Texas Legislature
Bills Authored / Joint Authored
Sen. Paul Bettencourt
87th Legislature Second Called Session
Report Date: 4/20/2024

Number of Bills: 7

Report Sections: Authored Bills | Additional Primary Authored Bills

Author (6):
SB 8 Author: Bettencourt
Sponsor: Meyer | Metcalf | Burrows | Noble | Shine
Last Action: 09/17/2021 E Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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 to the protection of school districts against the resulting loss in revenue.

SB 12 Author: Bettencourt | Kolkhorst
Sponsor: Meyer | Metcalf | Burrows | Button | Guillen
Last Action: 09/17/2021 E See remarks for effective date
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 and to the protection of school districts against the resulting loss in local revenue.

SB 91 Author: Bettencourt
Last Action: 09/02/2021 H Received from the Senate
Caption: Relating to a temporary reduction in the maximum compressed tax rate of a school district and the form of the ballot proposition to be used in an election to approve a tax rate adopted by a school district that exceeds the district's voter-approval tax rate; making an appropriation.

SB 97 Author: Bettencourt
Last Action: 09/02/2021 H Received from the Senate
Caption: Relating to processes to address election irregularities; providing a civil penalty.

SJR 2 Author: Bettencourt | Kolkhorst
Sponsor: Meyer | Metcalf | Burrows | Noble | Sanford
Last Action: 08/30/2021 E Filed with the Secretary of State
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.

SR 50 Author: Bettencourt
Last Action: 09/01/2021 S Printed in full
Caption: In memory of Michael Anthony DiTeresa.

Additional Primary Authors (1):
SCR 3 Author: Perry | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Buckingham | Campbell | et al.
Last Action: 08/09/2021 S Filed
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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