Every post names the bill, the session, and the verified status, then explains what the bill does and what it changes where you live.
HB 489Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Renters who stayed with the same landlord for a full year could get money back based on the rent they paid. The size of the rebate would depend on what the legislature puts into the fund, because payments cannot exceed half of the fund's balance. Apartment owners would have a new yearly filing with the comptroller and would have to report what each household paid in rent. The program would start September 1, 2027, so no rebates would be paid before that date.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 851Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Without the exemptions, more of a data center's purchases would be subject to sales and use tax, and a data center would not get an enterprise project tax refund. If a data center is part of a larger project in your area, the tax picture for that project would change. The available material does not say how much money is involved or when this would take effect.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 178Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Districts would receive a larger base payment per student, and the base would grow every year as prices rise. That is the first number districts plug into their school budgets. The student count behind the allotment does not include time spent in career and technology education programs or in special education programs in a setting other than a general education setting, which get a separate additional allotment.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 161Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Hotels in the border counties this bill covers could pass the cost of the new county tax to guests as higher room rates, unless the city already collects a hotel tax on that hotel. Cities keep their own hotel tax money, and the county would collect on top of it. Only hotel tax revenue collected on or after the effective date would be affected.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 1051Introduced; filed Nov. 10, 2026
If you work hourly in Texas, your pay could not drop below $15 an hour after this takes effect, and the floor would be higher if the federal minimum wage is higher. Employers would have to raise pay for any worker paid below $15 an hour, which can mean higher labor costs for small businesses. Workers and employers should check how the Section 62.057 exceptions apply to a particular job.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 521Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Your area could see new affordable rental apartments built and run by nonprofit developers, plus more nonprofit services helping people move into and stay in stable housing. The bill sets priority for the homelessness grants, starting with families who have a child under 18 or a dependent with a disability, children under 18 who are homeless and not with their family, and people recently released from prison or jail. The money would run through the state housing department, which would set the rules for how the fund can be used. How much reaches your community would depend on which nonprofit groups get grants.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 101Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
The bill would replace the current limits on who can get Medicaid with one rule: if you apply and federal matching money is available for your situation, the state has to cover you. The annual report would put the cost picture in front of lawmakers, including how the change affects local health care and what hospitals give away as charity care. If voters reject the constitutional amendment, the bill would have no effect at all. Any part that needs a federal waiver could be delayed until the waiver is granted.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → SB 326Introduced; filed Nov. 10, 2026
Drivers who must show financial responsibility to drive could buy a policy from a state-run program, giving households another option when they shop for coverage. Whether the public plan would cost more or less than private coverage would depend on the rates the department sets, and the bill calls for a study every two years on premiums, consumer satisfaction, and the number of uninsured motorists. The plan would carry its own rules, including transparent claims handling and an independent appeals process for disputed claims.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 361Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Special education funding in your district would follow new formulas for the next two school years instead of the current ones. The $250 million figure is a statewide estimate, so the bill does not say how much any one district or campus would gain. What districts can count on is that their special education allotment for 2027-2028 cannot be less than the amount they received for 2026-2027. The commissioner would also have to keep state and local financial support in line with federal special education law, so the local share of the cost would still matter.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 1040Introduced; filed Nov. 10, 2026
Homeowners and renters in school districts would see relief in local school property taxes in years when state revenue runs above the threshold in the bill. Because the money can go only to property tax relief, the benefit would show up in your school tax bill rather than elsewhere in the state budget. The size of any cut would depend on how much extra revenue the state collects in each biennium. The bill would take effect September 1, 2027, but the tax changes would start with the 2029 biennium.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 921Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Developers of affordable housing would face one more barrier to tax credits in the covered school districts, which can mean fewer new affordable units in those areas. Nothing changes for application cycles that began before the 2028 plan. Whether your community is affected depends on which school districts the referenced Education Code section covers, and the bill is still at the introduction stage.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 113Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Much of this waits on the federal government, so state agencies would have to seek a waiver first and could hold off on parts of the bill until they get one. If you get Medicaid and choose a private plan instead, the state could give you a sliding scale subsidy for the premium plus extra help with copays and deductibles, and any leftover subsidy money could go into a health savings account for premiums and health care costs. If your child uses long-term Medicaid services, you could owe a fee, but missing it would not take away your child's coverage. The bill would also order studies of estate recovery and of income and asset limits for long-term care, with reports due by December 1, 2028, and it names relieving local tax burdens as one of its goals.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 376Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
For families, the biggest change is that a district's state money would start from the number of students enrolled rather than the number of daily attendance counts recorded. Students with excused absences would count as attended for funding purposes, and the bill would remove the method that applied a district's attendance rate to hybrid and virtual campuses, so funding would instead be split in proportion when a student spends part of the year in a traditional campus and part in a hybrid or virtual campus. Local school boards would still set budgets and tax rates, but the state money they start with would come from a different count, and districts would follow new state rules for how programs earn full or half enrollment credit. Other local rules would use the new count too, including how single-member school trustee districts are drawn and which school district appoints one member of the board that runs a county water district.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 646Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
If your family set aside money in one of these accounts for the 2026-2027 school year, the bill keeps the old rules in place for that money. Any money still sitting in the program fund would go to the general fund instead of staying with the program. The bill would take effect right away only if it gets a two-thirds vote in each house; otherwise it would start September 1, 2027. The bill would also narrow the confidentiality of misconduct records for staff of education providers and change required misconduct reporting to cover private schools.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 1037Introduced; filed Nov. 10, 2026
Extra sales tax is what you would feel at the register, and the revenue from it is the money a city uses for property tax relief. The change would move the decision about that rate from a ballot question to your city council, so the council could raise or lower what you pay at the store without asking voters. A related change would cancel a county sales tax election if the combined rate for the county and other local taxing units would go over two percent at any spot in the county. If your city annexes land and voters approve the annexation, the city would have to repeal that extra sales tax.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 325Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
If your city collects a street repair sales tax, this bill could give your city a longer planning window for paving and drainage work instead of asking voters every four years. Money from the tax could also cover utility lines under city streets, where many water and sewer repairs happen. The reauthorization election is where voters decide how many years the tax lasts. Nothing changes until the Legislature passes the bill.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 1075Introduced; filed Nov. 10, 2026
Homeowners who live in their home would see the operations part of their school tax bill go down, while school districts would get state money to cover the gap. For tax rate limits and debt service, districts and assessors would keep using the property values that apply without the new exemption. The change applies only to taxes starting on or after January 1, 2028, so this school year is not affected. The decision point is the statewide vote on the constitutional amendment.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 167Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Data center operators would pay sales and use tax on the electricity they use, and cities with a local sales tax could collect more from that use, because the bill also takes these projects off the list of power uses that are exempt from city sales tax. Builders with projects already certified keep their tax break for now, so the effect would grow over time. Whether a data center's costs go up depends on how much power it uses and the tax rates where it is located.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → 