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To amend section 2151.99 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
increase the penalty for a failure to make a | 2 |
mandatory report of abuse or neglect of a child | 3 |
from a misdemeanor of the fourth degree to a | 4 |
misdemeanor of the first degree if the child who | 5 |
is the subject of the report that is not made | 6 |
suffers or faces the threat of suffering the | 7 |
wound, injury, disability, or condition that would | 8 |
be the basis of the report when the child is under | 9 |
either the direct care or supervision of the | 10 |
offender acting in the offender's official or | 11 |
professional capacity or the direct care or | 12 |
supervision of another person over whom the | 13 |
offender has supervisory control. | 14 |
Section 1. That section 2151.99 of the Revised Code be | 15 |
amended to read as follows: | 16 |
Sec. 2151.99. (A) Whoever violates division (D)(2) or (3) of | 17 |
section
2151.313 or division | 18 |
of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth | 19 |
degree. | 20 |
(B) Whoever violates division (D)(1) of section 2151.313 of | 21 |
the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. | 22 |
(C) Whoever violates division (A)(1) of section 2151.421 of | 23 |
the Revised Code shall be punished as follows: | 24 |
(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2) of this | 25 |
section, the offender is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth | 26 |
degree. | 27 |
(2) The offender is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first | 28 |
degree if the child who is the subject of the required report that | 29 |
the offender fails to make suffers or faces the threat of | 30 |
suffering the physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or | 31 |
condition that would be the basis of the required report when the | 32 |
child is under the direct care or supervision of the offender who | 33 |
is then acting in the offender's official or professional capacity | 34 |
or when the child is under the direct care or supervision of | 35 |
another person over whom the offender while acting in the | 36 |
offender's official or professional capacity has supervisory | 37 |
control. | 38 |
Section 2. That existing section 2151.99 of the Revised Code | 39 |
is hereby repealed. | 40 |