The bill shrinks the area where a city housing authority can operate to the city's own limits, removing the extra five-mile ring outside city limits. It touches municipal housing authorities and people living in that outside ring who are not inside another city. Contracts the authority signed before September 1, 2025 stay valid, but after that date the authority cannot expand its operations into the area beyond city limits.
Labels
Labels: GOT HALFWAY. Passed the Senate on May 9, 2025. Died in the House: never got out of the Intergovernmental Affairs committee.
relating to the area of operation of a municipal housing authority.
WHAT IT DOES
The extra five-mile ring outside town goes away.
The bill shrinks the area where a city housing authority can operate to the city's own limits, removing the extra five-mile ring outside city limits. It touches municipal housing authorities and people living in that outside ring who are not inside another city. Contracts the authority signed before September 1, 2025 stay valid, but after that date the authority cannot expand its operations into the area beyond city limits.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No first-year general revenue figure available here.
Passage of the bill could reduce the number of properties that would receive a property tax exemption relative to current law. As a result property value could be increased and the costs to the Foundation School Fund decreased through the operation of the school finance formulas.
LBB published estimates · flow over the stated periods.
Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
HISTORY
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
Filed
Read first time
Referred to Local Government
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Considered in public hearing
Testimony taken in committee
Left pending in committee
Considered in public hearing
Vote taken in committee
Reported favorably as substituted
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
Committee report printed and distributed
Placed on local & uncontested calendar
Laid before the Senate
Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
Vote recorded in Journal
Three day rule suspended
Record vote
Read 3rd time
Passed
Record vote
Reported engrossed
Received from the Senate
Read first time
Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs
FILED UNDER
No verified beat found.
SIGNED FOR BY
Senate · 30 yea · 1 nay
Sources
Senate: Final passage · May 9, 2025. Journal. Published stock for this vote. Snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed for yea. Only the named positions are included in member records.
The journal row lists three votes in order: passage to engrossment, suspension of the three-day rule, and final passage. This entry records final passage. Repeated tallies belong to separate votes.
Sources
CSSB 1454 (Bettencourt) Relating to the area of operations of and certain tax exemptions available to housing authorities. (viva voce vote) (30-1) "Nay" Eckhardt (30-1) "Nay" Eckhardt
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 30 (published)
Nay: 1 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed for yea. Only the named positions are included in member records.
The journal row lists three votes in order: passage to engrossment, suspension of the three-day rule, and final passage. This entry records suspension of the three-day rule. Repeated tallies belong to separate votes.
Sources
CSSB 1454 (Bettencourt) Relating to the area of operations of and certain tax exemptions available to housing authorities. (viva voce vote) (30-1) "Nay" Eckhardt (30-1) "Nay" Eckhardt
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 30 (published)
Nay: 1 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
The journal row lists three votes in order: passage to engrossment, suspension of the three-day rule, and final passage. This entry records passage to engrossment. Repeated tallies belong to separate votes.
Voice vote. No numeric tally or individual yeas are inferred.
Sources
CSSB 1454 (Bettencourt) Relating to the area of operations of and certain tax exemptions available to housing authorities. (viva voce vote) (30-1) "Nay" Eckhardt (30-1) "Nay" Eckhardt
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: Not printed
Nay: Not printed
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Witnesses19
For
15
Against
1
On
3
Names
For
Allen Boone Humphries Robinson LLP1 registration
Associoation of Water Board Directors1 registration
Harris Co WCID 991 registration
Harris County Emergency District #241 registration
Harris County ESD 161 registration
Harris County Fresh Water Supply District 611 registration
Harris County MUD 1881 registration
MUD 3901 registration
MUD 4941 registration
SAFE-D, the Texas State Association of Fire and Emergency Districts1 registration
Self1 registration
Texas Association of Builders2 registrations
Texas Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies (TALHFA)1 registration
Texas State Association of Fire and Emergency Districts1 registration
Against
Self; Housing Authority of the City of Austin1 registration
Passage of the bill could reduce the number of properties that would receive a property tax exemption relative to current law. As a result property value could be increased and the costs to the Foundation School Fund decreased through the operation of the school finance formulas.
LBB published estimates · flow over the stated periods.
Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
How this was graded
Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.
Sources
Texas Senate · Filed Feb 19, 2025
05/12/2025 H Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs: May 12 2025 10:52PM
Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 4:20 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.
House committee · Intergovernmental Affairs · Final status: Died in committee
Senate committee · Local Government · Committee vote 6 aye, 0 nay, 1 absent · Out of committee
Subjects
City Government--Land Use & Zoning
Housing--General
Text
The text as introduced · 158 words
89R1472 CS-D
By: Bettencourt
S.B. No. 1454
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the area of operation of a municipal housing authority.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 392.014, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 392.014. AREA OF OPERATION OF A MUNICIPAL HOUSING
AUTHORITY. The area of operation of a municipal housing authority
is limited to the territorial boundaries of the municipality for
which the authority is created [ and the area that is within five
miles of the territorial boundaries of the municipality and is not
within the territorial boundaries of another municipality ].
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act do not affect
the validity or enforceability of a contract that was entered into
by the board of a municipal housing authority before the effective
date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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