Legislation to repackage portions of Amendment 2, which failed in the March 29 election, will be heard in the House Ways and Means Committee this week. Rep. Julie Emerson (R-Carencro), who authored ...

Tennessee voters will decide on a constitutional amendment, known as Amendment 2, to permanently ban a state property tax. While Tennessee eliminated its state property tax in 1949, the legislature ...

The defeat of Amendment 2 on the statewide ballot last month should not mean the end for some individual proposals within the amendment. If legislators give voters a menu of options for reform rather ...

The defeat has not deterred Landry and his legislative allies from trying to take another bite of the apple, albeit in smaller bites. The governor and his allies believe that voters rebuffed Amendment ...

In one way at least, the Louisiana Legislature seems poised to apply the right lessons from earlier losses. After voters overwhelmingly defeated the 115-page constitutional Amendment 2 in March, ...

I won’t rehash the Amendment 2 political fight in Missouri, but to recall that the proponents’ language led to the state refusing to appropriate money for a life science trust fund because the money ...

A month ago, voters soundly rejected a complicated proposal by Gov. Jeff Landry to revamp the tax section of Louisiana’s constitution. The defeat has not deterred Landry and his legislative allies ...