Under the Texas House plan, over $17 billion would be spent on property tax relief. The money would be used to lower home appraisal caps to 5%.
, House Speaker Dade Phelan said the state cannot ignore the problem.
“That cap would mean that homeowners, renters, business owners, land owners, and owners of any other type of property would have more stability and predictability instead of facing an unexpected and unaffordable, say, 200 percent increase on their property value,” Phelan said. Also included in the House budget is about $4.6 billion for border security. The bulk of that money — some $2.25 billion — would go to the Texas Military Department, while about $1.2 billion would go to the Department of Public Safety.
There is also separate, pending legislation, HB 20, by state Rep. Matt Schaefer, R-Tyler, which would create a so-called Border Protection Unit to be “headquartered along the border and prioritize the recruitment of individuals who are either residents of or have significant experience with border communities to staff the operation.”
For example, the spending plan includes a provision that prohibits the use of public funds for “Unconstitutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs or Practices,” otherwise known as DEI or affirmative action., affirmative action is a “set of procedures designed to eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants, remedy the results of such prior discrimination, and prevent such discrimination in the future.”House and Senate Democrats have opposed the efforts to ban the programs.
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