HB20 |
OHIO COMPUTER CRIMES ACT (SWEARINGEN D) To enact the Ohio Computer Crimes Act. |
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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=GA135-HB-20 |
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HB33 |
FY24-25 OPERATING BUDGET (EDWARDS J) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025, to levy taxes, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. |
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Comments: |
SupportÂ
- Provisions requiring full parole board hearings upon request of prosecutor or victim
- Definition of Specific Investigatory Work Product within CLEIRÂ
- Funding for AG TOP COP initiative to require and fund continuing professional training for peace officers
Oppose
- Authority for OPD to provide legal representation in full board hearings or to contract with outside counsel
- Removing the Board of Pharmacy from oversight of the medical marijuana program
- Amendments to "good Samaritan" law repealing the cap on number of times immunity can be asserted and requirement to obtain a screening for treatment
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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=GA135-HB-33 |
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HB34 |
JURY DUTY - BREAST-FEEDING EXCEPTION (KLOPFENSTEIN R) To permit a prospective juror who is a mother who is breast-feeding to be excused from jury service. |
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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=GA135-HB-34 |
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HB35 |
ELIMINATE LIMITATIONS PERIOD - CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE (SEITZ B, MIRANDA J) To enact the Scout's Honor Law to eliminate the limitations period for a civil action based on a claim of childhood sexual abuse only for purposes of filing claims against a bankruptcy estate of an organization chartered under federal law; to provide with respect to sex offenders and childvictim offenders who committed their offense prior to January 1, 2008, mechanisms for reclassifying or classifying the offenders in specified circumstances under the SORN Law in effect prior to that date; and to subsequently amend section 2305.111 of the Revised Code five years after the effective date of that section to remove the described elimination of the limitations period. |
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Comments: |
Amended 3/7/23 to include OPAA proposal creating a mechanism to classify individuals who committed sex offenses under Megan's Law and were wrongly classified as Tier offenders following the enactment of the Adam Walsh Act. |
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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=GA135-HB-35 |
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HB37 |
INCREASE OVI FINANCIAL PENALTIES (JOHNSON M, MILLER K) To increase the financial penalties for OVI and to increase the financial penalties and prison term for aggravated vehicular homicide under specified circumstances. |
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Comments: |
- Remove requirement for court to provide advisement to OVI offenders regarding the penalties for AVH
- Seek additional change to level up the penalties for hit-skip with OVI related AVH/AVA removing the incentive to flee
- Seek additional change to make conviction for OVI related AVH/AVA result in any subsequent OVI being a felony
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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=GA135-HB-37 |
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HB44 |
RECORD PAROLE BOARD HEARINGS (HUMPHREY L, STEWART B) To require electronic recordings to be made of all parole board hearings, excluding certain personal identifying information, and to make those electronic recordings "public records" under the Public Records Law. |
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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=GA135-HB-44 |
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HB50 |
HOUSING QUALIFICATION (HUMPHREY L, SEITZ B) To create a mechanism by which an individual who is subject to a collateral sanction for housing may obtain a certificate of qualification for housing that may provide relief from certain bars on housing. |
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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=GA135-HB-50 |
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HB51 |
SECOND AMENDMENT PRESERVATION (LOYCHIK M, SCHMIDT J) To enact the Second Amendment Preservation Act to add additional protections to the right to bear arms, to remove federal firearms law references from the state firearms control law, and to declare an emergency. |
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Comments: |
Negative implications for voluntary cooperative efforts with federal entities to address gun crime and gun violence. Constitutional issues. |
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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=GA135-HB-51 |
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HB56 |
POLICE PURSUIT, FLEEING PENALTIES (PLUMMER P, WHITE A) To increase penalties for fleeing from law enforcement, to require law enforcement entities to have a policy governing the pursuit of a motor vehicle, and to prohibit hooning and being a spectator at a hooning event. |
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Comments: |
Support updating the penalties for fleeing. "Hooning" portions of bill may be unenforceable as written. Already constitutes reckless operation or street racing. Better to update these offenses. Also concern with putting detailed requirements for pursuit policies in statute. Better handled by collaborative community-police advisory board. |
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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=GA135-HB-56 |
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HB67 |
PENALTY REDUCTIONS DUE TO CHANGES IN LAW (SEITZ B, WILLIAMS J) To provide that if a penalty for an offense has been imposed on an offender and if the penalty for that offense is subsequently reduced by a change to the Revised Code or Constitution, the penalty previously imposed on the offender may be reduced. |
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Comments: |
Definitional problems with what it means for their to be a change in 'the substance' or the 'seriousness of the substance' of an offense. Creates substantial work for courts and prosecutors in situations where the applicant will gain little to nothing from seeking the reduction. Should just get records sealed/expunged. This should be addressed on a bill-by-bill basis. |
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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=GA135-HB-67 |
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HB77 |
DRONE LAWS (WILLIS B) To establish requirements and prohibitions governing the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles in Ohio. |
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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=GA135-HB-77 |
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HB83 |
REMOVE PENALTIES - DRUG PARAPHERNALIA (HUMPHREY L) To remove criminal penalties for the use and possession of drug paraphernalia and drug abuse instruments. |
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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=GA135-HB-83 |
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HB84 |
LOWER AGE - POLICE OFFICERS (DEMETRIOU S, WILLIAMS J) To lower the minimum age for an original appointment as a police officer from twenty-one to eighteen years of age. |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-84 |
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HB91 |
PROHIBIT TRACKING DEVICES WITHOUT CONSENT (PATTON T) To generally prohibit a person from knowingly installing a tracking device or application on another person's property without the other person's consent. |
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Comments: |
Amend to (1) better define "tracking application" and "tracking device," (2) prohibit the use of the device "in or on" another person's property, (3) address revoked consent and clarify consent of parents in situations involving different child custody arrangements and (4) enhance to felony under circumstances similar to menacing by stalking. |
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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=GA135-HB-91 |
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HB101 |
VILLAGE DISSOLUTION (BIRD A, SCHMIDT J) To modify the law regarding village dissolution. |
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Comments: |
Remove prosecutor from the transition supervisory board. Creates a conflict of interest due to statutory representation of townships.Â
- Amended 5/2 to remove prosecutor from transition supervisory board. Replaced by county commissioner.
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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=GA135-HB-101 |
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HB110 |
CATALYTIC CONVERTERS (YOUNG B, ROEMER B) Regarding the sale of used catalytic converters, and to make an appropriation. |
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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=GA135-HB-110 |
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HB111 |
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PENALTIES (LARE J, MILLER K) To increase the sentencing range for third degree felony domestic violence and to create a presumption in favor of a prison term for the offense. |
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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=GA135-HB-111 |
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HB122 |
EXPAND INTIMIDATION OFFENSES (PAVLIGA G, MILLER A) To expand intimidation offenses to include guardians ad litem and court-appointed special advocates. |
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Comments: |
Amend to include victim/witness coordinators employed by non-governmental entities. |
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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=GA135-HB-122 |
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HB124 |
ELIMINATE LIMITATIONS PERIOD - RAPE (GALONSKI T, MIRANDA J) 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 and to extend the period of limitation for a civil action by a victim of childhood sexual abuse other than rape. |
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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=GA135-HB-124 |
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HB139 |
INCREASE PENALTIES FOR ASSAULT OF SPORTS OFFICIAL (ROEMER B, MILLER J) To increase the penalties 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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Comments: |
Opposed to creation of special classes 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=GA135-HB-139 |
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HB140 |
PASSING SCHOOL BUS (BROWN R) To make changes to the law governing passing a school bus. |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-140 |
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HB148 |
CRIMINAL CHILD ENTICEMENT (DELL'AQUILA R) To require that a person act with a sexual motivation to commit the offense of criminal child enticement. |
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Priority: |
Tier 3 - Low |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-148 |
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HB149 |
DRONE REQUIREMENTS (WILLIS B) To establish requirements related to the use of an uncrewed aerial vehicle for surveillance. |
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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=GA135-HB-149 |
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HB161 |
ELIMINATE SPOUSAL EXCEPTION FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT (MIRANDA J, HILLYER B) To eliminate the spousal exceptions for the offenses of rape, sexual battery, unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, gross sexual imposition, sexual imposition, and importuning and to permit a person to testify against the person's spouse in a prosecution for any of those offenses. |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-161 |
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HB168 |
OHIO ADULT USE ACT (CALLENDER J, WEINSTEIN C) To enact the Ohio Adult Use Act and to levy a tax. |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-168 |
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HB175 |
REQUIRE SECURE STORAGE OF FIREARMS (MIRANDA J, BREWER D) To require secure storage of firearms, to authorize an income tax credit for the purchase of firearm storage and locking devices, to name this act the Keep Every Home Safe Act, and to make an appropriation. |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-175 |
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HB191 |
BAIL (SWEARINGEN D, SEITZ B) To make changes regarding bail. |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-191 |
