Bill Title: To require the Attorney General annually to publish statistical data on human trafficking cases in Ohio, to provide for peace officer training and public awareness programs relative to human trafficking, to authorize a juvenile court to hold a delinquent child complaint in abeyance pending the child's completion of diversion actions if the alleged delinquent child is charged with prostitution-related conduct or is a victim of trafficking in persons, to ensure that minor victims of trafficking in persons are not prohibited from receiving awards from the Victims of Crime Fund, to increase the penalties for trafficking in persons and obstruction of justice, to prohibit a person from soliciting another to engage in sexual conduct with the offender when the other person is sixteen or seventeen years of age and a victim of trafficking in persons, to increase the penalty for procuring in certain circumstances, to require offenders convicted of promoting prostitution or of trafficking in persons under certain circumstances to register as sex offenders, to authorize a person convicted of or adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a prostitution-related offense or act to apply for expungement of the record of conviction or adjudication if the person's participation in the offense or act was a result of being a victim of human trafficking, to recommend that agencies that grant licenses for trades or professions require training related to human trafficking, to require the Division of Criminal Justice Services to create and make available a poster that provides information regarding the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, to create the Victims of Human Trafficking Fund, and to declare an emergency.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-27 - Effective Date [HB262 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
House	House - Senate Amendments	2012-06-13	88	0	0	0	88	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate - Third Consideration	2012-06-12	32	0	0	0	32	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate - Third Consideration - Emergency Clause	2012-06-12	32	0	0	0	32	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate - Motion to Table Amendment	2012-06-12	23	9	0	0	32	Passed	Link	View
House	House - Third Consideration	2012-05-22	98	0	0	0	98	Passed	Link	View
House	House - Third Consideration - Emergency Clause	2012-05-22	95	3	0	0	98	Passed	Link	View

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