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H. B. No. 108 As IntroducedAs Introduced
127th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2007-2008 |
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A BILL
To amend sections 2949.092, 5502.01, 5502.61, and 5502.62 and to enact sections 2949.094, 5502.67, and 5502.68 of the Revised Code to require a court to impose an additional court cost of five dollars for a moving violation to fund grants to local drug law enforcement task forces, to create the Drug Law Enforcement Fund in the Division of Criminal Justice Services of the Department of Public Safety, and to create the Drug Law Enforcement Fund Advisory Committee to make funding recommendations to the Division.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 2949.092, 5502.01, 5502.61, and 5502.62 be amended and sections 2949.094, 5502.67, and 5502.68 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 2949.092. If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to an offense and
the court specifically is required, pursuant to section 2743.70, 2949.091, or 2949.093, or 2949.094 of
the Revised Code or pursuant to any other section of the Revised Code to
impose a specified sum
of money as costs in the case in addition to any other costs that the court is
required or permitted by law to impose in the case, the court shall not waive
the payment of the specified additional court costs that the section of the
Revised Code specifically requires the court to impose unless the court
determines that the offender is indigent and the court waives the payment of
all court costs imposed upon the offender. Sec. 2949.094. (A) The court in which any person is convicted of or pleads guilty to any moving violation shall impose an additional court cost of five dollars upon the offender. The court shall not waive the payment of the five dollars unless the court determines that the offender is indigent and waives the payment of all court costs imposed upon the indigent offender.
The clerk of the court shall transmit all additional court costs collected pursuant to this division during a month on the first business day of the following month to the division of criminal justice services within the department of public safety for deposit in the drug law enforcement fund, created under section 5502.67 of the Revised Code.
(B) The juvenile court in which a child is found to be a juvenile traffic offender for an act that is a moving violation shall impose an additional court cost of five dollars upon the juvenile traffic offender. The juvenile court shall not waive the payment of the five dollars unless the court determines that the juvenile is indigent and waives the payment of all court costs imposed upon the indigent offender.
The clerk of the court shall transmit all additional court costs collected pursuant to this division during a month on the first business day of the following month to the division of criminal justice services within the department of public safety for deposit in the drug law enforcement fund, created under section 5502.67 of the Revised Code.
(C) Whenever a person is charged with any offense that is a moving violation and posts bail, the court shall add to the amount of the bail the five dollars required to be paid by division (A) of this section. The clerk of the court shall retain the five dollars until the person is convicted, pleads guilty, forfeits bail, is found not guilty, or has the charges dismissed. If the person is convicted, pleads guilty, or forfeits bail, the clerk shall transmit the five dollars to the division of criminal justice services within the department of public safety for deposit in the drug law enforcement fund, created under section 5502.67 of the Revised Code. If the person is found not guilty or the charges are dismissed, the clerk shall return the five dollars to the person.
(D) No person shall be placed or held in a detention facility for failing to pay the court cost or bail that is required to be paid by this section.
