Bill Text: OH SB318 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To allow an award of reparations for psychiatric care and counseling to all immediate family members of a crime victim and to extend the time within which a minor victim of crime may file a claim for reparations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-01 - To Civil Justice [SB318 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-SB318-Introduced.html
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Senator Tavares
To amend sections 2743.51, 2743.56, and 2743.71 of | 1 |
the Revised Code to allow an award of reparations | 2 |
for psychiatric care and counseling to all | 3 |
immediate family members of a crime victim and to | 4 |
extend the time within which a minor victim of | 5 |
crime may file a claim for reparations. | 6 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 2743.51, 2743.56, and 2743.71 of the | 7 |
Revised Code be amended to read as follows: | 8 |
Sec. 2743.51. As used in sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the | 9 |
Revised Code: | 10 |
(A) "Claimant" means both of the following categories of | 11 |
persons: | 12 |
(1) Any of the following persons who claim an award of | 13 |
reparations under sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code: | 14 |
(a) A victim who was one of the following at the time of the | 15 |
criminally injurious conduct: | 16 |
(i) A resident of the United States; | 17 |
(ii) A resident of a foreign country the laws of which permit | 18 |
residents of this state to recover compensation as victims of | 19 |
offenses committed in that country. | 20 |
(b) A dependent of a deceased victim who is described in | 21 |
division (A)(1)(a) of this section; | 22 |
(c) A third person, other than a collateral source, who | 23 |
legally assumes or voluntarily pays the obligations of a victim, | 24 |
or of a dependent of a victim, who is described in division | 25 |
(A)(1)(a) of this section, which obligations are incurred as a | 26 |
result of the criminally injurious conduct that is the subject of | 27 |
the claim and may include, but are not limited to, medical or | 28 |
burial expenses; | 29 |
(d) A person who is authorized to act on behalf of any person | 30 |
who is described in division (A)(1)(a), (b), or (c) of this | 31 |
section; | 32 |
(e) The estate of a deceased victim who is described in | 33 |
division (A)(1)(a) of this section. | 34 |
(2) Any of the following persons who claim an award of | 35 |
reparations under sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code: | 36 |
(a) A victim who had a permanent place of residence within | 37 |
this state at the time of the criminally injurious conduct and | 38 |
who, at the time of the criminally injurious conduct, complied | 39 |
with any one of the following: | 40 |
(i) Had a permanent place of employment in this state; | 41 |
(ii) Was a member of the regular armed forces of the United | 42 |
States or of the United States coast guard or was a full-time | 43 |
member of the Ohio organized militia or of the United States army | 44 |
reserve, naval reserve, or air force reserve; | 45 |
(iii) Was retired and receiving social security or any other | 46 |
retirement income; | 47 |
(iv) Was sixty years of age or older; | 48 |
(v) Was temporarily in another state for the purpose of | 49 |
receiving medical treatment; | 50 |
(vi) Was temporarily in another state for the purpose of | 51 |
performing employment-related duties required by an employer | 52 |
located within this state as an express condition of employment or | 53 |
employee benefits; | 54 |
(vii) Was temporarily in another state for the purpose of | 55 |
receiving occupational, vocational, or other job-related training | 56 |
or instruction required by an employer located within this state | 57 |
as an express condition of employment or employee benefits; | 58 |
(viii) Was a full-time student at an academic institution, | 59 |
college, or university located in another state; | 60 |
(ix) Had not departed the geographical boundaries of this | 61 |
state for a period exceeding thirty days or with the intention of | 62 |
becoming a citizen of another state or establishing a permanent | 63 |
place of residence in another state. | 64 |
(b) A dependent of a deceased victim who is described in | 65 |
division (A)(2)(a) of this section; | 66 |
(c) A third person, other than a collateral source, who | 67 |
legally assumes or voluntarily pays the obligations of a victim, | 68 |
or of a dependent of a victim, who is described in division | 69 |
(A)(2)(a) of this section, which obligations are incurred as a | 70 |
result of the criminally injurious conduct that is the subject of | 71 |
the claim and may include, but are not limited to, medical or | 72 |
burial expenses; | 73 |
(d) A person who is authorized to act on behalf of any person | 74 |
who is described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of this | 75 |
section; | 76 |
(e) The estate of a deceased victim who is described in | 77 |
division (A)(2)(a) of this section. | 78 |
(B) "Collateral source" means a source of benefits or | 79 |
advantages for economic loss otherwise reparable that the victim | 80 |
or claimant has received, or that is readily available to the | 81 |
victim or claimant, from any of the following sources: | 82 |
(1) The offender; | 83 |
(2) The government of the United States or any of its | 84 |
agencies, a state or any of its political subdivisions, or an | 85 |
instrumentality of two or more states, unless the law providing | 86 |
for the benefits or advantages makes them excess or secondary to | 87 |
benefits under sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code; | 88 |
(3) Social security, medicare, and medicaid; | 89 |
(4) State-required, temporary, nonoccupational disability | 90 |
insurance; | 91 |
(5) Workers' compensation; | 92 |
(6) Wage continuation programs of any employer; | 93 |
(7) Proceeds of a contract of insurance payable to the victim | 94 |
for loss that the victim sustained because of the criminally | 95 |
injurious conduct; | 96 |
(8) A contract providing prepaid hospital and other health | 97 |
care services, or benefits for disability; | 98 |
(9) That portion of the proceeds of all contracts of | 99 |
insurance payable to the claimant on account of the death of the | 100 |
victim that exceeds fifty thousand dollars; | 101 |
(10) Any compensation recovered or recoverable under the laws | 102 |
of another state, district, territory, or foreign country because | 103 |
the victim was the victim of an offense committed in that state, | 104 |
district, territory, or country. | 105 |
"Collateral source" does not include any money, or the | 106 |
monetary value of any property, that is subject to sections | 107 |
2969.01 to 2969.06 of the Revised Code or that is received as a | 108 |
benefit from the Ohio public safety officers death benefit fund | 109 |
created by section 742.62 of the Revised Code. | 110 |
(C) "Criminally injurious conduct" means one of the | 111 |
following: | 112 |
(1) For the purposes of any person described in division | 113 |
(A)(1) of this section, any conduct that occurs or is attempted in | 114 |
this state; poses a substantial threat of personal injury or | 115 |
death; and is punishable by fine, imprisonment, or death, or would | 116 |
be so punishable but for the fact that the person engaging in the | 117 |
conduct lacked capacity to commit the crime under the laws of this | 118 |
state. Criminally injurious conduct does not include conduct | 119 |
arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of a motor | 120 |
vehicle, except when any of the following applies: | 121 |
(a) The person engaging in the conduct intended to cause | 122 |
personal injury or death; | 123 |
(b) The person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle | 124 |
to flee immediately after committing a felony or an act that would | 125 |
constitute a felony but for the fact that the person engaging in | 126 |
the conduct lacked the capacity to commit the felony under the | 127 |
laws of this state; | 128 |
(c) The person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle | 129 |
in a manner that constitutes an OVI violation; | 130 |
(d) The conduct occurred on or after July 25, 1990, and the | 131 |
person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle in a manner | 132 |
that constitutes a violation of section 2903.08 of the Revised | 133 |
Code; | 134 |
(e) The person engaging in the conduct acted in a manner that | 135 |
caused serious physical harm to a person and that constituted a | 136 |
violation of section 4549.02 or 4549.021 of the Revised Code. | 137 |
(2) For the purposes of any person described in division | 138 |
(A)(2) of this section, any conduct that occurs or is attempted in | 139 |
another state, district, territory, or foreign country; poses a | 140 |
substantial threat of personal injury or death; and is punishable | 141 |
by fine, imprisonment, or death, or would be so punishable but for | 142 |
the fact that the person engaging in the conduct lacked capacity | 143 |
to commit the crime under the laws of the state, district, | 144 |
territory, or foreign country in which the conduct occurred or was | 145 |
attempted. Criminally injurious conduct does not include conduct | 146 |
arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of a motor | 147 |
vehicle, except when any of the following applies: | 148 |
(a) The person engaging in the conduct intended to cause | 149 |
personal injury or death; | 150 |
(b) The person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle | 151 |
to flee immediately after committing a felony or an act that would | 152 |
