| TO: | Honorable Fred Hill, Chair, House Committee on Local Government Ways & Means |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HJR40 by Hochberg (Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide that the maximum appraised value of a residence homestead for ad valorem taxation is limited to the lesser of the most recent market value of the residence homestead as determined by the appraisal entity or 110 percent, or a greater percentage, of the appraised value of the residence homestead for the preceding tax year.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The cost to the state for publication of the resolution is $77,468.
The resolution would propose an amendment to Article VIII of the Texas Constitution to authorize the Legislature to limit the increase in the appraised value of homesteads to the lesser of the most recent market value of the residence as determined by the appraisal entity or 110 percent, or a greater percentage of appraised value of the residence homestead for the preceding tax year.
Current law limits homesteads to a 10 percent, or a greater percentage, annual increase multiplied by the number of years since the last reappraisal of the property.
The proposed amendment would be submitted to voters at an election to be held November 6, 2007.
Adoption of the proposed amendment alone would have no fiscal impact on the state. Any loss of revenue would be attributable to the corresponding enabling legislation.
| Source Agencies: | 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, CT
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