ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is taking his proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage on the road.

Silver (D-Manhattan) has scheduled a public hearing on the bill for April 23 at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building on West 125th Street in Harlem.

Other public hearings are to follow in Buffalo and Syracuse over the next month.

If passed, the bill would increase the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 an hour, starting next year, and would index it to inflation.

But state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Nassau) has voiced opposition to the plan, calling it a potential “job killer” that could force businesses with thin profit margins to lay off workers or stop hiring new ones.

And Gov. Cuomo, who has been generally supportive of the idea of increasing the minimum wage in the past, has yet to take a position this time around.

Supporters note that the minimum wage is higher in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and 15 other states than in New York and that 10 states have indexed their rates to inflation.