constitute a felony but for the fact that the person engaging in | 153 |
the conduct lacked the capacity to commit the felony under the | 154 |
laws of the state, district, territory, or foreign country in | 155 |
which the conduct occurred or was attempted; | 156 |
(c) The person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle | 157 |
in a manner that constitutes an OVI violation; | 158 |
(d) The conduct occurred on or after July 25, 1990, the | 159 |
person engaging in the conduct was using the vehicle in a manner | 160 |
that constitutes a violation of any law of the state, district, | 161 |
territory, or foreign country in which the conduct occurred, and | 162 |
that law is substantially similar to a violation of section | 163 |
2903.08 of the Revised Code; | 164 |
(e) The person engaging in the conduct acted in a manner that | 165 |
caused serious physical harm to a person and that constituted a | 166 |
violation of any law of the state, district, territory, or foreign | 167 |
country in which the conduct occurred, and that law is | 168 |
substantially similar to section 4549.02 or 4549.021 of the | 169 |
Revised Code. | 170 |
(3) For the purposes of any person described in division | 171 |
(A)(1) or (2) of this section, terrorism that occurs within or | 172 |
outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. | 173 |
(D) "Dependent" means an individual wholly or partially | 174 |
dependent upon the victim for care and support, and includes a | 175 |
child of the victim born after the victim's death. | 176 |
(E) "Economic loss" means economic detriment consisting only | 177 |
of allowable expense, work loss, funeral expense, unemployment | 178 |
benefits loss, replacement services loss, cost of crime scene | 179 |
cleanup, and cost of evidence replacement. If criminally injurious | 180 |
conduct causes death, economic loss includes a dependent's | 181 |
economic loss and a dependent's replacement services loss. | 182 |
Noneconomic detriment is not economic loss; however, economic loss | 183 |
may be caused by pain and suffering or physical impairment. | 184 |
(F)(1) "Allowable expense" means reasonable charges incurred | 185 |
for reasonably needed products, services, and accommodations, | 186 |
including those for medical care, rehabilitation, rehabilitative | 187 |
occupational training, and other remedial treatment and care and | 188 |
including replacement costs for hearing aids; dentures, retainers, | 189 |
and other dental appliances; canes, walkers, and other mobility | 190 |
tools; and eyeglasses and other corrective lenses. It does not | 191 |
include that portion of a charge for a room in a hospital, clinic, | 192 |
convalescent home, nursing home, or any other institution engaged | 193 |
in providing nursing care and related services in excess of a | 194 |
reasonable and customary charge for semiprivate accommodations, | 195 |
unless accommodations other than semiprivate accommodations are | 196 |
medically required. | 197 |
(2) An immediate family member of a victim of criminally | 198 |
injurious conduct that consists of a homicide, a sexual assault, | 199 |
domestic violence, or a severe and permanent incapacitating injury | 200 |
resulting in paraplegia or a similar life-altering condition, who | 201 |
requires psychiatric care or counseling as a result of the | 202 |
criminally injurious conduct, may be reimbursed for that care or | 203 |
counseling as an allowable expense through the victim's | 204 |
application. The cumulative allowable expense for care or | 205 |
counseling of that nature shall not exceed two thousand five | 206 |
hundred dollars for each immediate family member of a victim of | 207 |
that type and seven thousand five hundred dollars in the aggregate | 208 |
for all immediate family members of a victim of that type. | 209 |
(3) A family member of a victim who died as a proximate | 210 |
result of criminally injurious conduct may be reimbursed as an | 211 |
allowable expense through the victim's application for wages lost | 212 |
and travel expenses incurred in order to attend criminal justice | 213 |
proceedings arising from the criminally injurious conduct. The | 214 |
cumulative allowable expense for wages lost and travel expenses | 215 |
incurred by a family member to attend criminal justice proceedings | 216 |
shall not exceed five hundred dollars for each family member of | 217 |
the victim and two thousand dollars in the aggregate for all | 218 |
family members of the victim. | 219 |
(4)(a) "Allowable expense" includes reasonable expenses and | 220 |
fees necessary to obtain a guardian's bond pursuant to section | 221 |
2109.04 of the Revised Code when the bond is required to pay an | 222 |
award to a fiduciary on behalf of a minor or other incompetent. | 223 |
(b) "Allowable expense" includes attorney's fees not | 224 |
