Texas Association of Builders
Lobbying groupUS-TXverified
Identifiers
- website
- https://www.texasbuilders.org/
- org kind
- trade_association
What this organization says it wants
Texas Association of Builders is on record about 2 bills, through federal lobbying filings and testimony to state committees. 1 of those state a side we can place on the scale. Naming a bill is not a position, so the rest count as involvement only.
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The positions, and the documents they come from
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ForTX-89-sb1253Relating to impact and production fees for certain water projects and to the regulation of certain wells; authorizing a fee.
“one of TAB's priority bills — Senate Bill 1253 addressing impact fee credits”
Published by the organization2025Open the record
ForTX-89S2-sb14Relating to the provision by a political subdivision of credits against impact fees to builders and developers for certain water conservation and reuse projects.
“we are able to work with Sen. Charles Perry and Rep. Cecil Bell to pass SB 14 during the compressed timeline of the Special Session. This bill was a priority for TAB during the Regular Session”
Published by the organization2025Open the recordnot counted yet
Marked positions are on record but not yet counted: we have not placed those bills on our scale, so they do not move any number on this page.
What it says on the issues
Statements that name no bill. Each was placed on one of our lines by reading the quote, and kept only where our quiz questions on that line, answered from the same quote, lean the same way. Each counts like one answer to a quiz question.
Labor: Employment Trainingmore policy activity in Labor: Employment Training
“These updates to moratorium statutes, improved processes for impact fees, increased workforce training opportunities, and career and technical education (CTE) funding, just to name a few.”
Published by the organization2025-06-03Open the record
Education: Vocationalmore policy activity in Education: Vocational
“These updates to moratorium statutes, improved processes for impact fees, increased workforce training opportunities, and career and technical education (CTE) funding, just to name a few.”
Published by the organization2025-06-03Open the record
Economic Coordinationno state: unregulated markets, no taxation
“the Texas Association of Builders is 100 percent committed to advocating for reasonable regulation and proven market-driven approaches, with our top priority being housing affordability/attainability.”
Published by the organization2025-03-18Open the record
Housingless policy activity in Housing
“Burdensome land-use authority at the county level such as zoning and various permitting requirements can be increasingly detrimental to the home building industry.”
Published by the organizationOpen the record
Public Landsless policy activity in Public Lands
“Since its inception, our association has made defending those rights from unreasonable, or sometimes even illegal, regulations a core tenet.”
Published by the organizationOpen the record
Macroeconomics: Tax Codeless policy activity in Macroeconomics: Tax Code
“It is imperative that any changes to the current tax system do not place an unfair burden on the home building industry”
Published by the organizationOpen the record
Labor: Employment Trainingmore policy activity in Labor: Employment Training
“It is critical to both the Texas economy and business community that students have the opportunity to learn carpentry, welding, electrical, plumbing, and other skills that can place them into the workforce in well paying jobs as high school graduates.”
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Education: Vocationalmore policy activity in Education: Vocational
“It is critical to both the Texas economy and business community that students have the opportunity to learn carpentry, welding, electrical, plumbing, and other skills that can place them into the workforce in well paying jobs as high school graduates.”
Published by the organizationOpen the record
Subsidiarity ↔ Centralization (law-making)power at the lowest competent level
“Burdensome land-use authority at the county level such as zoning and various permitting requirements can be increasingly detrimental to the home building industry.”
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Eminent domain for private pipelinesban; property rights
“Since its inception, our association has made defending those rights from unreasonable, or sometimes even illegal, regulations a core tenet.”
Published by the organizationOpen the record
9 more readings were held back because the quiz questions on that line did not agree with them, or could not be answered from the quote.
What we don't have on this organization
No politicians linked
We have no contribution from this organization to any candidate on file yet. The contribution walk is still running, so this may be a gap in our ingestion rather than in its giving.
No committee totals
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