Texas November 2021 Election

The city of Southlake is holding a special election for up to $50 million in bonds for park improvements, including open space and passive parks.

This proposition allows voters to decide whether charities for teams sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association or Women’s Professional Rodeo Association can hold charitable raffles. These raffles need to be approved through a constitutional amendment to avoid falling foul of Texas’ gambling laws.

Proposition 2 will determine whether counties can authorize bonds or notes to finance development in blighted or underserved areas. The amendment is a shortcut for county funding and could help urban counties going through a population boom.

This proposition will decide if state or local governments can limit religious services. This measure likely stems from COVID-19 mitigation efforts in 2020, when in-person religious services were limited in parts of Texas, such as Harris and Fort Bend counties.

This proposition would update requirements to serve on the Texas Supreme Court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the Texas Appeals Court or as a district judge. It would require 10 years of service as a practicing lawyer or a combined 10 years of service in legal practice and as a judge of a state or county court.

Voters can decide whether the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct, which is responsible for disciplining sitting judges, can extend its powers to candidates for the office of a judge in Texas, allowing the commission to conduct investigations, accept complaints and disqualify candidates not in office.

Proposition 6 asks voters to decide whether residents of facilities such as nursing homes have the right to determine an essential caregiver who can visit without restrictions. This proposition likely stemmed from COVID-19 mitigation measures affecting some care facilities.

This will determine whether surviving spouses of disabled people can receive limitations on the amount of property taxes they pay on their homesteads, provided they were age 55 or older when their partner died.

Proposition 8 allows voters to decide whether surviving spouses of armed service members who died in the line of duty will be exempted from all or part of property taxes on homesteads.

Tarrant County is calling for $400 million in bonds to be issued for the purchasing, acquiring, reconstructing, renovating, rehabilitating, improving, and maintaining of streets, roads, bridges and highways within the county.

Tarrant County has called for $116 million in bonds for buying and constructing a criminal district attorney office building, which would be used for prosecutorial efforts and other for other non-judicial county activity and facilities.