55 total bills, 23 anti-gun bills,
15 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Ohio Firearm Legislation
55 total bills, 23 anti-gun bills,
15 pro-gun bills for this session
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Title: Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act
Description: To urge the United States Senate to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.
Last Action: Introduced and Referred to Committee: Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: November 12, 2019
Title: Authorize concealed handgun license as voter photo identification
Description: To amend section 3501.01 of the Revised Code to specify that certain county issued licenses qualify as photo identification for voting purposes.
Last Action: Reported - Substitute: State and Local Government
Last Action Date: November 26, 2019
Title: Correct error in definition of "dangerous ordnance"
Description: To amend section 2923.11 of the Revised Code to correct a drafting error in the definition of "dangerous ordnance" that resulted from Am. Sub. H.B. 228 of the 132nd General Assembly and to declare an emergency.
Last Action: Effective 3/11/19 - Certain provisions effective 03/28/2019
Last Action Date: March 11, 2019
Title: Grant nonprofit immunity for injury caused by carrying firearm
Description: To amend section 2923.126 of the Revised Code to grant civil immunity to nonprofit corporations and persons associated with them for certain injuries, deaths, or losses resulting from the carrying of handguns.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Civil Justice
Last Action Date: March 26, 2019
Title: Modifies weapons law, including concealed carry changes
Description: To amend sections 109.69, 109.731, 311.41, 311.42, 311.43, 1547.69, 2921.13, 2923.11, 2923.12, 2923.121, 2923.122, 2923.123, 2923.124, 2923.125, 2923.126, 2923.127, 2923.128, 2923.129, 2923.1210, 2923.1211, 2923.1212, 2923.1213, 2923.16, 2953.37, and 4749.10 and to enact section 2923.111 of the Revised Code to modify the Weapons Law by renaming a concealed handgun license as a concealed weapons license, allowing a concealed weapons licensee to carry concealed all deadly weapons not otherwise prohibited by law, repealing a notice requirement applicable to licensees stopped for a law enforcement purpose, authorizing expungement of convictions of a violation of that requirement, allowing a person age 21 or older and not prohibited by federal law from firearm possession to carry a concealed deadly weapon without needing a license subject to the same carrying laws as a licensee, and correcting the definition of dangerous ordnance mistakenly resulting from Am. Sub. H.B. 228 of the 132nd General Assembly.
Last Action: Introduced
Last Action Date: March 27, 2019
Title: Modifies weapons law; permit concealed carry without license
Description: To amend sections 9.68, 109.69, 109.731, 311.41, 311.42, 311.43, 1547.69, 2921.13, 2923.11, 2923.12, 2923.121, 2923.122, 2923.123, 2923.124, 2923.125, 2923.126, 2923.127, 2923.128, 2923.129, 2923.1210, 2923.1211, 2923.1212, 2923.1213, 2923.16, 2953.37, and 4749.10 and to enact section 2923.111 of the Revised Code to modify the Weapons Law by renaming a concealed handgun license as a concealed weapons license, allowing a concealed weapons licensee to carry concealed all deadly weapons not otherwise prohibited by law without carrying a concealed weapons license, expanding state preemption of firearms regulation to include all deadly weapons, repealing a notice requirement applicable to licensees stopped for a law enforcement purpose, authorizing expungement of convictions of a violation of that requirement, and allowing a person age 21 or older and not prohibited by law from firearm possession to carry a concealed deadly weapon without needing a license subject to the same carrying laws as a licensee, and to amend the version of section 9.68 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on December 28, 2019, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date.
Last Action: Re-referred: Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: June 30, 2019
Title: Prohibit negligent storage of firearm/crime if minor gains access
Description: To enact section 2923.191 of the Revised Code to prohibit negligent storage of a firearm and to provide criminal penalties if a minor gains access to an improperly stored firearm.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: May 14, 2019
Title: Exempt antique firearms from certain weapons control laws
Description: To amend sections 2923.13 and 2923.20 of the Revised Code to exempt certain antique firearms from the prohibitions against having weapons while under disability and unlawful transactions in weapons.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Federalism
Last Action Date: May 21, 2019
Title: Declares Ohio a Second Amendment Protective State
Description: To declare that Ohio is a Second Amendment Protective State.
