HB1 |
PROPERTY PROTECTION ACT (KING A, KLOPFENSTEIN R) To modify the law that prohibits certain governments, businesses, and individuals from acquiring certain real property and to name this act the Ohio Property Protection Act. |
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Comments: |
Sheriffs and prosecutors do not have the resources to do this. This should be handled by the attorney general as it is in current law. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-1 |
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HB3 |
SCHOOL BUS SAFETY ACT (WILLIS B, THOMAS C) To address school bus safety, to designate this act as the School Bus Safety Act, and to make an appropriation. |
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Comments: |
Support increased penalties for illegally passing school bus and permitting school bus camera evidence to corroborate bus driver reports of illegal passing. |
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Position: |
Support |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-3 |
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HB5 |
REPEAT OFFENSE CLASSIFICATION, PENALTIES (WILLIAMS J, WILLIS B) To enact the Repeat Offender Act to create a repeat offender classification, to create and modify certain firearm specifications, to increase the penalties for certain firearm offenses and specifications, to broaden the scope of relief from firearms disability, and to modify the sealing procedure for misdemeanors and fourth and fifth degree felonies. |
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Comments: |
Opposed to record sealing provisions and reduction of first time WUD from F3 to F4 for all but an underlying offense of violence. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-5 |
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HB19 |
UNDERAGE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION-CULPABILITY LEVEL (BIRD A, WILLIAMS J) To reduce the mental state, from knowingly to recklessly, that applies to the prohibition against allowing an underage person to possess or consume alcohol in a private or public place. |
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Comments: |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-19 |
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HB20 |
PROHIBIT HARASSING EMERGENCY SERVICE RESPONDERS (HALL T, PLUMMER P) To prohibit a person from knowingly harassing or impeding an emergency service responder who is engaged in the lawful performance of a legal duty and to clarify that heightened penalties apply for menacing a probation officer. |
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Comments: |
This can be charged as obstructing official business. New offense is not needed. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-20 |
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HB23 |
CREATE ESCAPED CONVICT ALERT PROGRAM (ROEMER B, WILLIAMS J) To create the escaped convict alert program. |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-23 |
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HB31 |
RECORD PAROLE BOARD HEARINGS (HUMPHREY L, STEWART B) To require electronic recordings to be made of all parole board hearings and to make electronic recordings of full parole board hearings public records. |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-31 |
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HB36 |
EXECUTION METHODS-ADD NITROGEN HYPOXIA (STEWART B, PLUMMER P) To add nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution and to prohibit the disclosure of execution identifying information. |
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Position: |
Support |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-36 |
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HB47 |
INCREASE HUMAN TRAFFICKING PENALTIES (WILLIAMS J, SANTUCCI N) To enact the Human Trafficking Prevention Act to increase the penalty for human trafficking of a minor or person with a developmental disability, kidnapping, and abduction. |
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Comments: |
Remove "unlawfully" requirement from 2905.01(B) and remove "recklessly" mens rea in 2905.32. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-47 |
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HB58 |
RECOVERY HOUSING-CERTIFICATES OF NEED (PIZZULLI J, JARRELLS D) To create a certificate of need program for recovery housing residences. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-58 |
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HB68 |
CONCEALED CARRY, FIREARMS DISABILITY RELIEF (MATHEWS A, PIZZULLI J) To allow a concealed handgun licensee to carry a handgun in a building or structure that is not a courthouse but in which a courtroom is located in specified circumstances and to permit a nonresident of Ohio to obtain statutory relief from firearms disability based on an Ohio conviction, guilty plea, or delinquent child adjudication. |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-68 |
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HB72 |
LETHAL INJECTION DRUG PROHIBITIONS (SCHMIDT J, MATHEWS A) To prohibit public funding for and insurance coverage of the use of lethal injection drugs in nontherapeutic abortions and assisting suicide, to abolish the death penalty, and to modify the number of jurors that may be challenged in cases where a defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment. |
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Comments: |
Opposed to repeal of death penalty. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-72 |
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HB76 |
INCREASING TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE MEMBERSHIP (LORENZ B, BAKER R) To allow the electors of certain townships to increase the membership of their boards of township trustees. |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-76 |
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HB79 |
INCREASED PENALTY-ASSAULTING SPORTS OFFICIALS (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 enhanced penalties for special class of victims. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-79 |
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HB82 |
TRAFFIC OFFENSES-CONSTRUCTION ZONES (CLICK G, JOHNSON M) Regarding traffic offenses in construction zones. |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-82 |
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HB84 |
OBSCENE MATERIAL AGE REQUIREMENTS, PROHIBITIONS (DEMETRIOU S, WILLIAMS J) To enact the Innocence Act to prohibit an organization from failing to verify the age of a person attempting to access material that is obscene or harmful to juveniles, to prohibit a person from using another person's likeness to create sexual images of the other person, and to create a private right of action for each prohibited activity. |
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Comments: |
Age verification should be enforced through private cause of action rather than criminal proceedings. This is how every other state that has enacted this handles this issue. |
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Position: |
Amend |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-84 |
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HB86 |
LAW CHANGES-TAX FORECLOSURE, LAND REUTILIZATION (DEMETRIOU S) To make changes to the law relating to tax foreclosures and county land reutilization corporations, and to name this act the Gus Frangos Act. |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-86 |
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HB88 |
DRUG TRAFFICKING PENALTIES, FENTANYL AWARENSS (ABRAMS C, PLUMMER P) To increase penalties for drug trafficking above certain amounts, to prohibit organized trafficking of persons, to require schools and institutions of higher education to incorporate instruction and policies on fentanyl awareness and abuse prevention, and to designate the month of August as "Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month." |
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Position: |
Support |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-88 |
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HB90 |
SET LEGAL ANTI-SEMITISM DEFINITION (SCHMIDT J, PIZZULLI J) To define antisemitism for the purpose of investigations and proceedings in courts and state agencies and for state employee anti-bias training. |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-90 |
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HB96 |
OPERATING BUDGET (STEWART B) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2027, to levy taxes, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-96 |
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HB102 |
SEX OFFENDER RESIDENCY LIMITS (KLOPFENSTEIN R, WILLIAMS J) To prohibit a sex offender or a child-victim offender from residing within 2,000 feet of the residence of the victim and from loitering within 1,000 feet of the residence of the victim. |
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Position: |
Undetermined |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-102 |
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HB108 |
SELF-DEFENSE PRETRIAL PROCEDURE (WILLIAMS J) To enact the Self-Defense Protection Act to create a pretrial procedure for a person asserting self-defense, defense of another, or defense of that person's property. |
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Comments: |
Pretrial hearing is unnecessary and the legislation uses the wrong legal standard for disproving self-defense. This will result in additional litigation and give defendants an opportunity to put victims and witnesses on the record and cross exam them in advance of trial. |
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Position: |
Oppose |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-108 |
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HB110 |
INCREASED PENALTY-REPEAT VOYEURISM (THOMAS C, WILLIAMS J) To increase the penalty for repeat voyeurism. |
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Position: |
Support |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-110 |
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HB111 |
ADDITIONAL FINE-HIGH-SPEED DRIVERS (MILLER K, CREECH R) To impose an additional fine on drivers who exceed the speed limit by 30 miles per hour. |
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Position: |
Undetermined |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-111 |
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