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OH SB344
Bill
Status
5/15/2012
Primary Sponsor
Thomas Patton
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AI Summary
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Imposes an additional $100 court cost on persons convicted of sexually oriented offenses, with collected funds deposited into a newly created Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund administered by the Attorney General.
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Establishes the Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund to provide funding to eligible rape crisis centers, with at least 95% of fund moneys used for direct support to centers providing services such as hotlines, crisis intervention, therapy, and community awareness programs.
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Increases existing court costs funding the Reparations Fund from $30 to $50 for felonies and from $9 to $15 for misdemeanors.
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Adds a representative of rape crisis centers as a voting member of the State Victims Assistance Advisory Committee.
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Allows court clerks to retain $1 per $100 collected from sexually oriented offense convictions as a service charge, with the remaining $99 transmitted to the state treasurer for deposit into the Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund.
Legislative Description
To generally impose an additional court cost of $100 for a felony or misdemeanor in cases in which a person is convicted of a sexually oriented offense; to require the deposit of the additional court cost into the Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund administered by the Attorney General; to fund rape crisis centers out of the Fund; to increase to $50 for a felony and $15 for a misdemeanor the additional court cost that is charged to fund the Reparations Fund; and to add a representative of rape crisis centers as a member of the State Victims Assistance Advisory Committee.
Rape crisis centers-funding/Reparations Fund-funding/Victims Assistance Cmte
Last Action
To Judiciary
5/15/2012