Last Action: Introduced and Referred to Committee: Federalism
Last Action Date: August 31, 2020
Title: Require gun dealers give suicide prevention information
Description: To amend sections 2923.25 and 5502.63 of the Revised Code to require federally licensed firearms dealers to provide suicide prevention information to the purchaser of a firearm.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Health
Last Action Date: September 24, 2019
Title: Get court order temporarily restricting access to guns
Description: To amend sections 109.57, 2923.125, 2923.128, and 2923.13 and to enact sections 2923.26, 2923.27, 2923.28, 2923.29, 2923.30, and 2923.99 of the Revised Code to enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to allow family members, household members, and law enforcement officers to obtain a court order that temporarily restricts a person's access to firearms if that person poses a danger to themselves or others.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Health
Last Action Date: September 24, 2019
Title: Limit how gun may be transferred and require background check
Description: To amend sections 2929.28 and 5122.311 and to enact section 2923.26 of the Revised Code to enact the Protect Law Enforcement Act to require a firearm transfer to be made through a dealer, through a law enforcement agency, or pursuant to a specified exception, and to require a background check when a firearm is transferred.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: State and Local Government
Last Action Date: September 24, 2019
Title: Restore local authority to regulate firearm-related conduct
Description: To repeal section 9.68 of the Revised Code and to repeal on December 28, 2019, the version of section 9.68 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on that date, to restore local authority to generally regulate firearms-related conduct.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: State and Local Government
Last Action Date: September 24, 2019
Title: Prohibit dealer transferring firearm if background check pending
Description: To amend section 2923.25 of the Revised Code to prohibit a federally licensed firearms dealer from transferring a firearm while a background check is pending unless 30 days have elapsed.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: State and Local Government
Last Action Date: September 24, 2019
Title: Require subject of certain protection orders surrender firearms
Description: To amend sections 2919.26 and 3113.31 and to enact sections 2919.261 and 3113.311 of the Revised Code to require a person who is subject to a civil or criminal domestic violence temporary protection order to surrender the person's firearms.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: September 24, 2019
Title: Enacts Mental Health Awareness and Comm. Violence Protection Act
Description: To amend sections 2151.34, 2903.213, 2903.214, 2919.26, 2923.13, 2923.14, 3113.31, 3113.99, and 5122.10 and to enact sections 3113.26, 3113.261, 3113.27, 3113.28, 3113.29, and 3113.30 of the Revised Code to enact the Mental Health Awareness and Community Violence Protection Act.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Health
Last Action Date: September 24, 2019
Title: Prohibit person under protection order buying/receiving firearm
Description: To amend sections 2903.214, 2919.26, and 3113.31 and to enact section 2923.22 of the Revised Code to prohibit a person subject to a protection order from purchasing or receiving a firearm for the duration of the order.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Civil Justice
Last Action Date: October 2, 2019
Title: Prohibit possession of large capacity magazine
Description: To amend section 109.52 and to enact sections 109.5731, 2923.191, and 2923.192 of the Revised Code to generally prohibit a person from possessing a large capacity magazine and to establish a large capacity magazine registry.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: October 2, 2019
Title: To improve background checks, close gaps between federal and state law, improve focus on mental health disorders and to make an appropriation.
Description: To amend sections 2151.358, 2903.214, 2919.26, 2923.13, 2923.14, 2929.44, 2945.402, 3113.31, and 5122.01 and to enact sections 5502.80, 5502.81, and 5502.82 of the Revised Code to require the juvenile court to expunge all records sealed pursuant to the juvenile sealing law upon the person's twenty-eighth birthday, to expand the circumstances under which a person has a weapon under disability, to specify that moderate or severe substance use disorder is a mental illness for purposes of the law governing civil commitments, to require the Director of Public Safety to create and maintain the weapons disability data portal, to impose certain consequences on specified entities that fail to comply with data submission requirements, and to make an appropriation.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Finance
Last Action Date: October 2, 2019
Title: Enact Ohio Computer Crimes Act
Description: To amend sections 109.42, 109.572, 109.88, 901.511, 2137.14, 2909.07, 2913.01, 2913.04, 2913.05, 2913.49, 2919.25, 2919.251, 2919.26, 2921.22, 2923.129, 2927.12, 2933.51, 3712.09, 3721.121, 3750.09, 3751.04, and 5503.101 and to enact sections 2913.86, 2913.87, 2913.88, 2913.89, 2913.90, 2913.91, 2913.92, 2913.93, and 2913.94 of the Revised Code to enact the Ohio Computer Crimes Act.
