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TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Property Tax Appraisals Apr 17th, 2025

S/C on Property Tax Appraisals

Transcript Highlights:
  • At property tax relief, this is a property tax relief bill allowing people to go fight ballooning property
  • Secondly, a property owner can protest unequal appraisal. by comparing their property to similar properties
  • property being treated equally compared to other properties.
  • properties.
  • property owner or the property owner as well.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Mar 4th, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We invoke Your wisdom, guidance, peace, and continued protection in the lives of our public servants,
  • Members and guests, please join me in a moment of silence for a public service legend, a pillar of the
  • PROPERTY INSURANCE MATTERS TO THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA.
  • MANY OF YOU HAVE FILED BILLS THIS SESSION TACKLING HOUSING, HEALTHCARE, PUBLIC EDUCATION, AND PUBLIC
  • WE HAVE RIGHTLY PUSHED BACK ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOR ALLOWING THE GROWTH OF PROPERTY TAXES TO DRIVE SPENDING
Summary: The Florida House of Representatives convened for the 2025 Regular Session. Speaker Perez delivered opening remarks emphasizing collaborative governance over personal priorities, announcing no House Bill 1 to focus on collective work. He outlined key policy areas including property insurance reform, with plans for subcommittee hearings and subpoena powers to investigate insurance company practices and potential accounting irregularities. The Speaker called for meaningful reforms in housing, healthcare, education, and public safety, while challenging budget subcommittees to find recurring revenue savings rather than relying on temporary tax holidays. The session will focus on government accountability, waste elimination, and taxpayer protection. Governor DeSantis requested to deliver the State of the State address on March 4th, which was approved through concurrent resolution.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government May 19th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • If not, we'll close public testimony.
  • While eminent domain can be used to acquire property for public use, current law provides conditions
  • However, some entities that use eminent domain to acquire real property don’t pay their property taxes
  • non-historic properties due to the restrictions those historic properties have.
  • non-historic properties due to the restrictions that those historic properties have.
Summary: The committee heard and left pending several local government, property tax, development, and public safety measures before later voting some of them out. Senator Birdwell explained SB 2784 for the Somerville County Hospital District, which would move the board to staggered four-year terms after a transition and was requested to be held pending until the House companion could be acted on; no public testimony was offered. HB 5084 would allow local approval for fireworks sales tied to Lunar New Year celebrations, with testimony from Hutchinson County Judge Cindy Irwin emphasizing local fire risk and the need for county discretion. HB 5534 would let county commissioners post agendas electronically instead of on a physical bulletin board. HB 4370 would expand permissible projects for certain special districts to include geothermal water conveyance systems, and HB 312 would require residential child detention facilities to enter local MOUs, report health and safety information, and conduct background checks for state-funded facilities; both drew supportive testimony and were left pending. HB 5057 would give displaced solid waste providers time to wind down after a city grants an exclusive franchise, and HB 2421 would extend the life of the Save Historic Muni District to continue work on preserving Lions Municipal Golf Course; both were left pending after supportive testimony. HB 2011 would let former owners repurchase property taken by eminent domain if the acquiring entity fails to pay property taxes for two years, and the committee substitute to SB 3065 was also laid out and left pending after a technical correction to eminent-domain language. The committee then took up additional bills on development, appraisal, and local regulation, including HB 3575, HB 4809, HB 2273, HB 247/HJR 34, HB 2464, HB 3424, HB 2013, HB 5668, HB 3788, HB 1533, and HB 23, with testimony ranging from support to opposition on issues such as appraisal procedures, historic property valuation, Galveston emergency governance, border-security tax treatment, home-based businesses, chicken covenants in HOAs, municipal utility district authority, hospital authorities’ use of assets, and third-party building review. HB 23 drew the most extensive testimony, with builders, engineers, counties, and cities split over third-party plan review and inspection authority, liability, licensing, and local code enforcement; many witnesses said the House amendments created problems and the bill was left pending. In the end, the committee voted SB 2784, SB 3065, HB 5686, HB 247, HJR 34, and HB 2011 out of committee, with the first several receiving local and uncontested calendar recommendations where applicable.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • However, some entities that use eminent domain to acquire real property don't pay their property taxes
  • they lost through eminent domain if the entity that acquired the property fails to pay property taxes
  • on that acquired property.
  • the property.
  • non-historic properties due to the restrictions that those historic properties have.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Mar 26th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Part of the property is zoned commercial.
  • They would like to try to do something with this property.
  • House Bill 1926 modernizes the Property Code for Property Owners Associations.
  • However, the Property Code lacks clear alignment for property owners' associations and condominium unit
  • on property owned or maintained by the property owners' association. on property owned in common by
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Property Tax Appraisals May 1st, 2025

