Ohio Senate Bill 40 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 8 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-15 - Refer to Committee: Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

To amend sections 2929.02, 2929.022, 2929.024, 2929.03, 2929.04, 2929.06, 2953.21, and 2953.23 and to enact section 2929.025 of the Revised Code to provide that a person convicted of aggravated murder who shows that the person had a serious mental illness at the time of committing the offense cannot be sentenced to death for the offense and to provide a mechanism for resentencing to a life sentence a person previously sentenced to death who proves that the person had a serious mental illness at the time of committing the offense.

Avoid death penalty if serious mental illness at time of crime

Sen. John Eklund [R]	Sen. Sandra Williams [D]	Sen. Frank LaRose [R]	Sen. Joseph Schiavoni [D]
Sen. Edna Brown [D]	Rep. Cecil Thomas [D]	Sen. William Coley [R]	Sen. Kenny Yuko [D]
Sen. Louis Terhar [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-15	Senate	Refer to Committee: Judiciary
2017-02-08	Senate	Introduced

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
29			Amended Code	Citation Text
29	29		Amended Code	Citation Text
29	29	02	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	29	022	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	29	024	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	29	025	New Code	See Bill Text
29	29	03	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	29	04	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	29	06	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	53		Amended Code	Citation Text
29	53	21	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	53	23	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA132-SB-40
Text	https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_132/bills/sb40/IN/00/sb40_00_IN?format=pdf