130th Ohio General Assembly
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H. B. No. 635  As Introduced
As Introduced

130th General Assembly
Regular Session
2013-2014
H. B. No. 635


Representatives Beck, Milkovich 

Cosponsors: Representatives Rogers, Strahorn, Stebelton 



A BILL
To amend sections 2929.12, 2929.16, 2929.17, 2929.22, 2929.26, 2929.27, and 2967.26 and to enact sections 5119.16 and 5120.037 of the Revised Code to require the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to establish certain alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs, to require each state correctional institution to offer alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs, and to make an appropriation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 2929.12, 2929.16, 2929.17, 2929.22, 2929.26, 2929.27, and 2967.26 be amended and sections 5119.16 and 5120.037 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 2929.12.  (A) Unless otherwise required by section 2929.13 or 2929.14 of the Revised Code, a court that imposes a sentence under this chapter upon an offender for a felony has discretion to determine the most effective way to comply with the purposes and principles of sentencing set forth in section 2929.11 of the Revised Code. In exercising that discretion, the court shall consider the factors set forth in divisions (B) and (C) of this section relating to the seriousness of the conduct, the factors provided in divisions (D) and (E) of this section relating to the likelihood of the offender's recidivism, and the factors set forth in division (F) of this section pertaining to the offender's service in the armed forces of the United States, and the factor set forth in division (G) of this section pertaining to the offender's alcoholism or drug addiction with respect to the felony and, in addition, may consider any other factors that are relevant to achieving those purposes and principles of sentencing.
(B) The sentencing court shall consider all of the following that apply regarding the offender, the offense, or the victim, and any other relevant factors, as indicating that the offender's conduct is more serious than conduct normally constituting the offense:
(1) The physical or mental injury suffered by the victim of the offense due to the conduct of the offender was exacerbated because of the physical or mental condition or age of the victim.
(2) The victim of the offense suffered serious physical, psychological, or economic harm as a result of the offense.
(3) The offender held a public office or position of trust in the community, and the offense related to that office or position.
(4) The offender's occupation, elected office, or profession obliged the offender to prevent the offense or bring others committing it to justice.
(5) The offender's professional reputation or occupation, elected office, or profession was used to facilitate the offense or is likely to influence the future conduct of others.
(6) The offender's relationship with the victim facilitated the offense.
(7) The offender committed the offense for hire or as a part of an organized criminal activity.
(8) In committing the offense, the offender was motivated by prejudice based on race, ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation, or religion.
(9) If the offense is a violation of section 2919.25 or a violation of section 2903.11, 2903.12, or 2903.13 of the Revised Code involving a person who was a family or household member at the time of the violation, the offender committed the offense in the vicinity of one or more children who are not victims of the offense, and the offender or the victim of the offense is a parent, guardian, custodian, or person in loco parentis of one or more of those children.
(C) The sentencing court shall consider all of the following that apply regarding the offender, the offense, or the victim, and any other relevant factors, as indicating that the offender's conduct is less serious than conduct normally constituting the offense:
(1) The victim induced or facilitated the offense.
(2) In committing the offense, the offender acted under strong provocation.
(3) In committing the offense, the offender did not cause or expect to cause physical harm to any person or property.
(4) There are substantial grounds to mitigate the offender's conduct, although the grounds are not enough to constitute a defense.
(D) The sentencing court shall consider all of the following that apply regarding the offender, and any other relevant factors, as factors indicating that the offender is likely to commit future crimes:
(1) At the time of committing the offense, the offender was under release from confinement before trial or sentencing; was under a sanction imposed pursuant to section 2929.16, 2929.17, or 2929.18 of the Revised Code; was under post-release control pursuant to section 2967.28 or any other provision of the Revised Code for an earlier offense or had been unfavorably terminated from post-release control for a prior offense pursuant to division (B) of section 2967.16 or section 2929.141 of the Revised Code; was under transitional control in connection with a prior offense; or had absconded from the offender's approved community placement resulting in the offender's removal from the transitional control program under section 2967.26 of the Revised Code.
(2) The offender previously was adjudicated a delinquent child pursuant to Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code prior to January 1, 2002, or pursuant to Chapter 2152. of the Revised Code, or the offender has a history of criminal convictions.
(3) The offender has not been rehabilitated to a satisfactory degree after previously being adjudicated a delinquent child pursuant to Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code prior to January 1, 2002, or pursuant to Chapter 2152. of the Revised Code, or the offender has not responded favorably to sanctions previously imposed for criminal convictions.
(4) The offender has demonstrated a pattern of drug or alcohol abuse that is related to the offense, and the offender refuses to acknowledge that the offender has demonstrated that pattern, or the offender refuses treatment for the drug or alcohol abuse.
(5) The offender shows no genuine remorse for the offense.
(E) The sentencing court shall consider all of the following that apply regarding the offender, and any other relevant factors, as factors indicating that the offender is not likely to commit future crimes:
(1) Prior to committing the offense, the offender had not been adjudicated a delinquent child.