S/C on Property Tax Appraisals

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Permanent Standing Subcommittee on Property Tax Appraisals will come to order to call the roll.
  • Members of the public who would like to submit comments electronically should refer to the public notice
  • public attendance.
  • Exterior sketches of a property in a street-level photograph of a property online would help property
  • Districts to purchase or lease real property.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 26th, 2025

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • the unmarried... ...death and if the name of the unmarried widow or widower is on the deed of the property
  • Department of Public Health.
  • Um, it adds two sections about giving the Alabama Department of Public Health...
  • Alabama Department of Public Health the ability to impose a monetary cap on the amount of tuition costs
  • So, because the EMS regions fall under the Department of Public Health, the Department of Public Health
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • In essence, if a person enters a retail establishment, causes property damage, and steals property, this
  • and the Alternate Public Defender's Office.
  • This is not public safety, this is not democracy.
  • I will take public comment now.
  • If you would like to provide public comment, please press Star 9 or If you would like to provide public
Bills: AB275, SB371, SB457
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Public Property - Room 210, 3 March, 2026; 1:15 PM

Public Property

Transcript Highlights:
  • to go through the same process with the two approvals, or excuse me, the two appraisals, and the property
  • So it's a long-term game, so to speak, of trying to get the right matches in there so that the property
  • <00:02:12.879> value things are filled in the property value things are filled in the property
  • <00:02:23.840> retains<00:02:24.239> its there so that the property retains its there
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Summary: The committee discussed a proposed bill involving the sale or development of university property in the Hattiesburg/Hazard area, with members focusing on how the process would work and whether it would improve the area overall. The sponsor explained that the property would still go through appraisals and be sold at fair market value, but the bill would streamline the process by allowing the Department of Finance and Administration to review the transaction first and then opt out of the usual procedure if appropriate. The goal, according to testimony, was to avoid delays, reduce uncertainty for buyers, and support a master-planned approach that would help preserve and increase property value for the university and the surrounding community. Senator Sidmore asked whether a newly added Section 2 involved student loan forgiveness or was only instructional in nature. The sponsor said the language had been added in committee shortly before the meeting and was believed to be the same language as a previously passed financial leadership bill, but he could not confirm its effect and said he would verify it later. Members also confirmed that both appraisers would be selected by DFA and that the process would still include the required approvals and appraisals. After questions ended, the committee moved to adopt an amendment and then voted on the bill as amended. The motion for a title sufficient do pass the strike passed, and bill 1488 was reported out. A final motion to report progress was also made.
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Public Property - Room 409, 26 February, 2026; 11:10 P.M.

Public Property

Transcript Highlights:
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  • The final bill that we will take up in public property, and I don't know that we will have another hearing
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  • will wrap up today's meeting of public will wrap up today's meeting of public property.<00:26:37.040
  • There may be a meeting next property.
Summary: The committee took up several public property bills and reported each one out after brief discussion. HB 1041, authorizing the Mississippi Soil and Water Conservation Commission to construct and maintain a levee system along the Yazoo River, was explained as a flood-control measure and passed without questions. HB 1520, which would allow the Department of Archives and History to convey about 23 acres associated with the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty back to the tribe, was also reported out. HB 1732, concerning sale of DPS property in the Lauderdale County/Meridian area, was amended so proceeds from any sale or lease would go to the state general fund, then passed as amended. HB 1731, the ABC warehouse bill in Gluckstadt, drew the most discussion. Members clarified that the bill concerns the old warehouse and not current ABC operations. Two amendments were adopted: one corrected a reference to the Department of Finance and Administration and directed proceeds from the sale to defray Department of Revenue costs tied to the new warehouse, and another specified the property recipient as the Madison County Economic Development Authority rather than a generic entity. After questions about whether sale proceeds should instead return to the general fund and whether the language properly covered warehouse debt, the committee voted to report the bill out as amended. The committee then discussed HB 1716, a Mississippi Main Street revitalization grant bill. Supporters said the bill expands eligible recipients to include Main Street network associate communities and business improvement districts, requires only local cash matches, bars state funds from being used for the match, shifts administration to MDA, and caps administrative costs at 2 percent. Members also reviewed how the bill was intended to address a backlog of grant applicants and the governor’s concerns about prior administration of the program. After questions about the grant list, funding process, and the 2 percent cap, the committee voted to report HB 1716 out, and the meeting adjourned.
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Public Property - Room 210, 30 January, 2026; 10:30 A.M.

