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Plano staff briefs council on DART reform, hotel financing tool and foreign‑ownership bill in Austin
Summary
City of Plano legislative staff reviewed priority bills being tracked in Austin, including a committee substitute affecting Dallas Area Rapid Transit debt, a qualified‑hotel project financing tool and Senate Bill 17 on foreign ownership of certain Texas land; the briefing was informational and no council action was taken.
Andrew Fortune, the city’s director of policy and government relations, told the Plano City Council the city is tracking roughly 1,800 bills this legislative session and has eight priority items the council previously approved. City staff provided an update on a committee substitute to DART reform, a state tool for qualified hotel projects and the status of SB 17 addressing certain foreign purchases of Texas land.
Fortune said the DART committee substitute would limit future…
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