If the Legislature approves SB 4, Texas voters would have to approve the amendment to the state Constitution to make the tax ...

The Texas Senate gave unanimous approval Thursday to proposals to cut property taxes by raising the Texas homestead exemption ...

Increasing the homestead exemption would cost the state roughly $3 billion over two years and add to a growing tab of ...

SB 4 would increase the Homestead Exemption from $100,000 to $140,000, and up to $150,000 for seniors and disabled people.

Local officials, school advocates and tax policy experts said such a proposal could have dire impacts on basic services.

Houston-area communities including Pearland, Atascocita and Conroe have some of the highest property tax rates in the nation.

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

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

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

Building on the property tax cuts enacted in 2023, Abbott upped the ante as he called for at least $10 billion in additional ...

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.