Bill Text: TX HB4236 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 4236

Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a study group to evaluate the school district property value study conducted by the comptroller of public accounts.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB4236 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB4236-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 4236




	AN ACT
	relating to the creation of a study group to evaluate the school
	district property value study conducted by the comptroller of
	public accounts.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. (a) In this Act:
	(1) "Comptroller" means the comptroller of public
	accounts.
	(2) "Study" means the school district property value
	study conducted by the comptroller under Section 403.302,
	Government Code.
	(3) "Study group" means the school district property
	value study group established by this Act.
	(4) "Taxing unit" has the meaning assigned by Section
	1.04, Tax Code.
	(b) The purpose of the study group is to hold a single public
	meeting to:
	(1) examine the use and effect of the study in the
	annual distribution of state financial aid for public education;
	and
	(2) develop recommendations on alternative methods
	for verifying that valuations of complex properties are determined
	appropriately and included in the study.
	(c) The study group is composed of six members appointed as
	follows:
	(1) three members of the senate, including one
	vice-chair of a standing substantive committee of the senate,
	appointed by the lieutenant governor; and
	(2) three members of the house of representatives,
	including one vice-chair of a standing substantive committee of the
	house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of
	representatives.
	(d) The study group may request relevant information from
	the comptroller, Texas Education Agency, appraisal districts, and
	taxing units, and the entity receiving the request shall comply
	with the request.
	(e) The study group shall examine the use and effect of the
	study in the annual distribution of state financial aid for public
	education and develop recommendations on alternative methods for
	verifying that valuations of complex properties are determined
	appropriately and included in the study.
	(f) Not later than December 1, 2026, the study group shall
	prepare and submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and
	the speaker of the house of representatives and electronically
	provide each other member of the legislature a report on the use and
	effect of the study and the recommendations developed by the study
	group.
	(g) The study group is abolished and this Act expires
	January 1, 2027.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 4236 was passed by the House on April
	30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 14, 1 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 4236 on May 30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 96, Nays 39,
	3 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 4236 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays
	3.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor