Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-5)

Status: (Passed) 2013-03-22 - Effective Date [HB197 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative William Batchelder [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-069	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Zack Milkovich [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-035	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bill Patmon [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-010	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Sean O'Brien [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-032	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Terry Johnson [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-014	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Terry Blair [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-042	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Dennis Murray [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-080	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Kenny Yuko [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-025	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Stephen Slesnick [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-049	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Thomas Letson [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-064	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Lorraine Fende [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-062	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Courtney Combs [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-054	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Louis Terhar [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-008	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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