Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has asked the county’s delegation to the Tennessee General Assembly to work on increasing the state’s minimum wage and to commit funding for mental health, veteran services, Regional One Health and more.
“It is past time for the State of Tennessee to adopt a minimum wage of at least $15 per hour,” Harris said in a news release. “Today, I sent a slate of legislative recommendations to our Shelby County delegation. Our priorities include a robust joint public safety agenda prepared with DA (Steve) Mulroy and (Juvenile Court) Judge (Tarik) Sugarmon. We also really dial in on the important issues of access to healthcare, efforts to strengthen our democracy, and support for working families. The best way we can support working families is to do everything we can to ensure that Tennesseans receive a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work.”
Harris’ set of legislative priorities, presented to the Shelby County Delegation Tuesday, also includes a request that the state overturn the Human Life Protection Act, which triggered a ban on abortion upon the overturning of Roe v. Wade. If the law is not overturned, Harris asked that exceptions be added for the life of the mother and victims of rape and incest.
Many of the requests in Harris’ legislative agenda mirror actions his administration has taken locally.
Those include raising the minimum wage for Shelby County employees, first to $15 an hour in 2018, then to $15.44 and currently to $16 an hour.
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