SB 573 significantly restores the property rights of landowners whose property became subject to a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CNN) without consent and maintains the ability for CCN holders to be properly compensated during decertification for improvements made to provide water utilities.
Local Government
Come and Build It: Housing Policy Reform in Texas
Texas is short more than 300,000 housing units, while 90% of Texans are worried about affordability. To ease these twin crises, policymakers passed an ambitious set of free-market-minded measures to boost supply and lower costs. Key points: The 89th Texas Legislature passed five key housing market reforms to increase supply, reduce government interference, and improve...
November 3, 2025