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Missouri Local Minimum Wage and Employment Benefits Initiative (2018)
| Missouri Local Minimum Wage and Employment Benefits Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic County and municipal governance | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Missouri Local Minimum Wage and Employment Benefits Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have prohibited the state legislature from prohibiting, restricting, limiting, or impairing existing or future laws of local governments requiring an employer to provide a specific minimum wage rate or employee benefits that exceed state or federal requirements.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title was as follows:[2]
| “ | Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to give any county, city, town, or village the right to require employers to pay a minimum wage or employment benefit that exceeds federal or state law, rules, or regulations, regardless of any action of the Missouri general assembly?
This proposal is expected to have no costs or savings to state or local governmental entities.[3] |
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Constitutional changes
- See also: Article III, Missouri Constitution
The measure would have amended Section 39 of Article III of the Missouri Constitution.[1]
Full text
The full text of the initiative is available for Petition 2018-152.
Path to the ballot
Supporters of the initiative were required to collect a number of signatures equivalent to 8 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 160,199. 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.
Winston Apple proposed the initiative.[1] The measure was approved for circulation on March 21, 2017.[2] Signatures were not filed for the initiative.
See also
- Missouri 2018 ballot measures
- 2018 ballot measures
- Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Missouri Secretary of State, "Petition 2018-152," January 31, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Missouri Secretary of State, "2018 Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation in Missouri," accessed March 24, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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