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Florida Community Service In Lieu of Traffic and Parking Ticket Fines Initiative (2022)

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Florida Community Service In Lieu of Traffic and Parking Ticket Fines Initiative
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
Transportation
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment		Origin
Citizens

The Florida Community Service In Lieu of Traffic and Parking Ticket Fines Initiative (Initiative #19-02) was not on the ballot in Florida as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.[1]

Measure design

This measure would have allowed drivers to complete community service at any non-profit organization instead of paying fines associated with traffic or parking tickets.[1]

Text of measure

Ballot title

The proposed title was as follows:[2]

“ All drivers may complete community service in lieu of paying traffic and parking ticket fines[3] ”

Ballot summary

The proposed ballot summary was as follows:[2]

“ This amendment requires that the clerk of courts in each county shall establish a program through which any person who has been issued a citation by any governmental entity lawfully designated to issue traffic and parking citations, shall be provided the opportunity to complete community service hours with any non-profit organization in lieu of paying any fines associated with the citation.[3] ”

Constitutional changes

The full text can be accessed here.

Sponsors

Drivers Ready To Improve, Vote and Empower (D.R.I.V.E.) sponsored the initiative.[2]

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Florida

The state process

In Florida, the number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment is equal to 8% of the votes cast in the preceding presidential election. Florida also has a signature distribution requirement, which requires that signatures equaling at least 8% of the district-wide vote in the last presidential election be collected from at least half (14) of the state's 28 congressional districts. Signatures remain valid until February 1 of an even-numbered year.[4] Signatures must be verified by February 1 of the general election year the initiative aims to appear on the ballot.

Proposed measures are reviewed by the state attorney general and state supreme court after proponents collect 25% of the required signatures across the state in each of one-half of the state's congressional districts (222,898 signatures for 2024 ballot measures). After these preliminary signatures have been collected, the secretary of state must submit the proposal to the Florida Attorney General and the Financial Impact Estimating Conference (FIEC). The attorney general is required to petition the Florida Supreme Court for an advisory opinion on the measure's compliance with the single-subject rule, the appropriateness of the title and summary, and whether or not the measure "is facially invalid under the United States Constitution."[5]

The requirements to get an initiative certified for the 2022 ballot:

  • Signatures: 891,589 valid signatures
  • Deadline: The deadline for signature verification was February 1, 2022. As election officials have 30 days to check signatures, petitions should be submitted at least one month before the verification deadline.

In Florida, proponents of an initiative file signatures with local elections supervisors, who are responsible for verifying signatures. Supervisors are permitted to use random sampling if the process can estimate the number of valid signatures with 99.5% accuracy. Enough signatures are considered valid if the random sample estimates that at least 115% of the required number of signatures are valid.

Details about the initiative

  • The initiative was approved for circulation on January 29, 2019.[2]
  • Sponsors did not submit the required number of signatures to qualify for the ballot by the deadline on February 1, 2022.[6]

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Florida Department of Elections, "Initiative 19-02 text," accessed February 5, 2019
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named initiative
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  4. ↑ Before the passage of Florida Senate Bill 1794 of 2020, signatures remained valid for a period of two years
  5. ↑ Florida State Senate, "Florida Senate Bill 1794," accessed April 13, 2020
  6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Measure
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