(E) As used in this section:
(1) "Bail" and "moving violation" have the same meanings as in section 2949.093 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Detention facility" has the same meaning as in section 2921.01 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 5502.01. (A) The department of public safety shall
administer
and enforce the laws relating to the registration,
licensing, sale, and
operation of motor
vehicles and the laws
pertaining to the licensing of drivers of motor
vehicles. The department shall compile, analyze, and publish statistics
relative to
motor vehicle accidents and the causes of them,
prepare
and conduct educational programs for the purpose of
promoting safety in the
operation of motor vehicles
on the
highways,
and
conduct research and studies
for the purpose of
promoting safety
on the highways of this state. (B) The department shall administer the laws and rules
relative to trauma
and emergency medical
services specified in
Chapter 4765. of the Revised Code. (C) The department shall administer and enforce the laws
contained in Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code
and
enforce the rules and
orders
of the
liquor control commission
pertaining to retail liquor permit holders. (D) The department shall administer the laws governing the
state
emergency management agency and shall enforce all additional
duties and
responsibilities as prescribed in the Revised Code
related
to emergency management services. (E) The department shall conduct investigations pursuant to
Chapter 5101. of the Revised Code in support of the
duty of the
department of
job and family
services to administer food
stamp
programs
throughout this state. The
department of public
safety
shall
conduct investigations necessary to protect
the
state's
property
rights and interests in the food stamp program. (F) The department of public safety shall enforce compliance
with
orders and rules of the public utilities commission and
applicable laws in
accordance with Chapters 4919., 4921., and
4923. of the Revised Code regarding
commercial motor vehicle
transportation safety, economic, and hazardous
materials
requirements. (G) Notwithstanding Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the
department
of public safety may establish requirements for its
enforcement
personnel, including its enforcement agents described
in section
5502.14 of the Revised Code, that include standards of
conduct, work rules and
procedures, and criteria for
eligibility
as law enforcement personnel. (H) The department shall administer, maintain, and operate
the Ohio
criminal justice network. The Ohio criminal justice
network
shall be a computer network that supports state and local
criminal justice activities. The network shall be an electronic
repository for various data, which may include arrest warrants,
notices of persons wanted by law enforcement agencies, criminal
records, prison inmate records, stolen vehicle records, vehicle
operator's licenses, and vehicle registrations and
titles.
(I) The department shall coordinate all homeland security activities of all state agencies and shall be a liaison between state agencies and local entities for those activities and related purposes.
(J) Beginning July 1, 2004, the department shall administer and enforce the laws relative to private investigators and security service providers specified in Chapter 4749. of the Revised Code.
(K) The department shall administer criminal justice services in accordance with sections 5502.61 to 5502.66 5502.68 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 5502.61. As used in sections 5502.61 to 5502.66 5502.68 of the
Revised Code: (A)
"Federal criminal justice acts" means any federal law
that authorizes financial assistance and other forms of
assistance
to be given by the federal government to the states to
be used for
the improvement of the criminal and juvenile justice
systems of
the states. (B)(1)
"Criminal justice system" includes all of the
functions of the following: (a) The state highway patrol, county sheriff offices,
municipal and township police departments, and all other law
enforcement agencies; (b) The courts of appeals, courts of common pleas,
municipal
courts, county courts, and mayor's courts, when dealing
with
criminal cases; (c) The prosecuting attorneys, city directors of law,
village solicitors, and other prosecuting authorities when
prosecuting or otherwise handling criminal cases, and the county
and joint county public defenders and other public defender
agencies or offices; (d) The department of rehabilitation and correction,
probation departments, county and municipal jails and workhouses,
and any other department, agency, or facility that is concerned
with the rehabilitation or correction of criminal offenders; (e) Any public or private agency whose purposes include
the
prevention of crime or the diversion, adjudication,
detention, or
rehabilitation of criminal offenders; (f) Any public or private agency, the purposes of which
include assistance to crime victims or witnesses. (2) The inclusion of any public or private agency, the
purposes of which include assistance to crime victims or
witnesses, as part of the criminal justice system pursuant to
division (B)(1) of this section does not limit, and shall not be
construed as limiting, the discretion or authority of the
attorney
general with respect to crime victim assistance and
criminal
justice programs. (C)
"Juvenile justice system" includes all of the
functions
of the juvenile courts, the department of youth
services, any
public or private agency whose purposes include the
prevention of
delinquency or the diversion, adjudication,
detention, or
