SB3 |
DRUG SENTENCING REFORM (EKLUND J, O'BRIEN S) To modify the controlled substance possession and trafficking prohibitions and penalties and the drug and alcohol abuse civil commitment mechanism. |
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Current Status: |
11/10/2020 - House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Concerned with changes to drug trafficking and reduction of felony possession offenses to misdemeanors. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-3 |
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SB5 |
PROMOTING PROSTITUTION PENALTIES (KUNZE S, DOLAN M) To amend the penalties for promoting prostitution. |
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Current Status: |
12/12/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/12/2020 |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-5 |
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SB10 |
THEFT IN OFFICE PENALTIES (WILSON S) To expand the penalties for theft in office based on the amount stolen and to include as restitution audit costs of the entity that suffered the loss. |
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Current Status: |
9/21/2020 - House Appoints Managers; G. Lang, B. Seitz & D. Leland Named as House Conferees |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-10 |
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SB12 |
TRAFFIC LAW PHOTO MONITORING (CRAIG H) To make changes to the laws governing traffic law photo-monitoring devices, other civil traffic violations, and related fines and fees. |
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Current Status: |
3/19/2019 - Senate Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-12 |
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SB13 |
HUMAN TRAFFICKING-JUVENILES (FEDOR T) To require a juvenile court to hold a delinquency complaint in abeyance in certain cases related to prostitution or human trafficking and to provide that the same elements for the offense of trafficking in persons that apply to a victim under the age of sixteen also apply to a victim who is age sixteen or seventeen. |
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Current Status: |
2/13/2020 - House Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-13 |
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SB15 |
JURY SOURCE LIST-INCLUDE BMV NAMES (THOMAS C) To require the names submitted by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to the commissioners of jurors to be included on the annual jury source list compiled by the commissioners. |
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Current Status: |
3/19/2019 - Senate Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-15 |
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SB16 |
PEACE OFFICERS-PROPER INTERACTION (WILLIAMS S) Regarding instruction for peace officers, students, and new or student drivers on proper interactions with peace officers. |
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Current Status: |
9/23/2020 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 31-1 |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-16 |
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SB17 |
PROHIBIT SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM IDENTIFICATION (YUKO K, ANTONIO N) To prohibit law enforcement agencies from including identifying information of sexual assault victims in police reports posted online. |
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Current Status: |
7/17/2019 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Expand to include other sex offenses and offenses with sexual motivation. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-17 |
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SB18 |
PROHIBIT CONFINING PREGNANT CRIMINALS (ANTONIO N, LEHNER P) To prohibit restraining or confining a woman or child who is a charged or adjudicated criminal offender or delinquent child at certain points during pregnancy or postpartum recovery. |
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Current Status: |
5/12/2020 - Referred to Committee House Criminal Justice |
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Comments: |
Concerned that the bill may be impractical from an implementation standpoint. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-18 |
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SB19 |
EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDER (WILLIAMS S) To enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to allow family members, household members, and law enforcement officers to obtain a court order that temporarily restricts a person's access to firearms if that person poses a danger to themselves or others. |
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Current Status: |
9/10/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-19 |
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SB28 |
PROTECTION ORDER VIOLATION PENALTIES (HOTTINGER J) To increase the penalty that applies to the offense of violating a protection order under certain circumstances. |
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Current Status: |
1/30/2020 - House Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-28 |
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SB31 |
PUBLIC RECORDS LAW EXEMPTION-EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATORS (ROEGNER K) To include emergency service telecommunicators as individuals whose residential and familial information is exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Law. |
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Current Status: |
9/16/2020 - Senate Appoints Managers; J. Eklund, K. Roegner & C. Thomas Named as Senate Conferees |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-31 |
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SB33 |
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES OFFENSES (HOAGLAND F) To modify certain criminal offenses with respect to critical infrastructure facilities and to impose fines and civil liability for damage to a critical infrastructure facility. |
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Current Status: |
1/29/2020 - REPORTED OUT, House Public Utilities, (Seventh Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-33 |
