Missouri No Requirement to Render Services Initiative (2018)

Missouri No Requirement to Render Services Initiative
Election date November 6, 2018
Topic Business regulation
Status Not on the ballot
Type Constitutional amendment	Origin Citizens
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The Missouri No Requirement to Render Services Initiative was not on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.

The measure would have provided individuals and organizations with a constitutional right to not render services, goods, or property.

Text of measure

Constitutional changes

See also: Article I, Missouri Constitution

Initiative Petition 2018-067 would have added a Section 36 to Article I of the Missouri Constitution:

36. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person, business, church, organization, or other lawful entity shall be required, either directly or indirectly, to render services, good, or property, except for just compensation from the recipient, unless such is required through sentencing upon being duly convicted of a misdemeanor or felony. Any law, regulation, or act of this state which either alone or in combination with the law of another jurisdiction would result in the rendering of services, good, or property without just compensation from the person receiving the services, good, or property, except as punishment for a crime, shall be invalid.

Full text

The full text of Initiative Petition 2018-067 is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri

Supporters of the initiative were required to collect a number of signatures equivalent to 8 percent of the 2016 gubernatorial vote in six of the eight state congressional districts. This means that the minimum possible number of valid signatures required was 160,199. Signatures needed to be filed with the secretary of state six months prior to the election on November 6, 2018. Six months prior to the election was May 6, 2018.

John Boyd proposed the initiative. The secretary of state rejected the petitions for the initiative.

See also

Suggest a link

• Missouri 2018 ballot measures
• 2018 ballot measures
• Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri

External links

• Petition 2018-067
• Petition 2018-123