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Amendments
Yes changes the state constitution. No keeps it as it is.
Yes: Some spouses could move a tax break to a new home. This is for the husband or wife of a veteran who had a disability from service and has died. If they get the extra property tax break, they could move it to a new home one time.
No: The rule stays the same. The spouse cannot move the extra tax break to a new home.
What your ballot says
Do you support an amendment to allow the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran with a service-connected disability, who receives the additional property tax exemption, to make a one-time transfer of the additional property tax exemption to a subsequent qualifying property?
Yes: Local tax bodies could keep a lower tax rate and still go back up later. Today, a body that charges less than its top rate can lose the right to raise it back.
No: The rule stays the same. A taxing body that charges less than its highest allowed rate can lose the right to go back up.
What your ballot says
Do you support an amendment to allow a local taxing authority to continue to levy a lower millage rate without losing its ability to adjust to the maximum authorized millage rate from a prior year's reassessment?
Yes: No bail after some convictions. A person found guilty of an aggravated crime against a child could not get out on bail after the verdict.
No: The state constitution stays the same on bail after conviction.
What your ballot says
Do you support an amendment to prohibit a defendant from being released on any post-conviction bail if the defendant is convicted of an aggravated offense against a minor child?
Yes: A lifetime limit for governor. A person who has served more than one and a half terms as governor could never be elected governor again.
No: The state constitution stays the same on term limits for governor.
What your ballot says
Do you support an amendment to prohibit a person who has served more than one and one-half terms as governor from being elected as governor for any future term?
Yes: More choice in paying down pension debt. State retirement systems could use one-time state money on any of their unpaid debt. Today, it must go to the oldest debt first.
No: The rule stays the same. One-time state money must go to the oldest unpaid debt first.
What your ballot says
Do you support an amendment to authorize a state retirement system to apply any nonrecurring state monies it receives to any of its unfunded accrued liability rather than requiring application to its oldest unfunded accrued liability?
Yes: A new tax break option for seniors. Parishes and cities could give an extra property tax break on homes of people 65 or older. The owner must live in the home and qualify for the special assessment level.
No: The state constitution stays the same. Parishes and cities do not get this new option.
What your ballot says
Do you support an amendment to authorize parishes and municipalities to extend an additional property tax exemption for property subject to the homestead exemption that is owned and occupied by a person who is at least sixty-five years of age and who qualifies for the special assessment level?
Yes: Public money for lead water lines. Local governments could pay to find, list, remove, or replace water lines on a customer's property. This covers lines with materials named in federal lead pipe rules.
No: The state constitution stays the same on using public money for water lines on private property.
What your ballot says
Do you support an amendment to allow for the use of public funds by a political subdivision for the purpose of identifying, inventorying, removing or replacing drinking water utility service lines made of or affected by materials as specified or prescribed by the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, promulgated October 30, 2024, or subsequent promulgation, on property owned by utility customers?
Yes: No land taking by foreign adversaries. A foreign adversary, or someone acting for one, could not use expropriation to take private property. Expropriation is a legal process that forces an owner to sell land for a public purpose.
No: The state constitution stays the same on expropriation.
What your ballot says
Do you support an amendment to prohibit expropriation of property by a foreign adversary or an agent of a foreign adversary?
Yes: A higher income limit for a tax benefit. The special assessment level is a property tax benefit for some homeowners. The most income you can have and still get it would go up.
No: The income limit for the special assessment level stays the same.
What your ballot says
Do you support an amendment to increase the maximum amount of income a person may receive and still qualify for the special assessment level for residential property receiving the homestead exemption?
Yes: Tax breaks for fixed-up blighted property. Run-down property that has been fixed up could get a property tax break. Lawmakers would have to pass rules to run it.
No: The state constitution stays the same. No new tax break for fixed-up blighted properties.
What your ballot says
Do you support an amendment to allow property tax exemptions for blighted or derelict properties that have been rehabilitated, and to require the legislature to enact laws providing for administration of these exemptions?
My Ballot
Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Polls are open 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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