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House approves HJR1 sending $250,000 business personal property exemption to fall ballot; amendment bids tabled
Summary
The House adopted House Joint Resolution 1, sending to voters a constitutional amendment to allow the Legislature to exempt up to $250,000 of business personal property from ad valorem taxation. Members defeated or tabled several amendments that would have increased the exemption. The implementing bill, HB9, passed to engrossment.
The Texas House adopted House Joint Resolution 1 on April 2, a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the Legislature to exempt up to $250,000 of a business’s tangible personal property from ad valorem taxation and place the question on the Nov. 4, 2025 ballot.
Representative Meyer, the resolution’s author, said the change would raise the exemption from $2,500 to $250,000 and called it “the second largest exemption of its kind in the country,” saying it would “provide substantial savings to businesses across the state, especially many small businesses within each of our districts.” The…
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