New Mexico Citizen Commission on Legislative Salaries Amendment (2024)
| New Mexico Citizen Commission on Legislative Salaries Amendment | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic State legislatures measures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The New Mexico Citizen Commission on Legislative Salaries Amendment was not on the ballot in New Mexico as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 5, 2024.[1]
The amendment would have established a citizen commission on legislative salaries. In 2023, New Mexico was the only state without a salaried state legislature.[2][3]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text can be read here.
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the New Mexico Constitution
To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment before voters, a simple majority vote is required in both the New Mexico State Senate and the New Mexico House of Representatives.
This amendment was introduced as House Joint Resolution 8 on January 23, 2023. On March 4, 2023, the state House passed HJR 8 in a vote of 40-24 with three excused. The amendment did not receive a vote in the state Senate before the state legislature adjourned on March 18, 2023.[1]
| Vote in the New Mexico House of Representatives | |||
| Requirement: Simple majority of all members in each chamber | |||
Number of yes votes required: 36  | |||
| Yes | No | Not voting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 40 | 24 | 6 |
| Total percent | 57.14% | 34.29% | 8.57% |
| Democrat | 40 | 2 | 4 |
| Republican | 22 | 0 | 2 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 New Mexico State Legislature, "HJR 8 Overview," accessed March 6, 2023
- ↑ New Mexico State Legislature, "HJR 8 Text," accessed March 6, 2023
- ↑ Albuquerque Journal, "New Mexico lawmakers don’t draw a salary. Legislation moving forward would ask voters whether they should get one," March 4, 2023
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