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OH HB498
Bill
Status
3/27/2012
Primary Sponsor
Lorraine Fende
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AI Summary
HB 498 Summary
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Requires volunteer coaches for recreational youth athletics organizations and game officials seeking interscholastic athletic permits to undergo mandatory criminal records checks for offenses of violence and sexual violations under Ohio Revised Code § 109.572(A)(16).
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Prohibits recreational youth athletics organizations from using coaches and interscholastic athletic regulatory organizations from certifying game officials convicted of specified offenses for a minimum of five years after release from imprisonment or five years after sentencing if not imprisoned.
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Allows exceptions to the prohibitions if the organization has reasonable cause to believe the individual poses no threat to child safety.
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Expands immunity from civil liability for organizations and recreational youth athletics entities that conduct criminal records checks on volunteers, provided they have no subsequent reasonable basis to suspect wrongdoing.
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Requires the Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism to provide educational materials to parents, guardians, organizations, volunteers, and children about criminal records check provisions and child safety.
Legislative Description
To make volunteer coaches engaged by recreational youth athletics organizations or entities and game officials certified by interscholastic athletic regulatory organizations or associations subject to mandatory criminal records checks, to prohibit for a minimum of five years after the individual's release from imprisonment imposed as a result of the offense or a minimum of five years after sentencing if the individual was not imprisoned the use of a coach or the certification of an individual as a game official who has been convicted of specified offenses, and to revise the immunity from civil liability for an act or omission of a volunteer who has been subject to a criminal records check.
Youth coaches/volunteeers-criminal records check
Last Action
To Criminal Justice
3/27/2012