100-2025: INITIATIVES.INITIATIVE PETITIONS.

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MISSOURI
ANDREW BAILEY
Supreme Court Building
207 W. High Street
P.O. Box 899
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Phone: (573) 751-3321
Fax: (573) 751-0774
www.ago.mo.gov
June 23, 2025
OPINION LETTER NO. 100-2025
The Honorable Denny Hoskins
Missouri Secretary of State
James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center
600 West Main Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Dear Secretary Hoskins:
This opinion letter responds to your request dated June 13, 2025 for our review
under § 116.334, RSMo of a proposed summary statement prepared for the petition
submitted by Richard von Glahn, 2026-047. The proposed summary statement is as
follows:
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:
• set a $15 minimum wage starting January 1, 2027, with annual automatic
increases for inflation;
• impose a new paid sick leave mandate on private employers;
• exempt state and local government employers from all such obligations;
• authorize enforcement through lawsuits and new regulations;
• prohibit the legislature from clarifying these mandates; and
• allow local governments over 10,000 in population and all counties to enact
more costly wage or leave standards?
Pursuant to § 116.334, RSMo, we approve the legal content and form of the
proposed statement. Because our review of the statement is mandated by statute, no
action that we take with respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement
of the petition, nor as the expression of any view regarding the objectives of its
proponents.
Very truly yours,
ANDREW BAILEY
Attorney General
OP-2025-111