exceeding one thousand dollars, at a rate not exceeding one | 225 |
hundred dollars per hour, incurred to successfully obtain a | 226 |
restraining order, custody order, or other order to physically | 227 |
separate a victim from an offender. Attorney's fees for the | 228 |
services described in this division may include an amount for | 229 |
reasonable travel time incurred to attend court hearings, not | 230 |
exceeding three hours' round-trip for each court hearing, assessed | 231 |
at a rate not exceeding thirty dollars per hour. | 232 |
(G) "Work loss" means loss of income from work that the | 233 |
injured person would have performed if the person had not been | 234 |
injured and expenses reasonably incurred by the person to obtain | 235 |
services in lieu of those the person would have performed for | 236 |
income, reduced by any income from substitute work actually | 237 |
performed by the person, or by income the person would have earned | 238 |
in available appropriate substitute work that the person was | 239 |
capable of performing but unreasonably failed to undertake. | 240 |
(H) "Replacement services loss" means expenses reasonably | 241 |
incurred in obtaining ordinary and necessary services in lieu of | 242 |
those the injured person would have performed, not for income, but | 243 |
for the benefit of the person's self or family, if the person had | 244 |
not been injured. | 245 |
(I) "Dependent's economic loss" means loss after a victim's | 246 |
death of contributions of things of economic value to the victim's | 247 |
dependents, not including services they would have received from | 248 |
the victim if the victim had not suffered the fatal injury, less | 249 |
expenses of the dependents avoided by reason of the victim's | 250 |
death. If a minor child of a victim is adopted after the victim's | 251 |
death, the minor child continues after the adoption to incur a | 252 |
dependent's economic loss as a result of the victim's death. If | 253 |
the surviving spouse of a victim remarries, the surviving spouse | 254 |
continues after the remarriage to incur a dependent's economic | 255 |
loss as a result of the victim's death. | 256 |
(J) "Dependent's replacement services loss" means loss | 257 |
reasonably incurred by dependents after a victim's death in | 258 |
obtaining ordinary and necessary services in lieu of those the | 259 |
victim would have performed for their benefit if the victim had | 260 |
not suffered the fatal injury, less expenses of the dependents | 261 |
avoided by reason of the victim's death and not subtracted in | 262 |
calculating the dependent's economic loss. If a minor child of a | 263 |
victim is adopted after the victim's death, the minor child | 264 |
continues after the adoption to incur a dependent's replacement | 265 |
services loss as a result of the victim's death. If the surviving | 266 |
spouse of a victim remarries, the surviving spouse continues after | 267 |
the remarriage to incur a dependent's replacement services loss as | 268 |
a result of the victim's death. | 269 |
(K) "Noneconomic detriment" means pain, suffering, | 270 |
inconvenience, physical impairment, or other nonpecuniary damage. | 271 |
(L) "Victim" means a person who suffers personal injury or | 272 |
death as a result of any of the following: | 273 |
(1) Criminally injurious conduct; | 274 |
(2) The good faith effort of any person to prevent criminally | 275 |
injurious conduct; | 276 |
(3) The good faith effort of any person to apprehend a person | 277 |
suspected of engaging in criminally injurious conduct. | 278 |
(M) "Contributory misconduct" means any conduct of the | 279 |
claimant or of the victim through whom the claimant claims an | 280 |
award of reparations that is unlawful or intentionally tortious | 281 |
and that, without regard to the conduct's proximity in time or | 282 |
space to the criminally injurious conduct, has a causal | 283 |
relationship to the criminally injurious conduct that is the basis | 284 |
of the claim. | 285 |
(N)(1) "Funeral expense" means any reasonable charges that | 286 |
are not in excess of seven thousand five hundred dollars per | 287 |
funeral and that are incurred for expenses directly related to a | 288 |
victim's funeral, cremation, or burial and any wages lost or | 289 |
travel expenses incurred by a family member of a victim in order | 290 |
to attend the victim's funeral, cremation, or burial. | 291 |
(2) An award for funeral expenses shall be applied first to | 292 |
expenses directly related to the victim's funeral, cremation, or | 293 |
burial. An award for wages lost or travel expenses incurred by a | 294 |
family member of the victim shall not exceed five hundred dollars | 295 |
for each family member and shall not exceed in the aggregate the | 296 |
difference between seven thousand five hundred dollars and | 297 |