Last Action: Reported - Amended: Judiciary
Last Action Date: December 2, 2020
Title: Enact modifications to law regarding self-defense
Description: To amend sections 2307.601, 2901.05, and 2901.09 and to enact sections 2901.091 and 2901.092 of the Revised Code to enact the Ohio Stand Your Ground Act to modify the law regarding self-defense.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: November 12, 2019
Title: Allow state university trustees attend meetings electronically
Description: To amend Sections 10 and 11 of H.B. 164 of the 133rd General Assembly, Sections 10, 11 as subsequently amended, 12, 13, and 17 as subsequently amended of H.B. 197 of the 133rd General Assembly, Section 27 of H.B. 481 of the 133rd General Assembly, as subsequently amended, and Section 7 of S.B. 216 of the 132nd General Assembly, as subsequently amended, to continue essential operations of state and local government in response to the declared pandemic and global health emergency related to COVID-19 and to declare an emergency.
Last Action: Effective 11/22/20 - Emergency: effective 11/22/20
Last Action Date: November 22, 2020
Title: Define offenses: aggravated abortion murder and abortion murder
Description: To amend sections 109.57, 109.572, 109.97, 177.01, 313.131, 2105.19, 2108.77, 2151.356, 2151.414, 2151.419, 2152.02, 2152.021, 2152.11, 2152.12, 2152.16, 2152.17, 2152.20, 2152.59, 2152.72, 2152.74, 2152.86, 2317.02, 2901.01, 2901.02, 2901.07, 2901.13, 2903.41, 2909.24, 2921.32, 2921.34, 2923.01, 2923.02, 2923.131, 2923.132, 2923.31, 2923.32, 2927.21, 2929.01, 2929.02, 2929.021, 2929.022, 2929.023, 2929.024, 2929.03, 2929.04, 2929.05, 2929.06, 2929.13, 2929.14, 2929.143, 2929.31, 2929.32, 2929.34, 2930.16, 2933.51, 2933.81, 2933.82, 2937.222, 2941.14, 2941.143, 2941.147, 2941.148, 2945.06, 2945.11, 2945.38, 2945.57, 2945.74, 2949.02, 2950.01, 2950.99, 2953.08, 2953.09, 2953.11, 2953.21, 2953.25, 2967.01, 2967.05, 2967.12, 2967.121, 2967.13, 2967.18, 2967.19, 2967.193, 2967.26, 2971.01, 2971.03, 2971.07, 3301.32, 3301.541, 3313.662, 3319.31, 3319.39, 3712.09, 3721.121, 3734.44, 4715.30, 4717.05, 4717.051, 4717.14, 4723.092, 4723.281, 4730.25, 4731.22, 4734.36, 4741.22, 4757.361, 4759.07, 4760.13, 4761.09, 4762.13, 4765.114, 4774.13, 4776.10, 4778.14, 5103.0319, 5120.032, 5120.53, 5120.61, 5139.05, 5139.20, 5149.101, and 5153.111 and to enact sections 2904.01, 2904.02, 2904.03, 2904.04, 2904.20, 2904.30, and 2904.35 of the Revised Code to create the capital offense of aggravated abortion murder and the offense of abortion murder.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: November 18, 2019
Title: Modify duty-notify police if carrying gun when stopped
Description: To amend sections 109.78, 2923.12, 2923.126, 2923.128, and 2923.16 of the Revised Code to modify the requirement that a concealed handgun licensee must notify a law enforcement officer that the licensee is authorized to carry a concealed handgun and is carrying a concealed handgun when stopped and to expressly exempt, from a requirement that peace officer basic training be obtained, certain employees that a board of education or governing body of a school authorizes to go armed in a school safety zone within which the board or governing body has authority.
