Louisiana

YES: supports letting the surviving spouse of a disabled veteran move the extra disabled-veteran property tax exemption to a new home one time, capped at the amount claimed on the old home.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping the extra exemption tied to the current home, with no one-time transfer to a new home.

YES: supports letting local taxing bodies keep a lower property tax rate without losing their option to later raise it back to the previous maximum by a two-thirds board vote, without going back to voters.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping the current rule: a taxing body that keeps a lower rate past the next reassessment permanently loses the option to return to its previous maximum.

YES: supports denying bail after conviction to defendants convicted of an aggravated offense against a minor.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping post-conviction bail available to these defendants under the current rules.

YES: supports limiting governors to a lifetime maximum of two terms total.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping the current rule, where a former governor can serve two terms, sit out one term, and run again.

YES: supports removing the oldest-debt-first rule, letting each state retirement system choose which of its pension debts to pay down with that money.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping the rule that this money must go to each system’s oldest pension debt first.

YES: supports letting parishes and cities, with their own voters’ approval, offer homeowners 65 and older an extra property tax exemption that grows with age, up to an extra $30,000 of assessed value at 81 and older.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping seniors’ property tax exemptions as they are today, with no local option to add more.

YES: supports letting local governments use public funds to find, remove, or replace drinking water service lines on customers’ property that are affected by hazardous materials such as lead.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, leaving local governments without the power to spend public funds on those service lines on customers’ property.

YES: supports banning the hostile foreign governments already barred from buying Louisiana property, and their agents, from using eminent domain to take property in the state, no matter the purpose or payment offered.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping only the existing rule (a public and necessary purpose and fair payment), with no flat ban on foreign adversaries using eminent domain.

YES: supports raising the income limit for the property tax freeze from $100,000 to $150,000 and barring local taxing bodies from shifting the lost revenue onto other taxpayers.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping the current income limit of $100,000 (adjusted for inflation).

YES: supports letting local governments give a tax exemption for derelict or blighted property that has been rehabilitated.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, leaving local governments without the power to offer that exemption.