Gov. Greg Abbott quickly called lawmakers back to the Capitol for round two, hoping to break an impasse that has outlasted the regular session and one overtime period.
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The first 30-day special session of 2023 ended quietly Tuesday with no laws made and the Texas House and Senate still deadlocked on the best approach to property tax cuts.Abbott said the second round would begin at 3 p.m. Tuesday — and he held firm on asking lawmakers to provide relief through a method known as compression, or sending state funds to school district to help them lower their property tax rates.
Abbott added that special sessions will “continue to focus on only property tax cuts until property tax cut legislation reaches my desk.”Abbott's agenda for the second special session did not include the increased human-smuggling penalties that he placed on the first special-session call. Lawmakers also could not agree on that item.
It didn’t work, and the special session came to an anticlimactic end Tuesday when the Senate met for about one minute before adjourning sine die with most senators absent.
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