The Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DOLIR) has publicly acknowledged that the new minimum wage requirements enacted by the passage of Proposition B in 2006 do not apply to school districts.

MSBA contacted the DOLIR to verify information given to a school district pertaining to this law and was told the department's opinion was based on a Cole County court case. In Wright v. State of Missouri, the Circuit Court of Cole County found that local governments were not "persons acting as an employer" and therefore not subject to the state minimum wage law.

Judge Richard Callahan found that the state minimum wage law did not apply to local governments and enjoined the state and the DOLIR from enforcing the law against those entities. Attorney General Nixon, who represented the state in this matter, has said there will be no appeal. Local government employers are still subject to the federal minimum wage which is set to be $6.55 August 1, 2008.