HB24

HUMANE SOCIETY LAW (HAMBLEY S) To make changes to humane society law, to make humane society agents subject to bribery law, and to establish procedures for the seizure and impoundment of certain animals and livestock.

Comments:   

Support bill in its current form. Still concerned with humane society private prosecution authority and humane society agent arrest authority without the same training requirements as a peace officer.

Position:   

Amend

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-24

HB27

PUBLIC MOTOR VEHICLE LIABILITY (INGRAM C) To modify political subdivision liability for an employee's negligent operation of a motor vehicle.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-27

HB37

VICIOUS DOGS LAW (ANTANI N, HOLMES G) To revise the laws governing nuisance, dangerous, and vicious dogs.

Comments:   

If dog wardens are to be given arrest authority, they should be required to have the same training as peace officers. Remove provision in bill that imposes a fine on someone who does not respond to receipt of notice that they were not in violation of the vicious dog law.

Position:   

Amend

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-37

HB46

STATE GOVT EXPENDITURE DATABASE (GREENSPAN D) To require the Treasurer of State to establish the Ohio State Government Expenditure Database.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-46

HB61

HEALTH PROVIDER RESIDENTIAL INFO (LANESE L, LISTON B) To include forensic mental health providers, mental health evaluation providers, and regional psychiatric hospital employees as individuals whose residential and familial information is exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Law.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-61

HB66

THEFT VICTIM RESTITUTION (MERRIN D) To enact the "Theft Victims' Restitution Act" to allow restitution for the cost of accounting or auditing done to determine the extent of a victim's economic loss.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-66

HB69

CHILD ABUSE REGISTRY (PERALES R) To require the Attorney General to establish a publicly accessible child abuse registry and to name the act Jacob's Law.

Comments:   

Amend to remove nonsupport as a registerable offense.

Position:   

Amend

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-69

HB83

SCHOOL BUS PHOTO EVIDENCE (BROWN R, SCHAFFER T) To allow images captured by a camera installed on a school bus to be used as corroborating evidence for the offense of failing to stop for a school bus.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-83

HB85

CAPITAL CASE COSTS (WILKIN S, ROGERS J) To allow the Controlling Board to transfer money to the Attorney General and State Public Defender to defray county costs associated with certain capital cases and to declare an emergency.

Position:   

Support

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-85

HB86

DANGEROUS ORDNANCE CORRECTION (PLUMMER P) To correct a drafting error in the definition of "dangerous ordnance" that resulted from Am. Sub. H.B. 228 of the 132nd General Assembly and to declare an emergency.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-86

HB87

OVI CHARGE SEALING (ANTANI N) To allow for the sealing of charges dismissed through intervention in lieu of conviction when those charges are connected to a conviction for operating a vehicle under the influence.

Comments:   

Support. Other stakeholders have concerns with implementation. No way to seal the drug related offense and not the OVI when they are all on the same document.

Position:   

Support

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-87

HB89

FAILURE TO STOP-SCHOOL BUS (ANTANI N) To enhance the penalties for failing to properly stop for a school bus, to establish requirements related to informing the public about that prohibition, and to make an appropriation.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-89

HB105

SCHOOL BUS STOP (BROWN R, SCHERER G) To enhance the penalty for failing to stop for a school bus that is picking up or dropping off school children when the offender has a prior violation within a five-year period.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-105

HB119

LOCAL CONTROL-TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS (STOLTZFUS R) To grant municipal and county courts original and exclusive jurisdiction over any civil action concerning a traffic law violation, to modify certain requirements governing the use of traffic law photo-monitoring devices by a local authority, and to make corrective changes to the distracted driving and texting-while-driving law.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-119

HB124

RESIDENTIAL SMALL LIVESTOCK (BRINKMAN T) To allow an owner of residential property to keep small livestock on the property and to prohibit zoning authorities from regulating certain noncommercial agricultural activities on residential property.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-124

HB128

SOLICITING PENALTY (KOEHLER K, MILLER A) To modify the penalties for certain soliciting offenses and to specify that an imposed fine may be deposited into the Victims of Human Trafficking Fund.

Comments:   

Remove requirement that offender offer payment, or offer payment in the vicinity of a school or place of worship. Amend fines to allow for standard F4/F5 fine amount.

Position:   

Amend

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-128

HB136

PROHIBIT DEATH PENALTY IF MENTALLY ILL AT TIME OF OFFENSE (HILLYER B) Prohibit death penalty if mentally ill at time of offense

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 Senate Bill 54.

