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The following 14 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution are on the ballot:
Proposition 1 – Should the right to engage in farming, ranching, timber production, horticulture, and wildlife management be protected by law?
Proposition 2 – Should cities and counties be allowed to give property tax breaks to child-care businesses?
Proposition 3 – Should Texas ban taxation of an individual’s wealth/net worth?
Proposition 4 – Should the school property tax homestead exemption be increased from $40,000 to $100,000 and a new 20% appraisal cap be established for non-homestead property?
Proposition 5 – Should Texas establish a $3 billion research endowment to allow state universities other than UT and Texas A&M (who have their own fund) to become eligible for research funding?
Proposition 6 – Should Texas establish a water fund (with initial investment of $1 billion) to help finance water projects?
Proposition 7 – Should Texas establish an energy fund (with initial investment of $5 billion) to finance creation/upgrades of electric generation facilities?
Proposition 8 – Should Texas establish a broadband infrastructure fund (with initial investment of $1.5 billion) to expand high-speed internet access to more areas of the state?
Proposition 9 – Should Texas spend $3.4 billion to provide a cost-of-living adjustment to retired teachers and other school district retirees?
Proposition 10 – Should biomedical firms receive property tax breaks on the value of equipment and inventory, as other industries receive, to strengthen our medical supply chain?
Proposition 11 – Should El Paso County’s conservation and reclamation districts have authority to issue bonds for parks and recreational facilities, as eleven other Texas counties do?
Proposition 12 – Should Galveston County’s county treasurer office be abolished?
Proposition 13 – Should state judges’ mandatory retirement age increase from 75 to 79 years of age?
Proposition 14 – Should Texas establish a centennial parks conservation fund to create new state parks and improve existing state parks?
More detailed explanations of these proposed amendments (incl arguments FOR and AGAINST) can be found here: amend88.pdf (texas.gov)
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