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AUSTIN, TEXAS – FEBRUARY 18: The exterior of the Texas State Capitol on February 18, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n
Texas voters passed Proposition 6 on Tuesday that blocks new taxes on stock trading and taxing those operating or working in the securities market.<\/p>\n
Voters went to the polls Tuesday to decide on 17 constitutional amendments, or statewide propositions.<\/p>\n
House Joint Resolution 4<\/a> prevents the state from creating new taxes on securities transactions, such as stock trading. The amendment also prevents new taxes on those working in or operating securities markets.<\/p>\n The resolution came in response to other states suggesting similar taxes during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the bill’s analysis<\/a>. Those measures eventually failed.<\/p>\n The bill also comes as Texas gets ready to open the Texas Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n Ballot language:<\/p>\n “The constitutional amendment prohibiting the legislature from enacting a law imposing an occupation tax on certain entities that enter into transactions conveying securities or imposing a tax on certain securities transactions.”<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article comes from voting results from the Texas Secretary of State’s office. Information about HJR 4 comes from the Texas legislature.<\/p>\n Election<\/a>Economy<\/a>Texas<\/a>Texas Politics<\/a>Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, TEXAS – FEBRUARY 18: The exterior of the Texas State Capitol on February 18, 2023 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,2349,287,27,29,28,216,395,393,16351],"class_list":{"0":"post-35930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-money","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-tx-politics","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-us-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35930","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=35930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}