Public Property

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, this is the second meeting of Public Property.
  • created a master plan on the property created a master plan on the property right<00:02:33.760><
  • <00:02:50.239> that you're trying to sell the property that you're trying to sell the property
  • This would trying to sell the property.
  • Uh, this bill is double referred to Public Property and Universities and Colleges.
Summary: The Public Property Committee met for its second meeting and considered one bill presented by Senator Dupre on behalf of the University of Southern Mississippi. The bill would streamline the sale of a USM-owned parcel in North Mississippi by allowing the Department of Finance and Administration to continue reviewing the transaction and ultimately approve it without having to open the property up through the usual process, while still requiring the standard due diligence and two appraisals. Senator Dupre said the change would speed development of the property, which has a master plan involving local governments and the city of Hattiesburg, and could help attract complementary industry for the existing innovation park. Committee members noted that the proposal was double-referred to Public Property and Universities and Colleges and that it was similar to a prior Mississippi State University arrangement, suggesting it was not new precedent. The chair emphasized that DFA would not be removed from the process, only allowed to review and then step back once the transaction could proceed. After no further questions, the committee adopted a motion for title sufficient and do pass, with no opposition recorded. The bill was then referred out, and the committee subsequently approved a motion to rise and report.
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Public Property - Room 409, 29 January, 2026; 2:30 P.M.

Public Property

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair: I'm going to call the Public Property Organizational and First Meeting of this legislative session
  • I have interacted with them many times in the role on public property with the current director, the
  • We are talking just about public property. This can no way influence private property.
  • This can no just about public property.
  • <00:23:57.520> property to leave that's not on public property to leave that's not on public
Summary: The Public Property Committee held its organizational meeting and elected Senator Ladner as secretary. It then took up Senate Bill 2203, which would centralize leasing authority for state agencies in privately owned space under DFA and, when cheaper, move certain agencies into the capital complex area to encourage consolidation and cost savings. Senator Seymour questioned specific references in the bill, including a corporation mentioned in current law and whether the measure could affect ports, the Gulf Coast Coliseum, universities, community colleges, or local offices outside Metro Jackson. Blunt said the bill was intended only for state agencies in the Metro Jackson area and not for local county offices or other institutions, and he later identified the corporation reference as the Mississippi Home Corporation. The committee adopted a title-sufficient do-pass motion and reported the bill out. The committee next considered a bill by Senator Hobson authorizing the Soil and Water Conservation Commission to construct a levee project in Yazoo County using federal funds, at an estimated cost of more than $100 million. Hobson said the project would address significant flooding and complete a portion of levee work near Carter and Satartia. With no questions, the committee again adopted a title-sufficient do-pass motion and reported the bill out. Senator Williams then presented Senate Bill 2594, the Mississippi Antiquities Law bill, which would streamline demolition of abandoned, vacant, or blighted buildings on public university and community college campuses while preserving historic properties. He said the measure would require coordination with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, define blight, require engineering analysis in some cases, and give MDH 90 days to respond before demolition or further inspection proceeds. Several senators raised concerns that the bill’s language was too broad, especially the definitions of blight and other causes, and that it might let institutions tear down too much without sufficient oversight. Williams said the bill was meant to balance preservation with practical needs and agreed to work on a floor amendment to tighten the language. The committee then voted to report the bill out. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 2340, authorizing DFA to sell, lease, or convey the former DPS property at 1900 East Woodrow Wilson Avenue in Jackson. The committee substitute would direct proceeds to the general fund rather than DPS, while preserving mineral rights, allowing repurchase under certain conditions, and requiring DFA review of proposals. Senators discussed possible redevelopment uses, including University Medical Center, and the bill’s restrictions on uses such as heavy industrial, adult entertainment, casinos, liquor stores, and solid waste facilities. No final vote on this bill was reflected in the portion of the transcript provided.