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Bills of interest to the Association pending in the 136th Ohio House
Through November 20, 2025

House of Representatives


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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.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-1

 

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.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-3

 

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 and Expungement Law.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-5

 

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.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-19

 

HB20

PROHIBIT HARASSING EMERGENCY SERVICE RESPONDERS (HALL T, PLUMMER P) To increase the penalty for obstructing official business when the victim is 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.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-20

 

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.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-31

 

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.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-36

 

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.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-47

 

HB58

RECOVERY HOUSING, ADDICTION SERVICES (PIZZULLI J, JARRELLS D) To require state certification of recovery housing residences, to establish additional duties regarding services offered by community addiction services providers, and to create the Ohio Recovery Housing Task Force.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-58

 

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.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-68

 

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.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-72

 

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.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-79

 

HB82

TRAFFIC OFFENSES-CONSTRUCTION ZONES (CLICK G, JOHNSON M) Regarding traffic offenses in construction zones.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-82

 

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.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-84

 

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.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-86

 

HB88

DRUG TRAFFICKING PENALTIES, FENTANYL AWARENESS (ABRAMS C, PLUMMER P) To modify penalties for drug trafficking and possession, 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."

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-88

 

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.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-90

 

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.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-102

 

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.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-108

 

HB110

INCREASED PENALTY-REPEAT VOYEURISM (THOMAS C, WILLIAMS J) To increase the penalty for repeat voyeurism.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-110

 

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.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-111

 

HB123

LOCAL OFFICE VACANCY PROCEDURE CHANGE (JOHNSON M, THOMAS D) To modify the procedures for filling vacancies in certain local elected offices.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-123

 

HB132

MOVE OVER DUTY-STATIONARY VEHICLES (CRAIG M, MILLER M) To increase penalties for failing to slow down or change lanes when approaching specified stationary vehicles, to increase penalties for vehicular homicide and vehicular assault resulting from that offense, and to name this act Philip Wigal's Law.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-132

 

HB168

OFFENSE REQUIREMENTS-CRIMINAL CHILD ENTICEMENT (WILLIAMS J, BRENNAN S) To require that a person act with a sexual motivation or an unlawful purpose to commit the offense of criminal child enticement.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-168

 

HB177

COURT PROCESSES-NEW EVIDENCE (WILLIAMS J, TIMS D) To allow a person to file a motion for a new trial or a petition for postconviction relief if the person produces new evidence that would establish a strong probability of a different result at trial.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-177

 

HB185

PROHIBIT UNAUTHORIZED DEEPFAKE RECORDINGS (MATHEWS A, MATHEWS T) To make changes to the law relating to the unauthorized use of an individual's persona and to prohibit certain unauthorized deepfake recordings.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-185

 

HB199

OFF-ROAD VEHICLE LAW CHANGES (MILLER K, PLUMMER P) To make changes to the laws governing all-purpose vehicles, off-highway motorcycles, snowmobiles, utility vehicles, and mini-trucks.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-199

 

HB200

IMMIGRATION PROHIBITIONS, REQUIRE ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION (CLICK G, SANTUCCI N) To enact the America First Act to prohibit a person who is unlawfully present in the United States from entering or being present in Ohio, to require law enforcement agencies and detention facilities to cooperate in the enforcement of federal immigration laws, and to withhold state local government funds from a subdivision that does not abide by the act.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-200

 

HB203

INCREASED PENALTIES-SCHOOL ZONES (HALL T, WILLIAMS J) To increase penalties for vehicular assault and vehicular homicide that occur in an active school zone, to require doubled fines for specified traffic violations in an active school zone, and to name this act Aspen Runnels' Law.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-203

 

HB208

INCREASED PENALTY-ASSAULT ON COURT EMPLOYEES (LORENZ B) To increase the penalty for assault when the victim is a judge, magistrate, prosecutor, or court official or employee.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-208

 

