H.B. No. 672 Summary

• Enacts section 149.46 of the Revised Code to create the "Final Order Correction Act," establishing a court procedure to correct errors, omissions, or legal defects in public records.

• Allows any person claiming an interest in the correction to file a petition in common pleas court in the county where the public office is located or where the record is kept at any time.

• Requires petitions to specify the error, omission, or defect and explain the basis for the belief that the record is inaccurate or legally defective and how it should be amended.

• Mandates courts conduct a hearing and, if finding by preponderance of evidence that the error was made and the petitioner was personally affected, issue findings and an order to correct or invalidate the record.

• Defines a public record as legally defective if the public office improperly executed the document, failed to comply with state law procedures, or violated the petitioner's constitutional right to due process.

• Requires every public office to publish an explanation of the correction procedure in print or on its internet website.