The elected leaders of the Texas House and Senate on Thursday slammed each other’s competing proposals for reining in property taxes, establishing an early rift between the two chambers over how to deliver the relief and who should receive it.

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan’s proposal reveals the different roads the Texas House and Senate want to take on property taxes — and the fight that might emerge between the two chambers this session.

Business groups warned lawmakers that Texas could lose business to other states without something to replace the so-called Chapter 313 tax break, which gave some companies big breaks on school taxes.

Twelve-year South Texas lawmaker Rep. J.M. Lozano has filed a bill to reintroduce the state’s recently ended Chapter 313 school property tax abatement program.

Just days after two key state senators filed legislation to cut the sales tax rate from 6.25 percent to 5.75 percent, Gov. Greg Abbott said in an exclusive interview with Hearst Newspapers that he’s open to the idea and planning to put out his own proposals on the topic soon.