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2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB4236

HB4236 creates a six-member legislative study group to examine how the comptroller's school-district property-value study affects annual state school aid and recommend alternative ways to verify the valuation of complex propertie…

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Official caption: Relating to the creation of a study group to evaluate the school district property value study conducted by the comptroller of public accounts.

Became law without signatureSource-checked explanation published

Official report lists House author(s): Martinez Fischer, Meyer, Turner, Capriglione, Noble. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.

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HB4236 creates a six-member legislative study group to examine how the comptroller's school-district property-value study affects annual state school aid and recommend alternative ways to verify the valuation of complex properties included in that study.
The lieutenant governor appoints three senators and the House speaker appoints three representatives.
A report is due by December 1, 2026, to the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker, with an electronic copy to every other legislator.
HB4236 does not itself abolish the comptroller's property-value study, change an individual appraisal or tax bill, or replace the school-funding formula.

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What does it do?

HB4236 creates a six-member legislative study group to examine how the comptroller’s school-district property-value study affects annual state school aid and recommend alternative ways to verify the valuation of complex properties included in that study. The underlying Government Code Sections 403.301 and 403.302 concern consistent property valuations used to distribute state school funding equitably.

The lieutenant governor appoints three senators and the House speaker appoints three representatives. Each delegation must include a vice-chair of a standing substantive committee. The group’s stated purpose is to hold a single public meeting. It may request relevant information from the comptroller, Texas Education Agency, appraisal districts and taxing units, which must comply.

A report is due by December 1, 2026, to the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker, with an electronic copy to every other legislator. The group is abolished and the act expires January 1, 2027. The law took effect September 1, 2025.

HB4236 does not itself abolish the comptroller’s property-value study, change an individual appraisal or tax bill, or replace the school-funding formula. Recommendations would require whatever further action is legally necessary to implement them.

What changed along the way?

The introduced bill proposed a nine-member task force with taxpayer, appraisal-district and taxing-unit representatives appointed by the governor, plus legislators. It contemplated quarterly meetings and recommendations including elimination of the property-value study, with a November 1, 2026 report and June 1, 2027 expiration.

The House substitute refined the review criteria, expressly included possible replacement, required a school-district representative among the taxing-unit appointees, added an appointment deadline and expanded information-request authority. The engrossed text retained that broader task-force approach.

The Senate substitute, which became the final law, narrowed the assignment to the six legislators, one public meeting and complex-property valuation recommendations. It removed the express elimination/replacement assignment and earlier detailed meeting, expense and appointment provisions, moved the report to December 1, and shortened the group’s life to January 1, 2027. The amendment index lists no floor amendments; the substantive revisions came through committee substitutes.

The official history records that the bill became law without the governor’s signature on June 20. The immediate-effect clause did not take effect; the final House concurrence vote was below the required two-thirds of elected members, and the official effective date is September 1.

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

School districts, taxpayers and lawmakers may gain recommendations about reliable valuations and school-aid allocation. Agencies, appraisal districts and taxing units may have to supply information. The final group offers fewer seats and a narrower assignment than the original proposal; it does not reserve direct membership for taxpayer or appraisal-district representatives.

The final fiscal note anticipated no significant state fiscal impact and no local-government fiscal implication. It does not estimate savings from abolishing the property-value study, because the enacted bill does not do that.

Review boundary: This explains the study group’s legal assignment and deadlines, not whether it has already met, what its report recommends or whether any later recommendations were enacted.

Official sources

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