Amendment 1 · Legislative constitutional amendment
Proposing to amend Article VII, Section 21(K)(1) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to ad valorem tax exemptions; to provide relative to the ad valorem tax exemption for certain disabled veterans and their surviving spouses; to allow for the transfer of certain exemptions by a surviving spouse; to provide for limitations; to provide for effectiveness; and to specify an election for submission of the proposition to electors and provide a ballot proposition.
Would let the surviving spouse of a veteran with a service-connected disability, who already receives the extra property tax exemption, move that exemption one time to a new qualifying home. The exemption on the new home could be no larger than the amount claimed on the old one.
Passes with: Simple majority of the voters casting a ballot on the amendment statewide (Louisiana Constitution, Article XIII, Section 1(C)).
Official ballot summary (the state’s text)
Do you support an amendment to allow the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran with a service-connected disability, who receives the additional property tax exemption, to make a one-time transfer of the additional property tax exemption to a subsequent qualifying property? (Effective January 1, 2027) (Amends Article VII, Section 21(K)(1))
Committees for and against: not yet checked.
Sources: Louisiana Secretary of State, 2026 Proposed Constitutional Amendments, November 3, 2026 Election; Full text.
Amendment 2 · Legislative constitutional amendment
Proposing to amend Article VII, Section 23(C) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to ad valorem property tax millage rate adjustments; to provide for maximum authorized millage rates; to provide for applicability; to provide for an effective date; to provide for submission of the proposed amendment to the electors; and to provide for related matters.
Under the current rules, a local taxing body that keeps its millage below the maximum allowed after a reassessment can lose the right to raise it back to that maximum later. This amendment would let it levy the lower rate and keep that right.
Passes with: Simple majority of the voters casting a ballot on the amendment statewide (Louisiana Constitution, Article XIII, Section 1(C)).
Official ballot summary (the state’s text)
Do you support an amendment to allow a local taxing authority to continue to levy a lower millage rate without losing its ability to adjust to the maximum authorized millage rate from a prior year's reassessment? (Effective January 1, 2027) (Amends Article VII, Section 23(C))
Committees for and against
Sources: Louisiana Secretary of State, 2026 Proposed Constitutional Amendments, November 3, 2026 Election; Full text.
Amendment 3 · Legislative constitutional amendment
Proposing to add Article I, Section 18(C) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to the right to bail; to prohibit bail for offenders who have been convicted of certain offenses; to provide for submission of the proposed amendment to the electors; and to provide for related matters.
Would deny bail after conviction to a person convicted of an aggravated offense, as state law (R.S. 15:541) defines it, committed against a minor. That state-law list covers rape and other sex crimes, kidnapping of children and child sex trafficking, among others.
Passes with: Simple majority of the voters casting a ballot on the amendment statewide (Louisiana Constitution, Article XIII, Section 1(C)).
Official ballot summary (the state’s text)
Do you support an amendment to prohibit a defendant from being released on any post-conviction bail if the defendant is convicted of an aggravated offense against a minor child? (Adds Article I, Section 18(C))
Committees for and against: not yet checked.
Sources: Louisiana Secretary of State, 2026 Proposed Constitutional Amendments, November 3, 2026 Election; Full text.
Amendment 4 · Legislative constitutional amendment
Proposing to amend Article IV, Section 3(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, to provide for the term limit for the office of the governor; to provide for a lifetime term limit; to provide that the limit is not limited to service in successive terms; to provide for submission of the proposed amendment to the electors; and to provide for related matters.
Today a person who has served more than one and a half terms as governor in two consecutive terms cannot be elected to the next term but may run again after that. The amendment would make it a lifetime bar: such a person could never again be elected governor.
Passes with: Simple majority of the voters casting a ballot on the amendment statewide (Louisiana Constitution, Article XIII, Section 1(C)).
Official ballot summary (the state’s text)
Do you support an amendment to prohibit a person who has served more than one and one-half terms as governor from being elected as governor for any future term? (Amends Article IV, Section 3(B))
Committees for and against: not yet checked.
Sources: Louisiana Secretary of State, 2026 Proposed Constitutional Amendments, November 3, 2026 Election; Full text.
