HB249 • 2025

Relating to installment payments of ad valorem taxes imposed on residence homesteads in certain counties.

Taxes

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Bernal | Martinez Fischer | Gervin-Hawkins | Dorazio | Lujan
Last action: 2025-05-08
Official status: 05/08/2025 S Received from the House
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to installment payments of ad valorem taxes imposed on residence homesteads in certain counties.

What This Bill Does

Relating to installment payments of ad valorem taxes imposed on residence homesteads in certain counties.

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Bill History

2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#1789
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the House
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Passed to engrossment
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#1677
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Vote reconsidered in committee
2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online
Committee substitute considered in committee
2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably as substituted
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-02-27 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-02-27 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Ways & Means
2024-11-12 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to installment payments of ad valorem taxes imposed on residence homesteads in certain counties.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 249 - Engrossed version - Bill Text

89R3410 LHC-F

By: Bernal, Martinez Fischer, Gervin-Hawkins,

H.B. No. 249

Dorazio, Lujan

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to installment payments of ad valorem taxes imposed on

residence homesteads in certain counties.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 31.031(a), Tax Code, is amended to read

as follows:

(a) This section applies only to:

(1) an individual who is:

(A) disabled or at least 65 years of age; and

(B) qualified for an exemption under Section

11.13(c); [
or
]

(2) an individual who is:

(A) a disabled veteran or the unmarried surviving

spouse of a disabled veteran; and

(B) qualified for an exemption under Section

11.132 or 11.22
; or

(3)

an individual who is qualified for an exemption

under Section 11.13 for property located in a county with a

population of more than 1.5 million in which more than 70 percent of

the population lives in a single municipality
.

SECTION 2. This Act applies only to ad valorem taxes imposed

for a tax year beginning on or after the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2027.