LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is being requested to issue a formal opinion on whether the State Legislature had the authority to water down two citizen initiatives during the lame duck session.
One would have increased the minimum wage and the other would have made sick-pay mandatory for all employees.
Senator Stephanie Chang has requested the opinion.
She says the State Legislature has only three options under the State Constitution, to either approve it as written. To not act and let it go to the ballot. The third is to propose an alternative ballot initiative that would appear with the original citizen’s initiative.
Nessel is giving anyone who wants to comment on the question until March 6th to send their written arguments to miag@mi.gov, with “ATT: Opinions Division” in the subject line.
(copy written by John McNeill)
