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TX HB884

Bill

Status

Introduced

11/12/2024

Primary Sponsor

Cassandra Garcia Hernandez

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Origin

House of Representatives

89th Legislature Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends the standard reauthorization period for municipal street maintenance sales and use taxes to 4 years, with the tax expiring on the first day of the first calendar quarter after the fourth anniversary of the reauthorization election

  • Allows municipalities where voters approved the tax in two consecutive elections (without the tax expiring between them) to hold reauthorization elections for extended periods of 8 or 10 years instead of 4 years

  • Removes previous population-based restrictions that limited extended reauthorization periods to specific municipalities (previously required population of 150,000+ with two interstate highways, or population between 11,450-11,550)

  • Expands allowable uses of tax revenue beyond street and sidewalk maintenance to include water, wastewater, and stormwater systems located within the width of a municipal street right-of-way

  • Takes effect immediately with two-thirds legislative vote, otherwise September 1, 2025; applies only to taxes adopted or reauthorized after the effective date

Legislative Description

Relating to the municipal sales and use tax for street maintenance.

Taxation

Last Action

Referred to Ways & Means

3/6/2025

Committee Referrals

Ways & Means3/6/2025

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