Dallas BA Members and Staff Testify at Legislature
On March 13, Dallas BA Past President Frank Murphy joined TAB’s Scott Norman and Don Allen from GFWBA to testify in the House Ways & Means Committee during a discussion on multiple bills, including HB 794 that would address the punitive and excessive nature of agriculture exemption claw-back taxes on builders and home buyers. The Association is supportive of legislation that would reduce the burden of these taxes and provide a more equitable (fair) balance. Murphy returned to Austin to continue the discussion in front of the Senate Property Tax Committee on March 26.
Dallas BA was also represented before the House Urban Affairs Committee on March 14 when Dallas BA member Kevin Webb and Director of Government Affairs David Lehde joined TAB’s Ned Munoz to offer testimony. The group spoke in support of legislation that ensures that municipal building permit fees are calculated in a manner consistent with the Texas Constitution and truly representative of the cost of service for which the user fee is charged.
During a March 20 hearing of the House State Affairs Committee, multiple Dallas BA members signed in support of HB 2439 that works to protect the home buyer’s and builder’s choice in safe construction products instead of local governments picking market place winners and losers via mandates.