Justice & Public Safety Legislative Report
Prepared by: CCAO Policy Team
Report created on March 28, 2024
 
HB48CONCEALED CARRY-MOTOR VEHICLE-ET AL (MAAG R) To modify the prohibition against carrying a concealed handgun onto institutions
of higher education, day-care facilities, aircraft, certain government facilities, public
areas of airport terminals, and school safety zones, to allow a sheriff to use concealed handgun license fee revenue to purchase ammunition and firearms, and to authorize
certain children's crisis care facilities to maintain firearms.
 Current Status:   12/7/2016 - PASSED BY SENATE; Amended on Floor, Bill Vote 23-9
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-48
 
HB82COUNTY-PRISON CONTRACTS (HAMBLEY S) To permit a county, a group of counties, or a group of counties and municipalities to contract for the private operation and management of a correctional facility that houses felon inmates.
 Current Status:   5/13/2015 - House State Government, (Third Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-82
 
HB187FIRST RESPONDERS-INJURED ANIMALS (GINTER T) To authorize a first responder, emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, emergency medical technician-paramedic, or volunteer firefighter to stabilize an injured animal in an emergency.
 Current Status:   5/31/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 8/31/16
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-187
 
HB204PEACE OFFICER-BASIC TRAINING (DERICKSON T, MANNING N) To prohibit the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission from recommending and the Attorney General from adopting a rule limiting the number of hours of basic training required for peace officers and to generally require all persons newly appointed to a peace officer position to have received a high school diploma or certificate of high school equivalence.
 Current Status:   6/24/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight and Reform
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-204
 
HB234RAPE-STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ELIMINATION (JOHNSON G, FEDOR T) To eliminate the period of limitation for the criminal prosecution of a person for rape, sexual battery, or complicity to commit rape or sexual battery, eliminate the spousal exceptions for the offenses of rape and sexual battery, and to permit a person to testify against the person's spouse in a prosecution for sexual battery.
 Current Status:   12/1/2015 - House Judiciary, (First Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-234
 
HB2779-1-1 SYSTEM LEVY (BRENNER A) To authorize a county, township, or municipal corporation to impose a 9-1-1 system levy in only the portion of the subdivision that would be served by the 9-1-1 system and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   6/28/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 6/28/16
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-277
 
HB288SAFETY OPERATIONAL STANDARDS-PSAP (HENNE M, REZABEK J) To require the statewide emergency services internet protocol network steering committee to update the operational standards for public safety answering points.
 Current Status:   9/16/2015 - Referred to Committee House Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-288
 
HB353SEX OFFENDER NOTIFICATION (RUHL M) To require a sheriff to mail a notice to every adult member of a household where a person who is required to register as a sex offender resides informing those household members that the person has committed a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense.
 Current Status:   4/26/2016 - House Judiciary, (Third Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-353
 
HB380OFFICER-INVOLVED DEATH INVESTIGATIONS (DEVER J, REECE A) To require each law enforcement agency to adopt a written policy regarding the investigation of firearms-related officer-involved deaths that involve an officer serving the agency; to provide for investigations into officer-involved deaths by investigatory panels of law enforcement officers; to require an investigatory panel to provide a report of its investigation findings to the prosecutor and the officer's law enforcement agency; to provide for public access to the report, except for information that is not a public record, if the prosecutor determines that there is no basis to prosecute or a grand jury enters a no bill regarding the involved officer; and to require an investigatory panel to inform the deceased individual's family members of contact information for the office of the prosecutor handling the case.
 Current Status:   12/1/2015 - House Judiciary, (First Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-380
 
HB388OVI OFFENDERS-IGNITION INTERLOCK (SCHERER G) To authorize a court to grant unlimited driving privileges with an ignition interlock device to first-time OVI offenders, to expand the penalties related to ignition interlock device violations, to modify the law governing the installation and monitoring of ignition interlock devices, to extend the look back period for OVI and OVI-related offenses from six to ten years, to modify the penalties for OVI offenses, and to alter the notice requirements applicable to a salvage auction or pool that obtains a salvage certificate of title for a motor vehicle.
 Current Status:   1/4/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/6/17
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-388
 
