Today's Committee Meetings on the LRL website is a calendar of interim committee hearings with links to agendas. Below are resources related to upcoming Interim Hearings.
November 7, 2024
Senate Committee on Local Government
Charge: Housing Affordability: Study issues related to housing, including housing supply, homelessness, and methods of providing and financing affordable housing. Make recommendations to reduce regulatory barriers, strengthen property rights, and improve transparency and accountability in public programs for housing.
- The Limitations of Land Use Deregulation for Housing Affordability, Texas Housers, October 8, 2024
- The Housing Affordability Challenge, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, August 2024
- The Gap 2024 Highlights the Deep Shortage of Affordable Housing in Texas and What Must Change, Texas Housers, March 14, 2024
- The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, National Low Income Housing Coalition, March 2024
- Homelessness in Texas on the Rise Amid High Housing Costs, Federal Estimates Show, Texas Tribune, January 11, 2024
- From the House to the Ground: Insights into the Challenges of Implementing State Housing Policies, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, September 2023
- Affordable Housing Challenges and Opportunities in Texas (Prepared for the 88th Texas Legislature), The University of Texas at Austin, February 2023
Charge: Additional Property Tax Relief and Reform: Report on the effects of prior property tax relief and reform, including the $18 billion tax cut with the $100,000 homestead exemption authorized by the 88th Legislature. Focus particularly on the interaction between Senate Bill 2, 88th Legislature, 2nd Called Session, and Senate Bill 2, 86th Legislature. Make recommendations for further property tax relief and reform, including methods to improve voter control over tax rate setting and debt authorization, and mechanisms to dissolve taxing entities such as municipal management districts (MMDs) and tax increment reinvestment zones (TIRZs) when they have outlived their purpose.
- Who Benefits from the 2023 Property Tax Relief?, Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, February 2024
- Property Tax Cuts as Large as Texas: Unprecedented Revenues Lead to Historic Property Tax Legislation, Fiscal Notes, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, December 2023
- Texas' Property Tax Puzzle, Texas Real Estate Research Center, Texas A&M University, June 2, 2023
- Interim Report to the 88th Texas Legislature (Charge 1.4 – Implementation and Monitoring: SB 2 (86R) and Related Legislation), House Committee on Ways & Means, January 2023
- Interim Report: A Report to the Texas Senate, 88th Legislature (Charge 1 – Property Tax Reform), Senate Committee on Local Government, 2022
- Interim Report (Charge – Senate Bill 2, relating to ad valorem taxation), Senate Committee on Property Tax, November 2020
