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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A Texas Senate committee on Tuesday quickly and unanimously advanced a proposal to provide billions of dollars in tax breaks ...

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

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

With plenty of patience and money, the industry is extending its multi-year campaign to bring legal casinos and sports ...