Ohio House Bill 197 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-5)
Status: Passed on March 22 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-03-22 - Effective Date
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

To amend sections 1901.261, 1901.31, 1907.20, 1907.26, 1907.261, 2303.201, 2929.12, 2929.22, and 4503.39 and to enact sections 1901.44, 1905.202, 1907.25, and 2947.09 of the Revised Code to require that all moneys collected by the clerk of a municipal or county court be paid to the appropriate person, fund, or entity on or before the twentieth day of the month following the month in which they are collected; to authorize a municipal, mayor's, or county court to require community service in lieu of costs if at the time of sentencing or any time after sentencing the court finds that the offender cannot pay costs; to authorize a municipal, mayor's, or county court to allow payment of costs in installments if at the time of sentencing or at any time after sentencing the court finds that the offender will not be able to pay costs in full when due; to raise the ceilings on the optional additional fees that a court of common pleas may charge to fund court computerization or computerization of the court clerk's office; to authorize use of the additional clerk's fees to fund technological advances in the clerk's office; to authorize new fees to fund computerization of or technological advances in the clerk's office; to ensure that after notice to the debtor and an opportunity to enter into an installment payment or community service agreement with the court neither the Registrar of Motor Vehicles nor any deputy registrar accepts any application for the registration or transfer of registration of a motor vehicle of a person who fails to pay any fine or costs imposed for offenses by a common pleas, municipal, mayor's, or county court; and to require a court in determining the sentence for a criminal offense to consider emotional, mental, or physical conditions traceable to an offender's military service that contributed to the offender's commission of the offense and to consider the offender's military service record.

To require that all moneys collected by the clerk of a municipal or county court be paid to the appropriate person, fund, or entity on or before the twentieth day of the month following the month in which they are collected; to authorize a municipal, mayor's, or county court to require community service in lieu of costs if at the time of sentencing or any time after sentencing the court finds that the offender cannot pay costs; to authorize a municipal, mayor's, or county court to allow payment of costs in installments if at the time of sentencing or at any time after sentencing the court finds that the offender will not be able to pay costs in full when due; to raise the ceilings on the optional additional fees that a court of common pleas may charge to fund court computerization or computerization of the court clerk's office; to authorize use of the additional clerk's fees to fund technological advances in the clerk's office; to authorize new fees to fund computerization of or technological advances in the clerk's office; to ensure that after notice to the debtor and an opportunity to enter into an installment payment or community service agreement with the court neither the Registrar of Motor Vehicles nor any deputy registrar accepts any application for the registration or transfer of registration of a motor vehicle of a person who fails to pay any fine or costs imposed for offenses by a common pleas, municipal, mayor's, or county court; and to require a court in determining the sentence for a criminal offense to consider emotional, mental, or physical conditions traceable to an offender's military service that contributed to the offender's commission of the offense and to consider the offender's military service record.

Rep. William Batchelder [R]	Rep. Terry Blair [R]	Rep. Courtney Combs [R]	Rep. Lorraine Fende [D]
Sen. Terry Johnson [R]	Rep. Thomas Letson [D]	Rep. Zack Milkovich [D]	Rep. Dennis Murray [D]
Sen. Sean O'Brien [D]	Rep. Bill Patmon [D]	Rep. Stephen Slesnick [D]	Sen. Louis Terhar [R]
Sen. Kenny Yuko [D]

2012-12-13 - House - House - Senate Amendments (Y: 85 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-12-12 - Senate - Senate - Third Consideration (Y: 33 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-11-27 - House - House - Third Consideration (Y: 83 N: 10 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-11-27 - House - House - Amendment (Y: 93 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-11-27 - House - House - Amendment (Y: 93 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-11-27 - House - House - Amendment (Y: 93 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-22		Effective Date
2012-12-20		Governor' Action
2012-12-31		End of 10-day period
2012-12-19		Sent to Governor
2012-12-13		Concurrence
2012-12-12		Passed 3rd Consideration Senate
2012-12-12		Committee Report - S
2012-11-28		To Judiciary
2012-11-28		Introduced to Senate
2012-11-27		Passed 3rd Consideration House
2012-02-02		Committee Report - S
2011-04-12		To Judiciary & Ethics
2011-04-12		Introduced to House

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
1			New Code	See Bill Text
1	17		New Code	See Bill Text
1	17	102	New Code	See Bill Text
19			Amended Code	Citation Text
19	01		Amended Code	Citation Text
19	01	261	Amended Code	Citation Text
19	01	263	New Code	See Bill Text
19	01	31	Amended Code	Citation Text
19	01	44	New Code	See Bill Text
19	05		New Code	See Bill Text
19	05	202	New Code	See Bill Text
19	05	33	New Code	See Bill Text
19	07		Amended Code	Citation Text
19	07	20	Amended Code	Citation Text
19	07	25	New Code	See Bill Text
19	07	26	Amended Code	Citation Text
19	07	261	Amended Code	Citation Text
19	07	263	New Code	See Bill Text
23			New Code	See Bill Text
23	03		New Code	See Bill Text
23	03	201	Amended Code	Citation Text
23	03	203	New Code	See Bill Text
29			New Code	See Bill Text
29	29		Amended Code	Citation Text
29	29	12	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	29	22	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	47		New Code	See Bill Text
29	47	09	New Code	See Bill Text
45			Amended Code	Citation Text
45	03		Amended Code	Citation Text
45	03	39	Amended Code	Citation Text
55			Amended Code	Citation Text
55	03		Amended Code	Citation Text
55	03	02	Amended Code	Citation Text
57			New Code	See Bill Text
57	47		New Code	See Bill Text
57	47	124	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://archives.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=129_HB_197
Text	http://archives.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_197_I_Y.html
Text	http://archives.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_197_RH_Y.html
Text	http://archives.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_197_PH_Y.html
Text	http://archives.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_197_EN_N.html
Roll Call	http://archives.legislature.state.oh.us/votes.cfm?ID=129_HB_197