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Add Texas school district homestead exemptions#8312

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Summary

  • Adds Texas school district residence homestead exemption parameters for the current $140,000 general school-district exemption and additional $60,000 age-65-or-disabled exemption.
  • Adds eligibility and exemption-value variables, including disabled and surviving-spouse eligibility, with combined exempt value capped by assessed property value.
  • Adds focused tests for general, additional, and total school district homestead exemption values.

Closes #8204.

Value Review

  • Texas Comptroller lists a $140,000 residence homestead exemption for school taxes for all residence homestead owners.
  • Texas Comptroller lists an additional $60,000 residence homestead exemption for school taxes for age-65-or-disabled residence homestead owners, making the modeled combined maximum $200,000.
  • TEA's Tax Year 2025 guidance says SB 4 and SB 23 raise the general exemption from $100,000 to $140,000 and the age-65-or-disabled exemption from $10,000 to $60,000 for TY 2025.
  • The surviving-spouse age threshold is 55 per the Comptroller's summary of Tax Code Section 11.13(q). This model approximates continuation eligibility with available filing-status inputs.

Note: this PR models exempt value only, not a property-tax reduction amount, because the statewide exemption applies to school district taxes and PolicyEngine currently has a single real-estate-tax input rather than a school-tax component.

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  • uv run policyengine-core test policyengine_us/tests/policy/baseline/gov/states/tx/tax/property/school_district_homestead_exemption -c policyengine_us
  • uv run pytest policyengine_us/tests/test_parameter_files.py policyengine_us/tests/test_system_import.py -q
  • uv run --extra dev ruff check policyengine_us/variables/gov/states/tx/tax/property/school_district_homestead_exemption

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Add Texas statewide over-65 property tax relief

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