(2) Prior to committing the offense, the offender had not been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a criminal offense.
(3) Prior to committing the offense, the offender had led a law-abiding life for a significant number of years.
(4) The offense was committed under circumstances not likely to recur.
(5) The offender shows genuine remorse for the offense.
(F) The sentencing court shall consider the offender's military service record and whether the offender has an emotional, mental, or physical condition that is traceable to the offender's service in the armed forces of the United States and that was a contributing factor in the offender's commission of the offense or offenses.
(G) The sentencing court shall consider whether the offender suffered from alcoholism or drug addiction at the time the offense was committed and, if the court determines that the offender suffered from alcoholism or drug addiction at that time, whether the alcoholism or drug addiction was a contributing factor in the offender's commission of the offense.
Sec. 2929.16.  (A) Except as provided in this division, the court imposing a sentence for a felony upon an offender who is not required to serve a mandatory prison term may impose any community residential sanction or combination of community residential sanctions under this section. The court imposing a sentence for a fourth degree felony OVI offense under division (G)(1) or (2) of section 2929.13 of the Revised Code or for a third degree felony OVI offense under division (G)(2) of that section may impose upon the offender, in addition to the mandatory term of local incarceration or mandatory prison term imposed under the applicable division, a community residential sanction or combination of community residential sanctions under this section, and the offender shall serve or satisfy the sanction or combination of sanctions after the offender has served the mandatory term of local incarceration or mandatory prison term required for the offense. Community residential sanctions include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) A term of up to six months at a community-based correctional facility that serves the county;
(2) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(3) of this section and subject to division (D) of this section, a term of up to six months in a jail;
(3) If the offender is convicted of a fourth degree felony OVI offense and is sentenced under division (G)(1) of section 2929.13 of the Revised Code, subject to division (D) of this section, a term of up to one year in a jail less the mandatory term of local incarceration of sixty or one hundred twenty consecutive days of imprisonment imposed pursuant to that division;
(4) A term in a halfway house;
(5) A term in an alternative residential facility;
(6) If the court determines that the offender suffered from alcoholism or drug addiction at the time the offense was committed and that the alcoholism or drug addiction was a contributing factor in the offender's commission of the offense, a term in an alcohol and drug addiction treatment program established under section 5119.16 of the Revised Code that is a residential program and that is a secure facility.
(B) The court that assigns any offender convicted of a felony to a residential sanction under this section may authorize the offender to be released so that the offender may seek or maintain employment, receive education or training, or receive treatment. A release pursuant to this division shall be only for the duration of time that is needed to fulfill the purpose of the release and for travel that reasonably is necessary to fulfill the purposes of the release.
(C) If the court assigns an offender to a county jail that is not a minimum security misdemeanant jail in a county that has established a county jail industry program pursuant to section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, the court shall specify, as part of the sentence, whether the sheriff of that county may consider the offender for participation in the county jail industry program. During the offender's term in the county jail, the court shall retain jurisdiction to modify its specification upon a reassessment of the offender's qualifications for participation in the program.
(D) If a court sentences an offender to a term in jail under division (A)(2) or (3) of this section and if the sentence is imposed for a felony of the fourth or fifth degree that is not an offense of violence, the court may specify that it prefers that the offender serve the term in a minimum security jail established under section 341.34 or 753.21 of the Revised Code. If the court includes a specification of that type in the sentence and if the administrator of the appropriate minimum security jail or the designee of that administrator classifies the offender in accordance with section 341.34 or 753.21 of the Revised Code as a minimal security risk, the offender shall serve the term in the minimum security jail established under section 341.34 or 753.21 of the Revised Code. Absent a specification of that type and a finding of that type, the offender shall serve the term in a jail other than a minimum security jail established under section 341.34 or 753.21 of the Revised Code.
(E) If a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony is sentenced to a community residential sanction as described in division (A) of this section, at the time of reception and at other times the person in charge of the operation of the community-based correctional facility, jail, halfway house, alternative residential facility, or other place at which the offender will serve the residential sanction determines to be appropriate, the person in charge of the operation of the community-based correctional facility, jail, halfway house, alternative residential facility, or other place may cause the convicted offender to be examined and tested for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, and other contagious diseases. The person in charge of the operation of the community-based correctional facility, jail, halfway house, alternative residential facility, or other place at which the offender will serve the residential sanction may cause a convicted offender in the community-based correctional facility, jail, halfway house, alternative residential facility, or other place who refuses to be tested or treated for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including but not limited to hepatitis A, B, and C, or another contagious disease to be tested and treated involuntarily.
Sec. 2929.17.  Except as provided in this section, the court imposing a sentence for a felony upon an offender who is not required to serve a mandatory prison term may impose any nonresidential sanction or combination of nonresidential sanctions authorized under this section. If the court imposes one or more nonresidential sanctions authorized under this section, the court shall impose as a condition of the sanction that, during the period of the nonresidential sanction, the offender shall abide by the law and shall not leave the state without the permission of the court or the offender's probation officer.
