Michigan $15 Minimum Wage Initiative (2024)
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| Michigan $15 Minimum Wage Initiative | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Minimum wage | |
| Status Signatures submitted | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Michigan $15 Minimum Wage Initiative may appear on the ballot in Michigan as an indirect initiated state statute on November 5, 2024.
The ballot measure would increase the state minimum wage to $15 in 2027.[1]
The proposed ballot measure is an indirect initiated state statute. In Michigan, citizen-initiated statutes that receive enough valid signatures are sent to the Legislature, which then has 40 days to pass the initiative into law. The governor cannot veto indirect initiatives that legislators approve. If the legislature does not approve the initiative, then it appears on the next general election ballot.
Text of measure
Full text
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Path to the ballot
Stages of this initiative
- The ballot initiative was filed with the Department of State on December 22, 2021.[1]
- On January 19, 2021, the ballot summary was approved by the Michigan Board of Canvassers.[2]
- On March 21, 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that a union logo on the petition did not need to comply with petition font-size requirements and did not invalidate petition sheets containing the logo.[3]
- On March 24, 2022, the Michigan Board of State Canvassers approved the petition form for the initiative, clearing the initiative for signature gathering.[4]
- On July 26, 2022, the One Fair Wage campaign announced that it submitted over 610,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot.[5]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Michigan Board of State Canvassers, "Raise the Wage," accessed July 27, 2022
- ↑ Crains Detroit, "Minimum wage, abortion rights, audit ballot drives advance," January 20, 2022
- ↑ The Detroit News, "Supreme Court clears way for union labels to stay on petition initiatives," March 21, 2022
- ↑ Michigan Live, "Initiative to change Michigan term limits moves forward," March 24, 2022
- ↑ Detroit News, "Petitions submitted for ballot initiative to raise Michigan minimum wage to $15," July 26, 2022
