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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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, KING A) To permit a prospective juror who is a mother who is breast-feeding to be excused from jury service. |
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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; 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; and to declare an emergency. |
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Comments: |
OPAA had a provision included in this legislation that creates a mechanism for courts to resolve issues surrounding wrongly classified Tier offenders. |
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Position: |
Support |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-35 |
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HB50 |
HOUSING QUALIFICATION, CONSTRUCTION LAW (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, to extend the Home Construction Service Suppliers Act to repairs, improvements, remodels, or renovations of existing structures, and to modify the application procedure for the residential development property tax exemption. |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-50 |
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HB56 |
POLICE PURSUIT, FLEEING PENALTIES (PLUMMER P, WHITE A) To prohibit causing the death of or serious physical harm to another while operating a utility vehicle or mini-truck, to require law enforcement entities to train officers related to the pursuit of a motor vehicle, to increase penalties for fleeing from law enforcement and forms of stunt driving, and to make changes to the distribution of certain driving-related fees. |
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Comments: |
OPAA worked extensively with the sponsors of this legislation to help write the stunt driving portion of the law and to have UTVs and mini-trucks included in the offenses aggravated vehicular assault and aggravated vehicular homicide in response to the Supreme Court of Ohio decision in State v. Fork, 2024-Ohio-1016. |
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Position: |
Support |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-56 |
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HB101 |
APPROPRIATIONS, STATE PROGRAM OPERATIONS (BIRD A) To make appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs, and to amend the versions of sections 2950.11, 3301.53, and 3301.55 of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect January 1, 2025, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date. |
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Comments: |
OPAA had this legislation amended to remove prosecutors from the "Transition Supervisory Board" created in the legislation. Including prosecutors would have created potential conflicts of interest. |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-101 |
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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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HB191 |
BAIL (SWEARINGEN D, SEITZ B) To make changes regarding bail and to declare an emergency. |
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Position: |
Support |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-HB-191 |
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SB91 |
PUBLIC FUNDS ABUSE, WASTE (SCHAFFER T) Regarding fraud, waste, and abuse of public funds and to prohibit the expenditure of local tax revenues upon a vote of residents or without an appropriation. |
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Comments: |
OPAA had this legislation amended to exclude prosecuting attorneys from the reporting requirements. |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-SB-91 |
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SB214 |
HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS-EXPUNGE CRIMINAL RECORDS (KUNZE S) To allow a victim of human trafficking to expunge certain criminal records. |
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Comments: |
OPAA had this legislation amended to require a higher evidentiary threshold for expungement applications that do not include a conviction for one of the predicate offenses and to ensure that legislation did not include F1, F2, and F3 offenses. |
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Position: |
Support |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA135-SB-214 |
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