The court imposing a sentence for a fourth degree felony OVI offense under division (G)(1) or (2) of section 2929.13 of the Revised Code or for a third degree felony OVI offense under division (G)(2) of that section may impose upon the offender, in addition to the mandatory term of local incarceration or mandatory prison term imposed under the applicable division, a nonresidential sanction or combination of nonresidential sanctions under this section, and the offender shall serve or satisfy the sanction or combination of sanctions after the offender has served the mandatory term of local incarceration or mandatory prison term required for the offense. The court shall not impose a term in a drug treatment program as described in division (D) of this section until after considering an assessment by a properly credentialed treatment professional, if available. Nonresidential sanctions include, but are not limited to, the following:
(A) A term of day reporting;
(B) A term of house arrest with electronic monitoring or continuous alcohol monitoring or both electronic monitoring and continuous alcohol monitoring, a term of electronic monitoring or continuous alcohol monitoring without house arrest, or a term of house arrest without electronic monitoring or continuous alcohol monitoring;
(C) A term of community service of up to five hundred hours pursuant to division (B) of section 2951.02 of the Revised Code or, if the court determines that the offender is financially incapable of fulfilling a financial sanction described in section 2929.18 of the Revised Code, a term of community service as an alternative to a financial sanction;
(D) A term in a drug treatment program with a level of security for the offender as determined by the court;
(E) A term of intensive probation supervision;
(F) A term of basic probation supervision;
(G) A term of monitored time;
(H) A term of drug and alcohol use monitoring, including random drug testing;
(I) A curfew term;
(J) A requirement that the offender obtain employment;
(K) A requirement that the offender obtain education or training;
(L) Provided the court obtains the prior approval of the victim, a requirement that the offender participate in victim-offender mediation;
(M) A license violation report;
(N) If the offense is a violation of section 2919.25 or a violation of section 2903.11, 2903.12, or 2903.13 of the Revised Code involving a person who was a family or household member at the time of the violation, if the offender committed the offense in the vicinity of one or more children who are not victims of the offense, and if the offender or the victim of the offense is a parent, guardian, custodian, or person in loco parentis of one or more of those children, a requirement that the offender obtain counseling. This division does not limit the court in requiring the offender to obtain counseling for any offense or in any circumstance not specified in this division.
(O) If the court determines that the offender suffered from alcoholism or drug addiction at the time the offense was committed and that the alcoholism or drug addiction was a contributing factor in the offender's commission of the offense, a term in an alcohol and drug addiction treatment program established under section 5119.16 of the Revised Code that is not a residential program.
Sec. 2929.22.  (A) Unless a mandatory jail term is required to be imposed by division (G) of section 1547.99, division (B) of section 4510.14, division (G) of section 4511.19 of the Revised Code, or any other provision of the Revised Code a court that imposes a sentence under this chapter upon an offender for a misdemeanor or minor misdemeanor has discretion to determine the most effective way to achieve the purposes and principles of sentencing set forth in section 2929.21 of the Revised Code.
Unless a specific sanction is required to be imposed or is precluded from being imposed by the section setting forth an offense or the penalty for an offense or by any provision of sections 2929.23 to 2929.28 of the Revised Code, a court that imposes a sentence upon an offender for a misdemeanor may impose on the offender any sanction or combination of sanctions under sections 2929.24 to 2929.28 of the Revised Code. The court shall not impose a sentence that imposes an unnecessary burden on local government resources.
(B)(1) In determining the appropriate sentence for a misdemeanor, the court shall consider all of the following factors:
(a) The nature and circumstances of the offense or offenses;
(b) Whether the circumstances regarding the offender and the offense or offenses indicate that the offender has a history of persistent criminal activity and that the offender's character and condition reveal a substantial risk that the offender will commit another offense;
(c) Whether the circumstances regarding the offender and the offense or offenses indicate that the offender's history, character, and condition reveal a substantial risk that the offender will be a danger to others and that the offender's conduct has been characterized by a pattern of repetitive, compulsive, or aggressive behavior with heedless indifference to the consequences;
(d) Whether the victim's youth, age, disability, or other factor made the victim particularly vulnerable to the offense or made the impact of the offense more serious;
(e) Whether the offender is likely to commit future crimes in general, in addition to the circumstances described in divisions (B)(1)(b) and (c) of this section;
(f) Whether the offender has an emotional, mental, or physical condition that is traceable to the offender's service in the armed forces of the United States and that was a contributing factor in the offender's commission of the offense or offenses;
(g) The offender's military service record;
(h) Whether the offender suffered from alcoholism or drug addiction at the time the offense was committed and, if the court determines that the offender suffered from alcoholism or drug addiction at that time, whether the alcoholism or drug addiction was a contributing factor in the offender's commission of the offense.
