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A compilation of bills and data concerning Ohio Sexual Offender Registration and Notification (SORN) laws also referred to as Chapter 2950. This page provides the same data the Ohio General Assembly does, yet in one easy to use place without having to filter through the hundreds of bills on other subjects. There is also you will see a table of the status of each bill. Updated the first week of each month. Additionally, the links in the status table are a link to a PDF of the Senate or House Journal report for that day. Finally, it should be noted that all of the data here is unofficial. For PDF versions please right click and select save as, thank you.
To see how the General Assembly works and the Legislative process in Ohio. this is an excellent guide of how a law is made. (PDF) Also how a bill becomes a law.
129th General Assembly - 2011/2012
Welcome to the new format. Several features have been added. Such as links to the pages on Ohio Legislator page of the committees, sponsors and the bill for each bill. Above is a list of all relevant bills for this General Assembly with the status of the bill and a link to more info. Also you will see links to the bills and other related documents. Finally the links to the Journals at the date of any activity for each bill. The journals many times have no real info and other times contain great amounts of info. It is highly suggested you check those out also in your research. Please remember to right click and save as on PDF files.
Status of all legislation as of 03-03-2012 (PDF)
The 129th is updated to the date above concerning the status of legislation. It is also best to check the Legislators page and journals for the most current data.
ADDED TO HB 86
Senate Bill No. 76 - 129th General Assembly - Sex offenders-prohibit court-ordered changes of name
To amend section 2717.01 of the Revised Code to prohibit a court from ordering a statutory change of name for a person who has committed identity fraud or who must register under the SORN Law for having committed a sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense.
Sponsored by: Skindell Cosponsors: Bacon Turner Hughes Smith Brown
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Senate Bill No. 70 - 129th General Assembly - Arson offender registry
To enact sections 2909.13, 2909.14, and 2909.15 of the Revised Code to establish a registry for arson offenders.
Sponsored by: Schaffer
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Senate Bill No. 68 - 129th General Assembly - Sexually oriented offenders-residence/clarify registration requirement
To amend sections 2950.02, 2950.034, and 2950.04 of the Revised Code to specify that the restriction against offenders convicted of a sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense establishing or occupying a residence near school, preschool, or child day-care premises generally applies regardless of when the offense was committed or the offender began living in the residence, to provide an exemption from the ban for offenders who occupy residential premises they or their spouse own at the time of occupancy and also owned prior to the ban's effective date, and to specify that a registration requirement for children adjudicated delinquent for a sexually oriented offense and classified a juvenile offender registrant applies regardless of when the offense was committed.
Sponsored by: Schaffer Cosponsors: Stewart Hughes Beagle Manning
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ADDED TO HB 86
Senate Bill No. 44 - 129th General Assembly - Sex offender-prohibit from possessing photo of victim while imprisoned
To enact section 2950.17 of the Revised Code to prohibit a convicted sex offender from possessing a photograph of the offender's victim while the offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense and to prohibit a child-victim offender from possessing a photograph of any minor child while the child-victim offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That section 2950.17 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows: Sec. 2950.17. (A) Regardless of when the sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense was committed, a person who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense or a person who is or has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense shall not possess a photograph of the victim of the sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense while the person is serving any prison term, jail term, community residential sanction, or other term of confinement imposed on the offender for the offense. (B) Regardless of when the child-victim oriented offense was committed, a person who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to a child-victim oriented offense or a person who is or has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a child-victim oriented offense shall not possess a photograph of any minor child while the person is serving any prison term, jail term, community residential sanction, or other term of confinement imposed on the offender for the offense. (C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of illegal possession of a prohibited photograph, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
This bill needs to be somewhere beside Chapter 2950, yet here it is.
