Taxes & Budget — Texas Legislature Issue Tracker

Where these bills stand

Derived

25%

of taxes & budget bills were signed or passed a chamber

237

Signed

207

Passed

163

In committee

1,155

Failed

How this topic is assembled

Bills are every 89R measure categorized under taxes & budget by Texas Legislature Online subject coding.

Legislators active ranks members by how many of these bills they authored (each author resolved to a single member; ambiguous bare surnames are dropped, never split).

Lobbyists engaged counts registered lobbyists whose disclosed bill activity overlaps this category.

Hearings are committee hearings whose posted agenda took up one or more of this category's bills.

Money shows the top campaign donors to this topic's most active authors — these are the authors' funders, not contributions tied to the issue.

Derived from public records (Texas Legislature Online, Texas Ethics Commission). Reported figures only; nothing here implies impropriety.

Bills with the most momentum

1,762 taxes & budget bills this session · top movers shown.

BillTitleStatusMomentum

HB 2Relating to public education and public school finance.SignedHigh · 100 HB 9Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a portion of the appraised value of tangible personal property that is held or used for the production of income.SignedHigh · 100 HB 12Relating to the review and audit of certain state agency operations.SignedHigh · 100 HB 14Relating to support for the development of the nuclear energy industry.SignedHigh · 100 HB 18Relating to the establishment and administration of certain programs and services providing health care services to rural counties.SignedHigh · 100 HB 21Relating to housing finance corporations; authorizing a fee.SignedHigh · 100 HB 22Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of intangible personal property.SignedHigh · 100 HB 30Relating to the effect of a disaster and associated costs on the calculation of certain tax rates and the procedure for adoption of a tax rate by a taxing unit.SignedHigh · 100 HB 33Relating to active shooter incidents at primary and secondary school facilities and other emergencies.SignedHigh · 100 HB 34Relating to prohibiting the investment of state money in certain countries and in certain private business entities in those countries.SignedHigh · 100 HB 37Relating to perinatal bereavement care provided by certain hospitals, a perinatal bereavement care initiative, and a perinatal bereavement care hospital recognition program.SignedHigh · 100 HB 42Relating to the amount and allocation of the annual constitutional appropriation to certain agencies and institutions of higher education and to the permissible uses of that money.SignedHigh · 100

Legislators driving taxes & budget

Most active by authored bills

Lobbyists engaged on taxes & budget

Most engaged by overlapping bills

Hearings on taxes & budget

310 committee hearings took up taxes & budget bills this session.

House Committee on AppropriationsMay 8, 20257 bills House Committee on AppropriationsMay 6, 20257 bills House Committee on AppropriationsApril 29, 20257 bills House Committee on AppropriationsApril 24, 20257 bills House Committee on AppropriationsApril 24, 20257 bills House Committee on AppropriationsApril 22, 20257 bills House Committee on AppropriationsApril 15, 20257 bills House Committee on AppropriationsMarch 31, 20257 bills

Money around taxes & budget

Top campaign donors to this topic's most active authors — the authors' funders, not contributions tied to the issue.DerivedMedium confidence

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Source: Texas Legislature Online · Texas Ethics Commission · Reported public records; figures may lag official filings. Nothing here implies impropriety.

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