Amendment 5 · Legislative constitutional amendment
Proposing to amend Article VII, Section 10(D)(2)(b)(iii) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to application of certain state monies to state retirement system unfunded accrued liability; to remove requirement that such monies be applied to the oldest system liabilities first; to provide for submission of the proposed amendment to the electors; and to provide for related matters.
State retirement systems that receive one-time (nonrecurring) state money must now put it toward their oldest unfunded accrued liability first. The amendment would let each system apply that money to any part of its unfunded accrued liability.
Passes with: Simple majority of the voters casting a ballot on the amendment statewide (Louisiana Constitution, Article XIII, Section 1(C)).
Official ballot summary (the state’s text)
Do you support an amendment to authorize a state retirement system to apply any nonrecurring state monies it receives to any of its unfunded accrued liability rather than requiring application to its oldest unfunded accrued liability? (Amends Article VII, Section 10(D)(2)(b)(iii))
Committees for and against: not yet checked.
Sources: Louisiana Secretary of State, 2026 Proposed Constitutional Amendments, November 3, 2026 Election; Full text.
Amendment 6 · Legislative constitutional amendment
Proposing to add Article VII, Section 21(P) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to ad valorem taxation; to extend an ad valorem tax exemption for property owners who are sixty-five years of age or older; to provide for the amount of the exemption; to provide for requirements and limitations; to provide for implementation of the exemption by parishes and municipalities; to prohibit the reappraisal and valuation of property for purposes of millage adjustments under certain circumstances; to provide for applicability; to provide for an effective date; to provide for submission of the proposed amendment to the electors; and to provide for related matters.
Would let a parish or municipality, if its own voters approve, grant an added homestead property tax exemption to owners 65 and older who qualify for the special assessment level, growing with age from $6,000 to $30,000 of assessed value. The taxing bodies would absorb the lost revenue, and the exemption could not be used as a reason to reappraise property or adjust millages.
Passes with: Simple majority of the voters casting a ballot on the amendment statewide (Louisiana Constitution, Article XIII, Section 1(C)).
Official ballot summary (the state’s text)
Do you support an amendment to authorize parishes and municipalities to extend an additional property tax exemption for property subject to the homestead exemption that is owned and occupied by a person who is at least sixty-five years of age and who qualifies for the special assessment level? (Effective January 1, 2028) (Adds Article VII, Section 21(P))
Committees for and against: not yet checked.
Sources: Louisiana Secretary of State, 2026 Proposed Constitutional Amendments, November 3, 2026 Election; Full text.
Amendment 7 · Legislative constitutional amendment
Proposing to amend Article VII, Section 14(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to water utility service lines; to provide for the use of public funds to remove or replace drinking water utility service lines located on property owned by utility customers; to provide relative to identifying, inventorying water utility service lines made of or affected by certain hazardous materials; to specify an election for submission of the proposition to electors and provide a ballot proposition.
Would add an exception to the constitutional ban on donating public money, so a local government could pay to find, inventory, remove or replace drinking water service lines on customers' own property. It covers lines made of or affected by the materials named in the federal EPA's Lead and Copper Rule Improvements of Oct. 30, 2024, or later versions of that rule.
Passes with: Simple majority of the voters casting a ballot on the amendment statewide (Louisiana Constitution, Article XIII, Section 1(C)).
Official ballot summary (the state’s text)
Do you support an amendment to allow for the use of public funds by a political subdivision for the purpose of identifying, inventorying, removing or replacing drinking water utility service lines made of or affected by materials as specified or prescribed by the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, promulgated October 30, 2024, or subsequent promulgation, on property owned by utility customers? (Amends Article VII, Section 14)
Committees for and against: not yet checked.
Sources: Louisiana Secretary of State, 2026 Proposed Constitutional Amendments, November 3, 2026 Election; Full text.
Amendment 8 · Legislative constitutional amendment
Proposing to amend Article I, Section 4(B)(4) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to the right to property; to prohibit expropriation by foreign adversaries; to provide for submission of the proposed amendment to the electors; and to provide for related matters.
The Constitution already limits when a private entity may take property by expropriation. This would add that a private entity that is a foreign adversary, or an agent of one as state law defines it, may not take or damage property at all.
Passes with: Simple majority of the voters casting a ballot on the amendment statewide (Louisiana Constitution, Article XIII, Section 1(C)).