HB436DRIVING PRIVILEGES-JUDGE (CUPP B, ROGERS J) To authorize a judge that grants limited driving privileges to a second-time OVI offender to order the termination of the mandatory immobilization order.
 Current Status:   1/4/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/6/17
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-436
 
HB437OFFICER-INVOLVED DEATHS (BOYD J) To require every law enforcement agency to adopt a written policy that requires an investigation into a death resulting from the actions of a law enforcement officer employed by the law enforcement agency and to require the investigation to be conducted by at least two law enforcement officers who are not employed by a law enforcement agency that employs any law enforcement officer involved in the officer involved death.
 Current Status:   2/2/2016 - Referred to Committee House Judiciary
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-437
 
HB462JOINT POLICE DISTRICT-SOLICITATION (HAGAN C, SPRAGUE R) To authorize specified political subdivisions to establish a joint police district, to modify the membership of a joint police district governing body, to expand the offense of solicitation to also apply to a person who agrees with another to engage with the other person in sexual activity for hire, to provide that the "prescription exemption" from the drug possession offenses does not apply to a person who uses more of the drug than the maximum prescribed amount per day or the maximum amount to be used within the prescription timeline or who administers or takes the drug in a manner not prescribed by the prescribing health professional, and to provide immunity from civil liability to a peace officer who administers naloxone to a person who is apparently experiencing an opioid-related overdose.
 Current Status:   4/20/2016 - House Local Government, (Third Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-462
 
HB463REAL PROPERTY FORECLOSURE-AUTISM INSURANCE (DEVER J) Relative to the Ohio Uniform Commercial Code, real property foreclosure and escrow transactions, certain partial property tax exemptions, and local ballot initiatives; to require the coverage of autism services; to reimburse child abuse and child neglect regional prevention council members for expenses and prohibit conflicts of interest; and to amend the statutory procedure for recalling certain municipal officials to include a deadline for filing a petition for recall.
 Current Status:   1/4/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/6/17
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-463
 
HB465PEACE OFFICER-BENEFIT ELIGIBILITY (RUHL M, SMITH R) To retroactively extend eligibility for benefits from the Volunteer Peace Officers' Dependents Fund to situations in which, on or after January 1, 2016, a volunteer peace officer is totally and permanently disabled or killed in the line of duty.
 Current Status:   11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House State Government
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-465
 
HB495PERRY COUNTY MUNICIPAL COURT (HAYES B) To create the Perry County Municipal Court in New Lexington on January 1, 2017, to establish one full-time judgeship in that court, to provide for the nomination of the judge by petition only, to abolish the Perry County County Court on that date, to designate the Perry County Clerk of Courts as the clerk of the Perry County Municipal Court, and to provide for the election for the Perry County Municipal Court of one full-time judge in 2017.
 Current Status:   4/27/2016 - House State Government, (Second Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-495
 
HB518CONCEALED CARRY-GOVERNMENT FACILITY (VITALE N) To permit an elected officeholder of this state or a political subdivision of this state who holds a valid concealed handgun license to carry a concealed handgun in a government facility of this state or a political subdivision of this state.
 Current Status:   11/17/2016 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-518
 
HB5259-1-1 DEFAULT CONFIGURATION (JOHNSON G) to require multi-line telephone systems to have a default configuration that permits users to directly initiate a call to 9-1-1 without dialing any additional digit or code.
 Current Status:   11/30/2016 - House Public Utilities, (First Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-525
 
HB526ANIMAL TRESPASSING (BISHOFF H) To prohibit a person from killing or injuring a cat or dog that is trespassing on the person's property.
 Current Status:   4/26/2016 - Referred to Committee House State Government
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-526
 