rehabilitation of delinquent children, and any of
the functions of
the criminal justice system that are applicable
to children. (D)
"Comprehensive plan" means a document that
coordinates,
evaluates, and otherwise assists, on an annual or
multi-year
basis,
any of the functions of the criminal and
juvenile
justice
systems of the state or a specified area of the
state,
that
conforms to the priorities of the state with respect
to
criminal
and juvenile justice systems, and that conforms with
the
requirements of all federal criminal justice acts. These
functions
may include, but are not limited to,
any of the
following: (1) Crime and delinquency prevention; (2) Identification, detection, apprehension, and detention
of persons charged with criminal offenses or delinquent acts; (3) Assistance to crime victims or witnesses, except that
the comprehensive plan does not include the functions of the
attorney general pursuant to sections 109.91 and 109.92 of the
Revised Code; (4) Adjudication or diversion of persons charged with
criminal offenses or delinquent acts; (5) Custodial treatment of criminal offenders,
delinquent
children, or both; (6) Institutional and noninstitutional rehabilitation of
criminal offenders, delinquent children, or both. (E)
"Metropolitan county criminal justice services agency"
means an agency that is established pursuant to division (A) of
section 5502.64 of the Revised Code. (F)
"Administrative planning district" means a district
that
is established pursuant to division (A)
or (B) of section 5502.66
of
the Revised Code. (G)
"Criminal justice coordinating council" means a
criminal
justice services agency that is established pursuant to
division
(D) of section 5502.66 of the Revised Code. (H)
"Local elected official" means any person who is a
member
of a board of county commissioners or township trustees or
of a
city or village council, judge of the court of common pleas,
a
municipal court, or a county court, sheriff, county coroner,
prosecuting attorney, city director of law, village solicitor, or
mayor. (I)
"Juvenile justice coordinating council" means a juvenile
justice services agency that is established pursuant to division
(D) of section 5502.66 of the Revised Code. (J) "Mcgruff house program" means a program in which individuals or families volunteer to have their homes or other buildings serve as places of temporary refuge for children and to display the mcgruff house symbol identifying the home or building as that type of place.
(K) "Mcgruff house symbol" means the symbol that is characterized by the image of "mcgruff," the crime dog, and the slogan "take a bite out of crime," and that has been adopted by the national crime prevention council as the symbol of its national citizens' crime prevention campaign.
(L) "Sponsoring agency" means any of the following:
(1) The board of education of any city, local, or exempted village school district;
(2) The governing board of any educational service center;
(3) The governing authority of any chartered nonpublic school;
(4) The police department of any municipal corporation, township, township police district, or joint township police district;
(5) The office of any township constable or county sheriff.
Sec. 5502.62. (A) There is hereby created in the department of public safety a division of
criminal justice services. The director of public safety, with the concurrence of the governor, shall appoint an executive director
of the division of criminal justice services. The executive director shall be the head of the division. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the director of public safety. To carry out the duties assigned under this section and to comply with sections 5502.63 to 5502.66 5502.68 of the Revised Code, the executive director, subject to the direction and control of the director of public safety, may appoint and maintain any necessary staff and may enter into any necessary contracts and other agreements. The executive director of the division, and
all professional and technical
personnel employed within the
division who are not public employees
as defined in section 4117.01
of the Revised Code, shall be in the
unclassified civil service,
and all other persons employed within
the division shall be in the
classified civil service. (B) Subject to division
(F) of this section and subject
to
divisions
(D) to (F) of section 5120.09 of the Revised Code
insofar as those
divisions relate to federal criminal justice acts
that the governor requires
the department of rehabilitation and
correction to administer, the division
of criminal justice services
shall do all of the following: (1) Serve as the state criminal justice services agency
and
perform criminal
justice system planning in the
state, including
any planning that is required by any federal
law; (2) Collect, analyze, and correlate information and data
concerning the criminal
justice
system in the
state; (3) Cooperate with and provide technical assistance to
state
departments, administrative planning districts,
metropolitan
county criminal justice services agencies, criminal
justice
coordinating councils, agencies, offices, and departments
of the
criminal
justice
system in the state, and
other appropriate
organizations and persons; (4) Encourage and assist agencies, offices, and
departments
of the criminal
justice
system in the
state
and other
appropriate organizations and persons to solve
problems
that
relate to the duties of the division; (5) Administer within the state any federal criminal
justice
acts
that the governor requires
it to
administer; (6)
Administer funds received under the
"Family Violence
Prevention and Services Act," 98 Stat. 1757 (1984), 42 U.S.C.A.
