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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue."
+description: "Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "89R"
+identifier: "SB 4"
+citation: "Texas SB 4 (89R)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION AGENCY", "TEXAS (V9941)", "EDUCATION", "COMMISSIONER OF (V9954)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance (I0250)", "Property Interests--Homestead (I0616)", "Taxation--Property-Appraisals & Appraisal Districts (I0792)", "Taxation--Property-Assessment & Collection (I0798)", "Taxation--Property-Exemptions (I0793)", "Taxation--Property-Tax Rate (I0794)", "Taxation--School District (I0785)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alvarado", "Bettencourt", "Birdwell", "Blanco", "Bonnen", "Campbell", "Cook", "Creighton", "Eckhardt", "Flores", "Gutierrez", "Hagenbuch", "Hall", "Hancock", "Hinojosa, Adam", "Hinojosa, Juan \"Chuy\"", "Huffman", "Hughes", "Hunter", "King", "Kolkhorst", "Martinez Fischer", "Menéndez", "Meyer", "Middleton", "Nichols", "Parker", "Paxton", "Perry", "Schwertner", "Sparks", "Turner", "West", "Zaffirini"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 68
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2025-02-06"
+last_action: "2025-06-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea526a47-eefe-44ae-8470-2c4ac347aa9c"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 4.xml"
+source_hash: "61410b5206f9eeedb193dd16e7ae0d829bab1c5948156484770216f5e3872fa7"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
+---
+
+# Texas SB 4 (89R) — Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00004I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00004E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00004H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00004S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00004F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that SB 4 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — **30–0** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **145–0** (pass) · lower
+- passage to engrossment — **0–0** (pass) · upper
+- adoption of Floor Amendment No. 1 — **0–0** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+- adoption of Floor Amendment No. 2 — **0–0** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **143–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alvarado — primary (person)
+- Bettencourt — primary (person)
+- Birdwell — primary (person)
+- Blanco — primary (person)
+- Bonnen — primary (person)
+- Campbell — primary (person)
+- Cook — primary (person)
+- Creighton — primary (person)
+- Eckhardt — primary (person)
+- Flores — primary (person)
+- Gutierrez — primary (person)
+- Hagenbuch — primary (person)
+- Hall — primary (person)
+- Hancock — primary (person)
+- Hinojosa, Adam — primary (person)
+- Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" — primary (person)
+- Huffman — primary (person)
+- Hughes — primary (person)
+- Hunter — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
+- Martinez Fischer — primary (person)
+- Menéndez — primary (person)
+- Meyer — primary (person)
+- Middleton — primary (person)
+- Nichols — primary (person)
+- Parker — primary (person)
+- Paxton — primary (person)
+- Perry — primary (person)
+- Schwertner — primary (person)
+- Sparks — primary (person)
+- Turner — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+- Zaffirini — primary (person)
+- Alders — cosponsor (person)
+- Allen — cosponsor (person)
+- Anchía — cosponsor (person)
+- Ashby — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
+- Bhojani — cosponsor (person)
+- Bowers — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bucy — cosponsor (person)
+- Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
+- Button — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Campos — cosponsor (person)
+- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
+- Cook — cosponsor (person)
+- Cortez — cosponsor (person)
+- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
+- Curry — cosponsor (person)
+- Darby — cosponsor (person)
+- Davis, Aicha — cosponsor (person)
+- DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
+- Dean — cosponsor (person)
+- Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dutton — cosponsor (person)
+- Dyson — cosponsor (person)
+- Fairly — cosponsor (person)
+- Flores — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank — cosponsor (person)
+- Garcia Hernandez, Cassandra — cosponsor (person)
+- Garcia, Josey — cosponsor (person)
+- Garcia, Linda — cosponsor (person)
+- Gates — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
+- Geren — cosponsor (person)
+- Gervin-Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Gámez — cosponsor (person)
+- Harless — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris Davila — cosponsor (person)
+- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
+- Hickland — cosponsor (person)
+- Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Hull — cosponsor (person)
+- Isaac — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lalani — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
+- Leach — cosponsor (person)
+- Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez, Ray — cosponsor (person)
+- Louderback — cosponsor (person)
+- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
+- Lujan — cosponsor (person)
+- Manuel — cosponsor (person)
+- Martinez — cosponsor (person)
+- McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
+- McQueeney — cosponsor (person)
+- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
+- Meza — cosponsor (person)
+- Miles — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales, Eddie — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Muñoz — cosponsor (person)
+- Noble — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ordaz — cosponsor (person)
+- Orr — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Perez, Mary Ann — cosponsor (person)
+- Perez, Vincent — cosponsor (person)
+- Phelan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
+- Plesa — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond — cosponsor (person)
+- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
+- Schoolcraft — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
+- Shofner — cosponsor (person)
+- Slawson — cosponsor (person)
+- Smithee — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
+- Toth — cosponsor (person)
+- Troxclair — cosponsor (person)
+- VanDeaver — cosponsor (person)
+- Vasut — cosponsor (person)
+- Villalobos — cosponsor (person)
+- Vo — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wharton — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-06** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-02-06** Filed `filing`
+- **2025-02-07** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-02-07** Referred to Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2025-02-11** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-02-11** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2025-02-11** Vote taken in committee
+- **2025-02-11** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-11** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2025-02-12** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2025-02-13** Co-author authorized
+- **2025-02-13** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2025-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-13** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-02-13** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-02-13** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-02-13** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-02-13** Passed to engrossment as amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-02-13** Three day rule suspended
+- **2025-02-13** Record vote
+- **2025-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-13** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Record vote
+- **2025-02-13** Statement(s) submitted
+- **2025-02-13** Reported engrossed
+- **2025-02-18** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-25** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-03-25** Referred to Ways & Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-05** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-05-05** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2025-05-05** Left pending in committee
+- **2025-05-05** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2025-05-05** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-09** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2025-05-09** Committee report distributed
+- **2025-05-10** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2025-05-16** Considered in Calendars
+- **2025-05-20** Placed on Major State Calendar
+- **2025-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-20** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-20** Record vote
+- **2025-05-20** Amendment tabled `deferral`
+- **2025-05-20** Record vote
+- **2025-05-20** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-20** Passed to 3rd reading as amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-20** Record vote
+- **2025-05-20** Rules suspended
+- **2025-05-20** Additional sponsor(s) authorized
+- **2025-05-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-21** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-21** Record vote
+- **2025-05-21** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-21** House passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-29** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
+- **2025-05-29** Read
+- **2025-05-29** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
+- **2025-05-29** Record vote
+- **2025-05-29** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
+- **2025-05-30** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-31** Signed in the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-06-01** Signed in the House `passage`
+- **2025-06-01** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-16** See remarks for effective date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea526a47-eefe-44ae-8470-2c4ac347aa9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+