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Proposed Ohio Firearm Legislation HB595

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Legislation Overview

Title: Revise law of wills, trusts, and suspicious deaths

Subject: Courts and Civil Law: State and Local Government : Public Officials and Employees

Description: To amend sections 313.14, 1901.26, 1907.24, 2101.24, 2105.19, 2107.01, 2107.05, 2107.07, 2107.08, 2107.09, 2107.10, 2107.11, 2107.12, 2107.16, 2107.18, 2107.20, 2107.22, 2107.33, 2107.52, 2107.71, 2109.41, 2129.05, 2137.01, 2323.30, 2323.31, 2323.33, 2701.09, 2721.03, 3105.011, 3109.06, 4705.09, 5163.21, 5802.03, 5806.04, 5808.19, and 5815.16, to enact sections 2111.182, 2111.52, 2113.032, 2151.233, 2151.234, 2151.235, 2151.236, 2323.311, 2746.10, 3109.061, 5802.05, 5817.01, 5817.02, 5817.03, 5817.04, 5817.05, 5817.06, 5817.07, 5817.08, 5817.09, 5817.10, 5817.11, 5817.12, 5817.13, and 5817.14, and to repeal sections 2107.081, 2107.082, 2107.083, 2107.084, and 2107.085 of the Revised Code to permit nonelderly, disabled applicants or recipients of Medicaid benefits or their spouses to establish their own special needs trust on or after December 13, 2016, to specify domestic relations and juvenile court jurisdiction in certain matters, and relative to procedures for the waiver of certain fees for indigent litigants in civil actions, procedures for a testator to file a declaratory judgment action to declare the validity of a will prior to death and the settlor of a trust to file such an action to declare its validity, exceptions to antilapse provisions in class gifts in wills and trusts, admission of authenticated copies of wills of persons not domiciled in Ohio, incorporation of a written trust into a will, testimony of witnesses in admission of will to probate, trusts for a minor, arbitration of trust disputes, the creation of county and multicounty guardianship services boards, the coroner's disposition of person dying of suspicious or unusual death, an application for the release of medical records and medical billing records, adding involuntary manslaughter not resulting from a felony vehicular homicide offense to the list of offenses excluding an individual from inheriting from a decedent, attorney-client privilege when the client is acting as a fiduciary, and the placement of fiduciary funds in interest on lawyer's trust accounts.

Session: 132nd General Assembly

Last Action: Concurred in Senate amendments

Last Action Date: December 13, 2018

Sponsors

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39 sponsors: Robert Cupp (R); William Seitz (R); Craig Riedel (R); Nathan Manning (R); Marlene Anielski (R); Michael Ashford (D); Louis Blessing (R); Richard Brown (D); Hearcel Craig (D); Jonathan Dever (R); Timothy Ginter (R); Doug Green (R); Stephen Hambley (R); Glenn Holmes (D); David Leland (D); Eugene Miller (D); Rick Perales (R); John Rogers (D); Scott Wiggam (R); Shane Wilkin (R); William Coley (R); Kevin Bacon (R); Edna Brown (D); Matthew Dolan (R); Randall Gardner (R); Robert Hackett (R); Matt Huffman (R); Stephanie Kunze (R); Robert McColley (R); Larry Obhof (R); Sean O'Brien (D); Bob Peterson (R); Vernon Sykes (D); Charleta Tavares (D); Louis Terhar (R); Cecil Thomas (D); Sandra Williams (D); Jason Wilson (D); Kenny Yuko (D);

Percentage of House Of Representatives sponsoring bill: 39% (39 of 99)