10401, as amended, with all powers necessary for the adequate
administration of those funds, including the authority to
establish a family violence prevention and services program; (7) Implement the state comprehensive plans; (8) Audit grant activities of agencies, offices,
organizations, and persons that are financed in whole or in part
by funds granted through the division; (9) Monitor or evaluate the performance of criminal
justice
system projects and programs in the state
that
are financed in
whole or in part by funds granted through the
division; (10) Apply for, allocate, disburse, and account for
grants
that are made available pursuant to federal criminal
justice acts,
or made available from
other federal,
state, or private sources,
to improve the criminal
justice
system in the state. All money from such federal grants that require that the money be deposited into an interest-bearing fund or account, that are intended to provide funding to local criminal justice programs, and that require that investment earnings be distributed for program purposes shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the federal justice programs funds, which are hereby created. A separate fund shall be established each federal fiscal year. All investment earnings of a federal justice programs fund shall be credited to that fund and distributed in accordance with the terms of the grant under which the money is received. (11) Contract with federal, state, and local agencies,
foundations, corporations, businesses, and persons when necessary
to carry out the duties of the division; (12) Oversee the activities of metropolitan county
criminal
justice services agencies, administrative planning
districts, and
criminal justice coordinating councils in the
state; (13) Advise the director of public safety, general assembly, and governor on
legislation
and other significant matters that pertain to the
improvement and
reform of criminal and juvenile justice systems
in
the state; (14) Prepare and recommend legislation to the director of public safety, general
assembly, and governor for the improvement of the criminal and
juvenile justice systems in the state; (15) Assist, advise, and make any reports that are
requested
or required by the governor, director of public safety, attorney general, or
general
assembly; (16) Develop and maintain the Ohio incident-based reporting system in accordance with division (C) of this section;
(17) Subject to the approval of the director of public safety, adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised
Code; (18)(a) Not later than June 1, 2007, and subject to the approval of the director of public safety, adopt rules for the establishment and maintenance of a mcgruff house program by any sponsoring agency. The rules shall include the following: (i) The adoption of the mcgruff house symbol to be used exclusively in all mcgruff house programs in this state; (ii) The requirements for any sponsoring agency to establish and maintain a mcgruff house program; (iii) The criteria for the selection of volunteers to participate in a mcgruff house program that shall include, but not be limited to, criminal background checks of those volunteers; (iv) Any other matters that the division of criminal justice services considers necessary for the establishment and maintenance of mcgruff house programs by sponsoring agencies and the participation of volunteers in those programs. (b) The division of criminal justice services shall distribute materials and provide technical assistance to any sponsoring agency that establishes and maintains a mcgruff house program, any volunteer group or organization that provides assistance to that sponsoring agency, or any volunteer who participates in a mcgruff house program.
(19) Administer all money deposited into the drug law enforcement fund that is created under section 5502.67 of the Revised Code, establish a procedure for making applications for money from the fund as provided in section 5502.68 of the Revised Code, and make final determinations under section 5502.68 of the Revised Code regarding those applications. (C) The division of criminal justice services shall develop and maintain the Ohio incident-based reporting system to facilitate the sharing of information with the federal bureau of investigation and participating law enforcement agencies in Ohio. The Ohio incident-based reporting system shall be known as OIBRS. In connection with OIBRS, the division shall do all of the following:
(1) Collect and organize statistical data for reporting to the national incident-based reporting system operated by the federal bureau of investigation for the purpose of securing federal criminal justice grants;
(2) Analyze and highlight mapping data for participating law enforcement agencies;
(3) Distribute data and analyses to participating law enforcement agencies;
(4) Encourage nonparticipating law enforcement agencies to participate in OIBRS by offering demonstrations, training, and technical assistance;
(5) Provide assistance, advice, and reports requested by the governor, the general assembly, or the federal bureau of investigation;
(6) Require every law enforcement agency that receives federal criminal justice grants or state criminal justice information system general revenue funds through the division to participate in OIBRS or in the uniform crime reporting program of the federal bureau of investigation. An agency that submits OIBRS data to the Ohio local law enforcement information sharing network shall be considered to be in compliance with division (C)(6) of this section if both of the following apply:
(a) The Ohio local law enforcement information sharing network is capable of collecting OIBRS data.
