HB-8 / Retirement benefits / Hagan
Convicted felon forfeits retirement benefits based on employer contributions.
OPAA:Support concept but bill too broad. See SB-3

HB-10 / Juror compensation / Wolpert
Compensation of lower court jurors.
OPAA: No position 3/8/07

HB-15 / Human trafficking / Chandler
To prohibit human trafficking.
OPAA: Oppose criminal as duplicative. Table remainder.

HB-18 / Liquor consumption / Carano
Consumption by athletic teams
OPAA: Oppose 3/8/07

HB-22 / Animal cruelty / Williams, B.
To increase certain penalties for animal cruelty.
OPAA: Oppose 3/8/07

HB-23 / Sexual battery / DeBose
To include security guards as persons in authority.
OPAA: Oppose 3/8/07

HB-46 / Credit Freeze / Stewart, J.
OPAA:

HB-74 / Voyeurism / Schlichter
Spying on a minor
OPAA: Support, Leave in taping, filming, etc. , reduce penalty to F4 or F5, use better term than "spying". 5/17/07

HB-83 / SORN license plate / DeBose
OPAA: Oppose, See SB-56

HB-97 / Child care providers / Fessler
Child abuse memorandum of understanding in each county
OPAA:

HB-108 / Drug enforcement / Patton
Court costs to fund drug enforcement.
OPAA:

HB-120 / Forfeiture / Latta
To make a correction with regard to mistakenly retained language in HB-241.
OPAA:

HB-130 / DRC Bill / White
OPAA:Support with changes to judical release and medical release. 5/17/07

HB-132 / Property burning / Hughes
OPAA: Support our language. 2/1/07

HB-138 / Judical sales / Foley
OPAA: Support but remove power of Board of Revision to transfer title (?) 5/17/07

HB-139 / Change of name / Skindell
OPAA: Support 5/17/07

HB-141 / Courthouse assault / Letson
OPAA - Support 3/8/07

HB-142 / School threats / Batchelder
To increase penalty for inducing panic to F2 when school involved.
OPAA: Support F3 across the board. Add universities. 4/12/07

HB-145 / Assault / Driehaus
Penalty for assault on person on citizen patrol program. OPAA: Oppose. 4/12/07

HB-154 / Mayors' courts / Wolpert
To abolish mayors' courts and to increase pay of municipal judges.
OPAA: Support 5/17/07

HB-172 / Sealing / Williams, S.
To provide for sealing in certain cases (Keyes's bill)
OPAA: Support concept but retain option of PA to object for any reason, retain discretion of judge to not order sealing. Lines 104 to 108. 5/17/07
OPAA: Discussed, tabled. 6/21/07

HB-173 / Judicial pay, qualificatons / Seitz
OPAA: Support, also support PA joining in bill, also 5 year practice requirement for Pas. 5/17/07

HB-183 / Assault / Setzer
Increases penalties for assaults on health care workers and school employees.
OPAA: Oppose 5/17/07

HB-184 / Elected officials' salaries / Dodd
Establishes an Elected Officials Review Commission to study salaries.
OPAA: Have outside group do a study. 5/17/07

HB-191 / Obscene material / Goodwin
Requires that in a criminal proceeding obscene material remain in the custody of the prosecutor or court.
OPAA: Support 5/17/07

HB-195 / Prescription drugs / Core
A lawful prescription.
OPAA:

HB-197 / School assaults / Boyd
Reporting of assaults to school administrators and law enforcement
OPAA:

HB-202 / Delinquents / Boyd
Requires DYS to set up individualized rehab programs
OPAA:

HB-203 / Felons / Boyd
Requires DRC to set up individualized rehab programs
OPAA:

HB-204 / School security / Boyd
To permit school boards to hire security personnel
OPAA:

HB-205 / Obscene materials / Goodwin
On final disposition of criminal case, obscene materials will be kept by prosecutor or court.
OPAA:

HB-207 / Vehicle crimes / Peterson
Increased penalties for failure to yield or assured clear distance when results in death or serious physical harm.
OPAA:

HB-209 / Sexual battery / Core
Adds peace officers
OPAA: Oppose 5/17/07. Reconsidered 1/24/08. Decided to support with amendment that sex occurred while officer on duty or after the officer had substantial contact with the minor in course of officer's duties.

HB-215 / Salvia divinorum / Collier
OPAA: Support 5/17/07

HB-218 /DNA testing / Chandler
To permit guilty pleas to apply for DNA testing
OPAA: Oppose 5/17/07

HB-219 / Testimonial privilege / Patton
Between a union and employee in a bargaining unit.
OPAA: Oppose, past

HB-221 / Campaign finance / Stewart
To undo HB-694 of the 126th.
OPAA:

HB-223 / Dog breeding / Hughes
OPAA: See SB-173

HB-225 / Concealed handguns / Brinkman
OPAA:

HB-239 / Juveniles / Latta
Definition of "harmful to juveniles".
OPAA: Oppose change, but support a chage where consideration of the age of teh victim was a factor in determining guilt or in determining the severity of sentence. 9/20/07

HB-241 / Sex offenses / Heard
Living near school or other place where children frequent.
OPAA: Support with notice. See SB-159

HB-246 / Concession employees / Stewart, J
Requires concession owners and operators et al to provde the names and addresses of their employees when requested by chief of police or county sheriff.
OPAA: Support 9/20/07

HB-247 / Protection orders / Brown
OPAA: No position 6/21/07

HB-256 / Public Access Counselor / Wagoner
OPAA: Oppose, HB-9, 126th.

