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Senate approves lowering voter‑approval tax rate for many cities and counties to 2.5%
Summary
The Texas Senate passed a committee substitute of Senate Bill 9 to reduce the voter‑approval (formerly rollback) rate for maintenance and operations for certain taxing units from 3.5% to 2.5%, with exceptions for debt and specified new growth; the measure passed the Senate after debate about local budget impacts and state aid.
Senator Bettencourt moved and the Senate approved a committee substitute for Senate Bill 9 that lowers the voter‑approval tax rate for maintenance and operations for many cities and counties from 3.5 percent to 2.5 percent, the bill’s sponsor said.
The bill’s sponsor, Senator Bettencourt, told colleagues the measure “lowers the rollback, the old rollback rate, now the voter approved rate, to 2 and a half percent.” He framed the change as aligning city and county voter‑approval…
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