Well, shoot. Looks like all the texas constitutional amendments passed.

[mwmisses4289]

I'm glad the good ones passed, but a couple amounted to tax breaks for the wealthy and I'm sorry to see those passed. And the parental rights one...oy!

Ooppss!! Edited to add link!
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/elections/2025/11/04/535041/texas-election-results-2025-state-propositions/

[Irish_Dem]

1. Texans are not yet fed up.

Hopefully they will get there like the rest of the US.

[Javaman]

15. oh they are fed up, but they are enablers.

"I'll give him one more chance not to beat me up".

[Amaryllis]

2. What is the parental rights one?

[mwmisses4289]

4. This.

From the kprc tv website (thanks, texas towlie!).

Proposition 15 (SJR 34) — Codify parental rights in the Constitution

Purpose: Make parents’ rights to raise and educate children a fundamental constitutional right.

What it would do: Establish parents as the primary decision-makers for their children’s education, healthcare, and upbringing, giving their authority constitutional protection.

Supporters say: Protects family autonomy and parental authority.

Opponents say: Could make it harder to protect children and enforce public health measures.

Impact if it passes: Parents could challenge school policies made without their approval.

[DBoon]

11. so parents could physically assault their children and nothing can be done about it?

[mwmisses4289]

14. Pretty much.

[catrose]

12. Like they don't have enough rights already.

The stupid book ban stuff is the reason New Braunfels shuttered all its high school libraries.

[txwhitedove]

8. Goofy, right? At least we "clarified" that issue.

[mwmisses4289]

10. Goofy is too polite a term for this.

I think many of us have seen what "parental rights" in action really is: people who claim to be fundamentalist christians, who are
really anti-vaxxers and
anti-educationalists wanting to keep children ignorant, ill and abused.

[tanyev]

3. I guess that gets us up to 547 now?

Why in the sam hill can’t they “fix” things by just, y’know, passing laws?

[mwmisses4289]

5. What? and have the texas legislators actually do some work?

That texas sun done fried your brain!!

(Not making fun of you, just the idea of the mostly repub texass legislature actually working for the good of texans...🙃

[tanyev]

6. And be in session every year instead of every other year!

[mwmisses4289]

7. Yeah, state as big as ours, it really does need our legislature to be a yearly thing.

If you have to call special sessions all the time...🙄

[txwhitedove]

9. I'm happy. With Prop 11 & 13, my home taxes will go down somewhat.

[catrose]

13. Tax breaks for the wealthy, more power concentrated with the governor & his cronies.

Yesterday I saw breakdowns by county for 2 propositions. Only Travis County went against the other 250-something counties. I'd been so proud of Travis, with voting lines out the door of the building. Can we secede?