HB210

REGARDING USED CATALYTIC CONVERTER SALES (ROEMER B, PLUMMER P) Regarding the sale of used catalytic converters.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-210

 

HB211

SENTENCING CONSIDERATION-PRIMARY CARETAKERS (HUMPHREY L, WILLIAMS J) To require a court to consider an offender's status as a primary caretaker of a child in determining whether the offender is amenable to a community control sanction or to intervention in lieu of conviction.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-211

 

HB217

MISSING PERSONS REPORTING REQUIREMENTS (COCKLEY C, RITTER K) To enact Andy Chapman's Act to require law enforcement agencies to enter information relating to a report of a missing person in the national missing and unidentified persons system (NamUs).

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-217

 

HB226

APP STORE AGE LIMITS (MILLER M) To require application stores to obtain consent from and disclose certain information to parents before permitting minors to download certain applications and to name this act the App Store Accountability Act.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-226

 

HB236

PROHIBIT MASKED HARASSMENT, TRESPASSING (WILLIAMS J) To prohibit masked harassment and masked trespassing, to modify the offense of aggravated riot when the offender is wearing a mask or disguise or is otherwise concealing or attempting to conceal the offender's face, and to require an additional prison term of one year for an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony if the offender is convicted of or pleads guilty to a specification that the offender wore a mask or disguise or otherwise concealed or attempted to conceal the offender's face in commission of the offense.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-236

 

HB249

LAW CHANGES-INDECENT EXPOSURE (KING A, WILLIAMS J) To enact the Indecent Exposure Modernization Act.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-249

 

HB251

UAV LAW ENFORCEMENT USE, AVIATION FACILITIES (WILLIS B) To establish requirements related to the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle by law enforcement and to expressly incorporate additional aviation facilities into the Aeronautics Law.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-251

 

HB252

OFFENSE MODIFICATIONS-BURGLARY, TRESPASS (CLICK G, BIRD A) To modify the offenses of burglary, aggravated burglary, breaking and entering, and trespass in a habitation when a person is present or likely to be present.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-252

 

HB260

RELATIVE TO COURTS, COURT PROCEDURES (ODIOSO M, MATHEWS A) Relative to courts and court procedures.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-260

 

HB282

BAIL, SENTENCING DETERMINATIONS-IMMIGRATION STATUS (WILLIAMS J) To add a person's immigration status as a factor a court must consider when sentencing or ordering bail.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-282

 

HB295

ENABLE EXPEDITED REMOVAL-UNAUTHORIZED PROPERTY OCCUPANTS (YOUNG T) To provide for the expedited removal of unauthorized occupants of residential property, to prohibit the use and sale of fraudulent deeds, and to declare an emergency.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-295

 

HB296

DELAY FINANCIAL SANCTIONS AFTER RELEASE (MILLER M) To delay financial sanctions for one hundred eighty days after an offender's release from prison or completion of transitional control.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-296

 

HB302

APP STORE AGE LIMITS, PARENTAL CONSENT (WORKMAN H, PLUMMER P) To establish age verification and parental consent requirements for certain developers and application stores.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-302

 

HB305

SET PENALTIES-PRESSED PILL FENTANYL TRAFFICKING (DEETER K, WILLIAMS J) To establish penalties for trafficking in pressed pill fentanyl, to require a death certificate to indicate if a death is caused by fentanyl poisoning, and to name this act Logan's Law.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-305

 

HB306

HATE CRIMES-CRIMINAL, CIVIL PENALTIES (JARRELLS D, WILLIAMS J) To enact the Hate Crime Act to prohibit hate crimes and to create a civil remedy for a person who is terrorized by another because of specific characteristics or beliefs.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-306

 

HB314

RESTRICT DISRUPTIVE RECORD REQUESTS (ISAACSOHN D, RAY S) To restrict harassing or disruptive public records requests and permit private contractors to respond to voluminous public records requests.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-314

 

HB323

SUSPECTED SEXUAL ASSAULT REPORTING-MINOR EMPLOYEES (LORENZ B) To require employers report suspected sexual assault involving minor employees.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-323

