· November 19, 2013

Legislation: Ohio House Bill 309 – Domestic Violence Fees

Bill: House Bill 309 (full text, official bill analysis) Title: Domestic Violence Fees Sponsors: Representatives Pelanda, Antonio Co-Sponsors: Representatives Ruhl, Barborak, Gonzales, Ramos, Sheehy, Maag, Cera, Heard, Lundy, Hagan, R., Fedor, Phillips, Williams, Ashford, Grossman, Celebrezze, Reece, Scherer, O’Brien Bill Analysis:  The bill ensures that no fee,deposit or money is charged for charged for the modification, enforcement, dismissal, or withdrawal of a domestic violence, anti-stalking, sexually oriented offense, or other type of protection order or consent agreement. Status: Introduced in the House October 22, 2013 and received a hearing in the House. The bill passed the House on February 12, 2014. Passed in the Senate on June 4, 2014. Signed by the Governor on June 17, 2014. Votes:  

House 2/12/2014
Yea (Pro-Women): 92
Adams, J.	Adams, R.	Amstutz	Anielski
Antonio	Ashford	Baker	Barborak
Barnes	Beck	Becker	Bishoff
Blair	Blessing	Boose	Boyce
Brenner	Brown	Buchy	Budish
Burkley	Butler	Carney	Celebrezze
Cera	Clyde	Conditt	Curtin
Damschroder	DeVitis	Derickson	Dovilla
Driehaus	Duffey	Fedor	Foley
Gerberry	Gonzales	Green	Hackett
Hagan, C.	Hagan, R.	Hall	Hayes
Heard	Henne	Hill	Hood
Hottinger	Huffman	Johnson	Kunze
Landis	Letson	Lundy	Lynch
Maag	Mallory	McClain	McGregor
Milkovich	Patterson	Pelanda	Perales
Phillips	Pillich	Ramos	Redfern
Reece	Retherford	Roegner	Rogers
Romanchuk	Ruhl	Scherer	Schuring
Shears	Sheehy	Slesnick	Smith
Sprague	Stautberg	Stebelton	Stinziano
Strahorn	Sykes	Thompson	Wachtmann
Williams	Winburn	Young	Batchelder

Senate 6/17/2014
Yeas (Pro-Women): 32
Bacon	Balderson	Beagle	Brown
Burke	Cafaro	Coley	Eklund
Gardner	Gentile	Hite	Hughes
Jones	Jordan	Kearney	LaRose
Lehner	Manning	Oelslager	Patton
Peterson	Sawyer	Schaffer	Schiavoni
Seitz	Smith	Taveres	Turner
Uecker	Widender	Faber