The text
Texas Tax Code § 25.01(d)
(d) This subsection applies only to an appraisal district established in a county with a population of 120,000 or more. The chief appraiser shall post on the appraisal district's Internet website the district's completed appraisal records required to be prepared under Subsection (a), other than records that are confidential under law, and must update the posted records at least once each week to include any change in the appraised value of property.Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., H.B. 1533, § 5. Effective September 1, 2025.
Reading it closely
The duty is personal to the chief appraiser
The statute says the chief appraiser shall post. Not that the district shall arrange for posting. Whatever system is in place, the obligation lands on one named officer, which is a good argument for a system that officer can check without asking anyone.
It is the completed appraisal records under § 25.01(a)
Not a summary, not a selection, and not a search portal pointed at a third party vendor. The records the chief appraiser is already required to prepare each year, posted.
The confidentiality carve out is yours to apply
"Other than records that are confidential under law" does the work of excluding protected information. The subsection does not enumerate any of it. It leans on §§ 25.025 through 25.027 and the rest of the Code. Applying that exclusion correctly, every week, across every record, is where the actual risk in this provision lives.
Weekly is a floor, and it has a trigger
The update duty is specifically to include any change in the appraised value of property. A quiet week with no value changes needs no posting to reflect a change that did not happen. A week in reappraisal or protest season, when thousands of values move, needs the posting to keep up. Most districts land on posting weekly regardless, because proving you had nothing to post is harder than just publishing.
What this looks like on a calendar
Fifty-two publishing events a year. Each one needs the confidentiality filter applied correctly. Each one is the chief appraiser's personal duty. Done by hand that is a standing weekly chore with a compliance consequence attached to forgetting it. Done as data it is a scheduled job.
Why this changes the vendor conversation
Before September 2025 a CAD website could reasonably be a set of static pages someone updated when there was news. For covered districts that is over. The site now carries a dataset that moves weekly, filtered for confidentiality, with the chief appraiser's name on it.
Four questions worth asking any vendor:
- Does the appraisal record posting update from data, or does somebody upload a file?
- Where does the confidentiality filter run, and can you audit it after the fact?
- Can the chief appraiser see when the records last refreshed without asking for help?
- If a week gets missed, is there a record that it was missed?
A vendor who answers "your staff uploads it" is handing a statutory duty back to you as a chore. That might still be the right trade. Just find out in the sales call and not in March.
How Valorem AI approaches it
Data blocks pull from the district's records instead of holding retyped copies, so a page shows current data instead of whatever an editor last touched. Confidentiality runs as a platform level posting rule, not a judgment call at the keyboard. Admin changes land in an audit log the district can review. Property search portals from True Automation, Harris Govern, BIS, ACT and the rest stay linked rather than ingested, so parcel and tax data keep their existing system of record.