Ohio Minimum Wage Increase Initiative (2024)
| Ohio Minimum Wage Increase Initiative | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Minimum wage | |
| Status Cleared for signature gathering | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Ohio Minimum Wage Increase Initiative may appear on the ballot in Ohio as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 5, 2024.
The ballot initiative would increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour on January 1, 2028. The minimum wage would increase to $10.50 in 2025 and then in equal increments each year until reaching $15.00 in 2028.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the ballot measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Ohio
In Ohio, the number of signatures required to get an initiated constitutional amendment placed on the ballot is equal to 10 percent of the votes cast in the preceding gubernatorial election. Ohio also requires initiative sponsors to submit 1,000 signatures with the initial petition application. Ohio has a signature distribution requirement, which requires that signatures be gathered from at least 44 of Ohio's 88 counties. Petitioners must gather signatures equal to a minimum of half the total required percentage of the gubernatorial vote in each of the 44 counties. Petitions are allowed to circulate for an indefinite period of time. Signatures are due 125 days prior to the general election that proponents want the initiative on.
The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2024 ballot:
- Signatures: 413,488 valid signatures are required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit the signatures is July 3, 2024.
County boards of elections are responsible for verifying signatures, and the secretary of state must determine the sufficiency of the signature petition at least 105 days before the election. If the first batch of signatures is determined to be insufficient, the petitioners are given a ten-day window to collect more signatures.
Stages of this ballot initiative
On October 20, 2022, Raise the Wage Ohio filed a petition for the initiative. On October 28, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) certified the petition form, which was sent to Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R).[2] The Ohio Ballot Board certified the petition as meeting the state's single-subject rule on November 7, 2022.[3]
On April 5, 2023, Attorney General Yost announced that the first round of 1,000 signatures was certified, and confirmed that the submitted summary of the ballot measure was a fair and truthful statement of the proposed initiative. On April 18, 2023, the Ohio Ballot Board unanimously certified the measure and stated that it contained a single proposed constitutional amendment.[4] On May 15, 2023, the Raise the Wage Coalition started their signature campaign for the Ohio 2024 ballot.[5]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ohio Attorney General, "Raise the Wage Ohio," October 28, 2022
- ↑ Ohio Attorney General, "List of petitions submitted to the Attorney General's Office," accessed November 22, 2022
- ↑ Ohio Secretary of State, "Ballot Board approval of the proposed constitutional amendment, entitled 'Raise the Wage Ohio,' as a single amendment," November 7, 2022
- ↑ Ohio Attorney General, "Raise the Wage Third Submission," April 5, 2023
- ↑ WOSO, "Campaign to raise Ohio's minimum wage to $15 an hour kicks off with signature gathering effort," April 24, 2023
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