 

HB331

RECLASSIFICATION-FIREARM MUFFLERS, SUPPRESSORS (DEETER K, FISCHER T) To remove firearm mufflers and suppressors from the classification of dangerous ordnance.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-331

 

HB336

OVI AGGRAVATED VEHICULAR HOMICIDE PAYMENTS (YOUNG T) To require a felony offender of an OVI-caused aggravated vehicular homicide to pay child maintenance when the victim is a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a minor child, to allow child maintenance to be awarded in a wrongful death action when the offender is deceased, and to name this act the Sam Knisley Family Support Act.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-336

 

HB338

INCREASED PENALTIES-CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION ASSAULTS (JOHNSON M, PLUMMER P) To enact Andy's Law to increase the penalty for assaulting or causing the death of specified victims at state or local correctional institutions and to make changes to department of rehabilitation and correction policies and procedures.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-338

 

HB343

MANDATORY DISPOSITIONS-YOUTH DELINQUENCY (LORENZ B) To require mandatory dispositions for youths adjudicated delinquent for committing acts that would be felony theft or vandalism if committed by an adult.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-343

 

HB345

INCREASED PENALTIES-VOYEURISM (LARE J) To increase the penalties for voyeurism.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-345

 

HB346

CHILD ABUSE MANDATORY REPORTING (KISHMAN M, WILLIAMS J) To enact V.J.'s Law to require mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect to report to both a peace officer and the public children services agency.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-346

 

HB357

LAW CHANGES-VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER, ASSAULT (LORENZ B) To alter the law governing vehicular manslaughter and vehicular assault.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-357

 

HB371

MANDATORY REPORTING-ELECTED OFFICIALS (PLUMMER P, YOUNG T) To make elected officials mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-371

 

HB372

INCREASED PENALTY-MURDER OF FIRST RESPONDERS, MILITARY (ABRAMS C, PLUMMER P) To enact the Larry Henderson Act to specify that the penalty for aggravated murder for an adult offender is death or life without the possibility of parole if the victim is a peace officer, prosecutor, first responder, or military member.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-372

 

HB382

SAFEGUARD FIREARM RIGHTS (FISCHER T) To enact the Second Amendment Protection Act to safeguard the right to keep and bear arms.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-382

 

HB412

ALLOW VILLAGE-CONTRACT WITH COUNTY PROSECUTOR (SWEARINGEN D) To allow a village to contract with the county prosecutor for legal services.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-412

 

HB417

REGARDING ANIMAL ABUSE OFFENSES (PLUMMER P, YOUNG T) To prohibit the abuse of a companion animal corpse, to prohibit an animal abuse offender from owning a dog in certain circumstances, and to establish mandatory fines for violations of an animal abuse offense.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-417

 

HB425

PROHIBIT TRESPASS, UNAUTHORIZED RECORDING-DRONES (HOOPS J) To prohibit trespass and types of unauthorized recording with an unmanned aerial vehicle system.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-425

 

HB457

CRIME ENHANCEMENT-POLITICAL OFFENSES OF VIOLENCE (DANIELS J, WILLIAMS J) To create new aggravated murder offenses for political motivation and political victims, to create a mandatory prison term for politically motivated offenses of violence, and to add political motivation to sentencing factors for felonies and misdemeanors.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-457

 

HB459

CREATE OFFENSE-MOVING, REMOVING HUMAN REMAINS (GROSS J, WILLIAMS J) To enact Katelyn's Law to create an offense and specification related to moving or removing human remains and to provide that the offense has no statute of limitations.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-459

 

HB460

ELECTED OFFICIALS-HANDGUN CARRIERS (CLAGGETT T, WILLIS B) To allow members of the General Assembly, statewide elected officials, judges, and magistrates to carry a concealed handgun in a government facility of the state or a political subdivision.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-460

 

HB478

OFFENSE CREATION-JURY TAMPERING (THOMAS D, SYNENBERG E) To create the offense of jury tampering and to include a public servant in the offense of intimidation of an attorney, victim, witness, or public servant in a criminal case.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-478

 

HB487

CREATE REPEAT DRUG OFFENDER SPECIFICATION (WILLIAMS J, PLUMMER P) To create a repeat drug offender specification.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-487

 

HB490

EXPAND POSTCONVICTION RELIEF-DNA TESTING (SCHMIDT J, WILLIAMS J) To expand the availability of postconviction relief based on DNA testing showing actual innocence.

