Polls close at 7, here’s a look at 14 constitutional amendments on the ballot:

TEXAS (KMID/KPEJ)- Polls are set to close across the Basin at 7:00 p.m. so, if you haven’t yet voted, you still have time. Aside from the Midland ISD, Ector County ISD, and Greenwood ISD school bond proposals on the ballot, voters will also be deciding on 14 constitutional amendments statewide. Here’s a look at what each of those amendments means:

Prop 1: The Right to Farm

Further protects farmers, ranchers, etc. from local regulations
Raises the requirements needed for local governments to impose regulations on farms within city limits
Some argue this is redundant due to the major restrictions the legislature placed on local governments to pass ordinances in HB 2427

Prop 2: Child-care facility property tax exemption

Intended to reduce financial burdens on struggling facilities
Does not require property owners to pass on the savings to tenants

Prop 3: Wealth tax ban

Nobody is proposing a tax on wealth, but this would make it that much harder to ever impose one in the future

Prop 4: The Big Property Tax Cut

This was the legislature’s top priority and pushed us into two special sessions
Raises homestead exemption from $40,000 to $100,000
Limits appraisal growth for business property year-to-year
Increases state funding to public education to “buy down” local property tax rates
Average tax savings expected to be over $1,200 a year

Prop 5: Texas University Fund

Creates a new permanent endowment for emerging public research universities like Texas Tech and UH
Meant to rival the billions of dollars reserved for UT and A&M in the Permanent University Fund

Prop 6: Texas Water Fund

Establishes a fund to protect aging pipes
Addresses need to diversify water sources in a drought-prone and rapidly growing state
Texas loses 136 billion gallons of fresh water every year due to leaky pipes, according to the author Sen. Charles Perry

Prop 7: Texas Energy Fund

Provides no-interest loans and grants to energy companies to incentivize more energy production, construction of new facilities
Targets “dispatchable” power – meaning oil and gas
Addresses some of the concerns fueled by the 2021 blackouts, but still controversial – doesn’t do anything for renewable energy

Prop 8: Broadband Infrastructure Fund

Creates the Fund to enhance availability and usage of internet and phone service
Helps pay for services in areas that would otherwise not be profitable for companies to service
7 million Texans lack broadband access today, according to the Comptroller

Prop 9: More money for retired teachers

Retired teachers have not received a cost-of-living adjustment in 20 years
This will increase monthly pensions for support staff
Adds $3.45B to Teacher Retirement System
One quarter of the system’s 475,000 beneficiaries receive less than $1,000 a month

Prop 10: Tax cut for medical manufacturers

Exempts tangible property owned by medical product manufacturers
Intended to solidify medical supply chain and give a nice break to the Houston Medical Center, for example.

Prop 11: El Paso County bonds for parks