November 2025 General Election

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Senate Joint Resolution 59 would create two new funds to support the Texas State Technical College System, which has campuses statewide. The money would be managed by the state comptroller and used by the system’s board of regents to purchase books and materials; construct and repair buildings; and acquire equipment or land. If the constitutional amendment is approved, up to $52 million could be appropriated this year.</span></div><div><br></div>

<strong></strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Senate Joint Resolution 18 would prohibit the Texas Legislature from imposing any future taxes on capital gains, which is income received from selling an asset. Texas does not currently have such a tax.</span>

<strong></strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Senate Joint Resolution 5 would require judges to deny bail for certain felony offenses, keeping more defendants in jail as they await trial. If voters approve the proposition, judges across Texas would be required to deny bail to defendants accused of murder, capital murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery, aggravated sexual assault, indecency with a child or human trafficking. The state would be required to demonstrate that a defendant is a flight risk or threat to public safety before bail is denied.</span><div><br></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">House Joint Resolution 7 asks voters to send $1 billion annually in sales tax revenue to the Texas Water Fund, a state account created in 2023 to help finance water projects. If voters approve the constitutional amendment, the state would move $20 billion in total to the fund from 2027-47. Half of that money would be spent on new water supply projects, and it could also be used to repair existing water systems, invest in flood infrastructure and desalinate—or remove salt and other minerals from—seawater and groundwater.<br><br>No new taxes or fees would be created by the proposition.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">House Joint Resolution 99 would create a property tax exemption for stores that sell animal feed.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">House Joint Resolution 4 would bar lawmakers from imposing taxes on the purchase and sale of financial assets—known as securities transactions—or requiring financial market operators to pay an “occupation tax” to conduct business.</span></div><div><br></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">House Joint Resolution 133 would&nbsp;establish a tax exemption for the surviving spouse of a veteran who died from an illness related to their military service.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">House Joint Resolution 2 would prohibit the legislature from imposing future taxes on a deceased person’s estate or an inheritance passed to their heirs. Neither tax currently exists in Texas.</span></div><div><br></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">House Joint Resolution 1 would exempt up to $125,000 of businesses’ personal property, such as equipment, furniture and vehicles, from taxation. Texas business owners currently receive a tax exemption on property worth $2,500 or less.</span></div><div><br></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Senate Joint Resolution 84 would allow a future state legislature to create a property tax exemption for someone rebuilding a home after it is completely destroyed in a fire.</span></div><div><br></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Senate Joint Resolution 85 asks voters to raise the property tax exemption for homeowners who are over 65 years old or have a disability to $200,000, up from $110,000 today. The exemption would apply only to taxes charged by public schools, which make up the majority of an average homeowner’s property tax bill.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Senate Joint Resolution 27 would rework the 13-member State Commission on Judicial Conduct to include six judges appointed by the Texas Supreme Court and seven citizens appointed by the governor. The proposition would also tweak the commission’s authority to discipline judges.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Senate Joint Resolution 2 would raise the property tax exemption on a Texas homeowner’s main residence, known as a homestead exemption, from $100,000 to $140,000. The exemption would apply only to taxes charged by public schools, which make up the majority of an average homeowner’s property tax bill.</span></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Senate Joint Resolution 3 would create the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, asking voters to authorize $3 billion in funding to launch the institute. Of those funds, up to $300 million per year would be available for dementia-related research grants.<br><br>No new taxes or fees would be created by the proposition.</span></div><div><br></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Senate Joint Resolution 34 would add language to the Texas Constitution stating that parents have the right to “exercise care, custody and control” of their children and determine how to raise them.</span></div><div><br></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b></b>Senate Joint Resolution 37 would enshrine in the Texas Constitution that people who are not U.S. citizens may not vote in Texas elections. Only U.S. citizens are currently eligible to vote under state law.</span></div>

<span style="font-size: 16px;">House Joint Resolution 34 would exempt increases in a property’s value from taxation if the land is located along the Texas-Mexico border and the added value is due to the installation of barriers or other border security infrastructure created by the government.</span>