Cemeteries in Texas are exempt from property taxation, requiring that the cemetery must be only used for burial purposes and does not turn a profit.
After over 30,000 signatures were collected to place the ordinance on the ballot, voters approved the measure with overwhelming support.
The state has a 10 percent cap on appraisal increases for properties with homestead exemptions, but that is not available to businesses.
Tesla is now headquartered in Austin and celebrated the launch of its massive new factory, but car purchases in Texas have to be done online.
The decision comes shortly after the two-year anniversary of the statewide coronavirus disaster declaration.
The state argued in court that Abbott’s directive did not apply to all child gender transition procedures.
The new rules aiming to prevent local police department defunding will be posted to the Texas Register later this month.
“Our staff use an evidence-based and LGBTQIA+ friendly curriculum used in schools across Travis County,” the camp registration site says.
Only Corpus Christi and Plano have enough money to pay their bills according to the analysis of municipal fiscal health.
The race for the heavily blue district features two Austin figures as frontrunners in the Democratic primary.
After decades of violent crime declines since the 1970s and 1980s, the nation is seeing crime levels start to rise again.
The state representative had been mulling a mayoral run for months after she announced her retirement from the Texas House.
