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Texas voters Tuesday approved Proposition 13, which would increase the homestead tax exemption for school districts.<\/p>\n
SJR 2<\/a> would increase the tax exemption from $100,000 to $140,000. This would lower the overall tax bill for homeowners.<\/p>\n Ballot language: “The constitutional amendment to increase the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district from $100,000 to $140,000.”<\/p>\n Texans were asked to decide on 17 constitutional amendments in the Nov. 4, 2025 election.<\/p>\n The propositions were passed by the Texas Legislature earlier this year alongside the new state budget.<\/p>\n See live election results as they come in below.<\/p>\n More election results What was on the ballot? <\/p>\n Texas voters headed to the polls on Nov. 4 to decide on some statewide issues and local positions.<\/p>\n Every voter in Texas was able to vote on 17 propositions in the Texas Constitutional Amendment Election.<\/a><\/p>\n A special election was held to fill the congressional seat held by late Rep. Sylvester Turner in Texas’ 18th Congressional District<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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 The Source: Information in this story came from Texas Legislature Online.<\/p>\n Election<\/a>Texas Politics<\/a>Texas<\/a>News<\/a>Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Texas voters Tuesday approved Proposition 13, which would increase the homestead tax exemption for school districts. SJR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,223,287,27,29,28,216,395,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-36111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-tx-politics","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36111","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=36111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ballot](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1F7761697A8973EC3366B4CD2BA902AF.jpg\")
Live results: Texas propositions for state constitutional amendments <\/p>\n