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H. B. No. 635 As IntroducedAs Introduced
130th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2013-2014 |
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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;
(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;
(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:
(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:
(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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