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SB43 |
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE-FIREARMS RESTRICTIONS, STRANGULATION (KUNZE S, ANTONIO N) To address domestic violence by means of firearms restrictions, penalty enhancements, and a prohibition against strangulation, and to make an appropriation. |
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Current Status: |
4/2/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-43 |
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SB47 |
UNLAWFUL SEXUAL CONTACT WITH MINOR PETITIONS (EKLUND J) To create a procedure for certain offenders convicted of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor to petition a court for reclassification or removal from duties under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law and to permit record sealing in those cases. |
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Current Status: |
4/10/2019 - REPORTED OUT, Senate Judiciary, (Third Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-47 |
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SB48 |
SPEEDY TRIAL RULES (EKLUND J) To narrow the scope of speedy trial rules. |
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Current Status: |
5/16/2019 - House Criminal Justice, (Third Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-48 |
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SB49 |
BODY CAVITY SEARCHES (EKLUND J) To authorize a corrections officer to cause a body cavity search to be conducted or to conduct a strip search and to establish separate rules for conducting strip searches. |
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Current Status: |
4/2/2019 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Fourth Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-49 |
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SB53 |
FIREARMS-DANGEROUS ORDNANCE (ROEGNER K) To clarify that certain firearms are not "dangerous ordnance" and to declare an emergency. |
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Current Status: |
2/26/2019 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 24-8, Emergency Clause 24-8 |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-53 |
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SB54 |
PROHIBIT DEATH PENALTY-MENTAL ILLNESS (EKLUND J, WILLIAMS S) To prohibit imposing the death penalty for aggravated murder when the offender had a serious mental illness at the time of the offense. |
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Current Status: |
7/17/2019 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Judiciary, (Third Hearing) |
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Comments: |
The bill is so broadly written that it effectively ends the death penalty. Post-conviction relief provision allows everyone currently on death row to file for relief based on the assertion that they had one of the listed mental illnesses at the time of their crime. Concern about delegation to APA to define the listed mental illnesses. Remove post conviction relief, major depressive disorder, language about "rational judgment," and language about mental illness due "solely" to the effects of drug or alcohol abuse. See also House Bill 136. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-54 |
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SB55 |
ENHANCE PENALTIES-DRUG TRAFFICKING (GAVARONE T) To enhance penalties for certain drug trafficking offenses committed in the vicinity of a community addiction services provider and to name the act's provisions the "Relapse Reduction Act." |
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Current Status: |
7/17/2020 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-55 |
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SB57 |
HEMP REGULATION (HILL B, HUFFMAN S) To establish conditions and requirements governing the regulation of hemp and hemp products, and to declare an emergency. |
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Current Status: |
7/30/2019 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; most provisions eff. 7/30/2019; certain provisions eff. 9/20/2019 and 3/22/2020 |
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Comments: |
Concerned with impact on probable cause for marijuana and ability of BCI to test the level of THC. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-57 |
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SB58 |
NONVIOLENT CRIMINALS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS (GAVARONE T) To express the intent of the General Assembly to reform the process of restoring the competency of individuals with serious mental illness charged with nonviolent crimes and to provide alternatives for treatment. |
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Current Status: |
12/10/2019 - House Health, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-58 |
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SB62 |
PROHIBIT TRIGGER CRANKS, BUMP STOCKS (THOMAS C) To prohibit certain conduct regarding trigger cranks, bump-fire devices, and other items that accelerate a semi-automatic firearm's rate of fire but do not convert it into an automatic firearm. |
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Current Status: |
9/17/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-62 |
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SB63 |
FIREARM TRANSFERS (THOMAS C) To require a firearm transfer to be made through a dealer, through a law enforcement agency, or pursuant to a specified exception, and to require a background check when a firearm is transferred. |
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Current Status: |
9/17/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-63 |
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SB64 |
RAISE MINIMUM AGE-FIREARM PURCHASES (THOMAS C) To raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to age 21 and to increase the penalty for improperly furnishing firearms to an underage person. |
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Current Status: |
9/17/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-64 |
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SB65 |