expenses that are reimbursed by the program and that are directly | 298 |
related to the victim's funeral, cremation, or burial. | 299 |
(O) "Unemployment benefits loss" means a loss of unemployment | 300 |
benefits pursuant to Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code when the | 301 |
loss arises solely from the inability of a victim to meet the able | 302 |
to work, available for suitable work, or the actively seeking | 303 |
suitable work requirements of division (A)(4)(a) of section | 304 |
4141.29 of the Revised Code. | 305 |
(P) "OVI violation" means any of the following: | 306 |
(1) A violation of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, of | 307 |
any municipal ordinance prohibiting the operation of a vehicle | 308 |
while under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a | 309 |
combination of them, or of any municipal ordinance prohibiting the | 310 |
operation of a vehicle with a prohibited concentration of alcohol, | 311 |
a controlled substance, or a metabolite of a controlled substance | 312 |
in the whole blood, blood serum or plasma, breath, or urine; | 313 |
(2) A violation of division (A)(1) of section 2903.06 of the | 314 |
Revised Code; | 315 |
(3) A violation of division (A)(2), (3), or (4) of section | 316 |
2903.06 of the Revised Code or of a municipal ordinance | 317 |
substantially similar to any of those divisions, if the offender | 318 |
was under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a | 319 |
combination of them, at the time of the commission of the offense; | 320 |
(4) For purposes of any person described in division (A)(2) | 321 |
of this section, a violation of any law of the state, district, | 322 |
territory, or foreign country in which the criminally injurious | 323 |
conduct occurred, if that law is substantially similar to a | 324 |
violation described in division (P)(1) or (2) of this section or | 325 |
if that law is substantially similar to a violation described in | 326 |
division (P)(3) of this section and the offender was under the | 327 |
influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a combination of them, | 328 |
at the time of the commission of the offense. | 329 |
(Q) "Pendency of the claim" for an original reparations | 330 |
application or supplemental reparations application means the | 331 |
period of time from the date the criminally injurious conduct upon | 332 |
which the application is based occurred until the date a final | 333 |
decision, order, or judgment concerning that original reparations | 334 |
application or supplemental reparations application is issued. | 335 |
(R) "Terrorism" means any activity to which all of the | 336 |
following apply: | 337 |
(1) The activity involves a violent act or an act that is | 338 |
dangerous to human life. | 339 |
(2) The act described in division (R)(1) of this section is | 340 |
committed within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States | 341 |
and is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States, this | 342 |
state, or any other state or the act described in division (R)(1) | 343 |
of this section is committed outside the territorial jurisdiction | 344 |
of the United States and would be a violation of the criminal laws | 345 |
of the United States, this state, or any other state if committed | 346 |
within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. | 347 |
(3) The activity appears to be intended to do any of the | 348 |
following: | 349 |
(a) Intimidate or coerce a civilian population; | 350 |
(b) Influence the policy of any government by intimidation or | 351 |
coercion; | 352 |
(c) Affect the conduct of any government by assassination or | 353 |
kidnapping. | 354 |
(4) The activity occurs primarily outside the territorial | 355 |
jurisdiction of the United States or transcends the national | 356 |
boundaries of the United States in terms of the means by which the | 357 |
activity is accomplished, the person or persons that the activity | 358 |
appears intended to intimidate or coerce, or the area or locale in | 359 |
which the perpetrator or perpetrators of the activity operate or | 360 |
seek asylum. | 361 |
(S) "Transcends the national boundaries of the United States" | 362 |
means occurring outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United | 363 |
States in addition to occurring within the territorial | 364 |
jurisdiction of the United States. | 365 |
(T) "Cost of crime scene cleanup" means any of the following: | 366 |
(1) The replacement cost for items of clothing removed from a | 367 |
victim in order to make an assessment of possible physical harm or | 368 |
to treat physical harm; | 369 |
(2) Reasonable and necessary costs of cleaning the scene and | 370 |
repairing, for the purpose of personal security, property damaged | 371 |
at the scene where the criminally injurious conduct occurred, not | 372 |
