Justice & Public Safety Bills
Bills on this page generally fall under the purview of the CCAO Justice and Public Safety Standing Committee, chaired in 2024 by Delaware County Commissioner Barb Lewis.
You can view the Justice and Public Safety section of the Association's Legislative Platform here.
A bill's inclusion on this page does not mean that the committee has discussed the bill or that the Association has taken a position.
House Bill 603To allow a sheriff or deputy sheriff to report violations of community control. Read More | House Bill 532To expand the definition of "peace officer" to include bailiffs of a municipal court and probation officers, and to increase the penalty for assault when the victim is a bailiff, probation officer, or another court official or employee. Read More | |
Senate Bill 230To require state and local authorities to cooperate with the federal government in the enforcement of immigration laws, to sanction those that fail to do so, and to declare an emergency. Read More | ||
Senate Bill 173To specify that election officials are designated public service workers for purposes of the public records law. Read More | Senate Bill 91ENACTED: Effective March 28, 2024Regarding fraud, waste, and abuse of public funds and to prohibit the expenditure of local tax revenues upon a vote of residents or without an appropriation. Read More | Senate Bill 88To expand the offense of aggravated menacing to prohibit threatening a utility worker, cable operator worker, or broadband worker with intent to obstruct the operation of a utility. Read More |
Senate Bill 53To lower the minimum age for an original appointment as a police officer from twenty-one to eighteen years of age. Read More | Senate Bill 50To make changes to the law governing 9-1-1 service and to repeal program requirements for emergency-service-telecommunicator training. Read More | Senate Bill 37To make changes to the laws governing driver's license suspensions for certain drug offenses and failure to pay child support and to the laws governing penalties for failure to provide proof of financial responsibility. Read More |
Senate Bill 35To create the Law Enforcement Assistance Fund to reimburse for specified costs of peace officer and trooper continuing professional training, to create the Law Enforcement Equipment Fund to provide grants to small local law enforcement agencies to be used for purchasing law enforcement equipment, and to make an appropriation. Read More | Senate Bill 197To allow for the sealing or expungement of charges dismissed through intervention in lieu of conviction when those charges are connected to a conviction for operating a vehicle under the influence and to allow a clerk of court to spend computerization funds upon request. Read More | Senate Bill 127To eliminate the spousal exceptions for the offenses of rape, sexual battery, unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, gross sexual imposition, sexual imposition, and importuning and to permit a person to testify against the person's spouse in a prosecution for any of those offenses. Read More |
House Bill 84To lower the minimum age for an original appointment as a police officer from twenty-one to eighteen years of age. Read More | House Bill 67To provide that if a penalty for an offense has been imposed on an offender and if the penalty for that offense is subsequently reduced by a change to the Revised Code or Constitution, the penalty previously imposed on the offender may be reduced. Read More | |
House Bill 56ENACTED: Effective October 22, 2024To require law enforcement entities to train officers related to the pursuit of a motor vehicle and to increase penalties for fleeing from law enforcement and forms of stunt driving. Read More | House Bill 333To prohibit law enforcement agencies from using quotas for arrests and citations. Read More | House Bill 326To express the General Assembly's intent to use revenue from a tax on adult use marijuana to fund peace officer training. Read More |
House Bill 314To remove the option for the juvenile court to transfer a proceeding against a juvenile to the county where the juvenile resides. Read More | House Bill 313To provide firearms training for fire investigators; to permit such an investigator who has received that training and has been specifically authorized to carry firearms while on duty; to grant such an investigator the same right to carry a concealed handgun in this state as a concealed handgun licensee; and to amend the version of section 109.73 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on December 29, 2023, to continue the change on and after that date. Read More | House Bill 303To establish a process for the revision of training subjects for EMS personnel. Read More |
House Bill 300To establish a pilot program for remote treatment of opioid use disorder and to make an appropriation. Read More | House Bill 30To require municipal and county correctional facilities and state correctional institutions to provide inmates experiencing a menstrual cycle with an adequate supply of feminine hygiene products. Read More | House Bill 29To make changes to the law governing driver's license suspensions for failure to pay child support. Read More |
House Bill 272To 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. Read More | House Bill 237To make changes to the laws governing all-purpose vehicles, off-highway motorcycles, snowmobiles, utility vehicles, and mini-trucks. Read More | |
House Bill 196To 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. Read More | House Bill 191ENACTED: Effective June 30, 2023To make changes regarding bail and to declare an emergency. Read More | House Bill 161ENACTED: Effective August 9, 2024To eliminate the spousal exceptions for the offenses of rape, sexual battery, unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, gross sexual imposition, sexual imposition, and importuning and to permit a person to testify against the person's spouse in a prosecution for any of those offenses. Read More |
House Bill 139To 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. Read More | Senate Bill 185To exempt redaction request forms, affidavits, and the records of the work schedules of designated public service workers from disclosure under public records law. Read More | House Bill 265To exempt redaction request forms, affidavits, and the records of the work schedules of designated public service workers from disclosure under public records law. Read More |