FIREARM TRANSFERS-GUN SHOWS (THOMAS C) To regulate the transfer of firearms at a gun show. |
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Current Status: |
9/17/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-65 |
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SB70 |
PROHIBIT FELONY QUESTION-JOB APPLICATIONS (WILLIAMS S) To prohibit private employers from including on an employment application any question concerning whether an applicant has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony. |
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Current Status: |
3/4/2020 - Senate Transportation, Commerce and Workforce, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-70 |
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SB99 |
ELIMINATE MANDATORY BINDOVERS (THOMAS C) To eliminate mandatory bindovers and reverse bindovers, and modify the law governing a discretionary bindover, of an alleged juvenile offender from a juvenile court to a criminal court. |
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Current Status: |
3/12/2019 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-99 |
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SB100 |
PAROLE ELIGIBILITY-JUVENILES (THOMAS C) Relative to parole eligibility for persons with an indefinite or life sentence imposed for an offense committed when the person was less than 18 years of age. |
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Current Status: |
3/27/2019 - Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-100 |
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SB108 |
ELIMINATE RULE OF CONSTRUCTION-AMBIGUOUS STATUTES (OBHOF L) To eliminate the rule of construction regarding a court's considerations in determining the intention of the legislature when a statute is ambiguous. |
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Current Status: |
5/28/2019 - House Civil Justice, (Third Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-108 |
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SB111 |
SPORTS WAGERING (EKLUND J, O'BRIEN S) To permit the Ohio Casino Control Commission to regulate sports wagering and to levy a tax on businesses that provide sports wagering. |
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Current Status: |
11/6/2019 - Senate General Government and Agency Review , (Second Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-111 |
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SB118 |
INCREASE ASSAULT PENALTIES-SPORTS OFFICIALS (ROEGNER K) To increase the penalty for assault if the victim is acting as a sports official or the assault is committed in retaliation for the victim's actions as a sports official. |
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Current Status: |
9/18/2019 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Creates special class of victim. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-118 |
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SB133 |
MANAGEMENT OF RELEASED OFFENDERS (O'BRIEN S) To modify the Corrections Law regarding a Department of Rehabilitation and Correction reentry program for certain offenders, maximum workload and caseload standards for parole and field officers, GPS monitoring of offenders released from prison, and entry into LEADS of specified information about GPS-monitored offenders, and to require the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission to appoint an Offender Supervision Study Committee. |
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Current Status: |
11/13/2019 - Senate Judiciary, (Fourth Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-133 |
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SB134 |
PASSING SCHOOL BUSSES (GAVARONE T) To make changes to the law governing passing a school bus, to create a new offense for vehicular homicide and vehicular assault related to improperly passing a stopped school bus, to make an appropriation, and to designate this the School Bus Safety Act. |
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Current Status: |
5/19/2020 - House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Amend to provide that passing a stopped school bus is per se recklessness for purposes of aggravated vehicular homicide or aggravated vehicular assault. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-134 |
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SB140 |
EXEMPT KNIVES-CONCEALED WEAPONS (UECKER J) To exempt knives not used as weapons from the prohibition against carrying concealed weapons and to eliminate the prohibition against manufacturing, possessing for sale, selling, or furnishing certain weapons other than firearms or dangerous ordnance. |
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Current Status: |
11/10/2020 - House Criminal Justice, (Third Hearing) |
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Position: |
Amend |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-140 |
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SB143 |
AGGRAVATED BULLYING (WILLIAMS S) To create the offense of aggravated bullying, a third-degree misdemeanor. |
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Current Status: |
7/17/2019 - Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-143 |
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SB144 |
AGGRAVATED BULLYING-DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE (WILLIAMS S) To require a tiered disciplinary procedure for and student instruction on preventing harassment, intimidation, or bullying in school and to create the offense of aggravated bullying as a third-degree misdemeanor. |
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Current Status: |
9/25/2019 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-144 |
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SB146 |
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE-CHOKING (KUNZE S, ANTONIO N) To expand the offense of domestic violence to also prohibit a person from knowingly impeding the normal breathing or circulation of the blood of a family or household member by applying pressure to the family or household member's throat or neck or blocking the family or household member's nose or mouth. |
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Current Status: |
