A Republican state lawmaker in Texas has introduced a bill that seeks to promote large families by offering property tax credits for married couples who have at least four children.
HB 2889 (pdf), filed by state Rep. Bryan Slaton on Feb. 27, seeks to promote marriage and families with varying levels of property tax relief, depending on the size of the family.
A “qualifying married couple” is defined in the bill as “a man and a woman who are legally married to each other, neither of whom have ever been divorced.”
Qualifying married couples with four children would get a 40 percent tax credit and an additional 10 percent credit for each added child. A family with five children would get a 50 percent tax credit and so on, all the way to a 100 percent tax credit for a couple that has 10 children….