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FILE – Single-family homes in Arlington, Virginia, are pictured on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter\/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) <\/p>\n
Texas senior and disabled homeowners appeared likely to see an increase in their homestead tax exemption as voters were on track to pass Proposition 11.<\/p>\n
SJR 85<\/a> would increase the homestead property tax exemption for school district taxes from $10,000 to $60,000 for people who are disabled or 65 years old or older.<\/p>\n Ballot language:<\/p>\n “The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to increase the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation by a school district of the market value of the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled.”<\/p>\n The amendment would discount how much a home’s value can be taxed to pay for public schools.<\/p>\n Elderly or disabled Texas homeowners could get homestead exemptions up to $200,000 if Proposition 13 also passes. Proposition 13 would increase the normal tax exemption from $100,000 to $140,000.<\/p>\n The state would be required to help replace the money to school districts lost because of the increased exemption. According to the Legislative Budget Board<\/a>, this could cost the state more than $1million over the next two years.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article comes from the Texas Secretary of State’s Office. Information on SJR 85 comes from the Texas Legislature.<\/p>\n Election<\/a>Texas<\/a>Texas Politics<\/a>House and Home<\/a>Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FILE – Single-family homes in Arlington, Virginia, are pictured on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter\/The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[409,116,118,117,22733,242,287,216,395,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-35833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-house-home","13":"tag-lifestyle","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-tx-politics","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}