10/2/2019 - Senate Judiciary, (Third Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-146 |
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SB152 |
FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CAR INSURANCE (HUFFMAN M) To alter the penalties related to the failure to maintain motor vehicle insurance, to require the Lima Municipal Court to establish a pilot program governing the repayment of driver's license reinstatement and court fees, and to make an appropriation. |
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Current Status: |
5/15/2019 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-152 |
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SB156 |
DRUG SCREENINGS (GAVARONE T) To prohibit defrauding an alcohol, drug, or urine screening test. |
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Current Status: |
5/28/2020 - House Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Need to ensure that the bill will not prohibit a tampering charge for individuals on community control. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-156 |
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SB160 |
RECORDS EXPUNGEMENT (O'BRIEN S, RULLI M) To provide a mechanism for the expungement of records of most convictions that, depending on the category of the offense, are at least 10 years old, 15 years old, or 20 years old, and to eliminate the waiting period for sealing a record related to a no bill. |
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Current Status: |
9/25/2019 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Ability to destroy the records of F1 and F2 offenses goes too far. Disfavor expungement altogether. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-160 |
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SB162 |
ELIMINATE PERIOD OF LIMITATION-RAPE (ANTONIO N, O'BRIEN S) To eliminate the spousal exceptions for certain sex offenses, to permit a person to testify against the person's spouse in a prosecution for any of those offenses, to eliminate the period of limitation for the criminal prosecution of a person for rape and for a civil action brought by a victim of conduct that would constitute rape. |
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Current Status: |
2/19/2020 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-162 |
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SB166 |
UNLAWFUL SEXUAL CONTACT-HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (KUNZE S, CRAIG H) To prohibit unlawful sexual contact between health care professionals and patients and to revoke professional licenses for criminal misconduct. |
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Current Status: |
10/2/2019 - Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-166 |
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SB179 |
REQUIRE TWO LICENSE PLATES (UECKER J, HOTTINGER J) To retain and continue current law requiring the display of two license plates for most motor vehicles. |
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Current Status: |
12/11/2019 - Senate Transportation, Commerce and Workforce, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-179 |
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SB182 |
RAISE MINIMUM AGE-FIREARM PURCHASES (THOMAS C, LEHNER P) To raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to age 21 and to increase the penalty for improperly furnishing firearms to an underage person. |
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Current Status: |
1/21/2020 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Second Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-182 |
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SB183 |
FIREARM TRANSFERS (THOMAS C, LEHNER P) To require a firearm transfer to be made through a dealer, through a law enforcement agency, or pursuant to a specified exception, and to require a background check when a firearm is transferred. |
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Current Status: |
9/17/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-183 |
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SB184 |
EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDER (WILLIAMS S, LEHNER P) To enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to allow family members, household members, and law enforcement officers to obtain a court order that temporarily restricts a person's access to firearms if that person poses a danger to themselves or others. |
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Current Status: |
9/17/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Reintroduction of legislation from the 132nd General Assembly. Concerns with due process and implementation. |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-184 |
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SB194 |
VOTER REGISTRATION SYSTEMS (RULLI M) To rename the Board of Voting Machine Examiners as the Board of Voting Equipment Examiners, to require the Board to approve voter registration systems for use in Ohio, and to require a board of elections to decide a protest against a candidate filing within ten days. |
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Current Status: |
5/5/2020 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-194 |
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SB196 |
TESTIMONIAL PRIVILEGE-SEX CRIMES (EKLUND J) To provide generally a testimonial privilege for communications between a qualified advocate rendering advocacy services and a victim of domestic violence, human trafficking, menacing by stalking, or sexual violence, to exempt the nondisclosure of that privileged communication from the offense of failure to report a crime, to require a qualified advocate to report knowledge or reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect of the victim except for privileged communications, and to specify circumstances in which the victim is considered to have waived the privilege. |
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Current Status: |
11/6/2019 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Testimonial privileges are in derogation of the search for truth. They result in occasional injustice. Benefit of the privilege must be weighed against the cost. See also House Bill 337. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-196 |