(b) The division of criminal justice services has the ability to extract the OIBRS data for reporting to the national incident-based reporting system in the manner required by the federal bureau of investigation.
(D)
Upon the request of the director of public safety or governor, the division of
criminal
justice services may do any of
the
following: (1) Collect, analyze, or correlate information and data
concerning the juvenile justice system in the state; (2) Cooperate with and provide technical assistance to state
departments, administrative planning districts, metropolitan
county criminal justice service agencies, criminal justice
coordinating councils, agency offices, and the departments of the
juvenile justice system in the state and other appropriate
organizations and persons; (3) Encourage and assist agencies, offices, and departments
of the juvenile justice system in the state and other appropriate
organizations and persons to solve problems that relate to the
duties of the division. (E)
Divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section
do not limit
the
discretion or authority
of the attorney general with respect
to
crime victim assistance and
criminal justice programs. (F) Nothing in this section is intended to diminish or
alter
the status of the office of the attorney general as a
criminal
justice services agency or to diminish or alter the status or discourage the development and use of other law enforcement information systems in Ohio.
Sec. 5502.67. (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the drug law enforcement fund. Sums collected as court costs imposed pursuant to section 2949.094 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the fund. Money in the fund shall be in an interest-bearing account, and the division of criminal justice services shall use the interest earnings to pay the costs and expenses that it incurs in administering the fund. The division of criminal justice services shall use money in the fund for the following purposes:
(1) To award grants to local law enforcement task forces located in this state to defray their expenses in performing their duties related to the enforcement of state drug laws and other state laws related to illegal drug activity;
(2) To pay the costs and expenses that the division and the drug law enforcement fund advisory committee that is created under section 5502.68 of the Revised Code incur in performing their respective duties under that section.
(B) Subject to the approval of the director of public safety, the division may adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section and section 5502.68 of the Revised Code. Sec. 5502.68. (A) There is hereby created in the division of criminal justice services the drug law enforcement fund advisory committee. The advisory committee consists of the following persons or their respective designees:
(1) The president of the Ohio prosecuting attorneys association;
(2) The president of the Ohio association of chiefs of police;
(3) The president of the buckeye state sheriffs association;
(4) The president of the Ohio task force commanders association.
(B) A member of the advisory committee who ceases to be the president of that member's association ceases to be a member of the committee unless that member is the designee of the current president of the association to the committee. The committee shall elect a chairperson from among its members and shall meet at least quarterly and at any other time at the call of the chairperson. The members of the committee shall serve without compensation, but each member shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of the member's official duties. The committee shall submit an annual report of its activities to the division of criminal justice services.
(C) The division of criminal justice services shall establish a procedure in which a local law enforcement task force located in this state may apply to the division for money from the drug law enforcement fund to defray the expenses that the local law enforcement task force incurs in performing its duties related to the enforcement of the state drug laws and other state laws related to illegal drug activity. The drug law enforcement fund advisory committee shall make annual general funding recommendations to the division. The division shall make the final determination regarding each application for money from the fund. The division may approve an application for full funding, approve an application for partial funding, or reject an application.
Section 2. That existing sections 2949.092, 5502.01, 5502.61, and 5502.62 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
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