The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected challenges to ballot summaries and financial estimates for initiatives to increase tobacco taxes and raise the minimum wage in Missouri, the Columbia Missourian reports.
The ruling will allow the initiatives to appear on the Nov. 6 ballot, if the secretary of state’s office decides that enough petition signatures of registered voters have been submitted. In the ruling, the Supreme Court overturned a Cole County judge’s ruling that the state auditor lacked the constitutional authority to prepare financial estimates for ballot measures. It also rejected claims that the ballot summaries were unfair and insufficient.
The proposed minimum wage increase would take the state’s minimum pay up by $1 to $8.25 an hour starting in 2013, with annual cost-of living adjustments in subsequent years. The cigarette tax would increase the tax on a package of cigarettes to 90 cents a pack, up from the current 17 cents.
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