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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB467 provides a one-year, prorated property-tax exemption for a qualifying home improvement completely destroyed by fire.
Official caption: Relating to a temporary exemption from ad valorem taxation of the appraised value of an improvement to a residence homestead that is completely destroyed by a fire.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB529 gives Midland access to additional hotel-and-convention-project tax revenue and lets the eligible city pledge or commit revenue for two qualifi…
Official caption: Relating to the entitlement of certain municipalities to receive and use tax revenue from certain establishments located near a hotel and convention center project.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB850 removes refund-application requirements for property-tax refunds of at least $20, broadens payment deadlines and revises interest and enforceme…
Official caption: Relating to the payment of certain ad valorem tax refunds.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1018 redirects a larger share of state traffic-fine receipts to the designated trauma facility and emergency medical services account.
Official caption: Relating to distribution of state traffic fine revenue received by the comptroller.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1023 adds supporting-document links and separate reinvestment-zone calculations to property-tax-rate worksheets.
Official caption: Relating to the calculation of certain ad valorem tax rates.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1058 lets a qualifying registered securities-market operator exclude certain liquidity-incentive payments to brokers or dealers from its total reve…
Official caption: Relating to the exclusion of certain securities transaction payments from the total revenue of a taxable entity that is a registered securities market operator.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1352 coordinates certain business-property tax filing extensions and caps specified late-application penalties at the lower of two calculations.
Official caption: Relating to the deadline for filing an application for certain ad valorem tax exemptions or allocations and the calculation of the penalty for filing a late application for such an exemption or allocation.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1453 bases property-tax debt-service calculations on the minimum payment required, while allowing a higher debt-tax rate through a more explicit ap…
Official caption: Relating to the current debt rate and tax rate of a taxing unit for ad valorem tax purposes.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1579 creates a process that can place certain abandoned, unoccupied and tax-delinquent undeveloped land under a court-appointed receiver—a person m…
Official caption: Relating to the appointment of a receiver for and sale of certain parcels of land that are abandoned, unoccupied, tax delinquent, and undeveloped in certain municipalities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2137 temporarily bars Texas housing-tax-credit allocation plans from using the educational quality of the public school serving a proposed site as …
Official caption: Relating to the allocation of low income housing tax credits.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2173 clarifies when a property buyer is protected from back taxes caused by a wrongly granted homestead exemption that is later canceled.
Official caption: Relating to the effect of a tax certificate accompanying a transfer of certain property.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2206 replaces Texas’s research-and-development franchise-tax credit with a larger credit and ends the separate research-equipment sales-tax exempti…
Official caption: Relating to a franchise tax credit for, and the application of sales and use taxes to, certain research and development expenses.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2543 removes the seven-location limit and the $7 million annual spending cap in the specified state veterans-cemetery provisions, while tying the r…
Official caption: Relating to the amount of certain revenue that may be used for and the location of state veterans cemeteries.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2774 lets qualifying industrial-uniform, garment and linen rental activities count as retail trade for Texas franchise-tax purposes.
Official caption: Relating to the classification of certain entities as primarily engaged in retail trade for purposes of the franchise tax.
Second called session · Source-checked explanation published
HB23 exempts qualifying nonprofit-owned real and personal property from all property taxes based on value—the taxes the statute calls “ad valorem.” I…
Official caption: Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by certain nonprofit corporations, located in a populous county, and used to promote agriculture, support youth, and provide educational support in the community.
