Louisiana Constitutional Amendment No. 2 — Authorizes a local taxing authority to levy a lower millage rate without losing its ability to adjust to the prior year’s maximum authorized millage rate
Ballot measure · November 3, 2026
- What it does
- 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))
- A YES vote means
- A local taxing authority could levy below its maximum millage rate and still later return to the maximum authorized rate from a prior reassessment.
- A NO vote means
- Current rules on millage-rate adjustments after reassessment would remain unchanged.
- Needed to pass
- A simple majority
- Put on the ballot by
- the Legislature
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