On the ballot: 8 proposed constitutional amendments

Early voting begins Oct. 18 for the Nov. 2 election asking Texans to consider eight proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. In order to appear on the ballot, the proposed amendments were approved by at least two-thirds of the members of both the Texas Senate and the Texas House of Representatives.

The eight proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot are:

• PROPOSITION 1: Authorizing the professional sports team charitable foundations of organizations sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association or the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association to conduct charitable raffles at rodeo venues.
• PROPOSITION 2: Authorizing a county to finance the development or redevelopment of transportation or infrastructure in unproductive, underdeveloped or blighted areas in the county.
• PROPOSITION 3: Prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from prohibiting or limiting religious services of religious organizations.
• PROPOSITION 4: Changing the eligibility requirements for a justice of the supreme court, a judge of the court of criminal appeals, a justice of a court of appeals and a district judge.
• PROPOSITION 5: Providing additional powers to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct with respect to candidates for judicial office.
• PROPOSITION 6: Establishing a right for residents of certain facilities to designate an essential caregiver for in-person visitation.
• PROPOSITION 7: Allowing the surviving spouse of a person who is disabled to receive a limitation on the school district ad valorem taxes on the spouse’s residence homestead if the spouse is 55 years of age or older at the time of the person’s death.
• PROPOSITION 8: Authorizing the Legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a member of the armed services of the United States who is killed or fatally injured in the line of duty.

Find the explanatory statements for each of the propositions on the Secretary of State’s website here.

For more information and resources for voting in Texas, visit VoteTexas.gov.