Nebraska Amendment 10, Personal Property Tax Exemption Amendment (1970)

Nebraska Amendment 10
Election date November 3, 1970
Topic Property tax exemptions
Status Approved
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Nebraska Amendment 10 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Nebraska on November 3, 1970. It was approved.

A "yes" vote supported authorizing the legislature to classify and exempt personal property from taxation.

A "no" vote opposed authorizing the legislature to classify and exempt personal property from taxation.

Election results

Nebraska Amendment 10
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		215,418	51.90%
No		199,637	48.10%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Amendment 10 was as follows:

“

Constitutional amendment providing that the Legislature may classify personal property, and may exempt any of such classes or all personal property from taxation.

”

Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Nebraska Constitution

A 60% supermajority vote is required during one legislative session for the Nebraska State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 30 votes in the unicameral legislature, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot. A simple majority vote is required for voter approval. However, the number of affirmative votes cast for the measure must be greater than 35% of the total votes cast in the election. This also applies to citizen initiatives.

See also

1970 Measures

• 1970 Measures
• Property tax exemptions on the ballot
• 1970 legislative sessions

Nebraska

• Nebraska ballot measures
• Nebraska ballot measure laws

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External links

• List of Nebraska ballot measures, 1882-2012