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OH SB203
Bill
Status
8/4/2011
Primary Sponsor
Shannon Jones
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AI Summary
S.B. 203 Summary
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Requires parents, legal guardians, custodians, or caretakers to report children under 13 missing to law enforcement within 24 hours of discovering the child is missing.
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Requires parents, legal guardians, custodians, or caretakers to report children ages 13-17 missing to law enforcement within 48 hours of discovering the child is missing.
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Requires parents, legal guardians, custodians, or caretakers to report a child's death to law enforcement within one hour of discovering the child is deceased.
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Elevates falsification to mislead a public official from a first-degree misdemeanor to a fifth-degree felony under amended section 2921.13.
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Designates these provisions as "Caylee's Law" and establishes criminal penalties ranging from third-degree felonies to misdemeanors depending on circumstances and whether the child suffered physical harm.
Legislative Description
To require a parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker of a child under the age of thirteen to report to a law enforcement agency within twenty-four hours after the child is missing, to require a parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker of a child above the age of twelve and under the age of eighteen to report to a law enforcement agency within forty-eight hours after the child is missing, to require a parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker to report to a law enforcement agency within one hour after the parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker discovers that the child is deceased, to increase penalty for falsification to mislead a public official, and to specify that the above provisions are to be known as "Caylee's Law."
Parent/guardian-report missing/deceased child - Caylee's Law
Last Action
To Judiciary Criminal Justice
8/4/2011