website<\/a>.<\/p>\nProposition 1: Technical College Infrastructure Fund<\/p>\n
Passed with 73.05 percent (9,841 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Creates a permanent fund to support campus infrastructure and workforce programs at Texas State Technical College and similar institutions, expanding access to hands-on career training across the state.<\/p>\n
Proposition 2: Capital gains tax ban<\/p>\n
Passed with 79.3 percent (10,802 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Prohibits Texas from ever imposing a tax on the realized or unrealized capital gains of individuals or families, reinforcing the state\u2019s no income tax policy.<\/p>\n
Proposition 3: Denial of bail for violent offenders<\/p>\n
Passed with 74.2 percent (10,023 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Allows judges to deny bail for defendants accused of serious or violent felonies, aiming to enhance public safety and limit repeat offenses while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n
Proposition 4: Sales tax revenue for Texas Water Fund<\/p>\n
Passed with 79.5 percent (10,716 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Dedicates a portion of state sales tax revenue to the Texas Water Fund, helping modernize water infrastructure and increase drought resilience statewide.<\/p>\n
Proposition 5: Animal feed tax exemption<\/p>\n
Passed with 73.6 percent (9,912 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Authorizes the legislature to exempt from property tax animal feed held for retail sale, benefiting agricultural and feed store owners.<\/p>\n
Proposition 6: Ban on financial transaction tax<\/p>\n
Passed by 69.4 percent (9,169 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Prevents the state from enacting any tax on financial securities trades or transaction fees, preserving Texas\u2019 low-tax investment environment.<\/p>\n
Proposition 7: Property tax exemption for certain veterans\u2019 spouses<\/p>\n
Passed with 90.1 percent (12,176 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Expands property tax exemptions to surviving spouses of veterans who died from service-related conditions presumed under federal law.<\/p>\n
Proposition 8: Repeal of estate and inheritance taxes<\/p>\n
Passed by 85.8 percent (11,493 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Prohibits the state from levying death taxes, including estate, inheritance or gift taxes, ensuring assets can be transferred without state taxation.<\/p>\n
Proposition 9: Small business equipment tax relief<\/p>\n
Passed with 76.5 percent (10,245 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Allows lawmakers to exempt a portion of income-producing personal property, such as small business equipment from property taxation to support local enterprise.<\/p>\n
Proposition 10: Property tax relief for fire-damaged homes<\/p>\n
Passed by 92.3 percent (12,430 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Provides a temporary property tax exemption for homestead improvements that are completely destroyed by fire, giving homeowners time to rebuild without financial penalty.<\/p>\n
Proposition 11: Increased tax relief for elderly and disabled homeowners<\/p>\n
Passed with 85.4 percent (11,516 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Raises the property tax exemption amount for senior and disabled Texans, offering additional relief amid rising home values and fixed incomes.<\/p>\n
Proposition 12: Judicial conduct and oversight reform<\/p>\n
Passed by 77 percent (10,217 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Revises the membership and powers of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct and the tribunal reviewing its decisions, expanding authority to sanction judges for misconduct.<\/p>\n
Proposition 13: Homestead exemption increase to $140,000<\/p>\n
Passed with 86 percent (11,612 votes in favor).<\/p>\n
Increases the statewide school homestead exemption from $100,000 to $140,000, offering further tax relief for homeowners across Texas.<\/p>\n
Proposition 14: Dementia prevention and Research Institute of Texas<\/p>\n
Passed by 67.6 percent (9,082 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Creates a new $3 billion state fund dedicated to Alzheimer\u2019s, Parkinson\u2019s and dementia research and prevention, modeled after the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.<\/p>\n
Proposition 15: Parental Rights Amendment<\/p>\n
Passed with 81 percent (10,884 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Affirming that parents are the primary decision makers for their children.<\/p>\n
Proposition 16: Citizenship requirement to vote<\/p>\n
Passed by 84.8 percent (11,450 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Clarifies that only U.S. citizens may vote in state or local elections.<\/p>\n
Proposition 17: Border county property tax exemption for security projects<\/p>\n
Passed with 75.3 percent (9,986 votes in favor)<\/p>\n
Authorizes tax exemptions for property improvements related to border security infrastructure in counties along the Texas-Mexico border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lubbock County voters supported all 17 proposed Texas constitutional amendments in Tuesday\u2019s election, each passing by comfortable margins.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,223],"class_list":["post-35841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35841","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=35841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}