republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/hb-247.md

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Bill	Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the amount of the appraised value of real property located in certain counties that arises from the installation or construction on the property of border security infrastructure and related improvements and to the consideration of the price paid by certain governmental entities for a parcel of or easement in real property purchased for the purpose of installing or constructing such infrastructure when appraising other real property.	Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the amount of the appraised value of real property located in certain counties that arises from the installation or construction on the property of border security infrastructure and related improvements and to the consideration of the price paid by certain governmental entities for a parcel of or easement in real property purchased for the purpose of installing or constructing such infrastructure when appraising other real property.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	HB 247	Texas HB 247 (89R)	bill	BORDER (S0045) COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (V2608) FACILITIES COMMISSION TEXAS (V0780) MEXICO (G2781) Property Interests--Real Property (I0595) Taxation--Property-Appraisals & Appraisal Districts (I0792) Taxation--Property-Exemptions (I0793)	enacted	Guillen Middleton	5	49	3	2024-11-12	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/a2072f34-63fc-48bd-ad19-33d11471ae85	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00200_HB00299/HB 247.xml	2db6ec502b5eea6fa5ecb98c8a8f73fc91b8a01f592dfbc17d9800f360942e68	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas HB 247 (89R) — Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the amount of the appraised value of real property located in certain counties that arises from the installation or construction on the property of border security infrastructure and related improvements and to the consideration of the price paid by certain governmental entities for a parcel of or easement in real property purchased for the purpose of installing or constructing such infrastructure when appraising other real property.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• passage — 25–6 (pass) · upper
• passage — 134–13 (pass) · lower
• passage — 23–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Guillen — primary (person)
• Middleton — primary (person)
• Hinojosa, Adam — cosponsor (person)
• Isaac — cosponsor (person)
• Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2024-11-12 Filed filing
• 2025-02-27 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-27 Referred to Ways & Means referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-10 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
• 2025-03-10 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2025-03-10 Left pending in committee
• 2025-03-24 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-24 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
• 2025-03-24 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-27 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-03-27 Committee report distributed
• 2025-03-28 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-04-17 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-05-02 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-05-05 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2025-05-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-05 Passed to engrossment
• 2025-05-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-06 Passed passage
• 2025-05-06 Record vote
• 2025-05-06 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-06 Reported engrossed
• 2025-05-07 Received from the House introduction
• 2025-05-07 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-05-07 Referred to Local Government referral-committee
• 2025-05-19 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-05-19 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-05-19 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-05-20 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-20 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-05-21 Co-sponsor authorized
• 2025-05-21 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-05-21 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-05-21 Record vote
• 2025-05-21 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
• 2025-05-21 Record vote
• 2025-05-21 Three day rule suspended
• 2025-05-21 Record vote
• 2025-05-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-21 Passed passage
• 2025-05-21 Record vote
• 2025-05-21 Senate passage reported passage
• 2025-05-22 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-23 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-05-23 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-05-23 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-20 See remarks for effective date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a2072f34-63fc-48bd-ad19-33d11471ae85. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).