HB-264 / Self Defense / Wachtmann
OPAA: Oppose, see SB-184. 6/21/07

HB-265 / Judicial attacks / Fende
To increase penalties for assault on judges.
OPAA:

HB-278 / Motorcycle seizures / Letson
OPAA: Oppose 8/16/07

HB-279 / Ignition interlocks / Seitz
OPAA: Support except oppose reduced penalties 8/16/07

HB-284 / Abortion / Brinkman
OPAA: Oppose re:constitutionality 8/16/07

HB-285 / Business fines / McGregor
To waive fines and penalties on small business first offenders for "paperwork violations".
OPAA:

HB-292 / License sticker / DeGeeter
Makes theft of a license validation sticker a felony.
OPAA: Support

HB-296 / Prison sentences / Hughes
Repeat offender, longest term; double sentences for two or more
OPAA: Support

HB-306 / Fingerprinting / Latta
Prints of arrestees
OPAA:

HB-310 / Fleeing / Yuko
Amends the crime of fleeing and eluding an officer so that it applies to offenders who flee on foot.
OPAA: Oppose 9/20/07

HB-312 / Providing alcohol / Bacon
To permit suspension of driver's license of any person who furnishes beer or liquor to an underage person.
OPAA:

HB-317 / Vehicle homicide / Healy
Increased penalty if driving without license or cancelled license.
OPAA:

HB-323 / Fences law / Peterson
OPAA:

HB-330 / Jury list / Healy
Motor voter proposal.
OPAA:

HB-343 / Victim notification / Bacon
Parole notices to victims; make voluntary manslaughter committed with a sexual motivation a sexually oriented offense.
OPAA: Support 10/25/2007

HB-355 / Medicaid fraud / Hughes
Qui Tam civil actions for medicaid fraud
OPAA:

HB-356 / GSI, parent / Hottinger
OPAA:

HB-359 / DTAC funds / Huffman
Commissioners can use DTAC funds for nuisance abatement. Also see HB-388 (Driehaus) and HB-261 (Bolon)
OPAA: Oppose. Support concept that DTAC monies can, at discretion of the prosecutor, be used for additional purposes in the prosecutors office or returned to taxing subdivisions. 11/28/07

HB-365 / Criminal penalties / Evans
Prison crowding issues
OPAA:

HB-366 / Vicious dogs / Webster
To remove "pit bull" from the definition of a vicious dog.
OPAA: No position 1/24/08

HB-376 / Indigent defense /
OPAA: No position 3/20/08

HB-388 / Foreclosures / Driehaus
Utilize surplus delinquent tax collections to prevent foreclosures.
OPAA: Oppose. Support concept that DTAC monies can, at discretion of the prosecutor, be used for additional purposes in the prosecutors office or returned to taxing subdivisions. 11/28/07

HB-395 / Domestic violence / Hughes
To provide for the return of personal property held by a law enforcement agency upon expiration or termination of a protection order.
OPAA:

HB-406 / Corporal punishment / Peterson
Outlaws corporal punishment in public schools.
OPAA:

HB-414 / Setting of bail / Latta
When accused must personally appear for setting of bail.
OPAA:

HB-415 / Animal fighting / Blessing
Increases penalties for animal fighting.
OPAA: Support except oppose forfeiture parts. 1/24/08

HB-418 / Animal cruelty / Combs
Penalties, sentencing procedure, protection orders.
OPAA:

HB-419 / Homeless intimidation / Foley
OPAA: Oppose 1/24/08

HB-425 / Text messaging / Fessler
To prohibit text messaging while driving.
OPAA: Oppose 2/21/08

HB-426 / Bus drivers / DeBose
Requires driver of school bus to maintain order
OPAA:

HB-428 / School employee misconduct / Setzer
Reporting of misconduct
OPAA:

HB-430 / Sex offenders / Garrison
Prohibits Tier III offenders for certain offenses from being on grounds of a school, pre-school, or day care facility.
OPAA: Oppose 1/24/08

HB-446 / Animal control /Webster
OPAA:

HB-447 / Community corrections / S. Williams
OPAA:

HB-448 / Missing persons / S. Williams
OPAA: Support except RC 109.5731 provision and no position on RC313.08 provision. 2/21/08

HB-459 /Cause of death / Hottinger
Action to change a death certificate or coronor's verdict.
OPAA: Tabled 2/21/08

HB-467 /DNA collection / Strahorn
To require sample collection for all delinquents.
OPAA: Support 2/21/08

HB-471 / Coronors /Setzer
OPAA: Support basic framework. 4/17/2008

HB-482 / Bulk data requests / Fende
OPAA: Support. 4/17/2008

HB-485 / Newborn surrender / DeGeeter
To increase the number of hours after birth within which the parent may surrender the child to a safe haven.
OPAA: No position 3/20/08

HB-496 / Capital appropriations /
OPAA:

HB-511 / Park violations / DeGeeter
OPAA: Support. 4/17/2008

HB-512 / Vehicular homicide / Sayre
Modifies penalties
OPAA:

HB-521 / Local government / Wolpert
Creates Commission on Local Government Reform
OPAA: Support, but add local reps from OCCO, Mun League, Twp Assoc 4/17/08

HB-528 / Water keys / E. Miller
To prohibit sale of water keys to anyone other than a plumber
OPAA: No position 4/17/08

HB-538 / Sex offender monitoring / Patton
GPS on release or on sentencing for Tier III offenders
OPAA: