Raise minimum age to purchase a firearm [SB-284]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
To amend sections 2151.022, 2152.02, 2152.16, 2923.21, and 2923.211 of the Revised Code to raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to age 21 and to increase the penalty for improperly furnishing firearms to a minor.
SB-284: Raise minimum age to purchase a firearm
Sponsored by: Sen. Charleta B. Tavares
Refer To Committee: Government Oversight And Reform on 04/11/2018
Authorize creation of veterans treatment courts [HB-409]
[Veterans ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Mental Health ]
To enact sections 1927.01, 1927.02, 1927.03, and 1927.04 of the Revised Code to permit courts to create veterans treatment courts and to allow courts to divert certain criminal defendants to participate in veterans treatment court.
HB-409: Authorize creation of veterans treatment courts
Sponsored by: Rep. James L. Butler
Refer To Committee: Criminal Justice on 11/28/2017
Deter White Nationalism and Neo-Nazism and their ideologies [HCR-19]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
[National Security ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Public Safety ]
To denounce and oppose the totalitarian impulses, violent terrorism, xenophobic biases, and bigoted ideologies that are promoted by white nationalists and neo-Nazis, to urge law enforcement to recognize white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations, and to pursue the criminal elements of these domestic terrorist organizations in the same manner and with the same fervor used to protect the United States from other manifestations of terrorism.
HCR-19: Deter White Nationalism and Neo-Nazism and their ideologies
Sponsored by: Rep. Kristin Boggs
Introduced And Referred To Committee: Government Accountability And Oversight on 12/04/2017
Apply same human trafficking offense to all victims under 18 [HB-461]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
To amend sections 2152.021, 2905.32, and 2929.01 of the Revised Code to require a juvenile court to hold a delinquency complaint in abeyance if the court has reason to believe that the act charged might be prostitution related or that the child might be a victim of 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.
HB-461: Apply same human trafficking offense to all victims under 18
Sponsored by: Rep. James L. Butler
Introduced on 12/17/2018
Modify wrongful imprisonment law [SB-248]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
To amend sections 2305.02 and 2743.48 of the Revised Code to modify the state's wrongful imprisonment law.
SB-248: Modify wrongful imprisonment law
Sponsored by: Sen. Charleta B. Tavares
Refer To Committee: Judiciary on 01/17/2018
Exclude depictions of crime victim's body from public records [HB-451]
[Crime ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
To amend sections 149.43 and 149.45 of the Revised Code to exclude from the definition of public record under the Public Records Law any depiction by photograph, film, videotape, or digital, visual, or printed material of victims of crime under specified circumstances dealing with the victims' bodily privacy, to exclude from that definition specified residential and familial information regarding county or multicounty corrections officers, and to declare an emergency.
HB-451: Exclude depictions of crime victim's body from public records
Sponsored by: Rep. Dick Stein
Reported - Substitute: Judiciary on 12/04/2018
Create criminal child enticement prohibitions and penalties [HB-374]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
To amend sections 2905.05 and 2950.01 of the Revised Code to create additional criminal prohibitions within the offense of criminal child enticement and to classify criminal child enticement as a tier I sex offense when committed by a registered sex offender.
HB-374: Create criminal child enticement prohibitions and penalties
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Duffey
Refer To Committee: Criminal Justice on 10/17/2017
Prohibit transferring firearm while background check pending [HB-563]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
To amend section 2923.25 of the Revised Code to prohibit a federally licensed firearms dealer from transferring a firearm while a background check is pending unless 30 days have elapsed.
HB-563: Prohibit transferring firearm while background check pending
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas E. West
Refer To Committee: Federalism And Interstate Relations on 04/10/2018
Prohibit disseminating private sexual images [HB-497]
[Crime ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
To amend sections 2907.01, 2981.02, and 2981.04 and to enact sections 9.74, 2307.66, 2917.211, and 3345.49 of the Revised Code to prohibit the nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images, to provide that certain property involved in the offense may be criminally forfeited, and to create certain legal rights and protections of a victim of the offense.
HB-497: Prohibit disseminating private sexual images
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephanie L. Kunze
Concurred In Senate Amendments on 12/13/2018
Increase penalties for resisting arrest [HB-498]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
To amend sections 2901.01 and 2921.33 of the Revised Code to classify resisting arrest as an offense of violence and to increase the penalties for certain resisting arrest offenses.
HB-498: Increase penalties for resisting arrest
Sponsored by: Sen. Kirk Schuring
Refer To Committee: Criminal Justice on 02/20/2018
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Define qualifications and duties of school resource officers [HB-318]
[Education ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
To amend sections 3302.03, 3313.534, 3313.66, 3313.661, 3313.668, and 3319.46 and to enact sections 3313.951 and 3319.237 of the Revised Code with regard to school resource officers, to require the Facilities Construction Commission to study and report on school building security upgrades and school resource officers, to enact the "SAFE Act" with regard to suspension and expulsion of students in grades pre-kindergarten through three and positive behavior intervention and supports, and to make an appropriation.
HB-318: Define qualifications and duties of school resource officers
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephanie L. Kunze
Effective 11/2/18 - Appropriations Effective 08/02/18 on 11/02/2018
Prohibit public places from excluding service animals. [HB-303]
[Animals ]
[Disabilities ]
[Public Safety ]
[Consumer Protection ]
To amend sections 955.011, 955.99, 4112.01, 4112.04, 4112.05, and 4112.99, to enact section 4112.025, and to repeal section 955.43 of the Revised Code to prohibit places of public accommodation from preventing the use of a service animal.
HB-303: Prohibit public places from excluding service animals.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rick Carfagna
Refer To Committee: Economic Development, Commerce, And Labor on 09/12/2017
Enhance penalty if drug offense near addiction services provider [HB-296]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
To amend sections 2925.01 and 2925.03 of the Revised Code to enhance penalties for certain drug trafficking offenses committed in the vicinity of a community addiction services provider and to amend the version of section 2925.03 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect June 29, 2019, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date.
HB-296: Enhance penalty if drug offense near addiction services provider
Sponsored by: Rep. Dick Stein
Reported - Substitute: Judiciary on 12/04/2018
Prohibit criminal mischief against residential rental property [HB-282]
[Housing ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
To amend section 2909.07 and to enact section 3735.411 of the Revised Code to expressly prohibit criminal mischief relating to residential rental property and to prohibit a metropolitan housing authority from renting or providing housing assistance to a person who has recently been convicted of criminal mischief relating to residential rental property.
HB-282: Prohibit criminal mischief against residential rental property
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Merrin
Refer To Committee: Financial Institutions, Housing, And Urban Development on 09/12/2017
Prohibit menacing utility worker with intent to obstruct utility [HB-276]
[Public Safety ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Crime ]
To amend section 2903.21 of the Revised Code to expand the offense of aggravated menacing to prohibit threatening a utility worker, cable operator worker, or broadband worker with intent to obstruct the operation of a utility.
HB-276: Prohibit menacing utility worker with intent to obstruct utility
Sponsored by: Rep. Dick Stein
Refer To Committee: Judiciary on 02/20/2018
Withhold local money if uncooperative with immigration policy [SB-162]
[Immigration ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
To amend sections 9.63 and 5747.502 of the Revised Code to withhold local government fund payments to municipal corporations that have enacted an ordinance, policy, directive, rule, or resolution that hinders or prevents municipal employees from cooperating with state or federal immigration services or from complying with executive orders pertaining to immigration.
SB-162: Withhold local money if uncooperative with immigration policy
Sponsored by: Rep. Kris Jordan
Refer To Committee: Finance on 06/15/2017
Prohibit abortion if unborn has or may have Down Syndrome [SB-164]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
To amend section 3701.79 and to enact sections 2919.10 and 2919.101 of the Revised Code to prohibit a person from performing, inducing, or attempting to perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman who is seeking the abortion because an unborn child has or may have Down Syndrome.
SB-164: Prohibit abortion if unborn has or may have Down Syndrome
Sponsored by: Rep. James L. Butler
Reported: Health on 12/07/2017
Grant limited driving privileges in certain circumstances [HB-260]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
To enact section 4510.023 of the Revised Code to require a court to grant limited driving privileges to a person in relation to a driver's license suspension under certain circumstances.
HB-260: Grant limited driving privileges in certain circumstances
Sponsored by: Rep. James L. Butler
Refer To Committee: Transportation And Public Safety on 06/20/2017
Permit sealing of criminal record if pardoned [SB-159]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
To amend sections 2953.51, 2953.52, and 2953.55 of the Revised Code to permit a person to apply for the sealing of the official records pertaining to a case in which the person was convicted of an offense for which the person is granted a pardon.
SB-159: Permit sealing of criminal record if pardoned
Sponsored by: Sen. Charleta B. Tavares
Refer To Committee: Judiciary on 06/15/2017