HB529CONCEALED CARRY-TACTICAL MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL (RETHERFORD W, HAGAN C) To provide for firearms training for tactical medical professionals; to permit such a professional who has received that training or comparable training and who is authorized to carry firearms by the law enforcement agency the professional is serving to carry firearms while on duty in the same manner, to the same extent, in the same areas, and subject to the same potential for civil and criminal liability as a law enforcement officer of the agency; and to grant such a professional, while on duty in that capacity, the same right to carry a concealed handgun in this state as a person who was issued a concealed handgun license.
 Current Status:   11/16/2016 - House State Government, (Second Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-529
 
HB546CIVIL LIABILITY-VOLUNTEER LAW ENFORCEMENT (DEVITIS A) To authorize a board of education or governing authority of a school to enter into an agreement with a volunteer who is a current or retired law enforcement officer to patrol school premises to prevent or respond to a mass casualty event, to generally provide to a board of education or governing authority of a school and to such a volunteer immunity from civil liability for injury, death, or loss arising from the volunteer's services, and to provide a tax credit for volunteer service.
 Current Status:   11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-546
 
HB559MEDICAL CLAIMS (CUPP B) To grant qualified civil immunity to certain medical providers who provide emergency medical services as a result of a disaster or mass hazard; to provide that certain communications made regarding an unanticipated outcome of medical care, the development or implementation of standards under federal laws, and an insurer's reimbursement policies on health care are inadmissible as evidence in a medical claim; to provide that medical bills itemizing charges are inadmissible as evidence and a payment for medical services accepted by a defendant from an insurer is admissible as evidence of the reasonableness of the charges; to specify the manner of sending a notice of intent to file a medical claim and provide a procedure for the discovery of other potential claims within a specified period after the filing of a medical claim; to provide that any loss of a chance of recovery or survival by itself is not an injury, death, or loss for which damages may be recovered; to provide civil immunity to certain medical providers regarding the discharge of a patient with a mental condition that threatens the safety of the patient or others; to require that governmental agencies that receive peer review committee records maintain their confidentiality; and to clarify the definition of "medical claim."
 Current Status:   12/6/2016 - House Judiciary, (Second Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-559
 
HB569BIAS-MOTIVATED CRIME (ANTONIO N) To rename the offense of ethnic intimidation to bias-motivated crime; to expand the scope of the offense to include specified crimes committed based on a person's actual or perceived ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability; to require peace officer training on bias-motivated crime, and to require law enforcement agencies to submit data on bias-motivated crime to the Ohio Department of Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and provide for the annual public release of the data.
 Current Status:   11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Judiciary
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-569
 
HB573PET STORE LICENSES (SCHERER G) To regulate the sale of dogs from pet stores and dog retailers and to require the Director of Agriculture to license pet stores.
 Current Status:   5/24/2016 - House Finance, (First Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-573
 
SB123EMERGENCY PERSONNEL-REPORT TRAFFIC VIOLATION (HUGHES J) To allow emergency personnel in public safety vehicles to report traffic law violations under certain circumstances.
 Current Status:   6/14/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/14/16
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-123
 
SB174RIGHT TO RECORD LAW ENFORCEMENT (TAVARES C) To grant a person the right to lawfully record any incident involving a law enforcement officer and to impose civil liability upon the state or a local law enforcement agency if a law enforcement officer employed by the state or local law enforcement agency interferes with the recording of the incident, destroys the recording, seizes the recording without a warrant or subpoena or the person's consent, or retaliates against the person who recorded the incident.
 Current Status:   12/8/2015 - Senate Civil Justice, (First Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-174
 
SB222VICTIM CONFIDENTIALITY (LEHNER P, WILLIAMS S) To create an address confidentiality program for victims of domestic violence, menacing by stalking, human trafficking, trafficking in persons, rape, sexual battery, and other crimes.
 Current Status:   12/1/2015 - Senate State and Local Government, (First Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-222
 
SB248MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION-MEDICAID PAYMENT (PATTON T) To increase the Medicaid payment rates for certain medical transportation services.
 Current Status:   4/20/2016 - Senate Medicaid, (Second Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-248
 