(2) In determining the appropriate sentence for a misdemeanor, in addition to complying with division (B)(1) of this section, the court may consider any other factors that are relevant to achieving the purposes and principles of sentencing set forth in section 2929.21 of the Revised Code.
(C) Before imposing a jail term as a sentence for a misdemeanor, a court shall consider the appropriateness of imposing a community control sanction or a combination of community control sanctions under sections 2929.25, 2929.26, 2929.27, and 2929.28 of the Revised Code. A court may impose the longest jail term authorized under section 2929.24 of the Revised Code only upon offenders who commit the worst forms of the offense or upon offenders whose conduct and response to prior sanctions for prior offenses demonstrate that the imposition of the longest jail term is necessary to deter the offender from committing a future crime.
(D)(1) A sentencing court shall consider any relevant oral or written statement made by the victim, the defendant, the defense attorney, or the prosecuting authority regarding sentencing for a misdemeanor. This division does not create any rights to notice other than those rights authorized by Chapter 2930. of the Revised Code.
(2) At the time of sentencing for a misdemeanor or as soon as possible after sentencing, the court shall notify the victim of the offense of the victim's right to file an application for an award of reparations pursuant to sections 2743.51 to 2743.72 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 2929.26.  (A) Except when a mandatory jail term is required by law, the court imposing a sentence for a misdemeanor, other than a minor misdemeanor, may impose upon the offender any community residential sanction or combination of community residential sanctions under this section. Community residential sanctions include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) A term of up to one hundred eighty days in a halfway house or community-based correctional facility or a term in a halfway house or community-based correctional facility not to exceed the longest jail term available for the offense, whichever is shorter, if the political subdivision that would have responsibility for paying the costs of confining the offender in a jail has entered into a contract with the halfway house or community-based correctional facility for use of the facility for misdemeanor offenders;
(2) If the offender is an eligible offender, as defined in section 307.932 of the Revised Code, a term in a community alternative sentencing center or district community alternative sentencing center established and operated in accordance with that section, in the circumstances specified in that section, with one of the conditions of the sanction being that the offender successfully complete the portion of the sentence to be served in the center;
(3) If the court determines that the offender suffered from alcoholism or drug addiction at the time the offense was committed and that the alcoholism or drug addiction was a contributing factor in the offender's commission of the offense, a term in an alcohol and drug addiction treatment program established under section 5119.16 of the Revised Code that is a residential program and that is a secure facility.
(B) A sentence to a community residential sanction under division (A)(2) of this section shall be in accordance with section 307.932 of the Revised Code. In all other cases, the court that sentences an offender to a community residential sanction under this section may do either or both of the following:
(1) Permit the offender to serve the offender's sentence in intermittent confinement, overnight, on weekends or at any other time or times that will allow the offender to continue at the offender's occupation or care for the offender's family;
(2) Authorize the offender to be released so that the offender may seek or maintain employment, receive education or training, receive treatment, perform community service, or otherwise fulfill an obligation imposed by law or by the court. A release pursuant to this division shall be only for the duration of time that is needed to fulfill the purpose of the release and for travel that reasonably is necessary to fulfill the purposes of the release.
(C) The court may order that a reasonable portion of the income earned by the offender upon a release pursuant to division (B) of this section be applied to any financial sanction imposed under section 2929.28 of the Revised Code.
(D) No court shall sentence any person to a prison term for a misdemeanor or minor misdemeanor or to a jail term for a minor misdemeanor.
(E) If a court sentences a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor to a community residential sanction as described in division (A) of this section, at the time of reception and at other times the person in charge of the operation of the halfway house, community alternative sentencing center, district community alternative sentencing center, or other place at which the offender will serve the residential sanction determines to be appropriate, the person in charge of the operation of the halfway house, community alternative sentencing center, district community alternative sentencing center, or other place may cause the convicted offender to be examined and tested for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including, but not limited to, hepatitis A, B, and C, and other contagious diseases. The person in charge of the operation of the halfway house, community alternative sentencing center, district community alternative sentencing center, or other place at which the offender will serve the residential sanction may cause a convicted offender in the halfway house, community alternative sentencing center, district community alternative sentencing center, or other place who refuses to be tested or treated for tuberculosis, HIV infection, hepatitis, including, but not limited to, hepatitis A, B, and C, or another contagious disease to be tested and treated involuntarily.
(F) A political subdivision may enter into a contract with a halfway house for use of the halfway house to house misdemeanor offenders under a sanction imposed under division (A)(1) of this section.
