House Ways and Means Chairman Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, laid out a $4.9 billion tax cut plan Wednesday featuring cuts in sales taxes and business taxes. The Senate’s plan cuts business taxes and property taxes.
Dennis Bonnen
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The Brief: April 6, 2015
The House’s chief tax writer is dropping some clues on how his chamber’s approach to tax relief this session will differ from their counterparts in the Senate.
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Senate’s Property Tax Cut May Stall in House
The Texas Senate’s notion of lowering property taxes for homeowners may lose steam when it reaches the House, where leaders appear more inclined to lower state sales taxes and avoid a collision with the spending cap.
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Economy
Patrick’s Tax Cut Package Fuels Debate as Senate Prepares to Vote
The full Senate is set to vote this week on a package of tax cut bills Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has championed, yet the measures have drawn opposition from some big business groups who argue that senators are cutting the wrong taxes.
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State Government
Analysis: A Sales Tax Cut, If Anybody Wants It
A little-noticed bill filed on deadline by the chairman of the House’s tax-writing committee could hold the session’s biggest tax cut, but only if the House and Senate decide to cut taxes on sales instead of property.
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Criminal Justice
Far-Reaching Border Security Bill Clears First Hurdle
After several reassurances from House members about what a border security bill is not intended to do, the House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety voted out the sweeping measure on Wednesday.
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Energy
The Brief: Feb. 5, 2015
House Speaker Joe Straus leaned toward the familiar in filling open spots at the top of the chamber’s top-tier committees.
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Energy
The Brief: Dec. 5, 2014
Voters in Senate District 18 go to the polls on Saturday to choose who will serve out the remainder of the term of Glenn Hegar, the state’s next comptroller.
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Health care
The Brief: Sept. 17, 2014
State leaders seem reluctant to break out the “Mission Accomplished” banner on the border surge even though apprehensions of illegal immigrants have hit a target goal laid out in July.
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Health care
The Brief: July 31, 2014
This week’s House committee hearing in which leading officials in charge of executing the plan said they never asked for Guard troops revealed another aspect of Rick Perry’s border action, according to the Houston Chronicle’s Patrick Svitek.