Last Action: Reported - Substitute: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: December 17, 2020
Title: Regards criminal records sealing law
Description: To amend sections 2151.358, 2923.125, 2923.128, 2923.1213, 2923.16, 2951.041, 2953.31, 2953.32, 2953.34, 2953.37, 2953.38, 2953.52, 2953.521, 2953.56, 2953.57, 2953.58, 2953.59, 4301.69, 4723.28, 4729.16, 4729.56, 4729.57, 4729.96, and 4752.09; to amend, for the purpose of adopting new section numbers as indicated in parentheses, sections 2953.37 (2953.35), 2953.38 (2953.36), 2953.52 (2953.33), and 2953.56 (2953.37); and to repeal sections 2953.321, 2953.33, 2953.35, 2953.36, 2953.51, 2953.53, 2953.54, 2953.55, and 2953.61 of the Revised Code regarding the Criminal Records Sealing Law.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: May 5, 2020
Title: Prohibits manufacture/sale of high capacity magazines
Description: To amend section 2923.20 of the Revised Code to prohibit the manufacture or possession for sale of high-capacity magazines except for authorized use by law enforcement agencies or for federal military purposes.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Federalism
Last Action Date: May 27, 2020
Title: Revise drug offense laws
Description: To amend sections 1.58, 109.572, 109.60, 128.04, 177.01, 1547.11, 1901.186, 2151.414, 2152.021, 2152.18, 2743.60, 2919.22, 2923.01, 2923.241, 2923.31, 2923.41, 2925.01, 2925.02, 2925.04, 2925.041, 2925.05, 2925.06, 2925.061, 2925.07, 2925.08, 2925.09, 2925.13, 2925.14, 2925.22, 2925.23, 2925.31, 2925.32, 2925.33, 2925.36, 2925.37, 2925.38, 2925.42, 2925.50, 2925.51, 2925.52, 2925.55, 2925.56, 2925.57, 2927.21, 2929.01, 2929.13, 2929.14, 2929.141, 2929.15, 2929.18, 2929.25, 2929.34, 2933.51, 2935.36, 2941.1410, 2945.71, 2951.041, 2967.18, 2967.19, 2967.28, 3301.32, 3301.541, 3313.662, 3319.31, 3319.39, 3707.57, 3712.09, 3719.01, 3719.013, 3719.21, 3719.41, 3719.99, 3721.121, 3734.44, 3745.13, 3767.01, 3796.01, 3796.27, 4112.02, 4123.54, 4301.61, 4510.01, 4510.17, 4511.19, 4729.99, 4742.03, 5103.0319, 5119.36, 5119.37, 5119.391, 5120.53, 5153.111, 5502.13, and 5924.1121; to amend, for the purpose of adopting new section numbers as indicated in parentheses, sections 2925.02 (2925.05), 2925.04 (2925.06), 2925.041 (2925.061), 2925.05 (2925.07), and 2925.06 (2925.08); to enact new sections 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.041, and 2925.11 and sections 2925.021 and 2925.10; to repeal sections 2925.03, 2925.11, 2925.12, 2925.141, and 2925.58 of the Revised Code; and to amend Section 6 of H.B. 523 of the 131st General Assembly, to revise Ohio's Drug Offense Law, and to continue the provisions of this act on and after March 22, 2020, by amending the versions of sections 3719.01 and 3796.01 of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect on that date.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: May 27, 2020
Title: Train school employees if authorized to carry firearms in schools
Description: To amend sections 109.78, 2923.11, and 2923.122 of the Revised Code to require firearms training for school employees approved to convey firearms into a school safety zone.
