texas propositions
5, 7, 9, 10, 11, & 17
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📖 Read the full text of HJR 99 (Prop 5): 89(R) HJR 99 - Enrolled version
📖 Read the enabling legislation HB 1399: 89(R) HB 1399 - Enrolled version
📜 Read the Senate Research Center’s Bill Analysis for Prop 5
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📖 Read the full text of HJR 133 (Prop 7): 89(R) HJR 133 - Enrolled version
📖 Read the enabling legislation HB 2508: 89(R) HB 2508 - Enrolled version
📜 Read the Senate Research Center’s Bill Analysis for Prop 7
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📖 Read the full text of HJR 1 (Prop 9): 89(R) HJR 1 - Enrolled version
📖 Read the enabling legislation HB 9: 89(R) HB 9 - Enrolled version
📜Read the Senate Research Center’s Bill Analysis for Prop 9
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📖 Read the full text of SJR 84 (Prop 10):89(R) SJR 84 - Enrolled version
📜 Read the Senate Research Center’s Bill Analysis for Prop 10
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📖 Read the full text of SJR 85 (Prop 11): 89(R) SJR 85 - Enrolled version
📖 Read the enabling legislation SB 23: 89(R) SB 23 - Enrolled version
📜Read the Senate Research Center’s Bill Analysis for Prop 11
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📖 Read the full text of HJR 34 (Prop 17): (R) HJR 34 - Enrolled version
📖 Read the enabling legislation HB 247: 89(R) HB 247 - Enrolled version
📜 Read the Senate Research Center’s Bill Analysis for Prop 17
SIX PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS: WHY THEY KEEP COMING BACK
If you feel like there’s always another property tax exemption on the ballot, you’re right. This November, Texans will be asked to approve six more. On the surface, they look like acts of compassion — help for farmers, veterans’ spouses, disaster survivors, small businesses, and elderly homeowners.
But exemptions aren’t solutions. They’re workarounds. Every time one group gets relief, the responsibility shifts to someone else — usually younger families, renters, or working Texans who don’t qualify for carve-outs. And because these amendments get written into the Constitution, they’re almost impossible to undo.
THE TRUTH about these exemptions is that they are the band-aids for Texas tax policy. They cover wounds but don’t heal them. Decades of carve-outs have left us with a system where corporations often avoid their fair share while ordinary Texans pay some of the highest property and sales taxes in the nation.
👉 Want to see how these exemptions fit into the bigger picture of Texas’ broken tax system? Read our full breakdown on Substack, where we explain what it really does and why it matters.
Continue reading on Substack → Six Tax Exemptions on the Ballot: What They Really Tell Us About Texas Taxes