S.B. No. 230 Summary

• Requires state and local employees to comply with lawful federal requests for assistance in immigration and terrorism investigations under the USA Patriot Act and related executive orders, consistent with federalism principles.

• Prohibits municipal corporations from adopting policies that materially hinder local employee cooperation with federal immigration services and terrorism investigations; non-compliant municipalities lose state homeland security funding.

• Mandates law enforcement agencies to participate in federal immigration verification programs, report individuals unlawfully present in the U.S. to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and detain such individuals upon federal request.

• Establishes a complaint process allowing persons injured by crimes committed by unlawfully present individuals to seek removal of public officials who failed to comply with federal immigration enforcement requirements.

• Creates financial penalties by withholding local government fund distributions and establishing the Ohio Highway and Transportation Safety Fund from revenues recovered from non-compliant jurisdictions; declares immediate effect as emergency measure.