Last Action: Introduced
Last Action Date: May 19, 2020
Title: Extend valid concealed handgun licenses/renew in any county
Description: To amend section 2923.125 of the Revised Code and to amend Section 11 of H.B. 197 of the 133rd General Assembly to extend valid concealed handgun licenses until December 31, 2021, and to permit Ohio residents to apply for or renew concealed handgun licenses in any county.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: November 17, 2020
Title: Extends license deadlines until Dec. 1, 2021
Description: To amend Section 11 of H.B. 197 of the 133rd General Assembly, as subsequently amended, to extend license deadlines and allow licenses to remain valid until December 1, 2021, and to declare an emergency.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: State and Local Government
Last Action Date: December 1, 2020
Title: Expands locations at which a person has no duty to retreat
Description: To amend sections 2307.601, 2901.05, and 2901.09 of the Revised Code to expand the locations at which a person has no duty to retreat before using force under both civil and criminal law.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Civil Justice
Last Action Date: December 1, 2020
Title: Express intent to reform drug sentencing laws
Description: To amend sections 109.572, 128.04, 177.01, 1901.186, 1901.20, 1901.261, 1907.02, 1907.261, 2152.021, 2152.18, 2743.60, 2901.13, 2921.45, 2923.01, 2923.02, 2923.13, 2923.241, 2923.31, 2923.41, 2925.01, 2925.02, 2925.03, 2925.04, 2925.041, 2925.05, 2925.06, 2925.11, 2925.12, 2925.13, 2925.14, 2925.141, 2925.22, 2925.23, 2925.36, 2925.37, 2925.38, 2925.42, 2925.51, 2927.21, 2929.01, 2929.13, 2929.14, 2929.141, 2929.141, 2929.15, 2929.17, 2929.18, 2929.21, 2929.25, 2929.26, 2929.34, 2931.03, 2933.51, 2935.36, 2941.1410, 2945.71, 2949.12, 2951.041, 2953.31, 2953.32, 2953.52, 2967.18, 2967.19, 2967.28, 2981.01, 3301.32, 3301.541, 3313.662, 3319.31, 3319.39, 3712.09, 3719.013, 3719.21, 3719.99, 3721.121, 3734.44, 3767.01, 4112.02, 4510.17, 4729.99, 4742.03, 5103.0319, 5119.36, 5119.37, 5119.93, 5119.94, 5120.16, 5120.53, 5149.38, 5153.111, and 5502.13 and to enact sections 109.749, 181.27, 2152.75, 2901.10, 2925.031, 2925.032, 2925.111, and 2925.112 of the Revised Code to modify the controlled substance possession and trafficking prohibitions and penalties, modify the drug and alcohol abuse civil commitment mechanism, require the State Criminal Sentencing Commission to study the impact of those changes, and prohibit restraining or confining a woman or child who is a charged, convicted, or adjudicated criminal offender or delinquent child at certain points during pregnancy or postpartum recovery.
Last Action: Reported - Substitute: Criminal Justice
Last Action Date: December 17, 2020
Title: Obtain order restricting access to firearms if pose danger
Description: To amend sections 109.57, 2923.125, 2923.128, and 2923.13 and to enact sections 2923.26, 2923.27, 2923.28, 2923.29, 2923.30, and 2923.99 of the Revised Code to enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to allow family members, household members, and law enforcement officers to obtain a court order that temporarily restricts a person's access to firearms if that person poses a danger to themselves or others.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: February 19, 2019
Title: Revise penalty/firearm limit for domestic violence; strangulation
Description: To amend sections 2903.13, 2919.25, 2919.26, 2923.13, 2923.14, 2929.13, 2929.14, and 3113.31 and to enact sections 2923.133, 2923.134, and 2935.082 of the Revised Code to address domestic violence by means of firearms restrictions, penalty enhancements, and a prohibition against strangulation, and to make an appropriation.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: February 20, 2019
Title: Clarify certain firearms not dangerous ordnance
Description: To amend section 2923.11 of the Revised Code to clarify that certain firearms are not "dangerous ordnance" and to declare an emergency.
Last Action: Introduced
Last Action Date: March 12, 2019
Title: Regards items that accelerate a firearm's rate of fire
Description: To amend sections 2923.13 and 2923.14 and to enact section 2923.133 of the Revised Code to prohibit certain conduct regarding trigger cranks, bump-fire devices, and other items that accelerate a semi-automatic firearm's rate of fire but do not convert it into an automatic firearm.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: March 5, 2019
Title: Establish requirements for firearms transfers
Description: To amend sections 2929.28 and 5122.311 and to enact section 2923.26 of the Revised Code to require a firearm transfer to be made through a dealer, through a law enforcement agency, or pursuant to a specified exception, and to require a background check when a firearm is transferred.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: March 5, 2019
Title: Raise minimum age for purchasing firearms and increase penalty
Description: To amend sections 2151.022, 2152.02, 2152.16, 2923.21, and 2923.211 of the Revised Code to raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to age 21 and to increase the penalty for improperly furnishing firearms to an underage person.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: March 5, 2019
Title: Regulate transfer of firearms at a gun show
Description: To amend sections 2929.28 and 5122.311 and to enact section 2923.27 of the Revised Code to regulate the transfer of firearms at a gun show.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: March 5, 2019
Title: Permit concealed carry of non-weapon knives; revise weapons law
Description: To amend sections 2923.12, 2923.18, and 2923.20 of the Revised Code to exempt knives not used as weapons from the prohibition against carrying concealed weapons and to eliminate the prohibition against manufacturing, possessing for sale, selling, or furnishing certain weapons other than firearms or dangerous ordnance.
