What Floridas living wage amendment will look like

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2017/11/16/what-floridas-living-wage-amendment-will-look-like-115719

TALLAHASSEE — With just 38 words, Florida Democratic donor and medical marijuana godfather John Morgan wants voters to jack up the state’s minimum wage eventually to $15 hourly under a draft of the constitutional amendment he’s proposing.

“We’re going to get this on the ballot and it’s going to pass because people know that the minimum wage is not a living wage,” said Morgan, a wealthy trial lawyer from the Orlando area.

Florida’s current minimum wage of $8.25 is higher than the nation’s thanks to a 2004 state constitutional amendment that boosted earnings after it was approved by 71.3 percent of voters — the exact number that coincidentally approved last year’s medical marijuana initiative that Morgan bankrolled. It takes 60 percent of voters to approve a constitutional amendment.

Here’s how the new proposal is worded: “Effective September, 30 2021, the existing state Minimum Wage shall increase to $10.00 per hour, and then increase each September 30 after that by $1.00 per hour until the minimum wage reaches $15.00 per hour on September 30, 2026.”