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Tracking group: guns
voter id
Greenspan, D.
To specify that a concealed handgun license qualifies as photo identification for voting purposes.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House State & Local Government Committee (11/20/2019; REPORTED)
HB 86
Enacted
firearms
Plummer, P.
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.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(3/11/2019; Signed: March 11, 2019)
handguns
Schaffer, T.
To grant civil immunity to nonprofit corporations and persons associated with them for certain injuries, deaths, or losses resulting from the carrying of handguns.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House (12/16/2020; REPORTED-AMENDED (No testimony))
concealed weapons
Hood, R. Brinkman, T.
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.
Text & Analysis
Introduced
in House (3/27/2019)
concealed weapons
Hood, R. Brinkman, T.
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, and 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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (6/4/2020--Canceled)
firearm storage
Kelly, B. Miranda, J.
To prohibit negligent storage of a firearm and to provide criminal penalties if a minor gains access to an improperly stored firearm.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (10/31/2019; CONTINUED)
antique firearms
Powell, J. Smith, T.
To exempt certain antique firearms from the prohibitions against having weapons while under disability and unlawful transactions in weapons.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Federalism Committee (12/2/2020--Canceled)
suicide prevention
Liston, B.
To require federally licensed firearms dealers to provide suicide prevention information to the purchaser of a firearm.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (12/15/2020; CONTINUED)
firearm orders
Sweeney, B.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Health Committee (11/10/2020; CONTINUED)
firearm sales
Miller, A.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House State & Local Government Committee (12/8/2020; CONTINUED)
firearms conduct
West, T. Miller, A.
To restore local authority to generally regulate firearms related conduct.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House State & Local Government Committee (12/1/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
firearms transfers
West, T.
To prohibit a federally licensed firearms dealer from Transferring a firearm while a background check is pending unless 30 days have elapsed.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House State & Local Government Committee (12/1/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
domestic violence
Lepore-Hagan, M. Boyd, J.
To require a person who is subject to a civil or criminal domestic violence temporary protection order to surrender the person's firearms.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (12/8/2020; CONTINUED)
protection orders
Miller, A.
To prohibit a person subject to a protection order from purchasing or receiving a firearm for the duration of the order.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (10/1/2019; Civil Justice Committee)
firearm magazines
Weinstein, C.
To generally prohibit a person from possessing a large capacity magazine and to establish a large capacity magazine registry.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (12/8/2020; CONTINUED)
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Finance Committee (10/16/2019; CONTINUED)
self-defense
Keller, C. Hood, R.
To enact the Ohio Stand Your Ground Act to modify the law regarding self-defense.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Criminal Justice Committee (6/10/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
concealed weapons
Wiggam, S.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (12/16/2020; REPORTED-AMENDED (See separate story))
gun violence
Howse, S.
To require the Director of Health to establish and operate a pilot program to provide individual, problem-solving therapy sessions and related family support services to youth and young adults in Cleveland who are at a high risk for gun violence.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/27/2020; Health Committee)
high capacity magazines
Strahorn, F.
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.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (5/27/2020; Federalism Committee)
firearms training
Galonski, T.
To require firearms training for school employees approved to convey firearms into a school safety zone.
Text & Analysis
Withdrawn
in House (5/27/2020)
handgun licenses
Grendell, D.
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.
Text & Analysis
Referred
in House (11/17/2020; Criminal Justice Committee)
Duty To Retreat
Koehler, K.
To expand the locations at which a person has no duty to retreat before using force under both civil and criminal law.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Civil Justice Committee (12/16/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
protection orders
Williams, S.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (9/10/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
domestic violence
Kunze, S. Antonio, N.
To address domestic violence by means of firearms restrictions, penalty enhancements, and a prohibition against strangulation, and to make an appropriation.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (4/2/2019; CONTINUED)
firearms
Roegner, K.
To clarify that certain firearms are not "dangerous ordnance" and to declare an emergency.
Text & Analysis
Passed
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (2/26/2019; Bill: 24-8; Emergency: 24-8; Earlier REPORTED)
firearm modifications
Thomas, C.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (9/17/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
firearm transfers
Thomas, C.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (9/17/2019; SCHEDULED BUT NOT HEARD)
firearm purchases
Thomas, C.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (9/17/2019; SCHEDULED BUT NOT HEARD)
gun shows
Thomas, C.
To regulate the transfer of firearms at a gun show.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (9/17/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
SB 140
Enacted
concealed weapons
Uecker, J.
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.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(1/11/2021; Signed: January 11, 2021, Effective: in 90 days)
SB 175
Enacted
civil immunity
Schaffer, T.
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.
Text & Analysis
Signed by the Governor
(1/4/2021; Signed: January 4, 2021, Effective: in 90 days)
firearm purchases
Thomas, C. Lehner, P.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (1/21/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
firearm transfers
Thomas, C. Lehner, P.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (9/17/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
protection order
Williams, S. Lehner, P.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (9/17/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
local authority
Thomas, C. Craig, H.
To restore local authority to generally regulate firearms-related conduct.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate General Government & Agency Review Committee (10/23/2019; CONTINUED)
firearm transfers
Thomas, C. Lehner, P.
To regulate the transfer of firearms at a gun show.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (11/5/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
firearms laws
Dolan, M.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (12/3/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (11/5/2019; CONTINUED (See separate story))
duty to retreat
Johnson, T.
To enact the Ohio Duty to Retreat Act to modify the law regarding self-defense.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (1/21/2020; CONTINUED (See separate story))
school weapons
Coley, B.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in House Primary & Secondary Education Committee (12/8/2020; CONTINUED)
firearms dealers
Obhof, L. Manning, N.
To generally bar public officials from prohibiting all 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.
Text & Analysis
Informally Passed
in House (12/17/2020)
Firearm Laws
Johnson, T.
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.
Text & Analysis
Committee Hearing
in Senate Government Oversight & Reform Committee (12/9/2020; REPORTED (See separate story))
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