Adopt and amend - Michigan

[highroller]

Michigan Republicans in 2018 adopted two ballot proposals before the election and decided that they were going to “amend” them after the election. They did this because they were afraid the proposals were going to pass making a much more difficult to amend them in the future. Well adopting proposals before an election has been done on a regular basis amending them in the lame duck session after the election but before the new legislature is seated has never been done before. Today, a judge voided them out in favor of the original proposal that was passed.

As Judge Shapiro noted in his opinion, the constitution ‘grants the Legislature three options to address a law proposed through the initiative process—enact the law, reject the law, or propose an alternative. Article 2, 9 does not permit the Legislature to adopt a proposed law and, in the same legislative session, substantially amend or repeal it.’

Court ruling could mean changes to Michigan minimum wage law

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I have always been against the “adopt and amend” policy the Republicans instituted in 2018. A plain reading of the Michigan constitution does not confer the ability to the legislature to amend laws they pass as a way to circumvent the petition in ballot proposal process. Good for Michigan!

As for the proposals themselves, I don’t know how I would’ve voted. I’m just glad that this has been struck down

 

[bongsaway]

Michigan Republicans in 2018 adopted two ballot proposals before the election and decided that they were going to “amend” them after the election. They did this because they were afraid the proposals were going to pass making a much more difficult to amend them in the future. Well adopting proposals before an election has been done on a regular basis amending them in the lame duck session after the election but before the new legislature is seated has never been done before. Today, a judge voided them out in favor of the original proposal that was passed.

Court ruling could mean changes to Michigan minimum wage law

WEYI –MidMichigannow provides coverage of breaking news, sports and weather in the Flint – Saginaw area of Michigan, including Lansing, Owosso, Chesaning, St Charles, Bay City, Midland, Akron, Caro, Vassar, Lapeer, Auburn Hills, Fenton and Brighton, Michigan.

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I have always been against the “adopt and amend” policy the Republicans instituted in 2018. A plain reading of the Michigan constitution does not confer the ability to the legislature to amend laws they pass as a way to circumvent the petition in ballot proposal process. Good for Michigan!

As for the proposals themselves, I don’t know how I would’ve voted. I’m just glad that this has been struck down

Am I reading this correctly? The R's want to pass a particular law before the election and then amend it after the election? Why not just pass what you mean in the first place so it does not have to be amended after the election. It makes it seem rather questionable at best.

 

[Gateman_Wen]

Am I reading this correctly? The R's want to pass a particular law before the election and then amend it after the election? Why not just pass what you mean in the first place so it does not have to be amended after the election. It makes it seem rather questionable at best.

Because they change the meaning to what they really wanted after the election when unpopular legislation can't hurt their chances.

 

[Glitch]

Michigan Republicans in 2018 adopted two ballot proposals before the election and decided that they were going to “amend” them after the election. They did this because they were afraid the proposals were going to pass making a much more difficult to amend them in the future. Well adopting proposals before an election has been done on a regular basis amending them in the lame duck session after the election but before the new legislature is seated has never been done before. Today, a judge voided them out in favor of the original proposal that was passed.

Court ruling could mean changes to Michigan minimum wage law

WEYI –MidMichigannow provides coverage of breaking news, sports and weather in the Flint – Saginaw area of Michigan, including Lansing, Owosso, Chesaning, St Charles, Bay City, Midland, Akron, Caro, Vassar, Lapeer, Auburn Hills, Fenton and Brighton, Michigan.

nbc25news.com

I have always been against the “adopt and amend” policy the Republicans instituted in 2018. A plain reading of the Michigan constitution does not confer the ability to the legislature to amend laws they pass as a way to circumvent the petition in ballot proposal process. Good for Michigan!

As for the proposals themselves, I don’t know how I would’ve voted. I’m just glad that this has been struck down

The article was poorly written. It does not make it clear that the One Fair Wage was a referendum passed by voters. You are forced to deduce that by the comment the judge made referencing Article II, Section 9 of the Michigan Constitution. Article II, Section 9 of the Michigan Constitution deals with "Initiative and referendum; limitations; appropriations; petitions."

The Michigan Constitution states very clearly that "[l]aws approved by the people under the referendum provision of this section may be amended by the legislature at any subsequent session thereof." {emphasis added}

Which would make any alteration to a referendum by the legislature in the same session that it was passed, unconstitutional.

 

[highroller]

And down it goes… they should have just let the people vote on it or submitted their own proposal. But no, they tried to be sneaky.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/mi-minimum-wage-to-increase-after-mi-supreme-court-ruling/

 

[Utility Man]

Can see why republicans didn't want the people to vote on it.

"......The Michigan Minimum Wage Increase Initiative was an indirect initiated state statute in Michigan that the state legislature voted to approve on September 5, 2018. If the legislature failed to act on the indirect initiative, the measure would have appeared on the ballot on November 6, 2018......

......If the initiative went to the ballot and voters approved it, a three-fourths vote of the legislature would have been required to amend it. As it was passed in the legislature, however, a simple majority vote is needed to amend the initiative at a future date....."

Michigan Minimum Wage Increase Initiative (2018)

Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

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"......Minimum wage on the ballot: This subtopic of "wages and pay" refers to ballot measures regarding minimum wage. Specifically, this has included the increase and establishment of minimum wage.

Outcomes of minimum wage measures, 1996-2023

From 1996 to 2022, there were 28 minimum wage increase measures on the ballot. Voters approved 26 (92.86%) and rejected two (7.14%).

As of 2022, the last time that voters rejected a minimum wage increase measure was in 1996, when measures were defeated in Missouri and Montana.

The following chart shows election outcomes for minimum wage increase ballot measures from 1996 to 2022........"

Minimum wage on the ballot

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".....The court’s ruling means that on Feb. 21, 2025, the state’s minimum wage for regular and tipped workers will rise to $12 per hour. One Fair Wage, the group behind the ballot initiative, said more than 860,000 Michigan workers will see pay raises....."

https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/mi-minimum-wage-to-increase-after-mi-supreme-court-ruling/

Wonder if those due an increase are going to be voting republican, 860,000 is just over 10% of registered voters. Surely most people know where raises come from, right.