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Maryland Budget Bill Appropriations for State Employee Salaries and Benefits Amendment (2026)

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Maryland Budget Bill Appropriations for State Employee Salaries and Benefits Amendment
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Election date
November 3, 2026
Topic
State and local government budgets, spending and finance and Labor and unions
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment		Origin
State legislature

The Maryland Budget Bill Appropriations for State Employee Salaries and Benefits Amendment is not on the ballot in Maryland as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 3, 2026.

The amendment would have required budget bills to include expenditures to cover wages and benefits for state employees.[1]

Text of measure

Full text

The full text can be read here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Maryland Constitution

Amending the Maryland Constitution

See also: Amending the Maryland Constitution

A 60% vote is required during one legislative session for the Maryland State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 85 votes in the Maryland House of Delegates and 29 votes in the Maryland State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

House Bill 599 (2025)

The following is the timeline of the constitutional amendment in the state legislature:

  • January 23, 2025: House Bill 599 (HB 599) was introduced.[1]
  • March 13, 2025: The Maryland House of Representatives passed the bill by a vote of 109-30.[1]
  • April 7, 2025: The legislature adjourned without taking the final vote on the amendment.
Vote in the Maryland House of Representatives
March 13, 2025
Requirement: Three-fifths (60 percent) vote of all members in each chamber
Number of yes votes required: 85  Approveda
YesNoNot voting
Total109302
Total percent77.3%21.3%1.4%
Democrat10200
Republican7302

See also

  • Ballot measure lawsuits
  • Ballot measure readability
  • Ballot measure polls

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Maryland State Legislature, "HB 599," accessed March 14, 2025
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