{"id":36045,"date":"2025-11-05T06:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/36045\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T06:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:58:12","slug":"texas-proposition-2-results-texans-vote-to-ban-unrealized-capital-gains-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/36045\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Proposition 2 results: Texans vote to ban unrealized capital gains tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762325892_541_Taxes-Generic.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Texas voters have decided to ban taxes on unrealized capital gains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitol.texas.gov\/BillLookup\/Text.aspx?LegSess=89R&amp;Bill=SJR18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SJR 18<\/a> prevents the Texas state legislature from imposing a tax on unrealized capital gains of individuals, families, estates or trusts.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Ballot language:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;The constitutional amendment prohibiting the imposition of a tax on the realized or unrealized capital gains of an individual, family, estate, or trust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Live results: Texas propositions for state constitutional amendments <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Texans were asked to decide on 17 constitutional amendments in the Nov. 4, 2025 election.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The propositions were passed by the Texas Legislature earlier this year alongside the new state budget.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">See live election results as they come in below.<\/p>\n<p>  More election results  What was on the ballot? <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Texas voters headed to the polls on Nov. 4 to decide on some statewide issues and local positions.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Every voter in Texas was able to vote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/texas-propositions-up-november-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">17 propositions in the Texas Constitutional Amendment Election.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A special election was held to fill the congressional seat held by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/live-results-u-s-representative-texas-18th-congressional-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> late Rep. Sylvester Turner in Texas&#8217; 18th Congressional District<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Voters in several counties also had elections for positions and measures that impact their community. That might include bonds, school board trustees, city council positions or bonds impacting utility districts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report came from Texas Legislature Online.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/politics\/election\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Election<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Texas voters have decided to ban taxes on unrealized capital gains.\u00a0 SJR 18 prevents the Texas state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,287,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-36045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-politics","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36045","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=36045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}