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SB202 |
LOCAL FIREARMS RESTRICTIONS (THOMAS C, CRAIG H) To restore local authority to generally regulate firearms-related conduct. |
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Current Status: |
10/23/2019 - Senate General Government and Agency Review , (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-202 |
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SB203 |
FIREARMS TRANSFERS-GUN SHOWS (THOMAS C, LEHNER P) To regulate the transfer of firearms at a gun show. |
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Current Status: |
11/5/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-203 |
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SB205 |
ANIMAL CRUELTY (HOTTINGER J, O'BRIEN S) To increase the penalties for serious acts of cruelty towards or the killing of a companion animal. |
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Current Status: |
9/23/2020 - Senate Judiciary, (Fourth Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Penalties are disproportionate to the harm. Provides a higher penalty than currently exists for some child abuse and domestic violence offenses. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-205 |
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SB217 |
REQUIRE SEX OFFENDER LICENSE PLATE (SCHAFFER T) To create a SORN Law license plate and to require all Tier II and Tier III sex offender and child-victim offenders to display such license plates when operating a vehicle in this state. |
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Current Status: |
10/23/2019 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-217 |
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SB221 |
FIREARMS REGULATIONS (DOLAN M) To provide for the issuance in specified circumstances of a Safety Protection Order to apply regarding a person who a court determines is under a drug dependency, chronic alcoholic, or mental health-related firearms disability; to specify LEADS and NCIC reporting and removal procedures for current types of protection orders; to require the submission to the Attorney General for inclusion in LEADS of findings of IST or NGRI; to modify some of the prohibitions under the offense of "unlawful transactions in weapons" and add new prohibitions and exemptions under the offense, including a new exemption if a state background check mechanism the bill enacts is used and does not indicate that the prospective transferee is barred from firearms possession; to provide in specified circumstances for the issuance of a seller's protection certificate under the new state background check mechanism; to increase the penalty for certain firearms-related offenses in specified circumstances; to modify the law governing the entry of arrest warrants into LEADS as extradition warrants; to expand the law regarding the provision of drug and alcohol test results to law enforcement personnel; and to provide a new exception to the testimonial privilege for specified medical and dental personnel regarding certain probate court proceedings. |
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Current Status: |
12/3/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Third Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-221 |
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SB223 |
PROHIBIT FIREARMS ACCESSORIES (THOMAS C, LEHNER P) To generally prohibit a person from possessing trigger cranks, bump-fire devices, or other items that accelerate a semi-automatic firearm's rate of fire but do not convert it into an automatic firearm and large capacity magazines. |
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Current Status: |
11/5/2019 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-223 |
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SB225 |
CHILD ABUSE REPORTING (LEHNER P) To require public schools to post signs with a child abuse reporting telephone number. |
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Current Status: |
1/21/2020 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-225 |
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SB237 |
SELF-DEFENSE (JOHNSON T) To enact the Ohio Duty to Retreat Act to modify the law regarding self-defense. |
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Current Status: |
1/21/2020 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Fourth Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Opposed to provisions that provide for pretrial immunity, use of deadly force to repel "forcible felonies," and repeal of reasonable duty to retreat. See also House Bill 381. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-237 |
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SB239 |
PROHIBIT SEXTING (MANNING N) To generally prohibit sexting by a person under 19 years of age. |
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Current Status: |
2/5/2020 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Amend elements to prohibit creating or possessing. Make the offense an M1 with standard penalties. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-239 |
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SB247 |
PROHIBIT PROSTITUTION (SCHAFFER T, FEDOR T) To prohibit a person from engaging in prostitution and receiving proceeds of prostitution, to modify certain soliciting offenses and penalties, to create the Sexual Exploitation Public Database, and to make an appropriation. |
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Current Status: |
2/19/2020 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing) |
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Comments: |
Support in concept. Concerns with "engaging in prostitution" offense vs. elements of "soliciting." Sentencing issue in "engaging in prostitution" section because it provides for an M1 with a fine and education. Seemingly excludes possibility of jail or other sanctions. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-247 |
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SB253 |
STUDENT THREAT OF VIOLENCE (KUNZE S) Regarding expulsion of a student from a public school for communicating a threat of violence to occur on school grounds. |
