UPDATE: The Hospital Executive Compensation Act will not be on the 2016 ballot after its backers withdrew the effort on August 15, the day before a scheduled court challenge. The backers said their efforts would be better spent defeating Donald Trump. The Hospital Executive Compensation Act: Limits total annual compensation paid to executives, administrators, and managers of hospitals, hospital groups, ...
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The Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act
The Fair Wages and Healthy Families Initiative increases minimum wage to $10 in 2017 then gradually to $12 by 2020; provides 40 hours annual “earned paid sick time” for employees of large employers (24 hours for those of small employers); time accrues at one hour earned for every 30 hours worked; time may be used to address circumstances caused by ...
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The Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act: (1) establishes a 15% tax on retail marijuana sales, from which the revenue will be allocated to public health and education; (2) allows adults twenty-one years of age and older to possess and to privately consume and grow limited amounts of marijuana; (3) creates a system in which licensed businesses can produce and ...
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