to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars in the aggregate per claim. | 373 |
(U) "Cost of evidence replacement" means costs for | 374 |
replacement of property confiscated for evidentiary purposes | 375 |
related to the criminally injurious conduct, not to exceed seven | 376 |
hundred fifty dollars in the aggregate per claim. | 377 |
(V) "Provider" means any person who provides a victim or | 378 |
claimant with a product, service, or accommodations that are an | 379 |
allowable expense or a funeral expense. | 380 |
(W) "Immediate family member" means | 381 |
following: | 382 |
(1) An individual who resided in the same permanent household | 383 |
as a victim at the time of the criminally injurious conduct and | 384 |
who is related to the victim by affinity or consanguinity; | 385 |
(2) A spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent, or | 386 |
grandchild of the victim. | 387 |
(X) "Family member" means an individual who is related to a | 388 |
victim by affinity or consanguinity. | 389 |
Sec. 2743.56. (A) A claim for an award of reparations shall | 390 |
be commenced by filing an application for an award of reparations | 391 |
with the attorney general. The application may be filed by mail. | 392 |
If the application is filed by mail, the post-marked date of the | 393 |
application shall be considered the filing date of the | 394 |
application. The application shall be in a form prescribed by the | 395 |
attorney general and shall include a release authorizing the | 396 |
attorney general and the court of claims to obtain any report, | 397 |
document, or information that relates to the determination of the | 398 |
claim for an award of reparations that is requested in the | 399 |
application. | 400 |
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reparations | 402 |
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injurious conduct. | 415 |
Sec. 2743.71. (A) Any law enforcement agency that | 416 |
investigates, and any prosecuting attorney, city director of law, | 417 |
village solicitor, or similar prosecuting authority who | 418 |
prosecutes, an offense committed in this state shall, upon first | 419 |
contact with the victim or the victim's family or dependents, give | 420 |
the victim or the victim's family or dependents a copy of an | 421 |
information card or other printed material provided by the | 422 |
attorney general pursuant to division (B) of this section and | 423 |
explain, upon request, the information on the card or material to | 424 |
the victim or the victim's family or dependents. | 425 |
(B) The attorney general shall have printed, and shall | 426 |
provide to law enforcement agencies, prosecuting attorneys, city | 427 |
directors of law, village solicitors, and similar prosecuting | 428 |
authorities, cards or other materials that contain information | 429 |
explaining awards of reparations. The information on the cards or | 430 |
other materials shall include, but shall not be limited to, the | 431 |
following statements: | 432 |
(1) Awards of reparations are limited to losses that are | 433 |
caused by physical injury resulting from criminally injurious | 434 |
conduct; | 435 |
(2) Reparations applications | 436 |
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criminally injurious conduct | 438 |
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(3) An attorney who represents an applicant for an award of | 442 |
reparations cannot charge the applicant for the services rendered | 443 |
in relation to that representation but is required to apply to the | 444 |
attorney general for payment for the representation; | 445 |
(4) Applications for awards of reparations may be obtained | 446 |
from the attorney general, law enforcement agencies, and victim | 447 |
assistance agencies and are to be filed with the attorney general. | 448 |
(C) The attorney general may order that a reasonable amount | 449 |
of money be paid out of the reparations fund, subject to the | 450 |
limitation imposed by division (D) of this section, for use by the | 451 |
attorney general to publicize the availability of awards of | 452 |
reparations. | 453 |
(D) During any fiscal year, the total expenditure for the | 454 |
printing and providing of information cards or other materials | 455 |
pursuant to division (B) of this section and for the publicizing | 456 |
of the availability of awards of reparations pursuant to division | 457 |
(C) of this section shall not exceed two per cent of the total of | 458 |
all court costs deposited, in accordance with section 2743.70 of | 459 |
the Revised Code, in the reparations fund during the immediately | 460 |
preceding fiscal year. | 461 |
Section 2. That existing sections 2743.51, 2743.56, and | 462 |
2743.71 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed. | 463 |