 

Position:   

Monitor

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-490

 

HB492

EXPAND PROHIBITION-INTERFERING WITH ARREST (RAY S, ABRAMS C) To expand the prohibition against interfering with arrest to all motor vehicle-related laws and require drivers and passengers to disclose their name, address, and date of birth to a peace officer on request.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-492

 

HB495

LAW CHANGES-CONCEALED WEAPONS (GROSS J, WILLIAMS J) To enact the Freedom to Carry Act to rename a concealed handgun license a concealed weapons license and to allow a concealed weapons licensee to carry a concealed deadly weapon other than an exclusive deadly weapon.

 

Position:   

Undetermined

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-495

 

HB498

LAW CHANGES-SELF DEFENSE (LEAR B, ROBB BLASDEL M) To enact the Ohio Self-Defense Act to modify the law regarding self-defense.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-498

 

HB501

LAW CHANGES-WRONGFUL INCARCERATION (WILLIAMS J, ROGERS E) To modify the wrongful imprisonment law and to rename the provisions wrongful incarceration.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-501

 

HB507

PROHIBIT RECEIVING PROSTITUTION PROCEEDS (NEWMAN J, JOHN M) To prohibit a person from receiving proceeds of prostitution.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-507

 

HB519

PROHIBIT POSSESSING DEVICE-VEHICLE THEFT (WHITE A) To prohibit possession of an electronic device under circumstances indicating an intent to commit a theft offense that involves a motor vehicle.

 

Position:   

Undetermined

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-519

 

HB527

OPEN GRAND JURY ACCESS-FELONY DEFENDANTS (WILLIAMS J) To allow felony defendants to request an alternative system of indictment by open grand jury.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-527

 

HB528

MANDATORY SENTENCE-FORCIBLE RAPE (WILLIAMS J) To require a seven year mandatory minimum prison term for forcible rape.

 

Position:   

Amend

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-528

 

HB532

REQUIRE IMMEDIATE CHILD CUSTODY ACTIONS (MILLER K) To require a public children services agency to take immediate custody of specified children who cannot be released to a parent, guardian, or custodian.

 

Position:   

Undetermined

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-532

 

HB533

EXPAND VEHICULAR HOMICIDE LIST (MILLER K) To add to the list of vehicles that can be used to commit a vehicular homicide or vehicular assault.

 

Position:   

Undetermined

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-533

 

HB544

OFFENSE EXPANSION-OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE (WILLIAMS J, SWEARINGEN D) To expand the offense of obstructing justice.

 

Position:   

Undetermined

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-544

 

HB556

MAXIMUM SENTENCING PERIOD CHANGES (MATHEWS A, WILLIAMS J) To change the maximum periods of community control sanctions authorized for felonies and misdemeanors and to modify the confinement sanctions authorized for a technical violation of community control sanction conditions.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-556

 

HB557

PROHIBIT JUDICIAL RELEASE DENIAL-OFFENSE CLASSIFICATION (WILLIAMS J) To prohibit denial of judicial release based solely on the classification of an offense.

 

Position:   

Oppose

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-557

 

HB565

RECORDS EXEMPTION-GRAND JURY (JARRELLS D, ODIOSO M) To exempt from disclosure under Public Records Law, the name and address of a grand juror and the signature of a grand-jury foreperson, and to name this act the Grand Jury Privacy and Protection Act.

 

Position:   

Support

 

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA136-HB-565

 

 

 

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