SB3 |
EXPRESS INTENT-DRUG SENTENCING REFORM (EKLUND J, O'BRIEN S) To express the intent of the General Assembly to develop and enact legislation to reform Ohio's drug sentencing laws. |
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Comments: |
Concerned with changes to drug trafficking and reduction of felony possession offenses to misdemeanors. |
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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=GA133-SB-3 |
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SB5 |
PROMOTING PROSTITUTION PENALTIES (KUNZE S, DOLAN M) To amend the penalties for promoting prostitution. |
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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=GA133-SB-5 |
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SB10 |
THEFT IN OFFICE PENALTIES (WILSON S) To expand the penalties for theft in office based on the amount stolen and to include as restitution audit costs of the entity that suffered the loss. |
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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=GA133-SB-10 |
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SB12 |
TRAFFIC LAW PHOTO MONITORING (CRAIG H) To make changes to the laws governing traffic law photo-monitoring devices, other civil traffic violations, and related fines and fees. |
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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=GA133-SB-12 |
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SB13 |
HUMAN TRAFFICKING-JUVENILES (FEDOR T) To require a juvenile court to hold a delinquency complaint in abeyance in certain cases related to prostitution or 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. |
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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=GA133-SB-13 |
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SB15 |
JURY SOURCE LIST-INCLUDE BMV NAMES (THOMAS C) To require the names submitted by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to the commissioners of jurors to be included on the annual jury source list compiled by the commissioners. |
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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=GA133-SB-15 |
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SB16 |
PEACE OFFICERS-PROPER INTERACTION (WILLIAMS S) Regarding instruction for peace officers, students, and new or student drivers on proper interactions with peace officers. |
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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=GA133-SB-16 |
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SB17 |
PROHIBIT SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM IDENTIFICATION (YUKO K, ANTONIO N) To prohibit law enforcement agencies from including identifying information of sexual assault victims in police reports posted online. |
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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=GA133-SB-17 |
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SB18 |
PROHIBIT CONFINING PREGNANT CRIMINALS (ANTONIO N, LEHNER P) To prohibit restraining or confining a woman or child who is a charged or adjudicated criminal offender or delinquent child at certain points during pregnancy or postpartum recovery. |
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Comments: |
Concerned that the bill as currently written is impractical. Requires an official, in an emergency situation, to check with a doctor before restraining a pregnant inmate. |
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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=GA133-SB-18 |
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SB19 |
EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDER (WILLIAMS S) To enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to allow family members, household members, and law enforcement officers to obtain a court order that temporarily restricts a person's access to firearms if that person poses a danger to themselves or others. |
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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=GA133-SB-19 |
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SB28 |
PROTECTION ORDER VIOLATION PENALTIES (HOTTINGER J) To increase the penalty that applies to the offense of violating a protection order under certain circumstances. |
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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=GA133-SB-28 |
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SB31 |
PUBLIC RECORDS LAW EXEMPTION-EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATORS (ROEGNER K) To include emergency service telecommunicators as individuals whose residential and familial information is exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Law. |
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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=GA133-SB-31 |
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SB33 |
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES OFFENSES (HOAGLAND F) To modify certain criminal offenses with respect to critical infrastructure facilities and to impose fines and civil liability for damage to a critical infrastructure facility. |
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Position: |
Monitor |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-33 |
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SB43 |
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE-FIREARMS RESTRICTIONS, STRANGULATION (KUNZE S, ANTONIO N) To address domestic violence by means of firearms restrictions, penalty enhancements, and a prohibition against strangulation, and to make an appropriation. |
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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=GA133-SB-43 |
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SB47 |
UNLAWFUL SEXUAL CONTACT WITH MINOR PETITIONS (EKLUND J) To create a procedure for certain offenders convicted of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor to petition a court for reclassification or removal from duties under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law and to permit record sealing in those cases. |
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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=GA133-SB-47 |
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SB48 |
SPEEDY TRIAL RULES (EKLUND J) To narrow the scope of speedy trial rules. |
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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=GA133-SB-48 |
