Missouri $14 Minimum Wage Initiative (2018)
| Missouri $14 Minimum Wage Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Minimum wage | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri $14 Minimum Wage Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.
Raise Up Missouri proposed ballot initiatives to increase the minimum wage to $11, $12, $13, $14, and $15. The group settled on an initiative to increase the minimum wage to $12 an hour and collected signatures for the 2018 ballot.
The measure would have increased the minimum wage to $14 an hour. Richard Von Glahn, who filed the initiative, proposed two versions. One version would have increased the minimum wage to $14 by 2026 and guaranteed that tipped employees are paid 100 percent of the minimum wage by January 1, 2028.[1] The other version would have increased the minimum wage to $14 by 2024 and guaranteed that tipped employees are paid 60 percent of the minimum wage by January 1, 2024.[2]
As of 2017, the minimum wage in Missouri was $7.70.
Text of measure
Ballot title
As two versions of this initiative were filed for circulation, the secretary of state crafted a ballot title for each one.[3]
| Measure 2018-079 | |||||
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Shall Missouri law be amended to:
State and local governments estimate no direct costs or savings from the proposal, but operating costs could increase by an unknown annual amount that could be significant. State and local government tax revenue could change by an unknown annual amount ranging from a $9.5 million decrease to a $347 million increase depending on business decisions.[4] | |||||
| Measure 2018-080 | |||||
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Shall Missouri law be amended to:
State and local governments estimate no direct costs or savings from the proposal, but operating costs could increase by an unknown annual amount that could be significant. State and local government tax revenue could change by an unknown annual amount ranging from a $9.5 million decrease to a $343 million increase depending on business decisions.[4] | |||||
Full text
The full text of the measure is available for Petition 2018-079 and Petition 2018-080.
Path to the ballot
Supporters of the initiative were required to collect a number of signatures equivalent to 5 percent of the 2016 gubernatorial vote in six of the eight state congressional districts. This means that the minimum possible number of valid signatures required was 100,126. Signatures needed to be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election on November 6, 2018. Six months prior to the election was May 6, 2018.
Richard Von Glahn proposed two versions of the initiative.[3]
See also
- Missouri 2018 ballot measures
- 2018 ballot measures
- Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Missouri Secretary of State, "Petition 2018-079," accessed January 12, 2017
- ↑ Missouri Secretary of State, "Petition 2018-080," accessed January 12, 2017
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Missouri Secretary of State, "2018 Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation in Missouri," accessed January 12, 2017
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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