The four statewide officeholders who sign off on state borrowing will meet Oct. 6 to consider a new series of mortgage bonds for the state housing agency — the money behind the loans and down-payment help the state offers Texans buying a house.
When Hill County commissioners voted this spring to pause new data center construction for a year, they were testing a power Texas law does not clearly give them.
The Texas General Land Office is urging homeowners in the counties most affected by 2024 disasters to apply for repair reimbursement or home rebuilding assistance before funding is exhausted, according to a Sept. 30 news release from the agency.
The Texas House Committee on Insurance will gavel in at 9 a.m. Oct. 5 in Capitol Extension room E2.026 to take invited testimony only on rising property and casualty insurance costs, consumer protections and the rollout of three insurance laws the panel wrote last session, according to the official hearing notice.
Fort Worth raised its property tax rate by 3.2 cents this year.
Correction, Sept. 11, 2026.
One year after three state housing laws took effect, senators heard that the laws are producing homes and that some North Texas cities have written ordinances to blunt them.
The Texas housing agency's board meets Sept. 3 to take a first step toward putting work requirements and time limits on the rent vouchers the agency hands out itself.
The Texas Senate Committee on Local Government will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 2 to hear invited testimony on whether the housing laws the Legislature passed last year are working, and on whether the fees Texas cities and counties collect get enough scrutiny.
The Texas Real Estate Commission votes Monday on a rewrite of the rules that tell a licensed home inspector what to check in a house — including, for the first time, a written standard for running a camera down the sewer line.