.

The Legislature has two chambers — the 150-member House of Representatives and the 31-member Senate. Everyone in Texas is ...

Legislative power in Austin flows from three sources: the governor, the lieutenant governor and the House speaker.

Read more A bill aimed at lowering property taxes unanimously passed a Texas Senate committee Tuesday, clearing the way for ...

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

A bipartisan committee voted unanimously to send to the full Senate legislation that would raise the state homestead ...

Signed into law in June 2023, HB 3 increased how much districts receive for school safety each year to $10.00 per student from $9.72 per student, with an additional $15,000 for each campus in a school ...

A bipartisan panel of Texas Senators approved legislation that would increase Texas' homestead property tax exemption, once ...