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The Proposition as it reads the first time will be about leveling the playing field for property owners. Texas has an outrageous game of property taxes where they raise your rate one year and your value the next.

Here is the difference in the wording they want to change:

First is what the ballot wants to say:

Administrative and judicial enforcement of uniform standards and procedures for appraisal of property for ad valorem tax purposes shall be prescribed by general law.

Now to what the wording was before:

(b) Administrative and judicial enforcement of uniform standards and procedures for appraisal of property for ad valorem tax purposes, as prescribed by general law, shall originate in the county where the tax is imposed, except that the legislature may provide by general law for political subdivisions with boundaries extending outside the county.

That being said some say this is a back door way for Texas one day to have a state income tax. It did pass unanimously in both the house and senate.  So it has by partisan support.

There is always good and bad when you clean up language on a bill. This may be our best best to have lower property taxes. Or our first hint of a state income tax. My personal belief is Texans will do anything before a state income tax, but the state is changing so that could be a wrong take.

I will be voting for this bill, and hope for the best.

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