Sponsored by: Kearney Cosponsors:
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NOW LAW - House Bill No. 86 - 129th General Assembly - Criminal law and procedure-changes - NOW LAW
To amend sections 109.42, 307.93, 309.18, 341.12, 926.99, 1333.99, 1707.99, 1716.99, 2151.23, 2152.02, 2152.021, 2152.12, 2152.13, 2152.14, 2152.17, 2152.22, 2301.27, 2301.30, 2717.01, 2743.51, 2743.56, 2743.59, 2743.60, 2901.08, 2903.01, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2905.01, 2905.02, 2907.21, 2907.22, 2907.323, 2909.03, 2909.05, 2909.11, 2911.12, 2913.01, 2913.02, 2913.03, 2913.04, 2913.11, 2913.21, 2913.31, 2913.32, 2913.34, 2913.40, 2913.401, 2913.42, 2913.421, 2913.43, 2913.45, 2913.46, 2913.47, 2913.48, 2913.49, 2913.51, 2913.61, 2915.05, 2917.21, 2917.31, 2917.32, 2919.21, 2919.22, 2921.13, 2921.34, 2921.41, 2923.01, 2923.31, 2923.32, 2925.01, 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.041, 2925.05, 2925.11, 2925.36, 2929.01, 2929.11, 2929.13, 2929.14, 2929.15, 2929.19, 2929.191, 2929.20, 2929.26, 2929.34, 2929.41, 2930.12, 2930.16, 2930.17, 2935.041, 2937.36, 2941.141, 2941.142, 2941.143, 2941.144, 2941.145, 2941.146, 2941.1411, 2941.1412, 2941.1414, 2941.1415, 2941.1421, 2941.1422, 2941.1423, 2950.99, 2951.041, 2951.08, 2953.08, 2967.14, 2967.193, 2967.28, 2971.03, 2981.07, 3719.99, 4507.51, 4511.091, 4729.99, 5120.031, 5120.07, 5120.111, 5120.16, 5120.331, 5120.48, 5120.59, 5120.60, 5120.66, 5139.01, 5139.06, 5139.18, 5139.20, 5139.43, 5139.52, 5149.01, 5149.10, 5149.31, 5149.32, 5149.33, 5149.34, and 5149.36 and to enact sections 307.932, 2152.121, 2152.51, 2152.52, 2152.53, 2152.54, 2152.55, 2152.56, 2152.57, 2152.58, 2152.59, 2301.271, 2743.601, 2929.143, 2950.17, 2951.022, 2961.21, 2961.22, 2961.23, 2961.24, 2967.19, 5120.036, 5120.113, 5120.114, 5120.115, and 5149.311 of the Revised Code and to amend Section 3 of Am. Sub. H.B. 130 of the 127th General Assembly, to increase from $500 to $1,000 the threshold amount for determining increased penalties for theft-related offenses and for certain elements of "vandalism" and "engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity"; to increase by 50% the other threshold amounts for determining increased penalties for those offenses; to revise and clarify the law regarding prosecution of multiple theft, Medicaid fraud, workers' compensation fraud, and similar offenses and the valuation of property or services involved; to include workers' compensation fraud as a theft offense; to provide that if "nonsupport of dependents" is based on an abandonment of or failure to support a child or a person to whom a court order requires support and is a felony the sentencing court generally must first consider placing the offender on one or more community control sanctions; to eliminate the difference in criminal penalties for crack cocaine and powder cocaine; to revise some of the penalties for trafficking in marihuana or hashish, for possession of marihuana, cocaine, or hashish, and for all third degree felony drug offenses that currently have mandatory prison terms; to prohibit a convicted sex offender from possessing a photograph of the offender's victim while the offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense and to prohibit a child-victim offender from possessing a photograph of any minor child while the child-victim offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense; to revise procedures for notification of victims when violent offenders escape from the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction; to modify the number of Parole Board members required to conduct a full Board hearing; to limit a member of the Parole Board appointed after the bill's effective date who is not the Chairperson or a victim representative to two six-year terms; to revise the eligibility criteria for, and procedures governing, intervention in lieu of conviction; to revise the eligibility criteria for judicial release; to reduce the penalty for the offense of "escape" when it involves certain conduct by a person under supervised release by the Department; to revise the procedure for prisoners in state correctional institutions to earn days of credit for productive participation in specified prison programs and the number of days of credit that may be earned; to require judges who sentence an offender to a prison term to include in the sentence notice to the offender that the offender may be eligible to earn such days of credit; to require GPS monitoring of a prisoner placed on post-release control who was released early from prison due to earning 60 or more days of credit; to enact a new mechanism for the possible release with sentencing court approval of certain Department inmates who have served at least 80% of their prison term; to expand the membership of a county's local corrections planning board; to expand the authorization to transfer certain Ohio prisoners for pretrial confinement to a contiguous county in an adjoining state to also apply to postconviction confinement and confinement upon civil process; to make changes regarding halfway houses and community residential centers and authorize reentry centers; to provide for the establishment