Sec. 2929.27.  (A) Except when a mandatory jail term is required by law, the court imposing a sentence for a misdemeanor, other than a minor misdemeanor, may impose upon the offender any nonresidential sanction or combination of nonresidential sanctions authorized under this division. Nonresidential sanctions include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) A term of day reporting;
(2) A term of house arrest with electronic monitoring or continuous alcohol monitoring or both electronic monitoring and continuous alcohol monitoring, a term of electronic monitoring or continuous alcohol monitoring without house arrest, or a term of house arrest without electronic monitoring or continuous alcohol monitoring;
(3) A term of community service of up to five hundred hours for a misdemeanor of the first degree or two hundred hours for a misdemeanor of the second, third, or fourth degree;
(4) A term in a drug treatment program with a level of security for the offender as determined necessary by the court;
(5) A term of intensive probation supervision;
(6) A term of basic probation supervision;
(7) A term of monitored time;
(8) A term of drug and alcohol use monitoring, including random drug testing;
(9) A curfew term;
(10) A requirement that the offender obtain employment;
(11) A requirement that the offender obtain education or training;
(12) Provided the court obtains the prior approval of the victim, a requirement that the offender participate in victim-offender mediation;
(13) If authorized by law, suspension of the offender's privilege to operate a motor vehicle, immobilization or forfeiture of the offender's motor vehicle, a requirement that the offender obtain a valid motor vehicle operator's license, or any other related sanction;
(14) A requirement that the offender obtain counseling if the offense is a violation of section 2919.25 or a violation of section 2903.13 of the Revised Code involving a person who was a family or household member at the time of the violation, if the offender committed the offense in the vicinity of one or more children who are not victims of the offense, and if the offender or the victim of the offense is a parent, guardian, custodian, or person in loco parentis of one or more of those children. This division does not limit the court in requiring that the offender obtain counseling for any offense or in any circumstance not specified in this division.
(15) If the court determines that the offender suffered from alcoholism or drug addiction at the time the offense was committed and that the alcoholism or drug addiction was a contributing factor in the offender's commission of the offense, a term in an alcohol and drug addiction treatment program established under section 5119.16 of the Revised Code that is not a residential program.
(B) If the court imposes a term of community service pursuant to division (A)(3) of this section, the offender may request that the court modify the sentence to authorize the offender to make a reasonable contribution, as determined by the court, to the general fund of the county, municipality, or other local entity that provides funding to the court. The court may grant the request if the offender demonstrates a change in circumstances from the date the court imposes the sentence or that the modification would otherwise be in the interests of justice. If the court grants the request, the offender shall make a reasonable contribution to the court, and the clerk of the court shall deposit that contribution into the general fund of the county, municipality, or other local entity that provides funding to the court. If more than one entity provides funding to the court, the clerk shall deposit a percentage of the reasonable contribution equal to the percentage of funding the entity provides to the court in that entity's general fund.
(C) In addition to the sanctions authorized under division (A) of this section, the court imposing a sentence for a misdemeanor, other than a minor misdemeanor, upon an offender who is not required to serve a mandatory jail term may impose any other sanction that is intended to discourage the offender or other persons from committing a similar offense if the sanction is reasonably related to the overriding purposes and principles of misdemeanor sentencing.
(D) The court imposing a sentence for a minor misdemeanor may impose a term of community service in lieu of all or part of a fine. The term of community service imposed for a minor misdemeanor shall not exceed thirty hours. After imposing a term of community service, the court may modify the sentence to authorize a reasonable contribution, as determined by the court, to the appropriate general fund as provided in division (B) of this section.
Sec. 2967.26.  (A)(1) The department of rehabilitation and correction, by rule, may shall establish a transitional control program for the purpose of closely monitoring a prisoner's adjustment to community supervision during the final one hundred eighty days of the prisoner's confinement, and, in the case of a prisoner who is an alcoholic or drug addicted offender, for the purposes of providing the prisoner with alcoholism or drug addiction treatment and of monitoring the prisoner's adjustment to community supervision during the final two years of the prisoner's confinement. If After the department establishes a transitional control program under this division, the division of parole and community services of the department of rehabilitation and correction may transfer eligible prisoners to transitional control status under the program during the final one hundred eighty days of their confinement and or, in the case of alcoholic or drug addicted offenders, during the final two years of their confinement, under the terms and conditions established by the department, the division shall provide for the confinement as provided in this division of each eligible prisoner so transferred, and the division shall supervise as provided in this division each eligible prisoner so transferred in one or more community control sanctions. Each eligible prisoner who is transferred to transitional control status under the program shall be confined in a secure alcohol and drug addiction treatment program if the prisoner is an alcoholic or drug addicted offender or, if the eligible prisoner is not an alcoholic or drug addicted offender, either shall be confined in a suitable facility that is licensed pursuant to division (C) of section 2967.14 of the Revised Code, or shall be confined in a residence the department has approved for this purpose and be monitored pursuant to an electronic monitoring device, as defined in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. If the department establishes a transitional control program under this division, the The division shall supervise each eligible prisoner who is so transferred to transitional control under the program in a community control sanction that is a secure alcohol and drug addiction treatment program if the prisoner is an alcoholic or drug addicted offender or, if the eligible prisoner is not an alcoholic or drug addicted offender, in one or more community control sanctions. The rules establishing the program shall include criteria that define which prisoners are eligible for the program, criteria that must be satisfied to be approved as a residence that may be used for confinement under the program of a prisoner that is transferred to it who is not an alcoholic or drug addicted offender and procedures for the department to approve residences that satisfy those criteria, and provisions of the type described in division (C) of this section. At a minimum, the criteria that define which prisoners are eligible for the program shall provide all of the following:
(a) That a prisoner is eligible for the program if the prisoner is serving a prison term or term of imprisonment for an offense committed prior to March 17, 1998, and if, at the time at which eligibility is being determined, the prisoner would have been eligible for a furlough under this section as it existed immediately prior to March 17, 1998, or would have been eligible for conditional release under former section 2967.23 of the Revised Code as that section existed immediately prior to March 17, 1998;
(b) That no prisoner who is serving a mandatory prison term is eligible for the program until after expiration of the mandatory term;
(c) That no prisoner who is serving a prison term or term of life imprisonment without parole imposed pursuant to section 2971.03 of the Revised Code is eligible for the program;
(d) That, subject to divisions (A)(1)(a), (b), and (c) of this section, prisoners who are serving a prison term or term of imprisonment and who are alcoholic or drug addicted offenders are eligible for the program during the final two years of their confinement and that no prisoner who is serving a prison term or term of imprisonment who is not an alcoholic or drug addicted offender is eligible for the program except during the final one hundred eighty days of the prisoner's confinement.
