Louisiana voters will have plenty to consider on the November 3rd ballot, including 10 proposed constitutional amendments. Five deal with property taxes. Public Affairs Research Council President Steven Procopio says Amendment One would let a surviving spouse of a disabled veteran move to another home and keep a special property tax exemption.
“If your wife passed away and she was a veteran, then you would still have those benefits even if you moved to another house; but you can only do that once,” Procopio explained.
Procopio says Amendment Six would allow parishes and municipalities to increase the property tax exemption for some homeowners as they age, from 65 up to 81.
“Each municipality, each locality, would actually say whether they want to do it or not; and it needs the vote of the people. So this is just giving locals another possibility to help out the elderly in their area,” Procopio noted.
A vote against Amendment Six would leave the current statewide exemption for homeowners 65 and older unchanged.
Procopio says Amendment Nine would raise the income limit for a property tax assessment freeze from $100,000 to $150,000.
“It doesn’t really give you an exemption. It just stops the increases in what your property values would cause you to pay more,” Procopio said.
Amendment Two would give local taxing authorities more flexibility in deciding when to set property tax rates, while Amendment Ten would allow parishes to offer tax exemptions for property that’s been rehabilitated after being blighted.
For more information on all 10 amendments, check out PAR’s Guide to the Fall 2026 Constitutional Amendments on its website: www.parlouisiana.org.
