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HJR1 • 2025

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the market value of tangible personal property a person owns that is held or used for the production of income.

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the market value of tangible personal property a person owns that is held or used for the production of income.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Meyer | Bonnen | Button | Martinez Fischer | Bernal
Last action
2025-05-20
Official status
05/20/2025 E Filed with the Secretary of State
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the market value of tangible personal property a person owns that is held or used for the production of income.

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the market value of tangible personal property a person owns that is held or used for the production of income.

What This Bill Does

  • Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the market value of tangible personal property a person owns that is held or used for the production of income.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  2. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported

  3. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  4. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed with the Secretary of State

  5. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)

  6. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2998

  7. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  8. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Text of Senate Amendment(s)

  9. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  10. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments distributed

  11. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments Analysis distributed

  12. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-sponsor authorized

  13. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  14. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  15. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment(s) offered. FA1 Bettencourt

  16. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Amended

  17. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  18. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading as amended

  19. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  20. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  21. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  22. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  23. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  24. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  25. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage as amended reported

  26. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-sponsor authorized

  27. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  28. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  29. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  30. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  31. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  32. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  33. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  34. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  35. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Local Government

  36. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on Constitutional Amendments Calendar

  37. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  38. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment tabled. 1-Virdell

  39. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#65

  40. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  41. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment tabled. 2-Virdell

  42. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#66

  43. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  44. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Adopted

  45. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#67

  46. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  47. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  48. 2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  49. 2025-03-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  50. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  51. 2025-03-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  52. 2025-03-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  53. 2025-03-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  54. 2025-03-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  55. 2025-03-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  56. 2025-03-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  57. 2025-03-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  58. 2025-03-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  59. 2025-02-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  60. 2025-02-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Ways & Means

  61. 2025-02-27 Texas Legislature Online

    Posting rule suspended

  62. 2025-02-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the market value of tangible personal property a person owns that is held or used for the production of income.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HJR 1 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.J.R. No. 1

A JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature

to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the market value of

tangible personal property a person owns that is held or used for

the production of income.

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

SECTION 1. Section 1(g), Article VIII, Texas Constitution,

is amended to read as follows:

(g) The Legislature
by general law
may exempt from ad

valorem taxation
$125,000 of the market value of
tangible personal

property that is held or used for the production of income [
and has

a taxable value of less than the minimum amount sufficient to

recover the costs of the administration of the taxes on the

property, as determined by or under the general law granting the

exemption
].

SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be

submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2025.

The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the

proposition: "The constitutional amendment to authorize the

legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the

market value of tangible personal property a person owns that is

held or used for the production of income."

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.J.R. No. 1 was passed by the House on April

2, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 13, 1 present, not

voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.J.R.

No. 1 on May 19, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 112, Nays 13, 2

present, not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.J.R. No. 1 was passed by the Senate, with

amendments, on May 14, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays

0.

_______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

RECEIVED: _____________________

Date

_____________________

Secretary of State