(2) At least sixty days prior to transferring to transitional control under this section a prisoner who is serving a term of imprisonment or prison term of two years or less for an offense committed on or after July 1, 1996, the division of parole and community services of the department of rehabilitation and correction shall give notice of the pendency of the transfer to transitional control to the court of common pleas of the county in which the indictment against the prisoner was found and of the fact that the court may disapprove the transfer of the prisoner to transitional control and shall include the institutional summary report prepared by the head of the state correctional institution in which the prisoner is confined. The head of the state correctional institution in which the prisoner is confined, upon the request of the division of parole and community services, shall provide to the division for inclusion in the notice sent to the court under this division an institutional summary report on the prisoner's conduct in the institution and in any institution from which the prisoner may have been transferred. The institutional summary report shall cover the prisoner's participation in school, vocational training, work, treatment, and other rehabilitative activities and any disciplinary action taken against the prisoner. If the court disapproves of the transfer of the prisoner to transitional control, the court shall notify the division of the disapproval within thirty days after receipt of the notice. If the court timely disapproves the transfer of the prisoner to transitional control, the division shall not proceed with the transfer. If the court does not timely disapprove the transfer of the prisoner to transitional control, the division may transfer the prisoner to transitional control.
(3)(a) If the victim of an offense for which a prisoner was sentenced to a prison term or term of imprisonment has requested notification under section 2930.16 of the Revised Code and has provided the department of rehabilitation and correction with the victim's name and address or if division (A)(3)(b) of this section applies, the division of parole and community services, at least sixty days prior to transferring the prisoner to transitional control pursuant to this section, shall notify the victim of the pendency of the transfer and of the victim's right to submit a statement to the division regarding the impact of the transfer of the prisoner to transitional control. If the victim subsequently submits a statement of that nature to the division, the division shall consider the statement in deciding whether to transfer the prisoner to transitional control.
(b) If a prisoner is incarcerated for the commission of aggravated murder, murder, or an offense of violence that is a felony of the first, second, or third degree or under a sentence of life imprisonment, except as otherwise provided in this division, the notice described in division (A)(3)(a) of this section shall be given regardless of whether the victim has requested the notification. The notice described in division (A)(3)(a) of this section shall not be given under this division to a victim if the victim has requested pursuant to division (B)(2) of section 2930.03 of the Revised Code that the victim not be provided the notice. If notice is to be provided to a victim under this division, the authority may give the notice by any reasonable means, including regular mail, telephone, and electronic mail, in accordance with division (D)(1) of section 2930.16 of the Revised Code. If the notice is based on an offense committed prior to March 22, 2013, the notice also shall include the opt-out information described in division (D)(1) of section 2930.16 of the Revised Code. The authority, in accordance with division (D)(2) of section 2930.16 of the Revised Code, shall keep a record of all attempts to provide the notice, and of all notices provided, under this division.
Division (A)(3)(b) of this section, and the notice-related provisions of divisions (E)(2) and (K) of section 2929.20, division (D)(1) of section 2930.16, division (H) of section 2967.12, division (E)(1)(b) of section 2967.19, division (D)(1) of section 2967.28, and division (A)(2) of section 5149.101 of the Revised Code enacted in the act in which division (A)(3)(b) of this section was enacted, shall be known as "Roberta's Law."