History
Chamber Date Action
House Dec 13, 2018 Concurred in Senate amendments
Senate Dec 13, 2018 Passed
Senate Dec 6, 2018 Reported - Substitute: Judiciary
Senate Nov 14, 2018 Refer to Committee: Judiciary
Senate Jul 5, 2018 Introduced
House Jun 27, 2018 Passed
House Jun 7, 2018 Reported - Substitute: Civil Justice
House May 15, 2018 Refer to Committee: Civil Justice
House Apr 10, 2018 Introduced
Texts
Type Date State Link Text
Enrolled Dec 19, 2018 state link bill text
Engrossed Dec 14, 2018 state link bill text
Comm Sub Dec 6, 2018 state link bill text
Engrossed Jun 28, 2018 state link bill text
Comm Sub Jun 7, 2018 state link bill text
Introduced Apr 10, 2018 state link bill text
Amendments
Title Description Date State Link Text Adopted
There are no amendments to this bill at this time
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
Description Vote Date Yea Votes Nay Votes No Votes Absent Passed
06/7/2018 12 0 0 0 Yes
  • Boggs, Kristin (D) Yea
  • Butler, James (R) Yea
  • Celebrezze, Nicholas (D) Yea
  • Dever, Jonathan (R) Yea
  • Edwards, Jay (R) Yea
  • Faber, Keith (R) Yea
  • Galonski, Tavia (D) Yea
  • Gavarone, Theresa (R) Yea
  • Lanese, Laura (R) Yea
  • Manning, Nathan (R) Yea
  • Rezabek, Jeffrey (R) Yea
  • Seitz, William (R) Yea
resort votes by: party yeas nays name
06/27/2018 91 0 0 0 Yes
  • Anielski, Marlene (R) Yea
  • Antani, Niraj (R) Yea
  • Arndt, Steven (R) Yea
  • Ashford, Michael (D) Yea
  • Barnes, John (D) Yea
  • Becker, John (R) Yea
  • Blessing, Louis (R) Yea
  • Boccieri, John (D) Yea
  • Boggs, Kristin (D) Yea
  • Boyd, Janine (D) Yea
  • Brenner, Andrew (R) Yea
  • Brinkman, Thomas (R) Yea
  • Brown, Richard (D) Yea
  • Butler, James (R) Yea
  • Carfagna, Rick (R) Yea
  • Celebrezze, Nicholas (D) Yea
  • Cera, Jack (D) Yea
  • Clyde, Kathleen (D) Yea
  • Craig, Hearcel (D) Yea
  • Cupp, Robert (R) Yea
  • DeVitis, Anthony (R) Yea
  • Dean, Bill (R) Yea
  • Dever, Jonathan (R) Yea
  • Duffey, Mike (R) Yea
  • Edwards, Jay (R) Yea
  • Faber, Keith (R) Yea
  • Fedor, Teresa (D) Yea
  • Galonski, Tavia (D) Yea
  • Gavarone, Theresa (R) Yea
  • Ginter, Timothy (R) Yea
  • Gonzales, Anne (R) Yea
  • Green, Doug (R) Yea
  • Hagan, Christina (R) Yea
  • Hambley, Stephen (R) Yea
  • Henne, Michael (R) Yea
  • Hill, Brian (R) Yea
  • Holmes, Glenn (D) Yea
  • Hood, Ron (R) Yea
  • Hoops, James (R) Yea
  • Howse, Stephanie (D) Yea
  • Huffman, Stephen (R) Yea
  • Hughes, Jim (R) Yea
  • Ingram, Catherine (D) Yea
  • Johnson, Terry (R) Yea
  • Keller, Candice (R) Yea
  • Kennedy Kent, Bernadine (D) Yea
  • Kick, Darrell (R) Yea
  • Koehler, Kyle (R) Yea
  • LaTourette, Sarah (R) Yea
  • Landis, Al (R) Yea
  • Lanese, Laura (R) Yea
  • Lang, George (R) Yea
  • Leland, David (D) Yea
  • Lepore-Hagan, Michele (D) Yea
  • Lipps, Scott (R) Yea
  • Manning, Nathan (R) Yea
  • McClain, Riordan (R) Yea
  • Merrin, Derek (R) Yea
  • Miller, Adam (D) Yea
  • O'Brien, Michael (D) Yea
  • Patterson, John (D) Yea
  • Patton, Thomas (R) Yea
  • Pelanda, Dorothy (R) Yea
  • Perales, Rick (R) Yea
  • Ramos, Daniel (D) Yea
  • Reece, Alicia (D) Yea
  • Reineke, Bill (R) Yea
  • Retherford, Wes (R) Yea
  • Rezabek, Jeffrey (R) Yea
  • Riedel, Craig (R) Yea
  • Rogers, John (D) Yea
  • Romanchuk, Mark (R) Yea
  • Ryan, Scott (R) Yea
  • Schaffer, Timothy (R) Yea
  • Scherer, Gary (R) Yea
  • Schuring, Kirk (R) Yea
  • Seitz, William (R) Yea
  • Sheehy, Michael (D) Yea
  • Slaby, Marilyn (R) Yea
  • Smith, Kent (D) Yea
  • Smith, Ryan (R) Yea
  • Sprague, Robert (R) Yea
  • Stein, Dick (R) Yea
  • Strahorn, Fred (D) Yea
  • Strong Sykes, Emilia (D) Yea
  • Vitale, Nino (R) Yea
  • West, Thomas (D) Yea
  • Wiggam, Scott (R) Yea
  • Young, Ron (R) Yea
  • Zeltwanger, Paul (R) Yea
resort votes by: party yeas nays name
12/6/2018 10 0 0 0 Yes
  • Bacon, Kevin (R) Yea
  • Coley, William (R) Yea
  • Dolan, Matthew (R) Yea
  • Eklund, John (R) Yea
  • Huffman, Matt (R) Yea
  • Lehner, Peggy (R) Yea
  • O'Brien, Sean (D) Yea
  • Oelslager, W. Scott (R) Yea
  • Skindell, Michael (D) Yea
  • Thomas, Cecil (D) Yea
resort votes by: party yeas nays name
12/13/2018 31 0 0 0 Yes
  • Bacon, Kevin (R) Yea
  • Beagle, Bill (R) Yea
  • Brown, Edna (D) Yea
  • Burke, Dave (R) Yea
  • Coley, William (R) Yea
  • Dolan, Matthew (R) Yea
  • Eklund, John (R) Yea
  • Gardner, Randall (R) Yea
  • Hackett, Robert (R) Yea
  • Hoagland, Frank (R) Yea
  • Hottinger, Jay (R) Yea
  • Huffman, Matt (R) Yea
  • Jordan, Kris (R) Yea
  • Kunze, Stephanie (R) Yea
  • Lehner, Peggy (R) Yea
  • Manning, Gayle (R) Yea
  • McColley, Robert (R) Yea
  • O'Brien, Sean (D) Yea
  • Obhof, Larry (R) Yea
  • Oelslager, W. Scott (R) Yea
  • Peterson, Bob (R) Yea
  • Schiavoni, Joseph (D) Yea
  • Skindell, Michael (D) Yea
  • Sykes, Vernon (D) Yea
  • Tavares, Charleta (D) Yea
  • Terhar, Louis (R) Yea
  • Thomas, Cecil (D) Yea
  • Uecker, Joseph (R) Yea
  • Williams, Sandra (D) Yea
  • Wilson, Steve (R) Yea
  • Yuko, Kenny (D) Yea
resort votes by: party yeas nays name

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