New Mexico

YES: supports ending the pocket veto, so a bill the governor neither signs nor vetoes becomes law automatically (after three days during the session, or 20 days for bills sent in its last three days)

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, maintaining the current process in which governors have a “pocket veto,” meaning the governor effectively vetoes a bill by not signing within the required timeframe.

YES: supports letting school elections be held on the same dates as partisan elections (like federal or statewide races), instead of in a separate year

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, keeping the requirement that school elections be held in a different year from partisan elections

YES: supports creating a committee that vets candidates for New Mexico’s public university boards and gives the governor a list to choose from

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, allowing the governor to continue choosing whoever they want to run NM’s public university boards

YES: supports paying New Mexico state legislators a salary tied to the state’s median household income, rising or falling automatically as that income changes

NO: opposes this constitutional amendment, maintaining that New Mexico state legislators do not receive a salary

YES: supports letting the state borrow $30 million through bonds to build, equip, and improve senior citizen centers

NO: opposes this borrowing, so the state does not issue the $30 million in bonds for senior centers

YES: supports letting the state borrow $20 million through bonds to buy resources for libraries across the state

NO: opposes this borrowing, so the state does not issue the $20 million in bonds for library resources

YES: supports letting the state borrow $230 million through bonds for construction, renovation, and equipment at colleges and universities, special schools, and tribal schools

NO: opposes this borrowing, so the state does not issue the $230 million in bonds for these schools