Save the Date for next 2 Meetings
Mark your calendars and save the date for our next two bi-monthly membership meetings: Thursday, October 3 and Thursday, December 5. More details to come!
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August Meeting hosted Plateau Wildlife & Land Management
For those of you who missed our August meeting, we were delighted to host guest speaker Tim Milligan of Plateau Wildlife & Land Management. Plateau Land & Wildlife Management is the largest private provider of Wildlife Management valuation/exemption plans, products, services, and consulting in Texas. Plateau provides services to well over 1000 landowners each year
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Congress may be coming for your IRA
For those of you who use property in your IRA’s, these two articles from the Wall Street Journal may be of interest. Click here and here.
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Texas Monthly names the Best & Worst for 2019
Following every legislative session, our friends at Texas Monthly publish their much anticipated list of the session’s best and worst legislators. Click here to read their take on the 86th Session.
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RMLO Class Scheduled for September
We are happy to share with you the details for this year’s RMLO CE class here. Please take special note of the deadlines. Payment is due by September 9, 2019 in order to accommodate the providers expectation for registration and payment. Registration form may be accessed here. Please help us by making sure you mail your payment to the
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TribTalk: The 2019 Texas House, from right to left
The Texas Legislature’s 2019 regular session is over, the votes on bills have been cast, and we have everything we need to rank Texas House members along the political spectrum from red to blue. Political scientists have for decades used roll-call votes cast by members of the U.S. Congress to plot them on the Liberal-Conservative
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Austin Business Journal: Shot clock’ bill resets development review time
Shot clock’ bill resets development review time As Austin city leaders had their attention focused on the 3.5 percent tax cap that moved through the Texas Legislature, legislators were busy approving a bill that could have a serious impact on the city’s efforts to regulate development. The Home Builders Association of Greater Austin, which
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The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: 86th Legislative Recap
The Legislature adjourned sine die (not another day) one month ago, and the veto period for Gov. Abbott has come and gone. It was one of the busiest sessions and yet fewer bills passed than have passed since the late 1800s – not necessarily a bad thing! Below are some articles of interest from the
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The Living & the Dead
Budget HB 1: Sent to Abbott on May 26 The state’s two-year budget plan calls for spending roughly $250 billion on priorities including public school funding, teacher salaries and early childhood intervention programs. Read more Property tax reform SB 2: Sent to Abbott on May 25 This bill, a top priority of Texas’ three main political leaders, would require voter
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TLDA – Best Session Ever
The Texas Land Developers Association enjoyed its best session ever this year. After years of “unscrupulous-developer” being one word, the TLDA led the way in several key bills protecting property rights, promoting business, and preserving the Department of Savings & Mortgage Lending. Never before has the group been so well represented with hundreds of members
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