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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. The intention here is to provide the 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. As a place for independent analyses of bills as they are wrote, found, or submitted. There is also you will see a table of the status of each bill. It is indented this page be updated about once a week. Additionally, the links in the status table are a link to a PDF of the Senate or House Journal report for that day. 

    This page is in the process of being built and completed so please be patient and check back. 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 217 pages) Also how a bill becomes a law.

127^th General Assembly

    Status of all Legislation as of 07-25-2008 (PDF) 

• The Ohio Public Defenders legislation of interest page, concerning criminal law in general. 

FULL CHAPTER 2950 after SB 10 and 97

    Senate Bill No. 10 127th General Assembly - Sex Offender Registration and Notification (SORN)                  IS NOW LAW

    To revise Ohio's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law and conform it to recently enacted requirements of federal law contained in the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, to increase the penalties for certain violations of kidnapping, aggravated murder when a sentence of death or life without parole is not imposed, and murder when the victim of any of those offenses is less than 13 years of age and the offense was committed with a sexual motivation and require that those sentences be served under the Sexually Violent Predator Sentencing Law, and to declare an emergency.

    SB 10 is the third re-write of Chapter 2950. It is intended to comply with the Adam Walsh Act.  

• SB 10 - Full Bill As Enrolled (PDF) 

• SB 10 - Synopsis of House Committee Amendments (PDF)

• SB 10 - Final Bill Analysis As Passed by the General Assembly (PDF)

• SB 10 - Fiscal Note & Local Impact Statement As Enacted (PDF)

• Chapter 2950 after SB 10

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    Senate Bill No. 22 - 127th General Assembly - Sex offenders-monitoring/civil commitment 

    To require that sexually violent predators who are released from prison be monitored by global positioning system devices, to require sexually violent predators to pay the cost of monitoring by global positioning system devices, and to authorize the civil commitment of certain sexually violent predators.

• SB 22 - Full Bill As Introduced in the Senate (PDF)
• SB 22 - Bill Analysis As Introduced in the Senate (PDF)

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    Senate Bill No. 56 127th General Assembly - Sex offender license plates

    To create a SORN Law license plate; to provide mandatory prison terms and jail terms for persons convicted of a sexually oriented or child-victim oriented offense who are subject to a SORN Law license plate order and use a motor vehicle without such license plates in committing the offense, to arrive at the location where it was committed, or to flee immediately after committing it; and to expand the offense of "wrongful entrustment of a motor vehicle" to apply to a person who in specified circumstances permits a person subject to a SORN Law license plate order to drive the offender's motor vehicle without such license plates.

• SB 56 - Full Bill As Introduced in Senate (PDF)

• SB 56 - Final Analysis As Introduced in the Senate (PDF)

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    Senate Bill No. 97 127th General Assembly - SORN Modify penalties/database     IS NOW LAW

    To modify the penalties for violations related to registering.

• SB 97 - Full Bill As Enrolled (PDF) 

• SB 97 - Synopsis of House Committee Amendments (PDF)

• SB 97 - Final Bill Analysis As Passed by the General Assembly (PDF)

• SB 97 - Fiscal Note & Local Impact Statement As Enacted (PDF)

• Chapter 2950 after SB 97

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    Senate Bill No. 159 127th General Assembly - Sex offender residing within 1000 feet of school-fifth degree felony 

    To amend section 2950.99 of the Revised Code to make a violation of the prohibition against certain sex offenders residing within 1,000 feet of any school premises a felony of the fifth degree.

• SB 159 - Full Bill As Introduced in Senate (PDF)

• SB 159 - Bill Analysis As Introduced In Senate (PDF) 

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    Senate Bill No. 216 - 127th General Assembly - Sex offender-provide address of any residential property owned

   To amend sections 2950.04, 2950.041, 2950.05, 2950.06, and 2950.13 of the Revised Code to require a person who must register under the SORN Law to provide the address of any residential property owned by the person.

• SB 216 - Full Bill As Introduced in Senate (PDF)

• SB 216 - Bill Analysis As Introduced in Senate (PDF)

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    Senate Bill No. 220 - 127th General Assembly - Sexual procuring offenses-near school-increase penalties

    To amend sections 2907.01, 2907.22, 2907.23, 2907.24, 2907.241, and 2907.25 of the Revised Code to provide increased penalties for the offenses of promoting prostitution, procuring, soliciting, loitering to engage in solicitation, and prostitution if the offense occurs in a school safety zone or within 1,000 feet of a school building or the boundaries of school premises.

    Not totally relevant to SORN laws but it involved the 1000 ft form school rule and may have some cross over effect in how it is measured or how schools are defined.

• SB 220 - Full Bill As Introduced in Senate (PDF)

• SB 220 - Bill Analysis As Introduced in Senate (PDF)

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    House Bill No. 83 - 127th General Assembly - SORN license plates

    To create a SORN Law license plate; to provide mandatory prison terms and jail terms for persons convicted of a sexually oriented or child-victim oriented offense who are subject to a SORN Law license plate order and use a motor vehicle without such license plates in committing the offense, to arrive at the location where it was committed, or to flee immediately after committing it; and to expand the offense of "wrongful entrustment of a motor vehicle" to apply to a person who in specified circumstances permits a person subject to a SORN Law license plate order to drive the offender's motor vehicle without such license plates.