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SB49 |
BODY CAVITY SEARCHES (EKLUND J) To authorize a corrections officer to cause a body cavity search to be conducted or to conduct a strip search and to establish separate rules for conducting strip searches. |
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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=GA133-SB-49 |
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SB53 |
FIREARMS-DANGEROUS ORDNANCE (ROEGNER K) To clarify that certain firearms are not "dangerous ordnance" and to declare an emergency. |
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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=GA133-SB-53 |
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SB54 |
PROHIBIT DEATH PENALTY-MENTAL ILLNESS (EKLUND J, WILLIAMS S) To prohibit imposing the death penalty for aggravated murder when the offender had a serious mental illness at the time of the offense. |
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Comments: |
The bill is so broadly written that it effectively ends the death penalty. Post-conviction relief provision allows everyone currently on death row to file for relief based on the assertion that they had one of the listed mental illnesses at the time of their crime. See also House Bill 136. |
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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=GA133-SB-54 |
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SB55 |
ENHANCE PENALTIES-DRUG TRAFFICKING (GAVARONE T) To enhance penalties for certain drug trafficking offenses committed in the vicinity of a community addiction services provider and to name the act's provisions the "Relapse Reduction 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=GA133-SB-55 |
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SB57 |
DECRIMINALIZE HEMP (HILL B, HUFFMAN S) To decriminalize hemp and hemp products and to establish a hemp cultivation licensing program. |
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Comments: |
Concerned with impact on probable cause for marijuana and ability of BCI to test the level of THC. |
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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=GA133-SB-57 |
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SB58 |
NONVIOLENT CRIMINALS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS (GAVARONE T) To express the intent of the General Assembly to reform the process of restoring the competency of individuals with serious mental illness charged with nonviolent crimes and to provide alternatives for treatment. |
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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-58 |
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SB62 |
PROHIBIT TRIGGER CRANKS, BUMP STOCKS (THOMAS C) To prohibit certain conduct regarding trigger cranks, bump-fire devices, and other items that accelerate a semi-automatic firearm's rate of fire but do not convert it into an automatic firearm. |
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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=GA133-SB-62 |
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SB63 |
FIREARM TRANSFERS (THOMAS C) To require a firearm transfer to be made through a dealer, through a law enforcement agency, or pursuant to a specified exception, and to require a background check when a firearm is transferred. |
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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=GA133-SB-63 |
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SB64 |
RAISE MINIMUM AGE-FIREARM PURCHASES (THOMAS C) To raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to age 21 and to increase the penalty for improperly furnishing firearms to an underage person. |
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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=GA133-SB-64 |
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SB65 |
FIREARM TRANSFERS-GUN SHOWS (THOMAS C) To regulate the transfer of firearms at a gun show. |
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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=GA133-SB-65 |
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SB70 |
PROHIBIT FELONY QUESTION-JOB APPLICATIONS (WILLIAMS S) To prohibit private employers from including on an employment application any question concerning whether an applicant has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony. |
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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=GA133-SB-70 |
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SB99 |
ELIMINATE MANDATORY BINDOVERS (THOMAS C) To eliminate mandatory bindovers and reverse bindovers, and modify the law governing a discretionary bindover, of an alleged juvenile offender from a juvenile court to a criminal court. |
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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=GA133-SB-99 |
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SB100 |
PAROLE ELIGIBILITY-JUVENILES (THOMAS C) Relative to parole eligibility for persons with an indefinite or life sentence imposed for an offense committed when the person was less than 18 years of age. |
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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=GA133-SB-100 |
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SB108 |
ELIMINATE RULE OF CONSTRUCTION-AMBIGUOUS STATUTES (OBHOF L) To eliminate the rule of construction regarding a court's considerations in determining the intention of the legislature when a statute is ambiguous. |
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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=GA133-SB-108 |
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SB111 |
SPORTS WAGERING (EKLUND J, O'BRIEN S) To permit the Ohio Casino Control Commission to regulate sports wagering and to levy a tax on businesses that provide sports wagering. |
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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=GA133-SB-111 |
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SB118 |
INCREASE ASSAULT PENALTIES-SPORTS OFFICIALS (ROEGNER K) To increase the penalty 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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Priority: |
Tier 2 - Medium |
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State Bill Page: |
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-SB-118 |
Bill information courtesy of Hannah News Service, Inc.