Last Action: Passed
Last Action Date: December 17, 2020
Title: Provides mechanism for expungement of records of old convictions
Description: To amend sections 2923.125, 2953.32, 2953.321, 2953.33, 2953.35, and 2953.52 and to enact section 2953.39 of the Revised Code to provide a mechanism for the expungement of records of most convictions that, depending on the category of the offense, are at least 10 years old, 15 years old, or 20 years old, and to eliminate the waiting period for sealing a record related to a no bill.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Judiciary
Last Action Date: June 19, 2019
Title: Grant civil immunity-injury, death, loss from carrying handguns
Description: To amend sections 2307.601, 2901.05, 2901.09, and 2923.126 of the Revised Code to grant civil immunity to nonprofit corporations for certain injuries, deaths, or losses resulting from the carrying of handguns and to expand the locations at which a person has no duty to retreat before using force under both civil and criminal law.
Last Action: Concurred in House amendments
Last Action Date: December 18, 2020
Title: Raise minimum age to purchase firearm to 21
Description: To amend sections 2151.022, 2152.02, 2152.16, 2923.21, and 2923.211 of the Revised Code to raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to age 21 and to increase the penalty for improperly furnishing firearms to an underage person.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: September 11, 2019
Title: Limit transfers of firearms/require background checks
Description: To amend sections 2929.28 and 5122.311 and to enact section 2923.26 of the Revised Code to require a firearm transfer to be made through a dealer, through a law enforcement agency, or pursuant to a specified exception, and to require a background check when a firearm is transferred.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: September 11, 2019
Title: Obtain court order temporarily limiting access to firearms
Description: To amend sections 109.57, 2923.125, 2923.128, and 2923.13 and to enact sections 2923.26, 2923.27, 2923.28, 2923.29, 2923.30, and 2923.99 of the Revised Code to enact the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act to allow family members, household members, and law enforcement officers to obtain a court order that temporarily restricts a person's access to firearms if that person poses a danger to themselves or others.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: September 11, 2019
Title: Restores local authority to regulate firearms-related conduct
Description: To repeal section 9.68 of the Revised Code and to repeal on December 28, 2019, the version of section 9.68 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect on that date, to restore local authority to generally regulate firearms-related conduct.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: General Government and Agency Review
Last Action Date: October 2, 2019
Title: Regulate firearms transfers at gun shows
Description: To amend sections 2929.28 and 5122.311 and to enact section 2923.27 of the Revised Code to regulate the transfer of firearms at a gun show.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: October 2, 2019
Title: Regards firearm protection orders/seller protection certificates
Description: To amend sections 2151.34, 2317.02, 2317.022, 2317.422, 2903.213, 2903.214, 2919.26, 2923.13, 2923.18, 2923.20, 2923.21, 2923.31, 2929.14, 2935.01, 2935.10, 2941.141, 2941.145, 3113.31, 5119.01, 5119.61, 5119.90, 5119.92, 5119.93, 5119.94, 5119.96, 5119.97, 5119.99, 5122.10, 5122.11, 5122.13, 5122.141, 5122.15, 5122.31, 5122.311, and 5122.99 and to enact sections 311.51, 2923.133, 2945.403, 5119.901, and 5502.71 of the Revised Code to provide for the issuance in specified circumstances of a Safety Protection Order to apply regarding a person who a court determines is under a drug dependency, chronic alcoholic, or mental health-related firearms disability; to specify LEADS and NCIC reporting and removal procedures for current types of protection orders; to require the submission to the Attorney General for inclusion in LEADS of findings of IST or NGRI; to modify some of the prohibitions under the offense of "unlawful transactions in weapons" and add new prohibitions and exemptions under the offense, including a new exemption if a state background check mechanism the bill enacts is used and does not indicate that the prospective transferee is barred from firearms possession; to provide in specified circumstances for the issuance of a seller's protection certificate under the new state background check mechanism; to increase the penalty for certain firearms-related offenses in specified circumstances; to modify the law governing the entry of arrest warrants into LEADS as extradition warrants; to expand the law regarding the provision of drug and alcohol test results to law enforcement personnel; and to provide a new exception to the testimonial privilege for specified medical and dental personnel regarding certain probate court proceedings.