COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Legislative floor actions in the House of Representatives and Senate from Tuesday, Aug. 30.
HOUSE INFORMALLY PASSED
SB 9 OHIO TERRORISM LAW (Jacobson) -- To require law enforcement officers to comply with certain federal mandates regarding homeland security; to create the offenses of criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon, criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon, illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of a chemical weapon or biological weapon, money laundering in support of terrorism, and unlawful possession of a powerful laser; to require applicants for certain specified licenses to disclose any material assistance they have provided to an organization on the United States Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List; to prohibit the state or a political subdivision of the state from conducting business with any person, company, or others that provide material assistance to any organization on the United States Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List; to require a person in a public place to provide the person's name to a law enforcement officer when the law enforcement officer has reasonable suspicion that either the person is or has been engaged in criminal activity or the person has witnessed a felony offense of violence; to expand the homeland security duties of the Department of Public Safety; and to include animal and ecological terrorism in the definition of corrupt activity.
HB 95 VIOLENT OFFENDER SENTENCES (Seitz) -- Relative to the sentences imposed on repeat violent offenders and the appeal of repeat violent offender sentences.
INTRODUCED
HB 332 SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES (Chandler) -- To create ''Children with Medical Handicaps'' license plates. En. 3701.0211 & 4503.721.
HB 333 ALCOHOL DEVICES/WINE (Reidelbach) -- To prohibit the sale, offering for sale, purchase, and use of alcohol vaporizing devices and to exclude from the Open Container Law opened bottles of wine that are purchased at restaurants and transported in vehicles under certain conditions. Am. & En. 4301.62 & 4301.99.
SENATE INTRODUCED
SB 174 BATEMAN HIGHWAY (Niehaus) -- To designate a portion of State Route 131 within Clermont County as the ''Sam Bateman Memorial Highway.'' En. 5533.116.
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