Official ballot summary (the state’s text)
Do you support an amendment to prohibit expropriation of property by a foreign adversary or an agent of a foreign adversary? (Amends Article I, Section 4(B)(4))
Committees for and against: not yet checked.
Sources: Louisiana Secretary of State, 2026 Proposed Constitutional Amendments, November 3, 2026 Election; Full text.
Amendment 9 · Legislative constitutional amendment
Proposing to amend Article VII, Section 18(G)(1)(a)(ii) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to ad valorem taxation; to provide for assessment of property for ad valorem tax purposes; to provide with respect to the special assessment level; to provide with respect to the income limit associated with qualifying for the special assessment level; to provide for an effective date; to provide for submission of the proposed amendment to the electors; and to provide for related matters.
Would raise the income ceiling for the special assessment level, which holds down the assessed value of qualifying homesteads, from $100,000 to $150,000 starting with the 2027 tax year. The new ceiling would be adjusted for inflation each year from 2028.
Passes with: Simple majority of the voters casting a ballot on the amendment statewide (Louisiana Constitution, Article XIII, Section 1(C)).
Official ballot summary (the state’s text)
Do you support an amendment to increase the maximum amount of income a person may receive and still qualify for the special assessment level for residential property receiving the homestead exemption? (Effective January 1, 2027) (Amends Article VII, Section 18(G)(1)(a)(ii))
Committees for and against: not yet checked.
Sources: Louisiana Secretary of State, 2026 Proposed Constitutional Amendments, November 3, 2026 Election; Full text.
Amendment 10 · Legislative constitutional amendment
Proposing to add Article VII, Section 21(P) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to ad valorem taxes; to authorize the exemption of certain property from ad valorem taxes subject to conditions provided in law; to require the legislature to enact laws relative to implementation of the exemption; to provide for applicability; to provide for an effective date; to provide for submission of the proposed amendment to the electors; and to provide for related matters.
Would allow a property tax exemption for blighted or derelict property that has been rehabilitated. The Legislature would have to pass laws defining those terms and setting how long the exemption lasts and how local governments administer it.
Passes with: Simple majority of the voters casting a ballot on the amendment statewide (Louisiana Constitution, Article XIII, Section 1(C)).
Official ballot summary (the state’s text)
Do you support an amendment to allow property tax exemptions for blighted or derelict properties that have been rehabilitated, and to require the legislature to enact laws providing for administration of these exemptions? (Effective January 1, 2027) (Adds Article VII, Section 21(P))
Committees for and against: not yet checked.
Sources: Louisiana Secretary of State, 2026 Proposed Constitutional Amendments, November 3, 2026 Election; Full text.
What is not here yet
- Committees for and against each amendment: not fully checked. The Board of Ethics does not list political committees by ballot measure; its PAC list (2026) shows name, type and filing dates without a measure, and filer-name searches for 'amendment' and 'proposition' on Oct. 26, 2026 returned one filer each (Louisiana Pro-Life Amendment Coalition, filed as 'Other Persons'; Excellence in Higher Education Ballot Proposition Committee), neither named for a Nov. 3, 2026 amendment. Whether either is active on these amendments is not yet checked.
- One filer was found through the Board of Ethics' 2024-2027 bulk download of e-filed reports (campaign-finance layer): Keep Louisiana Affordable (filer OP990032, filing as 'Other Persons'), whose proposition report LA-136958 for the Nov. 3, 2026 election lists Amendment 2 with 'Support'; it is listed under Amendment 2. Paper filings and e-filed reports with no transactions are not in that download, so no filer found for Amendments 1 and 3-10 is not a finding that none exist.
- Court challenges: not yet checked in court records. A web search on Oct. 26, 2026 found no reported lawsuit against any of the ten Nov. 3, 2026 amendments (reported suits found were about earlier amendment elections).
- Fiscal effects: the Secretary of State publishes no fiscal statement with the amendments. The Legislative Fiscal Office's fiscal notes are linked from each bill page (bill_page_url) but were not saved or quoted here; not yet checked.
- Amendments 6 (Act 274) and 10 (Act 272) are both described as adding a new Article VII, Section 21(P). How the two would be numbered if both pass is not yet checked.
- Spanish-language or other translated ballot text, if any, is not checked.
Gaps in the ballot records as of the date checked.