House Bill 446
Revises certain traffic offenses
To amend sections 2929.14, 4506.01, 4510.04, and 4511.21 of the Revised Code to specify that the prison term that may be imposed for a third degree felony operating a vehicle while intoxicated ("OVI") offense is a definite period of twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty, thirty-six, forty-two, forty-eight, fifty-four, or sixty months, to add "harmful intoxicant" to the definition of "drug of abuse" for the purposes of commercial driver's licensing law, to allow a person to assert the existing affirmative defense of driving in an emergency with regard to a prosecution for driving under a suspended driver's license under specified laws, and to specify that certain enhanced penalties for speeding violations apply regardless of whether the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to speeding.
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Subjects
Committees
House Judiciary Committee
Senate Transportation, Commerce and Labor Committee
Primary Sponsors
Nathan H. Manning
Cosponsors
Representatives
Marlene Anielski
Steven Arndt
Nan A. Baker
Terry Boose
Tim W. Brown
Margaret Conditt
Timothy Derickson
Michael D. Dovilla
Stephen D. Hambley
J. Kyle Koehler
Jeffrey A. McClain
Rick Perales
Jeffery S. Rezabek
John M. Rogers
Tim Schaffer
Gary Scherer
Martin J. Sweeney
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