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Current Status: |
2/11/2020 - Senate Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs, (Second Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-253 |
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SB255 |
LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES-MONITORING (ANTONIO N, BRENNER A) To permit a resident of a long-term care facility to conduct electronic monitoring of the resident's room, to designate this act as "Esther's Law," and to make an appropriation. |
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Current Status: |
1/29/2020 - Senate Health, Human Services and Medicaid, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-255 |
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SB256 |
BAR LIFE SENTENCE-UNDER 18 (MANNING N, LEHNER P) Regarding a bar against a sentence of life without parole, and special parole dates, for offenders who committed the offense when under age 18, and to amend the version of section 2907.02 of the Revised Code that takes effect on March 22, 2020, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that date. |
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Current Status: |
9/23/2020 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 28-4 |
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Comments: |
- The bill goes far beyond what is constitutionally required by the Graham, Miller, Moore line of U.S. and Ohio Supreme Court cases to just rewrite our sentencing laws
- Opposed to repeal of discretionary juvenile life without parole
- Opposed to substantially reduced timelines for parole eligibility that are disconnected from seriousness of offense(s)
- Opposed to parole board consideration of same factors of youth as sentencing court
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-256 |
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SB265 |
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PENALTY (KUNZE S) To increase the penalty for the offense of domestic violence when the victim is a functionally impaired person. |
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Current Status: |
2/12/2020 - Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-265 |
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SB278 |
PAROLE PROCEDURES (EKLUND J, LEHNER P) To modify parole procedures regarding prisoner access to information and materials, presence of counsel, uniform standards, and appeals of decisions. |
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Current Status: |
5/6/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary |
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Comments: |
- Presumptive parole is likely unconstitutional in light of Marsy's Law.Â
- Unnecessarily limits the scope of what the parole board can consider in denying parole.Â
- Fails to connect release on parole to completion of any rehabilitative programming or other demonstrated rehabilitation by the offender. Â
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-278 |
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SB279 |
PROHIBIT PHONES WHILE DRIVING (MAHARATH T) To generally prohibit the use of electronic wireless devices while driving. |
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Current Status: |
3/4/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-279 |
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SB285 |
DISTRACTED DRIVING (O'BRIEN S, KUNZE S) To revise the laws relative to distracted driving and the use of an electronic wireless communications device while driving. |
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Current Status: |
9/22/2020 - Senate Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs, (Third Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-285 |
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SB290 |
CRIMINAL TRESSPASS (COLEY W) To amend the law governing criminal trespass to specify that placing purple paint marks on trees or posts constitutes posting notice in a manner reasonably calculated to come to the attention of potential intruders. |
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Current Status: |
9/22/2020 - Senate Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs, (Second Hearing) |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-290 |
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SB293 |
OPEN MEETINGS LAW COMPLAINTS (MANNING N, BLESSING III L) To create a procedure within the Court of Claims to hear complaints alleging a violation of the Open Meetings Law. |
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Current Status: |
11/10/2020 - House Civil Justice, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-293 |
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SB296 |
ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY (ANTONIO N, LEHNER P) To abolish the death penalty. |
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Current Status: |
5/6/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-296 |
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SB297 |
PROHIBIT FORECLOSURES, EVICTIONS (ANTONIO N, CRAIG H) To prohibit foreclosure activity and the eviction of residential and commercial tenants during the state of emergency declared regarding COVID-19, to refer such proceedings caused by the state of emergency to mediation, and to declare an emergency. |
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Current Status: |
7/21/2020 - Senate General Government and Agency Review , (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-297 |
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SB317 |
ARMED SCHOOL EMPLOYEES (COLEY W) To expressly exempt, from a requirement that peace officer basic training be obtained, certain employees that a board of education or governing body of a school authorizes to go armed in a school safety zone within which the board or governing body has authority. |
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Current Status: |
9/1/2020 - REPORTED OUT, Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Third Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-317 |
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SB323 |
