Turnout in odd-numbered years has always been historically low. While this year’s turnout is higher than in 2017, it’s still overwhelmingly low.
2019 Texas Constitutional Amendment Election
Texas voters have 10 proposed constitutional amendments on their ballots. Here’s everything you need to know about the issues you’re voting on.
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2019 Texas Constitutional Amendment Election
Texas 2019 constitutional amendment election results
Texas voters approved nine amendments to the state constitution, including a proposal making it harder to enact a personal income tax. One amendment was rejected.
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2019 Texas Constitutional Amendment Election
Texas voters approve state income tax ban, most other constitutional amendments
While voters supported most changes to the Texas Constitution, they opposed a measure that would allow elected municipal judges to work in more than one jurisdiction.
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2019 Texas Constitutional Amendment Election
Texas’ constitutional amendment election is Tuesday. Here’s what voters will decide.
Voters have 10 proposed constitutional amendments on their ballots. And in three special elections, some Texans will elect new state lawmakers.
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Texas law requires retired police dogs be auctioned off. Proposition 10 would send them home with their handlers.
On Nov. 5, voters have the chance to change the Texas Constitution to ensure retired law enforcement animals can be adopted by their handlers, erasing a decades-old requirement that government property must be sold or destroyed when no longer in use.
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Texas voters could give cancer research organization $3 billion in November
If passed, Proposition 6 on the Nov. 5 ballot would allow the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to take out an additional $3 billion in debt, doubling its initial bonding authority since its creation in 2007.
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With Proposition 8, Texas would set money aside for future flooding
If approved by voters next month, the constitutional amendment would set aside $800 million from the state’s rainy day fund for flood mitigation efforts.
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Texas voters could stabilize funding for state parks with Proposition 5
Decades ago, lawmakers passed a law that was meant to fully fund Texas Parks and Wildlife, but the money never seemed to make it to the parks. Now they’re asking voters to create a constitutional mandate that parks get more money.
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How hard should creating a Texas income tax be? Voters will decide with Proposition 4
Supporters want to send a clear message about Texas’ business-friendly environment. Others think it’s already hard enough to get such a tax passed, and future generations should be able to decide for themselves.