Homeowner Taxation is on the Ballot this Election Season

Here are the proposed measures on the Texas Ballot this Election. Many of them affect taxation around homeownership and property exemptions.
Others are just common sense – “persons who are not citizens of the US” cannot vote.

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Election Taxation
  • Provide a temporary homestead exemption for improvements made to residences destroyed by fire.
  • Increase the property tax exemption from $10,000 to $60,000 of the market value for homesteads owned by elderly or disabled individuals.
  • Change the composition of the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, provide for a temporary tribunal to review the commission’s recommendations, and change the authority governing judicial misconduct.
  • Increase the property tax exemption from $100,000 to $140,000 of the market value of a homestead.
  • Establish the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas with $3 billion from the general fund.
  • Provide that parents have the right “to exercise care, custody, and control of the parent’s child, including the right to make decisions concerning the child’s upbringing”.
  • Amend the Texas Constitution to provide that “persons who are not citizens of the United States” cannot vote.
  • Authorize the state legislature to provide for a property tax exemption for the construction of border infrastructure on property located in a county that borders Mexico.
  • Establish the Permanent Technical Institution Infrastructure Fund (Permanent Fund) and the Available Workforce Education Fund (Available Fund) as special funds in the state treasury to support the Texas Technical College System.
  • Prohibit a tax on the realized or unrealized capital gains of an individual, family, estate, or trust.
  • Requires judges or magistrates to deny bail to individuals accused of certain violent or sexual offenses punishable as a felony if there is clear and convincing evidence that the accused will not reappear in court or is a danger to the community.
  • Authorize the state legislature to allocate sales tax revenue that exceeds the first $46.5 billion with a maximum of $1 billion per fiscal year to the state water fund and authorize the state legislature, by a two-thirds vote, to adjust the amount allocated.
  • Establish a property tax exemption on animal feed held by the owner of the property for retail sale
    Prohibit the enactment of laws that impose taxes on entities that enter into transactions conveying securities or on certain securities transactions.
  • Establish a property tax homestead exemption on all or part of the market value of the homestead of a surviving spouse of a veteran who died from a service-connected disease.
  • Prohibit the state legislature from enacting laws imposing taxes on a decedent’s property or the transfer of an estate.
  • Authorize the state legislature to exempt $125,000 of the market value of personal tangible property used for income production from taxes.