August 14, 2017      5:54 PM
House moves today signal logjam is ending over school finance for now
The Senate has yet to act on HB 21 and HB 30
Earlier
in the day, Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, shook off Tea Party objections that
the House wasn’t being tough enough in Senate Bill 1, the property tax
bill, sticking to the 6 percent rollback rate and adding appraisal district
reform, House Bill 32, to the bill.
That
property tax bill was a must-get for both Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Gov. Greg
Abbott. It was followed by Sen. Larry
Taylor’s ask: an interim school finance commission. The commission’s chief
opponent, Rep. Dan Huberty,
R-Kingwood, made sure an exchange that linked SB 1 and HB 21 was reduced to
writing and added to the journal.
By Kimberly Reeves
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