With interest, the bonds would cost local property taxpayers more than $700 million.
Property Taxes
Houston ISD Bond Faces Bipartisan Opposition
The bond is the largest of its kind in state history and is expected to cost as much as $8.8 billion when including interest.
Houston Officials Take Tax Increase Off the Table
The state has stepped in to cover $50 million in disaster recovery costs.
Huffman ISD Proposes 25 Percent Tax Hike Without Voter Approval
Elected officials plan to add up to 12 “disaster pennies” to the district’s property tax rate.
Cy-Fair ISD Boosts Property Taxes By $34 Million With ‘Disaster Pennies’
Other Texas school districts are also using the disaster exception to raise their property tax rates.
El Paso ISD Trustees OK $2 Million for Bond ‘Strategist’ Despite Budget Deficit
School officials say their vision is to make El Paso a “Destination District.”
Central Texas School Districts Seek Voter Approval for Increasing Tax Rates
Liberty Hill, Manor, Marble Falls, and San Marcos all have a VATRE proposition on the ballot to increase school district funding.
Big Win for Whitesboro Citizens: No Property Tax Increase
Citizens convinced Whitesboro city officials to reverse course on a big property tax increase.
Analysis: Texans Are Already Taxed Like Kamala Harris Is in Charge
Is Texas’ property tax an unrealized gains tax?
Hood County Commissioners Adopt No-New-Revenue Property Tax Rate
Officials in Galveston, Tarrant, and Lubbock counties also set property tax rates at or below the taxpayer-friendly no-new-revenue rate.