Texas Lege Tracker

On this page, we’ll be keeping a list of bills we’re monitoring throughout the 89th Texas Legislative Session from January to May 2025. You can find general information on each bill and the Dallas Housing Coalition’s analysis of each bill below. Click on a bill to be taken to the Texas Legislature Online’s webpage.

How to navigate the legislative process:

Note: These are external links. We are sharing these for informational purposes about the legislative process only. The Dallas Housing Coalition does not endorse any information or positions that may be found on these pages.

  • Texas Legislature Online (TLO) – Official source of up-to-date information on bills, hearings, and other aspects of the legislative process

Check back often throughout session for updates and new resources. Please address any inquiries to Bryan Tony, Executive Director, at bryan@dallashousingcoalition.com.

89th Texas Legislative Session

In Support

Monitoring

Oppose

Hughes - Legalize ADUs statewide

Bucy - Extend notice to vacate to 14 days

Walle - DRTx tenant readiness and landlord incentive pilot program

Vasut - Prevent cities from prohibiting ADUs on SF or duplex lots

Metcalf - Extend cap on property taxes to commercial

Barry - Extend cap on property tax to commercial

Swanson - Give State Representatives veto power to stop approved LIHTC projects from being built in their districts

Tepper - Prevent “adopt or enforce” ordinance or zoning variance to allow more than one dwelling on a lot

Toth - Require cities to grant/deny building permits within 30 days or provide applicant with timeline for approval

Gates - Housing Finance Corporation reform

Vasut - Eliminate property taxes and require a study of alternative methods of taxation

Bell, Keith - Dedicate part of budget surplus to tax relief

Toth - Building permit application turnaround

Jones, Venton - Eviction sealing when tenant wins case

Collier - Allow tenants an opportunity to cure

Collier - Allow tenants an opportunity to cure

Sen. Royce West - Workforce housing revolving loan fund for single-family, affordable housing

Sen. Royce West - Expedited permitting for LIHTC in larger cities

Johnson - N. Johnson mezzanine fund

Sen. Royce West - Requires cities to publicly announce city-owned land available for workforce housing development

Sen. Royce West - Amending the Uniform Partition of Heirs’ Property Act

Bernal - Exempt LIHTC projects from residents and force a supermajority to approve zoning change

Rosenthal - Repeal income discrimination ordinances

Eckhardt - DRTx tenant readiness and landlord incentive pilot program

Cain - Dedicate part of budget surplus to tax relief through reducing school M&O taxes

Meza - Require TAMU to maintain a list of corporate-owned SF properties

Morales, Christina - Require all LIHTC projects to be within two miles of a grocery store

Bucy- Legalize ADUs statewide