The Ohio Supreme Court today approved a new Model Uniform Traffic Ticket designed to collect more information for law enforcement as well as better inform the public.

The new ticket will go into effect on July 1, 2020, while the old version of the ticket will still be accepted until July 1, 2021. The grace period for older tickets will allow courts and law enforcement time to use their existing supply of old tickets before switching to the new ones. It will also ensure there is plenty of time to order and produce new tickets.

The new ticket contains changes suggested by Gov. Mike DeWine’s Warrant Task Force. These changes include more prominently showing the time, date, and place where the court hearing for an infraction is to take place.

The new ticket also collects more traffic information, such as whether construction workers were present at the time of the cited incident and whether audio and visual evidence of the traffic stop was collected.