New Mexico Minimum Wage Amendment (2014)
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The New Mexico Minimum Wage Amendment was not on the November 4, 2014 ballot in New Mexico as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure, known in the legislature as Senate Joint Resolution 13, would have required annual increases to the state minimum wage based the cost of living changes. It died in the House.[1]
New Mexico lawmakers were considering a bill, however, that would raise the state minimum wage from $7.50 to $8.50 an hour. Although the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, employers must pay the higher rate if there is a difference between the federal and state or local rate.[2]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
The full text of SJR 13 is available here.
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the New Mexico Constitution
According to Article XIX of the New Mexico Constitution, it takes a majority vote of all members of both houses of the New Mexico State Legislature to refer a proposed amendment to the ballot. On February 27, 2014, SJR 13 failed to pass the House.[1]
Similar measures
The following measures related to minimum wage increases were proposed for the general election ballot in November:
- Alaska Minimum Wage Increase, Ballot Measure 3 (2014)
- Arkansas Minimum Wage Initiative (2014)
- California Minimum Wage Increase Initiative (2014)
- Idaho Minimum Wage Initiative (2014)
- Illinois Minimum Wage Increase Question (2014)
- Louisiana State Minimum Wage Amendment (2014)
- Massachusetts Minimum Wage Increase Initiative (2014)
- Michigan Minimum Wage Initiative (2014)
- Minnesota Inflation Adjusted Minimum Wage Amendment (2014)
- Missouri Minimum Wage Initiative (2014)
- Nebraska Minimum Wage Increase, Initiative 425 (2014)
- New Mexico Minimum Wage Amendment (2014)
- South Dakota Increased Minimum Wage, Initiated Measure 18 (2014)
- Washington Uniform Minimum Wage Measure, Initiative 1358 (2014)
- Washington D.C. Minimum Wage Initiative (2014)
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