Ohio Senate Bill 228 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: Introduced on October 4 2007 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2007-10-04 - To Judiciary Criminal Justice
Pending: Senate Judiciary - Criminal Justice Committee

To amend sections 2152.86, 2903.03, 2929.20, 2930.03, 2930.06, 2930.16, 2950.01, 2967.03, 2967.12, 2967.121, 2967.26, 2967.28, 5120.66, 5149.07, 5149.10, and 5149.101 of the Revised Code to require automatic notice to victims of first, second, or third degree felony offenses of violence of certain prisoner or alleged juvenile offender release or transfer proceedings; to expand victim participation in parole hearings; to require five years of post-release control for offenders who commit first, second, or third degree felony offenses of violence; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to keep information on such offenders in a publicly accessible database for ten years following final discharge; to require the Department to provide certain information related to paroles to designated public officials; to require the Department to notify the appropriate prosecuting attorney when a felon serving a specified sentence is released pursuant to a pardon, commutation of sentence, parole, or completed prison term; to prohibit the Parole Board from considering a sentence in effect since July 1, 1996, in making parole determinations; to make other changes related to the release of prisoners and victim's rights; to provide that voluntary manslaughter committed with a sexual motivation is a sexually oriented offense, makes an offender or juvenile offender registrant who commits it a tier III sex offender/child-victim offender, and may qualify a juvenile offender registrant who commits it as a public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant; to name the victim and family notification provisions Roberta's Law; and to declare an emergency.

Prisoner release and victim rights

Sen. Kevin Coughlin [R]	Rep. Keith Faber [R]	Sen. Lance Mason [D]	Sen. Joy Padgett [R]
Sen. Timothy Schaffer [R]	Sen. Kirk Schuring [R]	Sen. Steven Stivers [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2007-10-04		To Judiciary Criminal Justice
2007-10-04		Introduced to House

Type	Source
Summary	http://archives.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_SB_228