SB258PEACE OFFICER RELATED DEATH (WILLIAMS S, TAVARES C) To establish the duties and authority of the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute cases relating to the death of a person caused by a peace officer.
 Current Status:   1/20/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-258
 
SB271LAW ENFORCEMENT-POLICE DOG-HORSE (GENTILE L) To authorize a law enforcement officer to purchase a police dog or horse for fair market value when the officer retires in good standing from a law enforcement agency and certain conditions are met, and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   12/1/2016 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 27-0
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-271
 
SB275TRAFFIC PHOTO DEVICES-REVENUE (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.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - Senate State and Local Government, (First Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-275
 
SB276TRAFFIC PHOTO DEVICES-POPULATION (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.
 Current Status:   2/23/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-276
 
SB277TRAFFIC PHOTO DEVICES-SMALL POPULATION (PATTON T) To prohibit a local authority with a population of 200 or fewer from utilizing traffic law photo-monitoring devices.
 Current Status:   2/23/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-277
 
SB278TRAFFIC PHOTO DEVICES-FIRE-EMS (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.
 Current Status:   2/23/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-278
 
SB284RECORD EXPUNGEMENT-HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIM (OBHOF L) To provide that a person who is found not guilty of an offense by a jury or a court or who is the defendant named in a dismissed complaint, indictment, or information may apply to the court for an order to expunge the person's official records in the case if the complaint, indictment, or information or finding of not guilty was the result of the applicant having been a victim of human trafficking and to authorize intervention in lieu of conviction for persons charged with committing an offense while a victim of compelling prostitution.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - House Judiciary, (First Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-284
 
SB286POLICE DOG-HORSE ASSAULT (HUGHES J) To modify the penalty for assaulting a police dog or horse to require, if the dog or horse is killed, a mandatory prison term and a mandatory fine to be paid to the law enforcement agency served by the dog or horse.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Criminal Justice
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-286
 
SB299PERRY COUNTY MUNICIPAL COURT (HOTTINGER J) To create the Perry County Municipal Court in New Lexington on January 1, 2017, to establish one full-time judgeship in that court, to provide for the nomination of the judge by petition only, to abolish the Perry County County Court on that date, to designate the Perry County Clerk of Courts as the clerk of the Perry County Municipal Court, and to provide for the election for the Perry County Municipal Court of one full-time judge in 2017.
 Current Status:   12/6/2016 - REPORTED OUT, House Judiciary, (Third Hearing)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-299
 
SB304POLITICAL SUBDIVISION-REFUSAL OF DUTY (WILLIAMS S) To grant a cause of action to an employee or injured person against a political subdivision that refuses to perform its statutory duty to indemnify an employee in the amount of a judgment for certain damages if specified conditions apply.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Civil Justice
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-304
 
SB322CHIEF OF POLICE TRAINING COURSE (HITE C) To require the Ohio peace officer training commission to develop and conduct a chief of police training course for newly appointed chiefs of police appointed on or after January 1, 2017, and to require newly appointed chiefs of police of villages, cities, and townships to attend the training course within six months of appointment as a chief of police.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 33-0
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-322
 
SB331DOG SALE-PET RETAILER-BESTIALITY BAN (PETERSON B) To regulate the sale of dogs from pet stores and dog retailers, to require the Director of Agriculture to license pet stores, and to revise the civil penalties applicable to dog breeders and other specified entities; to govern construction and attachment activities related to micro wireless facilities in the public way; to prohibit political subdivisions from
establishing minimum wage rates different from the rate required by state law; to
generally grant private employers exclusive authority to establish policies
concerning hours and location of work, scheduling, and fringe benefits, unless an
exception applies; to prohibit a person from engaging in sexual conduct with an
animal and related acts, to provide for the seizure and impoundment of an animal
that is the subject of a violation, and to authorize a sentencing court to require an
offender to undergo psychological evaluation or counseling; to prohibit and
establish an increased penalty for knowingly engaging in activities associated
with cockfighting, bearbaiting, or pitting an animal against another; to remove the
residency requirement for the appointment of an agent to a county humane
society; and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/21/2017
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-331
 
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