and operation of community alternative sentencing centers for misdemeanants sentenced directly to the centers under a community residential sanction or an OVI term of confinement not exceeding 60 days; to change the membership of the Ex-offender Reentry Coalition by reducing the number and functions of members from the Governor's office and adding the Director of Veterans Services; to remove judges from the membership of a corrections commission and instead have them form an advisory board; to require the Department to develop a reentry plan for each inmate committed to the Department who was not sentenced to a term of life without parole or a sentence of death and who is expected to be imprisoned for more than 30 days; to revise the procedures governing the Department's issuance of an inmate identification card upon an inmate's release and the use of such a card to obtain a state identification card; to authorize, instead of requiring, the Department to discontinue subsidy payment to a political subdivision that reduces local funding for corrections by the amount of a community-based corrections subsidy or that uses a subsidy for capital improvements; to adopt a single validated risk assessment tool to be used by courts at their option and by probation departments and the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to evaluate risk levels of offenders; to provide judges the option of risk reduction sentencing to allow for early release of certain prisoners who complete treatment and programming while incarcerated; to generally require offenders convicted of or pleading guilty to a felony of the fourth or fifth degree that is not a specified offense to serve community control sanctions when the conviction or plea did not occur in specified circumstances; to create the offense of trespass in a habitation of a person when any person other than an accomplice of the offender is present or likely to be present; to change the sentencing structure for felonies of the first degree and for felonies of the third degree that are not specified types of offenses; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to adopt specified types of standards regarding sentencing to community-based correctional facilities and community corrections programs; to reduce duplication of probation supervision resources; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to establish and administer the probation improvement grant and the probation incentive grant; to encourage a county and the Juvenile Court that serves the county to use the moneys in the county treasury's Felony Delinquent Care and Custody Fund to research-supported, outcome-based programs and services; to expand the circumstances in which a delinquent child committed to the Department of Youth Services may be granted a judicial release; to establish procedures for determining the competency to participate in the proceeding of a child who is the subject of a complaint alleging that the child is a delinquent child and procedures for a child to attain competency if the child is found to be incompetent; to establish an interagency task force to investigate and make recommendations on how to most effectively treat delinquent youth who suffer from serious mental illness or emotional and behavioral disorders; to establish a new mechanism, which may involve transfer back to a juvenile court, for determining the sanction for certain children who are convicted of a crime in criminal court after their case is transferred under a specified mandatory transfer provision; to revise the provision regarding commitment of a delinquent child to the Department of Youth Services for being complicit in the commission of an act by another that constitutes a firearm specification; to modify the required content of complaints alleging chronic or habitual truancy; to revise the time for notification of bail forfeiture proceedings regarding recognizance's; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to conduct a study of assaults by inmates; to modify the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Law based on the Ohio Supreme Court's decisions in State v. Foster and State v. Hodge; to prohibit the arrest, charging, or conviction of a person for speeding based on a peace officer's unaided visual estimation of the speed of the vehicle; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to thoroughly review the cases of all parole-eligible inmates who are sixty-five years of age or older; to authorize libraries, museums, archival institutions, and merchants to detain a suspected shoplifter, etc., to offer pretrial diversion and inform the suspect of other available options; to provide for certificates of achievement and employability for certain Department of Rehabilitation and Correction prisoners to be used by the recipient prisoner to generally obtain relief from mandatory civil impacts that would affect a potential job for which the prisoner trained; to prohibit a court from ordering a statutory change of name for a person convicted of identity fraud or having a duty to register under the SORN Law; and to revise certain provisions of the Crime Victims Reparations Law.
Important parts.
