Texas homeowners have long paid some of the highest property taxes in the country. And with housing prices on the rise, those costs just keep going up.

Like all other schools in Texas, the district is funded based on its average daily attendance rate and not by its enrollment. It’s something State Rep. Diego Bernal is trying to change. He filed HB 135 for the upcoming legislature. It seeks to replace attendance-based funding with enrollment-based

Texas lawmakers have proposed a slew of bills that could introduce big changes to both the main funding mechanism for the state’s public schools and the formula that calculates how much money individual school districts receive.

“We can reduce the school property taxes while fully funding schools by using the budget surplus of $27 billion to pay for it,” Abbott wrote in a candidate questionnaire to the Star-Telegram ahead of the November election.

Harris County’s lengthy political battle over its annual budget came to an end Tuesday, with the three-Democrat majority on Commissioners Court forced to adopt a lower-than-planned tax rate.