How to vote in Louisiana in 2026

This amendment would have allowed the state legislature, not just the State Civil Service Commission, to add officers, positions, and employees to the unclassified civil service. Voters rejected it on May 16, 2026.

A yes vote means: Allows the legislature to add positions and employees to the unclassified civil service.

A no vote means: Keeps that authority solely with the State Civil Service Commission.

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This amendment would have added the St. George Community School System in East Baton Rouge Parish to the constitution's list of school systems that operate independently with the same authority as parish systems. Voters rejected it on May 16, 2026.

A yes vote means: Adds the St. George Community School System to the list of school systems treated as parish systems.

A no vote means: Leaves the St. George system out of that constitutional list.

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This amendment would have repealed three constitutional education funds, including the Education Excellence Fund, and applied the money to the Teachers' Retirement System. Voters rejected it on May 16, 2026.

A yes vote means: Repeals the three education funds and applies their money to the Teachers' Retirement System.

A no vote means: Keeps the three education funds intact.

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This amendment would have allowed parishes to exempt business inventory from property taxes. Voters rejected it on May 16, 2026.

A yes vote means: Allows parishes to exempt business inventory from property taxes.

A no vote means: Keeps business inventory subject to current property tax rules.

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This amendment would have raised the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 75. Voters rejected it on May 16, 2026.

A yes vote means: Raises the judicial retirement age from 70 to 75.

A no vote means: Keeps the judicial retirement age at 70.

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This amendment would allow the surviving spouse of a disabled veteran to transfer the veteran's homestead property tax exemption one time to a new home.

A yes vote means: Allows a disabled veteran's surviving spouse to move the homestead tax exemption to a new home one time.

A no vote means: Does not allow the exemption to be transferred to a new home.

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This amendment would change the governor's term limit from two consecutive terms to a lifetime maximum of two terms. Under the current rule, a former governor can sit out one term and then run again.

A yes vote means: Limits any person to two terms as governor over a lifetime.

A no vote means: Keeps the current two-consecutive-term limit with no lifetime cap.

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This amendment would prohibit bail after conviction for a defendant convicted of an aggravated offense, as defined by law, against a victim who is a minor.

A yes vote means: Bars post-conviction bail for people convicted of an aggravated offense against a minor.

A no vote means: Does not add this ban, leaving post-conviction bail rules unchanged.

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This amendment would prohibit foreign adversaries, or agents of a foreign adversary as defined by law, from expropriating property in Louisiana.

A yes vote means: Prohibits property expropriation by foreign adversaries or their agents.

A no vote means: Leaves the constitution unchanged on expropriation by foreign adversaries.

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This amendment would create a property tax exemption of up to $30,000 of assessed home value, increasing with age, for homeowners 65 and older who already qualify for the state's income-based assessment freeze.

A yes vote means: Exempts up to $30,000 of assessed home value from property taxes for qualifying homeowners 65 and older.

A no vote means: Does not create the new exemption for senior homeowners.

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This amendment would allow local taxing authorities to levy a property tax (millage) rate above the rate set by the previous year's assessment of taxable property in the parish, as long as it stays below the maximum the state constitution permits.

A yes vote means: Allows taxing authorities to levy millage rates above the prior year's assessed rate, up to the constitutional maximum.

A no vote means: Keeps current limits on how taxing authorities set millage rates.

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This amendment would raise the income limit to qualify for Louisiana's special assessment level, which freezes a home's assessed value for eligible homeowners so their property taxes do not rise with property values, from $100,000 to $150,000.

A yes vote means: Raises the qualifying income limit for the property tax assessment freeze from $100,000 to $150,000.

A no vote means: Keeps the qualifying income limit at $100,000.

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This amendment would remove the requirement that a state retirement system receiving one-time (nonrecurring) state funds apply that money first to the system's oldest outstanding unfunded liability.

A yes vote means: Removes the rule that one-time state funds must pay a retirement system's oldest unfunded liability first.

A no vote means: Keeps the oldest-liability-first payment requirement.

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This amendment would authorize a property tax exemption for derelict or blighted property, as defined by the state legislature, that has been rehabilitated.

A yes vote means: Authorizes a tax exemption for rehabilitated derelict or blighted property.

A no vote means: Does not create the exemption for rehabilitated property.

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This amendment would allow public funds to be used to maintain drinking water utility service lines affected by hazardous materials on property owned by utility customers.

A yes vote means: Allows public money to maintain customer-owned drinking water service lines affected by hazardous materials.

A no vote means: Does not authorize public funds for those service lines.

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