• HB 183 - Full Bill As Introduced in the House (PDF)

• HB 183 - Bill Analysis As Introduced in the House (PDF)

 

HB 83 STATUS
Senate
Introduced	Committee Assigned	Committee Report	3rd Consideration	Passed
House
Introduced	Committee Assigned	Committee Report	3rd Consideration	Passed
02-28-07	CRJ
Governor and Other Action
Conference Committee	Concurrence		Governor Action	Effective Date

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    House Bill No. 111 - 127th General Assembly - Child neglect-if sex offender in residence

    To expand the definition of neglected child to include a child whose parent, guardian, or custodian knowingly allows a sexually oriented offender or juvenile delinquent who committed a sexually oriented offense to reside in the same residence as that child.

    This provision appears to have no criminal penalty attached but the child neglect definition appears in much of the statue concerning child custody cases.

• HB 111 - Full Bill As PASSED in House (PDF)

• HB 111 - Bill Analysis As PASSED in House (unavailabe)

• HB 111 - Fiscal Note and Local Impact Statement (PDF) a must read

Relevant statue text to be added by HB111;

• Sec. 2151.03. 

  (A) As used in this chapter, "neglected child" includes any child:

  • (8) Whose parents, guardian, or custodian knowingly allows any of the following persons to reside in the same residence as the child:

    • (a) A person who is a habitual sex offender, sexual predator, habitual child-victim offender, or child-victim predator, as defined in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code;

    • (b) A person who was convicted of or pleaded guilty to an aggravated sexually oriented offense, as defined in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code;

    • (c) A person who has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to a sexually oriented or child-victim oriented offense, as defined in section 2950.01 of the Revised Code, who is not described in division (A)(8)(a) or (A)(8)(b) of this section but who is subject to one of the following imposed for that offense:

      • (i) A jail or prison term; 

      • (ii) A community control sanction, as defined in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code, other than one imposed under section 2929.18 or 2929.28 of the Revised Code;

      • (iii) A period of post-release control; 

      • (iv) A community control sanction imposed after a judicial release;

      • (v) Parole or another type of early release from confinement.

  (B) A child is not a neglected child under division (A)(8) of this section if either of the following applies to the person living in the same residence as the child:

  • (1) The person is under eighteen years of age.

  • (2) The person is eighteen years of age or older, resides in the same residence as the person's parent, guardian, or legal custodian, and is enrolled in high school.

   

 

HB 111 STATUS
Senate
Introduced	Committee Assigned	Committee Report	1st Consideration	2nd Consideration	3rd Consideration	Passed
05-21-08	JCR
House
Introduced	Committee Assigned	Committee Report	1st Consideration	2nd Consideration	3rd Consideration	Passed
03-02-2007	JFL	04-10-08	05-21-08		05-21-08	05-21-08
Governor and Other Action
Conference Committee	Concurrence				Governor Action	Effective Date

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    House Bill No. 241 - 127th General Assembly - Sex offender-reside near place children frequent- penalty/order to vacate

    To provide that any person required to register under Ohio's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law who establishes or occupies residential premises within one thousand feet of any school premises, recreation center, playground, or other place where it is reasonable to expect children to frequent or linger is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and to require a court to order a violator to vacate the premises as part of any injunctive relief granted for the violation.

• HB 241 - Full Bill As Introduced in House (PDF)

It appears that this bill in a limited form was added to SB10

 

HB 241 STATUS
Senate
Introduced	Committee Assigned	Committee Report	3rd Consideration	Passed
House
Introduced	Committee Assigned	Committee Report	3rd Consideration	Passed
05-30-07
Governor and Other Action
Conference Committee	Concurrence		Governor Action	Effective Date

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    House Bill No. 356 - 127th General Assembly - Gross sexual imposition-victim's parent the offender-tier II sex offender  

    To amend sections 2907.05 and 2950.01 of the Revised Code to expand the offense of gross sexual imposition to also prohibit a person from having sexual contact with another or causing two or more other persons to have sexual contact if the other person or one of the other persons is a minor and the offender is the minor's parent, stepparent, guardian, custodian, or person in loco parentis and to include a person who violates this prohibition as a Tier II sex offender/child-victim offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law.

    Looks like they are already trying to tweak SB10. Presently if the victims is 13 or older the offender is a Tier I registrant and is the victim is 12 or under the registrant will be in Tier 2. Apparently they want to punish offenders who offender against the family more than strangers. Studies show that offender with victims within the family are lest likely to recidivate of all sexual offenders.

• HB 356 - Full Bill As Introduced in House (PDF)

• HB 356 - Bill Analysis As Introduced in House (unavailable)

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 House Bill No. 430 - 127th General Assembly - Sex offenders-prohibit from being on school premises

    To amend section 2950.99 and to enact section 2950.035 of the Revised Code to prohibit adult tier III sex offender/child-victim offenders who have committed specified offenses against a victim under sixteen years of age from knowingly being present on school premises or preschool or child day-care premises.

    Violating this if passed would be a felony 5 with up to 12 months possible prison time.

• HB 430 - Full Bill As Introduced in House (PDF)

• HB 430 - Bill Analysis As Introduced in House (unavailable)

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 House Bill No. 538 - 127th General Assembly -  Tier III sex offenders/child-victim offenders-lifetime GPS monitoring  

     To amend sections 2743.191, 2929.13, 2929.15, 2929.23, 2929.25, 2967.28, 2971.03, and 2971.05 and to enact section 2967.29 of the Revised Code to require the imposition at sentencing or upon release from prison of lifetime active global positioning system device monitoring for Tier III sex offenders/child-victim offenders.

• HB 538 - Full Bill As Introduced in House (PDF)

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    Senate or House Bill No. 0000 - 127th General Assembly - Description  

    Description

• HSB 000 - Full Bill Analysis As Introduced/Passes in Senate/House (PDF)

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