House Bills enacted by 128th GA

House Bills enacted by 128th General Assembly (updated June 23, 2010)

HB 1   Effective October 16, 2009 Fee Changes Traffic Penalty Changes	BUDGET (Sykes) To make appropriations for the financial biennium.
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HB 10 Effective June 17, 2010 Proposed Forms

JUVENILE PROTECTION ORDERS (Brown) To allow a juvenile court to issue a protection order against a child who is alleged to have committed certain offenses or domestic violence against the person to be protected, to include foster parents under the scope of the domestic violence laws, to prohibit the unauthorized use of the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway, to include courts of appeals within the definition of "state" for the purposes of representation by the attorney general in a civil action brought against a judge that was elected or appointed to a court of appeals or a person employed by a court of appeals, to give the judges of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas concurrent jurisdiction with judges of the Juvenile Division of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas with respect to certain custody and support cases, and to name specified sections amended or enacted by this act the "Shynerra Grant Law."

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HB 238   Sections 2,3,4,5 and 6 of the act are effective September 8, 2010; Section 7 is effective January 1, 2010. Enactment Summary

DIVORCE DISCLOSURES (Harwood) To require the court in divorce or legal separation proceedings to require the spouses to fully disclose their assets and to include nondisclosure of assets as financial misconduct, to permit a court to modify a division of property in a divorce decree or decree of dissolution of marriage upon the express written consent or agreement of both spouses, to eliminate the prohibition against a municipal or county court judge being eligible for life insurance coverage from a county or other political subdivision, to change the statutory designation of the Chardon, Lyndhurst, and Miamisburg Municipal Court judges from part-time to full-time judges, to prohibit a county court judge from retaining a fee for performing a marriage ceremony, to remove the statutorily required notice regarding possessing or purchasing a firearm when subject to certain nondomestic violence protection orders issued as a pretrial condition of release, to modify the notice requirements regarding possessing or purchasing a firearm when subject to a domestic violence-related temporary protection order, to create the Putnam County Municipal Court in Ottawa on January 1, 2011, to establish one full-time judgeship in that court, to provide for the nomination of the judge by petition only, to abolish the Putnam County County Court on that date, to designate the Putnam County Clerk of Courts as the clerk of the Putnam County Municipal Court, to provide for the election for the Putnam County Municipal Court of one full-time judge in 2011, to make deputy sheriffs ex officio bailiffs of municipal courts, to create the Montgomery County Municipal Court on July 1, 2010; to abolish the Montgomery County County Court on that date; to designate the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts as the Clerk of the Montgomery County Municipal Court; to provide for the election for the Montgomery County Municipal Court of one full-time judge and one part-time judge in 2011 and one full-time and one part-time judge in 2013; and to abolish one of the four judgeships by December 31, 2015, and one of the remaining three judgeships by December 31, 2021.

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HB 338   Effective September 17, 2010

DRIVER'S LICENSE ISSUE LITIGATION (Book) To allow, in certain circumstances, all issues concerning a person's driver's license to be litigated in a single court, to create the Putnam County Municipal Court in Ottawa on January 1, 2011, to establish one full-time judgeship in that court, to provide for the nomination of the judge by petition only, to abolish the Putnam County County Court on that date, to designate the Putnam County Clerk of Courts as the clerk of the Putnam County Municipal Court, to provide for the election for the Putnam County Municipal Court of one full-time judge in 2011, to make deputy sheriffs and members of a township or joint township police force ex officio deputy bailiffs of municipal courts, to require the Clerk of the Court of Claims to request that the Controlling Board, within 60 days after the date of the entry of a court's determination that a person is a wrongfully imprisoned individual, pay 50 per cent of a certain specified amount of money to that wrongfully imprisoned individual, to permit a trial judge to impose a prison term or jail time, to extend the duration of a community control sanction, to impose a more restrictive sanction when a felony or a misdemeanant violates any condition of a community control sanction, to allow a judge or magistrate to base a finding on the facts contained in a complaint, to authorize judicial release of misdemeanants who are serving jail sentences, to modify the conditions for increased penalties for the offenses of failure to stop after an accident and failure to stop after a nonpublic road accident, to modify the penalty for repeat offenders under "operating a motor vehicle without a valid license" who never have held a valid driver's or commercial driver's license or permit, and to clarify the manner of sentencing for that offense and three other traffic offenses when they are unclassified misdemeanors.

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