Am. Sub. S.B. 66 Summary

• Adds rehabilitation as a sentencing purpose - Modifies felony sentencing law to include "promotion of effective rehabilitation" alongside public protection and punishment as an overriding purpose.

• Removes one-year minimum for community control - Eliminates the mandatory one-year minimum duration for presumptive fourth and fifth degree felony community control sanctions, allowing more judicial discretion.

• Expands conviction record sealing eligibility - Makes offenders convicted of multiple fourth or fifth degree felonies eligible to apply for conviction record sealing after specified waiting periods.

• Modifies parole and post-release control procedures - Revises how the Adult Parole Authority grants final release and terminates post-release control, and establishes new criteria for imposing prison terms for post-release control violations.

• Extends State Highway Patrol authority and authorizes real estate conveyances - Grants State Highway Patrol criminal law enforcement authority at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center and authorizes the Governor to convey state property in Madison and Scioto counties to county commissioners for water and wastewater infrastructure.