Justice & Public Safety Bills
Bills on this page generally fall under the purview of the CCAO Justice and Public Safety Standing Committee, chaired in 2025 by Delaware County Commissioner Barb Lewis.
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.
Senate Bill 270To restore the local authority to generally regulate conduct related to firearms and knives. Read More | Senate Bill 237To restore the local authority to generally regulate conduct related to firearms and knives. Read More | Senate Bill 195To make changes regarding volunteer fire departments and volunteer firefighters and to make an appropriation. Read More |
Senate Bill 188To expand the offense of failure to comply with an order or signal of a law enforcement officer. Read More | House Bill 461To require municipal and county correctional facilities and state correctional institutions to provide inmates who are deaf, hard of hearing, or severely speech impaired with access to teletypewriters. Read More | |
House Bill 393To require that community-based correctional facilities and programs assist inmates in obtaining state identification cards prior to release. Read More | House Bill 274To require townships and municipal corporations to provide firefighting services and emergency medical services and to establish the Fire and EMS Shared Services Reimbursement Grant Program. Read More | House Bill 251To establish requirements related to the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle by law enforcement and to expressly incorporate additional aviation facilities into the Aeronautics Law. Read More |
House Bill 247To make changes to the laws governing dogs, including dangerous and vicious dogs, and to name this act Avery's Law. Read More | Senate Bill 179To verify the veteran status of imprisoned individuals and individuals facing imprisonment. Read More | |
House Bill 217To enact the Finding and Identifying with NamUs Data (FIND) Act to require law enforcement agencies to enter information relating to a report of a missing person in the national missing and unidentified persons system (NamUs). Read More | House Bill 26To require state and local authorities to cooperate with the federal government in the enforcement of immigration laws, to prescribe funding reductions for noncompliance, to name this act the Protecting Ohio Communities Act, and to declare an emergency. Read More | House Bill 29Regarding inmates' access to feminine hygiene products and showers by municipal and county correctional facilities and state correctional institutions. Read More |
House Bill 20To prohibit a person from knowingly harassing or impeding an emergency service responder who is engaged in the lawful performance of a legal duty and to clarify that heightened penalties apply for menacing a probation officer. Read More | ||
Senate Bill 53Regarding civil actions by persons who suffer injury or loss due to vandalism or riot activity. Read More | Senate Bill 5To provide for the expedited removal of unauthorized occupants from residential property and to prohibit the use and sale of fraudulent deeds. Read More | Senate Bill 26To create the Joint Law Enforcement Oversight Committee and to make an appropriation. Read More |
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