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: October 23, 2019
Title: Prohibit devices accelerating semi-automatic firearm rate of fire
Description: To amend sections 2923.13 and 2923.14 and to enact sections 2923.133 and 2923.191 of the Revised Code to generally prohibit a person from possessing trigger cranks, bump-fire devices, or other items that accelerate a semi-automatic firearm's rate of fire but do not convert it into an automatic firearm and large capacity magazines.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: October 23, 2019
Title: Enact Duty to Retreat Act-modify self-defense law
Description: To amend sections 2307.601, 2901.05, and 2901.09 and to enact sections 2901.091 and 2901.092 of the Revised Code to enact the Ohio Duty to Retreat Act to modify the law regarding self-defense.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: November 13, 2019
Title: Abolish death penalty
Description: To amend sections 9.07, 120.03, 120.06, 120.14, 120.16, 120.18, 120.24, 120.26, 120.28, 120.33, 120.34, 149.43, 149.436, 1901.183, 2152.13, 2152.67, 2301.20, 2307.60, 2317.02, 2701.07, 2743.51, 2901.02, 2909.24, 2929.02, 2929.13, 2929.14, 2929.20, 2929.61, 2930.03, 2930.06, 2930.16, 2930.19, 2937.222, 2941.021, 2941.14, 2941.148, 2941.401, 2941.43, 2941.51, 2945.06, 2945.10, 2945.13, 2945.21, 2945.25, 2945.33, 2945.38, 2949.02, 2949.03, 2953.02, 2953.07, 2953.08, 2953.09, 2953.10, 2953.21, 2953.23, 2953.71, 2953.72, 2953.73, 2953.81, 2967.03, 2967.05, 2967.12, 2967.13, 2967.19, 2967.193, 2967.26, 2967.28, 2971.03, 2971.07, 5120.113, 5120.53, 5120.61, 5139.04, 5149.101, and 5919.16 and to repeal sections 109.97, 120.35, 2725.19, 2929.021, 2929.022, 2929.023, 2929.024, 2929.03, 2929.04, 2929.05, 2929.06, 2945.20, 2947.08, 2949.21, 2949.22, 2949.221, 2949.222, 2949.24, 2949.25, 2949.26, 2949.27, 2949.28, 2949.29, 2949.31, and 2967.08 of the Revised Code to abolish the death penalty.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Judiciary
Last Action Date: May 6, 2020
Title: Exempt from training if allowed to go armed in school safety zone
Description: To amend section 109.78 of the Revised Code to expressly exempt, from a requirement that peace officer basic training be obtained, certain employees that a board of education or governing body of a school authorizes to go armed in a school safety zone within which the board or governing body has authority.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Primary and Secondary Education
Last Action Date: December 1, 2020
Title: Display warning about fetal alcohol syndrome if sell alcohol
Description: To amend section 4301.637 of the Revised Code to require places that sell alcohol to display a warning about fetal alcohol syndrome.
Last Action: Refer to Committee: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Last Action Date: September 1, 2020
Title: Bar prohibiting commercial sale of firearms and ammunition
Description: To amend section 5502.63 and to enact section 9.71 of the Revised Code to generally bar public officials from prohibiting federally licensed firearms dealers in the state or a specified geographic area from the commercial sale or transfer of firearms or their components or ammunition and to modify the definition of federally licensed firearms dealer.
Last Action: Informally passed
Last Action Date: December 17, 2020
Title: Expand locations at which no duty to retreat before using force
Description: To amend sections 2307.601, 2901.05, and 2901.09 of the Revised Code to enact the Ohio Duty to Retreat Act providing an expansion of the locations at which a person has no duty to retreat before using force under both civil and criminal law.
Last Action: Reported: Government Oversight and Reform
Last Action Date: December 10, 2020
