HB19

Assigned to Committee
Authored by Morgan Meyer (R)
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Caption: Relating to the issuance and repayment of debt by local governments, including the adoption of an ad valorem tax rate and the use of ad valorem tax revenue for the repayment of debt.
Initially Referred to House Ways & Means Committee, chaired by a Republican

Gov. Abbott Priority: Property Tax Relief


Joint authors: Bonnen (R); Capriglione (R); King (R)
Co-authors: Isaac (R); Metcalf (R)

Mar 14, 2025


(H) Meyer signed onto the bill as Author
(H) Filed
 

Mar 17, 2025


(H) Read first time
(H) Referred to the House Ways & Means, chaired by a Republican
 

Apr 21, 2025


(H) Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
(H) Considered in public hearing
(H) Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
(H) Left pending in committee
 

Apr 25, 2025


(H) Metcalf signed onto the bill as Coauthor
(H) Bonnen signed onto the bill as Joint Author
(H) Capriglione signed onto the bill as Joint Author
(H) King signed onto the bill as Joint Author
 

May 5, 2025


(H) Isaac signed onto the bill as Coauthor

Lobbying Against/For/On This Bill

Against

(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Adam Haynes for Conference of Urban Counties
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Alex Laufer for City of Fort Worth
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Andrew Clark for self (with City of Bee Cave)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Ashika Ganguly for Transit Forward
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Byron Bryant for self (with Royse City ISD, Fast Growth School Coalition, Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA))
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Chip Picheloup for Stacy Witbeck
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Heather Hurlbert for City of Corpus Christi
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Jeff Branick for self (with Jefferson County, County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas (CJCAT))
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Kimberly Olivares for City of Austin
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Kyle Penn for Prosper ISD
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Lisa Mazure for Texas Association of Community Colleges (TACC)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Maureen Milligan for Teaching hospitals of texas
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Michael Nunez for University Medical Center of El Paso
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Reed Hurley for University Health
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Reginald Zeno for City of fort Worth
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Ricardo Rivera Matos for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Travis Krogman for Austin Chamber of Commerce
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Troy Elliott for City of San Antonio
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Vincent McKibben for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Abbigail Zabojnik for self (with Environment Texas)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Adam Greenfield for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Albert Kyi for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Alice Woods for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Amber Hausenfluck for City of McAllen
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Amy De Luna for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Amy Frazier for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Anoosh Razian for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Ariel Traub for City of Garland
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Armando Tiscareno for Stacy Witbeck
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Awais Azhar for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Brandon Niday for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Brian Poteet for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Bryan Rivera for Austin Transit Partnership
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Celso Baez III for self (with CapMetro)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Colby Nichols for Texas Association of Community Schools (TACS)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Cutter Gonzalez for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Dale Laine for VIA Transit
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Danielle Zaleski for self (with Environment Texas)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as David Fouts for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Diego Martinez for self (with Safe Streets Austin)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Edgar Handal for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Elisa Tamayo for El Paso County
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Everette Brousseau for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Felicity Maxwell for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Grant Wiggins for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Isabelle Reynolds for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Jack Spence for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Jennifer Rodriguez for City of College Station
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Jennifer Rodriguez for North Texas Commission
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Jon Weist for City of Irving
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Joshua Sanders for City of Houston
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Julie Wheeler for Travis County Commissioners Court
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Karen Campbell for self (with AECOM)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Katelyn Caldwell for Harris County Commissioners Court
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Katrina Miller for Farm And City
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Kevin Chen for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Laura Mueller for City of Dripping Springs
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Lawrence Trevino for CapMetro
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Leah Clark for City of Georgetown
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Luke Metzger for self (with Environment Texas)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Martin Hubert for Parsons
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Matthew Geske for Downtown Austin Alliance
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Melissa Shannon for Bexar County Commissioners Court
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Oliver Harrington for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Patricia Shipton for City of Port Aransas
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Patricia Shipton for Nueces County
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Patricia Shipton for Nueces County Hospital District
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Peter Stuckmann for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Petrus Wassdorf for City f Lubbock
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Priscilla Camacho for Alamo Colleges District
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Rachel Montemayor for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Rob Borja for Central Health
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Ruven Brooks for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Sally Bakko for City of Galveston
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Schuyler Costello for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Spencer Gutierrez for City of Sugar Land
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Stephen Reed for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Steven Deline for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Vivian Patterson for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Zachary Faddis for self (with AURA)
 

For

(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as James Quintero for Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Jennifer Rabb for Texas Taxpayers and Research Association (TTARA)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Marc Mcdougal for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Scott Mann for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Brian Thornton for self (with Local Politics Matter ATX)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Jorge Martinez for self (with The LIBRE Inititative)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Rick Fine for self
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Samuel Sheetz for self (with Americans for Prosperity Texas (AFP))
 

On

(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Alfred Ray for self (with Stephens Inc)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Kimberly Smith for Frisco ISD, Dallas ISD, McKinney ISD, Allen ISD, Celina ISD, Richardson ISD, Little Elm ISD
(Mon 4/21/2025) Testifying before H Ways & Means as Little ISD for
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Alina Carnahan for Real Estate Council of Austin
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Jack Todd for self (with Lubbock Professional Firefighters Association)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Monty Wynn for Texas Municipal League
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Perry Fowler for Texas Water Infrastructure Network (TXWIN)
(Mon 4/21/2025) Registering before H Ways & Means as Scott Stewart for American Council of Engineering Companies of Texas (ACEC)



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