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.

Introduced by: Representative Tracy Maxwell Heard (D), District 26 and Representative Marian Harris (D), District 19
Co-Sponsors: Phillips, S. Williams, Newcomb, Mallory, DeBose, Murray, B. Williams, Okey, Luckie

This bill provides that any person required to register under Ohio’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law who establishes or occupies residential premises within 1,000 feet of any school premises, recreation center, playground, or other place where it is reasonable to expect children to frequent or linger is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and to require a court to order a violator to vacate the premises as part of any injunctive relief granted for the violation.

Date introduced: 2/17/09
Committee Assigned: Criminal Justice, Chair: Tyrone K. Yates (D)