(4) The department of rehabilitation and correction, at least sixty days prior to transferring a prisoner to transitional control pursuant to this section, shall post on the database it maintains pursuant to section 5120.66 of the Revised Code the prisoner's name and all of the information specified in division (A)(1)(c)(iv) of that section. In addition to and independent of the right of a victim to submit a statement as described in division (A)(3) of this section or to otherwise make a statement and in addition to and independent of any other right or duty of a person to present information or make a statement, any person may send to the division of parole and community services at any time prior to the division's transfer of the prisoner to transitional control a written statement regarding the transfer of the prisoner to transitional control. In addition to the information, reports, and statements it considers under divisions (A)(2) and (3) of this section or that it otherwise considers, the division shall consider each statement submitted in accordance with this division in deciding whether to transfer the prisoner to transitional control.
(B) Each prisoner transferred to transitional control under this section shall be confined in the manner described in division (A) of this section during any period of time that the prisoner is not actually working at the prisoner's approved employment, engaged in a vocational training or another educational program, engaged in another program designated by the director, or engaged in other activities approved by the department.
(C) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall adopt rules for transferring eligible prisoners to transitional control, supervising and confining prisoners so transferred, administering the transitional control program in accordance with this section, and using the moneys deposited into the transitional control fund established under division (E) of this section.
(D) The department of rehabilitation and correction may adopt rules for the issuance of passes for the limited purposes described in this division to prisoners who are transferred to transitional control under this section. If the department adopts rules of that nature, the rules shall govern the granting of the passes and shall provide for the supervision of prisoners who are temporarily released pursuant to one of those passes. Upon the adoption of rules under this division, the department may issue passes to prisoners who are transferred to transitional control status under this section in accordance with the rules and the provisions of this division. All passes issued under this division shall be for a maximum of forty-eight hours and may be issued only for the following purposes:
(1) To visit a relative in imminent danger of death;
(2) To have a private viewing of the body of a deceased relative;
(3) To visit with family;
(4) To otherwise aid in the rehabilitation of the prisoner.
(E) The division of parole and community services may require a prisoner who is transferred to transitional control to pay to the division the reasonable expenses incurred by the division in supervising or confining the prisoner while under transitional control. Inability to pay those reasonable expenses shall not be grounds for refusing to transfer an otherwise eligible prisoner to transitional control. Amounts received by the division of parole and community services under this division shall be deposited into the transitional control fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury and which hereby replaces and succeeds the furlough services fund that formerly existed in the state treasury. All moneys that remain in the furlough services fund on March 17, 1998, shall be transferred on that date to the transitional control fund. The transitional control fund shall be used solely to pay costs related to the operation of the transitional control program established under this section. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code for the use of the fund.
(F) A prisoner who violates any rule established by the department of rehabilitation and correction under division (A), (C), or (D) of this section may be transferred to a state correctional institution pursuant to rules adopted under division (A), (C), or (D) of this section, but the prisoner shall receive credit towards completing the prisoner's sentence for the time spent under transitional control.
If a prisoner is transferred to transitional control under this section, upon successful completion of the period of transitional control, the prisoner may be released on parole or under post-release control pursuant to section 2967.13 or 2967.28 of the Revised Code and rules adopted by the department of rehabilitation and correction. If the prisoner is released under post-release control, the duration of the post-release control, the type of post-release control sanctions that may be imposed, the enforcement of the sanctions, and the treatment of prisoners who violate any sanction applicable to the prisoner are governed by section 2967.28 of the Revised Code.
(G) As used in this section:
(1) "Alcoholic or drug addicted offender" means a prisoner who was convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony, who was sentenced to a prison term or term of imprisonment for the offense, and whose alcoholism or drug addiction, as determined by the department of rehabilitation and correction, was a factor leading to that offense.
(2) "Alcoholism" and "drug addiction" have the same meanings as in section 5119.01 of the Revised Code.
(3) "Secure alcohol and drug addiction treatment program" means an alcohol and drug addiction treatment program established under section 5119.16 of the Revised Code that is a residential program and that is a secure facility.
Sec. 5119.16.  (A) The department of mental health and addiction services shall establish two or three alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs to serve rural and other underserved regions of this state with high rates of alcoholism or drug addiction. The department may contract with one or more persons to operate the programs on the department's behalf.
If an alcohol and drug addiction treatment program established under this section is a residential program, the program may accept offenders sentenced to it pursuant to section 2929.17 or 2929.27 of the Revised Code and, if it is a residential program that is a secure facility, it may accept offenders sentenced to it pursuant to section 2929.16 or 2929.26 of the Revised Code or referred to it under transitional control pursuant to section 2967.26 of the Revised Code. A program established under this section shall not accept offenders sentenced to it pursuant to section 2929.17 or 2929.27 of the Revised Code unless it is a residential program and shall not accept offenders sentenced to it pursuant to section 2929.16 or 2929.26 of the Revised Code or referred to it under transitional control pursuant to section 2967.26 of the Revised Code unless it is a residential program that is a secure facility.
(B)(1) An individual who is sentenced pursuant to section 2929.17 or 2929.27 of the Revised Code to an alcohol and drug addiction treatment program that is a residential program shall be enrolled in the program. An individual who is sentenced pursuant to section 2929.16 or 2929.26 of the Revised Code to an alcohol and drug addiction treatment program that is a residential program that is a secure facility or who is referred pursuant to section 2967.26 of the Revised Code to the program under transitional control shall be enrolled in the program.
