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OH SB147
Bill
Status
6/20/2013
Primary Sponsor
Timothy Schaffer
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AI Summary
Senate Bill 147 Summary
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Increases assault penalties for incarcerated individuals: Assault by a prisoner or delinquent child on correctional/youth services employees at institutional facilities becomes a third-degree felony (up from fifth-degree), with mandatory consecutive sentencing.
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Eliminates enhanced penalties for off-grounds assaults: Removes the previous fifth-degree felony enhancement for assaults on correctional/youth services employees and probation officers committed by parolees, supervised offenders, or those on community control when the assault occurs off institutional grounds.
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Applies to specific perpetrators: Changes affect only those incarcerated in state correctional institutions or youth services facilities; eliminates protections for assaults by parolees, offenders under supervision, or those on community control sanctions.
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Mandates consecutive sentencing: Any prison term imposed for on-grounds assaults must be served consecutively to any other prison term or mandatory prison term previously or subsequently imposed.
Legislative Description
To increase the penalty for an assault committed by a prisoner at a state correctional institution or delinquent child detained at a Department of Youth Services institution on an employee of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction or Youth Services on the grounds of the state correctional institution or Department of Youth Services institution and to eliminate the increased penalty for an assault committed by such a prisoner or delinquent child, a parolee, or an offender under any type of government supervision on a probation department employee or by an offender under any type of government supervision on an employee of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction or Youth Services.
Juvenile corrections facilities-prisoner assault on employees penalties
Last Action
To Criminal Justice
6/20/2013