Texas voters passed all eight constitutional amendments that were on the ballot for the November 2 election. Results are unofficial until canvassed.
Nearly 84 percent of voters approved Proposition 1 which authorizes 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 passed with 63 percent of the voters supporting the authorization for counties to finance the development or redevelopment of transportation or infrastructure in unproductive areas.
More than 62 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of Proposition 3 to prohibit the state of Texas or its political subdivisions from blocking or limiting religious services of religious organizations.
Almost 59 percent of voters sanctioned Proposition 4 which changes eligibility requirements for district judges and justices of the Texas Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, and a court of appeals.
Proposition 5 passed with more than 59 percent of the vote to grant additional powers to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct related to candidates for judicial office.
Proposition 6 garnered almost 88 percent of the vote to establish a right for residents of certain facilities to designate an essential caregiver for in-person visitation.
More than 87 percent of voters approved Proposition 7 to allow 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 won the highest percentage of votes with almost 88 percent in favor of 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 U.S. who is killed or fatally injured in the line of duty.
Most of the amendments will take effect when the governor canvasses the election sometime between November 17 and December 2. Propositions 4 and 8 go into effect January 1, 2022.