Ohio Senate Bill 178 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on June 3 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-06-16 - Refer to Committee: Criminal Justice
Pending: Senate Criminal Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

To amend sections 2903.11 and 2929.14 and to enact section 2941.1424 of the Revised Code to impose a mandatory prison term of one, two, three, four, or five years on an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony that includes, as an essential element, purposely causing or attempting to cause the death of or physical harm to another, if the indictment, count in the indictment, or information charging the offense specifies that the offense resulted in serious physical harm to a person who was less than 13 years of age.

Imposes mandatory prison if harm victim under 13

Sen. Joseph Schiavoni [D]

Sen. Lou Gentile [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-16	Senate	Refer to Committee: Criminal Justice
2015-06-03	Senate	Introduced

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
29			Amended Code	Citation Text
29	03		Amended Code	Citation Text
29	03	11	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	29		Amended Code	Citation Text
29	29	14	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	41		New Code	See Bill Text
29	41	1424	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-178
Text	https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_131/bills/sb178/IN/00/sb178_00_IN?format=pdf