OH HB457

Requires offenders under community control sanctions who fail drug tests for heroin, fentanyl, or carfentanil to be arrested and held in jail or admitted to residential drug treatment for up to 30 days.

Requires parolees and individuals on post-release control who fail drug tests for heroin, fentanyl, or carfentanil to be arrested and confined in county jail or admitted to residential treatment for substance abuse for 30 days or until the parole authority determines appropriate sanctions, whichever occurs first.

Mandates the state pay costs of residential drug treatment programs if offenders enter treatment before the court or parole authority makes a determination regarding the violation.

Applies to offenders subject to random drug testing as a condition of community control sanctions or parole/post-release control.

Amends Ohio Revised Code sections 2951.08, 2967.131, and 2967.15 to establish these mandatory detention or treatment requirements.