Texas Constitutional Amendments Headed For Passage

STATE REPORTS (AP) – All 16 proposed Texas constitutional amendments won voter approval on Tuesday, including an ambitious $3 billion bond plan for cancer research.

Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong and his allies won the race when Proposition 15 received 61 percent of the vote in early returns. With more than half of all precincts reporting, 39 percent of voted against the proposition.

The other propositions:

authorize up to $5 billion in bonds for highway improvement projects allow denial of bail to someone who violates certain conditions of release in a felony or family violence case require that a recorded vote be taken by a house of the Legislature on final passage of any bill. It also provides for public access on the Internet to those recorded votes.