Position:   

Oppose

Priority:   

Tier 1 - High

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-136

HB139

TRAFFIC CAMERAS-EMERGENCY SERVICES (PATTON T) To prohibit a municipal corporation or township that does not operate either a fire department or an emergency medical services organization from utilizing traffic law photo-monitoring devices.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-139

HB140

TRAFFIC CAMERAS-LOW POPULATION (PATTON T) To prohibit a local authority with a population of 200 or fewer from utilizing traffic law photo-monitoring devices.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-140

HB141

TRAFFIC CAMERAS-TICKET/POPULATION CAP (PATTON T) To prohibit a local authority, in any year, from issuing a total number of traffic tickets based on the use of traffic law photo-monitoring devices that exceeds two times the population of the local authority.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-141

HB142

TRAFFIC CAMERAS-REVENUE CAP (PATTON T) To prohibit a local authority from deriving more than 30 per cent of the total annual revenue of the local authority from the issuance of tickets for traffic law violations based on evidence recorded by traffic law photo-monitoring devices.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-142

HB145

ANIMAL ABUSE REGISTRY (BRINKMAN T) To require the Attorney General to establish an animal abuser registry.

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-145

HB146

ANIMAL ABUSE-COMPANION ANIMALS (BRINKMAN T) To prohibit an animal abuse offender from owning, possessing, having custody of, or residing with a companion animal for a specified time period.

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-146

HB153

VACANT OFFICE-FAILURE TO PERFORM (BECKER J) To modify the law regarding declaring a county office vacant for failure to perform duties, including failure to appear at the officer's principle office location, and to designate this act the "Working Officials Requirements Key Act" or "WORK Act."

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-153

HB156

CIVIL IMMUNITY-HANDGUN CRIMES (SCHAFFER T) To grant civil immunity to nonprofit corporations and persons associated with them for certain injuries, deaths, or losses resulting from the carrying of handguns.

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-156

HB158

FILING FEE-LIMITED DRIVING PRIVILEGES (BLESSING III L) To waive the fee for filing a petition for limited driving privileges for an individual who qualifies as indigent and whose license is suspended as a result of failure to maintain proof of financial responsibility, and to authorize a court to grant such limited driving privileges on a first offense.

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-158

HB159

INDEMNITY PROVISIONS-PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTS (BLESSING III L) To regulate the use of indemnity provisions in professional design contracts related to public improvements.

Position:   

Oppose

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-159

HB161

ABUSE OF CORPSE (SMITH R) To expand the penalties for abuse of corpse offenses.

Comments:   

F1 too high. Remove provisions related to abuse of a corpse as part of a ritual, ceremony, or rite.

Position:   

Amend

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-161

HB164

STUDENT RELIGIOUS RIGHTS (GINTER T) Regarding student religious expression and to entitle the act the "Ohio Student Religious Liberties Act of 2019."

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 3 - Low

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-164

HB166

OPERATING BUDGET (OELSLAGER S) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2021, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.

Position:   

Monitor

Priority:   

Tier 1 - High

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-166

HB174

CONCEALED WEAPONS REFORM (HOOD R, BRINKMAN T) To modify the Weapons Law by renaming a concealed handgun license as a concealed weapons license, allowing a concealed weapons licensee to carry concealed all deadly weapons not otherwise prohibited by law, repealing a notice requirement applicable to licensees stopped for a law enforcement purpose, authorizing expungement of convictions of a violation of that requirement, allowing a person age 21 or older and not prohibited by federal law from firearm possession to carry a concealed deadly weapon without needing a license subject to the same carrying laws as a licensee, and correcting the definition of dangerous ordnance mistakenly resulting from Am. Sub. H.B. 228 of the 132nd General Assembly.

Priority:   

Tier 1 - High

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-174

HB178

CONCEALED WEAPONS REFORM (HOOD R, BRINKMAN T) To modify the Weapons Law by renaming a concealed handgun license as a concealed weapons license, allowing a concealed weapons licensee to carry concealed all deadly weapons not otherwise prohibited by law, repealing a notice requirement applicable to licensees stopped for a law enforcement purpose, authorizing expungement of convictions of a violation of that requirement, and allowing a person age 21 or older and not prohibited by federal law from firearm possession to carry a concealed deadly weapon without needing a license subject to the same carrying laws as a licensee.

Priority:   

Tier 1 - High

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-178

HB180

CHILDREN-SEXUAL ACT SIMULATION (SCHAFFER T) To prohibit a performance in which a child simulates sexual activity and, if the offender is a D liquor permit holder, to require the court to order the revocation of the permit.

Priority:   

Tier 2 - Medium

State Bill Page:   

https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA133-HB-180