(2) An individual who is not in any category described in division (B)(1) of this section, who suffers from alcoholism or drug addiction, who resides in a region served by one of the alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs established under this section, and who meets all other eligibility requirements established in rules adopted under division (F) of this section may enroll in the program.
(3) Each individual enrolled in one of the programs established under this section in any circumstance described in division (B)(1) or (2) of this section shall undergo an assessment to determine what type of treatment covered by the program the individual needs for alcoholism or drug addiction.
(C) Each individual enrolled in an alcohol and drug addiction treatment program established under this section in any circumstance described in division (B)(1) or (2) of this section may receive under the program the following treatments for alcoholism or drug addiction as determined appropriate for the individual pursuant to the assessment conducted under division (B)(3) of this section:
(1) Counseling;
(2) Medication-assisted treatment, including long-acting antagonist and partial agonist medications approved by the United States food and drug administration for treatment of alcoholism or drug addiction;
(3) Abstinence-based treatment;
(4) Accommodations, supervision, and personal care services provided by a residential facility licensed under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code.
(D) No alcohol and drug addiction treatment program established under this section shall cover methadone treatment.
(E) When an individual enrolled in an alcohol and drug addiction treatment program established under this section in a circumstance described in division (B)(2) of this section completes the treatment the individual receives under the program and when an individual enrolled in such a program in a circumstance described in division (B)(1) of this section completes the treatment the individual receives under the program and serves the sentence to the program or the period of transitional control in the program imposed on the individual, the department or person under contract with the department to operate the program shall offer to refer the individual to the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services that serves the county in which the individual resides or a community addiction services provider.
(F) The director of mental health and addiction services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement this section. The rules establishing eligibility requirements for the alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs established under this section shall not exclude an individual on the basis that the individual has served the entire sentence for an offense for which the individual has been convicted or pleaded guilty, regardless of whether the individual is under any type of supervised release.
(G) Not later than June 30, 2016, and the last day of June of each year thereafter, the department shall complete a report about the alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs established under this section. The department shall submit the reports to the governor, speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, and president and minority leader of the senate. Each report shall include all of the following:
(1) The number of individuals who were enrolled in the programs during the period the report covers;
(2) The ages, races, and diagnoses of the individuals;
(3) The amount of time the individuals were enrolled in the programs as of the date the report is prepared;
(4) The progress that the individuals made in the programs;
(5) The locations where the individuals received the services provided under the programs;
(6) Information about the programs' successes;
(7) Recommendations for any improvements in the programs;
(8) Other information the department determines appropriate.
Sec. 5120.037. (A) As used in this section, "alcoholism" and "drug addiction" have the same meanings as in section 5119.01 of the Revised Code.
(B) Each state correctional institution shall offer treatment programs to prisoners who suffer from alcoholism or drug addiction.
(C) Each individual enrolled in a program established under this section shall undergo an assessment to determine what type of treatment covered by the program the individual needs for alcoholism or drug addiction.
(D) Each individual enrolled in a program established under this section may receive under the program the following treatments as determined appropriate for the individual pursuant to the assessment conducted under division (C) of this section:
(1) Counseling;
(2) Medication-assisted treatment, including long-acting antagonist and partial agonist medications approved by the United States food and drug administration for treatment of alcoholism or drug addiction;
(3) Abstinence-based treatment.
(E) No program established under this section shall cover methadone treatment.
(F) Not later than June 30, 2016, and the last day of June of each year thereafter, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall complete a report about the treatment programs established under this section. The department shall submit the reports to the governor, speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, and president and minority leader of the senate. Each report shall include all of the following:
(1) The number of individuals who were enrolled in the programs during the period the report covers;
(2) The ages, races, and diagnoses of the individuals;
(3) The amount of time the individuals were enrolled in the programs as of the date the report is prepared;
(4) The progress that the individuals made in the programs;
(5) The locations where the individuals received the services provided under the programs;
(6) Information about the programs' successes;
(7) Recommendations for any improvements in the programs;
(8) Other information the department determines appropriate.
Section 2. That existing sections 2929.12, 2929.16, 2929.17, 2929.22, 2929.26, 2929.27, and 2967.26 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. Prior to providing treatment to individuals enrolled in the alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs authorized under section 5119.16 of the Revised Code, the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services shall seek Controlling Board approval of the level of funding the Department may expend on the programs.
Section 4. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shall seek Controlling Board approval to authorize the Director of Budget and Management to transfer up to $1,500,000 cash in fiscal year 2015 from the Local Government Innovation Fund (Fund 5KN0) to a fund in the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, as determined by the Director of Budget and Management.
The transferred amount is hereby appropriated to an appropriation item in the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, as determined by the Director of Budget and Management. The transferred amount shall be used to implement treatment for prisoners under section 5120.037 of the Revised Code.
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