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Louisiana Adjusted Homestead Exemption Amendment (2015)
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| This measure was not put on an election ballot |
A Louisiana Adjusted Homestead Exemption Amendment was not on the October 24, 2015 ballot in Louisiana as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure, upon voter approval, would have increased the property tax homestead exemption to $100,000, required an annual adjustment of the homestead exemption to reflect changes in Consumer Price Index and prohibited the exemption from being adjusted to less than $100,000.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The proposed ballot text was:[1]
| “ | Do you support an amendment to increase the homestead exemption to one hundred thousand dollars of value of property and to require that in the year following a statewide reappraisal of property, the homestead exemption shall be adjusted to reflect the change in Consumer Price Index for that tax year; and to prohibit the homestead exemption from being adjusted to less than one hundred thousand dollars? (January 1, 2016) (Amends Article VII, Section 20(A)(1)[2] | ” |
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article VII, Louisiana Constitution
The proposed amendment would have amended Section 20(A)(1) of Article VII of the Constitution of Louisiana. The following underlined text would have been added and struckthrough text would have been deleted by the proposed measure's approval:[1]
(1) The bona fide homestead, consisting of a tract of land or two or more tracts of land even if the land is classified and assessed at use value pursuant to Article VII, Section 18(C) of this constitution, with a residence on one tract and a field with or without timber on it, pasture, or garden on the other tract or tracts, not exceeding one hundred sixty acres, buildings and appurtenances, whether rural or urban, owned and occupied by any person or persons owning the property in indivision, shall be exempt from state, parish, and special ad valorem taxes to the extent of seven thousand five hundred ten thousand dollars of the assessed valuation. In the tax year following the year in which a statewide reappraisal of property pursuant to Article VII, Section 18(F) of this constitution is conducted, the homestead exemption shall be adjusted to reflect the change in the Consumer Price Index for that year as reported by the United States Government; however, this exemption shall never be less than ten thousand dollars. The same homestead exemption shall also fully apply to the primary residence, including a mobile home, which serves as a bona fide home and which is owned and occupied by any person or persons owning the property in indivision, regardless of whether the homeowner owns the land upon which the home or mobile home is sited; however, this homestead exemption shall not apply to the land upon which such primary residence is sited if the homeowner does not own the land.[2]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Louisiana Constitution
The proposed constitutional amendment needed to be approved through a two-thirds vote in both legislative chambers to be placed on the ballot.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Louisiana Legislature, "House Bill 59," accessed March 12, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid
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