ABSENTEE VOTING, ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION (ANTONIO N, WILLIAMS S) To modify the law governing absent voting and online voter registration, to make other changes to the Election Law, and to declare an emergency. |
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Current Status: |
6/10/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight and Reform |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-323 |
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SB337 |
PROSECUTE POLICE-CAUSED DEATHS (WILLIAMS S) To establish the duties and authority of the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute cases relating to the death of a person caused by a peace officer. |
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Current Status: |
7/21/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-337 |
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SB338 |
PROHIBIT BIASED POLICING (WILLIAMS S) To prohibit police officers from engaging in biased policing and other status-based profiling, and to require the attorney general's office to establish rules regarding such police practices. |
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Current Status: |
7/21/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-338 |
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SB353 |
BAIL, BOND REFORM MEASURES (HUFFMAN S, MANNING N) To modify the pretrial detention and release laws regarding risk assessment tools, bond schedules, non-cash release methods, a continuum of pretrial supervision options, cite-and-release, pretrial screening and diversion, criminal justice system personnel training, a statewide bail data collection system, and request Supreme Court modification of certain rules. |
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Current Status: |
11/10/2020 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing) |
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Comments: |
- Includes no funding for pretrial services
- Calls for adoption of Criminal Rule 46 as proposed by Supreme Court Task Force. We just successfully achieved changes to what this Task Force proposed.Â
- Concern with portion of bill that calls for cite and release. Â
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-353 |
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SB356 |
TAX FORECLOSURES, COUNTY LAND BANKS (DOLAN M) To make changes to the law relating to tax foreclosures and county land reutilization corporations. |
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Current Status: |
9/1/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-356 |
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SB359 |
CIVIL ACTION AGAINST POLICE (SCHAFFER T) Regarding a civil action for a law enforcement officer based on a civil rights abridgement or false complaint, and modifications to "assault," "felonious assault," and "intimidation" regarding conduct committed because a person is or is perceived to be an emergency service responder, public servant, family member, or co-worker. |
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Current Status: |
9/23/2020 - Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing) |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-359 |
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SB360 |
PROHIBIT BANS-FIREARMS SALES (OBHOF L) To generally bar public officials from prohibiting all federally licensed firearms dealers in the state or a specified geographic area from the commercial sale or transfer of firearms or their components or ammunition. |
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Current Status: |
9/23/2020 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 27-4 |
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Comments: |
- The definition of federally licensed firearms dealer is too narrow. Includes only a small number of dealers.
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Position: |
Amend |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-360 |
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SB366 |
ASSAULT BY POLICE (WILLIAMS S) To prohibit assault by a law enforcement officer. |
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Current Status: |
9/22/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-366 |
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SB369 |
CRIME VICTIMS-REPARATIONS (LEHNER P, MANNING N) To revise the eligibility standards and procedure for awarding reparations to crime victims. |
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Current Status: |
11/10/2020 - Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing) |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-369 |
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SB370 |
ARSON PENALTIES (BRENNER A) To increase penalties for arson offenses and related offenses and to make an appropriation. |
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Current Status: |
11/10/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary |
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Position: |
Support |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-370 |
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SB377 |
COURT CONSENT-PRISONER TRANSFERS (MANNING N, SYKES V) To eliminate the requirement that a sentencing court must assent to the transfer of a prisoner to a transitional control program. |
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Current Status: |
11/10/2020 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary |
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Comments: |
Violation of separation of powers to allow executive branch to override sentencing decision of judicial branch. Undoes compromise from several years ago when agreed to maintain judicial veto for sentences of two years or less. Many offenders with sentences of two years or less have enough credit for time served that they are immediately eligible for transitional control by the time the judge decides that prison is necessary. Undermines the determination made at the local level that a prison sentence was appropriate. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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Priority: |
Tier 1 - High |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-377 |
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