Ohio H.B. 11, 128^th General Assembly – Sex Offender Residency
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_HB_11

• Requires any person who is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification (SORN) Law (instead of a person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a sexually oriented or child-victim oriented offense) to comply with the SORN Law's residency restrictions.
• Expands the restrictions on residence that the bill applies to persons required to register under the SORN Law to also prohibit persons required to register under the SORN Law from residing within 1,000 feet of a recreation center, playground, or other place where it is reasonable to expect children to frequent or linger.
• Requires a court to order any person who violates the SORN Law residency restrictions to vacate the person's residence or residential premises and allows the court to punish a failure to vacate within 30 days after being served with the order to vacate as contempt of court.
• Makes a violation of the SORN Law residency restrictions a misdemeanor of the first degree.

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Ohio H.B. 13, 128^th General Assembly – Sex Offender Proximity to Schools
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_HB_13

• Prohibits an adult tier III sex offender/child-victim offender from knowingly being present on school premises or preschool or child day-care center premises if the offender has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a specified offense against a victim under the age of 16 or a specified violation of gross sexual imposition against a child under 12 years of age.
• Provides that a violation of the prohibition described in the previous dot point is a felony of the fifth degree.

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