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The new draft would make fewer projects eligible and often require companies to invest more than the program it seeks to replace, known as Chapter 313. 

The Texas House advanced House Bill 5, which would allow large businesses to pay reduced school property taxes. The bill is meant to replace Chapter 313, which expired in December.

The new iteration of Chapter 313 would cut local taxes for manufacturing and oil and gas companies, and newly exclude renewable energy projects.

The old program, Chapter 313, gave manufacturing and energy companies steep initial discounts on their school property taxes in order to lure them to Texas.

As the Legislature enters the home stretch, several bills could prove crucial for regional...

The Texas Legislatures proposed new tax breaks for corporations will not help average Texans.

Read the Express-News letters to the editor for April 11.

Nowhere has Chapter 313 been more beneficial than in the Austin-San Antonio region

Texas lawmakers want to revive the unpopular and unproductive Chapter 313 tax breaks for companies. Its corporate welfare, not economic development.