Maryland

YES: supports requiring the Governor’s budget to fully fund state employee union contracts once they are agreed to or settled, and making a neutral decision-maker’s ruling final when the state and unions can’t reach a deal.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping the current process, where a stalled negotiation goes to a fact finder whose recommendations are advisory only, and the Governor decides how much of a contract to fund in the budget.

YES: supports letting the commission’s chair appoint former members to temporarily fill empty seats, or letting the governor appoint a substitute member or extend a current member’s term.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping the current rule, where a substitute member can be named only by the Maryland Supreme Court with the written consent of the judge whose case the commission is hearing.

YES: supports applying the constitution’s district requirements (compact, contiguous, roughly equal in population, respecting city/county lines) only to state legislative districts, leaving no constitutional standard for congressional maps, and letting the legislature send challenges to congressional maps straight to the Maryland Supreme Court.

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping the constitution’s district requirements as they are, with no carve-out for congressional districts, and keeping the Maryland Supreme Court as the last court to hear challenges to congressional maps.