Adds the underlined text to; Sec. 307.932. (A) As used in this section: (E) The establishment and operation of a community alternative sentencing center or district community alternative sentencing center may be done by subcontracting with a nonprofit organization for the operation of the center. If a board of county commissioners or an affiliated group of boards of county commissioners establishes and operates a community alternative sentencing center or district community alternative sentencing center under this division, except as otherwise provided in this division, the center is not a minimum security jail under section 341.14, section 753.21, or any other provision of the Revised Code, is not a jail or alternative residential facility as defined in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code, is not required to satisfy or comply with minimum standards for minimum security jails or other jails that are promulgated under division (A) of section 5120.10 of the Revised Code, is not a local detention facility as defined in section 2929.36 of the Revised Code, and is not a residential unit as defined in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code. The center is a detention facility as defined in sections 2921.01 and 2923.124 of the Revised Code, and an eligible offender confined in the center is under detention as defined in section 2921.01 of the Revised Code. Regarding persons sentenced directly to the center under an OVI term of confinement or under both an OVI term of confinement and confinement for a violation of section 4510.14 of the Revised Code or a municipal DUS offense, the center shall be considered a "jail" or "local correctional facility" for purposes of any provision in section 4510.14 or 4511.19 of the Revised Code or in an ordinance of a municipal corporation that requires a mandatory jail term or mandatory term of local incarceration for the violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, the violation of both section 4510.14 and 4511.19 of the Revised Code, the municipal OVI offense, or the municipal OVI offense and the municipal DUS offense, and a direct sentence of a person to the center under an OVI term of confinement or under both an OVI term of confinement and confinement for a violation of section 4510.14 of the Revised Code or a municipal DUS offense shall be considered to be a sentence to a "jail" or "local correctional facility" for purposes of any such provision in section 4510.14 or 4511.19 of the Revised Code or in an ordinance of a municipal corporation.
Adds the underlined text to;
2950.99(A)(2)(b) In addition to any penalty or sanction imposed under division (A)(1)(b)(i), (ii), or (iii) of this section or any other provision of law for a violation of a prohibition in section 2950.04, 2950.041, 2950.05, or 2950.06 of the Revised Code, if the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to, or previously has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing, a violation of a prohibition in section 2950.04, 2950.041, 2950.05, or 2950.06 of the Revised Code when the most serious sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense that was the basis of the requirement that was violated under the prohibition is a felony if committed by an adult or a comparable category of offense committed in another jurisdiction, the court imposing a sentence upon the offender shall impose a definite prison term of no less than three years. The definite prison term imposed under this section is not restricted by division (B) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code and, subject to division (C) of section 2967.19 of the Revised Code, shall not be reduced to less than three years pursuant to any provision of Chapter 2967. or any other provision of the Revised Code.
It basically creates a new mechanism for the possible release with sentencing court approval of inmates with registration based offenses who have served at least 85% (and at least one year) of their prison term.
Sponsored by: Blessing Cosponsors: Heard
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House Bill No. 77 - 129th General Assembly - Sex offender registration law-clarification
To amend sections 2152.02, 2152.851, 2152.86, 2950.01, 2950.03, 2950.04, 2950.041, 2950.06, 2950.07, 2950.08, and 2950.13, to enact sections 2950.035, 2950.036, and 2950.037, and to repeal sections 2950.031, 2950.032, 2950.033, and 2950.043 of the Revised Code to clarify that SORN Law definitions of sexually oriented offenses, child-victim oriented offenses, tier classifications, public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants, and related terms include the specified offenses regardless of when they were committed and to provide for court reclassification of offenders and delinquent children who committed their sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense prior to January 1, 2008, and had SORN Law duties based on that offense into one of the tier classifications of the current SORN Law.
Sponsored by: Hackett Cosponsors: Garland Blessing Combs Grossman Hottinger Patmon
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House Bill No. 37 - 129th General Assembly - Homeless sex offenders-registration/GPS monitoring if Tier III/predator
To amend sections 2950.01, 2950.03, 2950.04, 2950.041, and 2950.05 of the Revised Code to require that a registrant under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law who does not have a fixed residence address provide a detailed description of the places at which the registrant intends to stay upon initial registration and, if the registrant is a Tier III registrant, a predator, or in another specified category, be monitored by an active global positioning system device until the registrant acquires a fixed residence address.
Sponsored by: Luckie Cosponsors: Combs
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House Bill No. 24 - 129th General Assembly - Sex offender-notice to long-term care facility-reside in or near
To amend sections 2950.01, 2950.11, 2950.12, and 2950.13 of the Revised Code to provide notice to a long-term care facility when a Tier III or similar category sex offender/child-victim offender indicates an intent to reside in the facility or registers an address within the specified geographical notification area including the facility.
Sponsored by: Combs Cosponsors: Wachtmann Patmon Garland Derickson Maag Fedor Adams, J. Blessing Beck O'Brien
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Senate or House Bill No. 0000 - 129th General Assembly - Description
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