Texas Legislature
Bills Authored / Joint Authored
Sen. Paul Bettencourt
87th Legislature First Called Session
Report Date: 4/25/2024

Number of Bills: 5

Report Sections: Authored Bills | Additional Primary Authored Bills

Author (4):
SB 8 Author: Bettencourt
Last Action: 07/14/2021 S Reported engrossed
Caption: Relating to the authority of a person who acquires a residence homestead to receive an ad valorem tax exemption for the homestead in the year in which the property is acquired, and the protection of school districts against the resulting loss in revenue.

SB 12 Author: Bettencourt | Kolkhorst
Last Action: 07/14/2021 S Reported engrossed
Caption: Relating to the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed by a school district on the residence homestead of an individual who is elderly or disabled to reflect any reduction from the preceding tax year in the district's maximum compressed rate.

SB 67 Author: Bettencourt
Last Action: 07/12/2021 S Filed
Caption: Relating to a training manual for election watchers.

SJR 4 Author: Bettencourt | Kolkhorst
Last Action: 07/14/2021 S Reported engrossed
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for general elementary and secondary public school purposes on the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled to reflect any statutory reduction from the preceding tax year in the maximum compressed rate of the maintenance and operations taxes imposed for those purposes on the homestead.

Additional Primary Authors (1):
SR 10 Author: Perry | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Buckingham | Campbell | et al.
Last Action: 07/21/2021 S Received by the Secretary of the Senate
Caption: Urging the federal government to immediately declare violent foreign drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and encouraging the Texas Military Department and all state resources to use authority under Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution to repel this violent foreign drug cartel-facilitated invasion in the least lethal manner possible consistent with bringing this facilitated invasion to a conclusion at the earliest possible moment.

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