Ohio Legislation

Amended Substitute HB12 passes Senate, moves to conference committee

by Chad D. Baus
3:10pm Wednesday, June 18, 2003
The Ohio Senate followed up yesterday's surprise committee passage of Sub. HB12 with a floor vote today. House Bill 12 passed with a 22-10 Senate vote. The first amendment was proposed by Sen. Ray Miller (D, Columbus). While addressing his amendment, Miller offered the typical warnings of blood in the streets, and mentioned anecdotal stories about children who are dying in Columbus, and pointed...

Senate Committee passes Amended HB12 in surprise move

12:59pm Tuesday, June 17, 2003
In a surprise move, the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice today passed an amended House Bill 12 today on a 8-1 vote (vehemently anti-CCW Senator Goodman, was the lone dissenter) Initially, it was reported that the Ohio Senate planned to follow up with an almost immediate floor vote today. That appears now not to be the case. The amended bill is, in almost all respects, identical...

HB12: 7th Senate hearing on HB12 scheduled for June 17

4:41pm Friday, June 13, 2003
House Bill 12 has been added to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice's agenda for invited testimony, possible amendments, and a possible vote out of committee on Tuesday, June 17 at 11:00 a.m. in Room 110, Second Floor, Senate Building. If necessary, the hearing may continue after session in the Senate Finance Hearing Room. The purpose for Tuesday's hearing for HB12 is, essentially...

Letter to the Editor: Protect right of self-defense

12:44pm Friday, June 13, 2003
June 13, 2003 To the editor of the Mansfield News Journal: Regarding the May 26 article, "Bill limits backyard guns," which refers to House Bill 180. If you are a law-abiding gun owner, you need to call your state representatives and tell them to vote this bill down. This bill would do more damage to your gun rights than the Clinton Gun Ban and the Brady Bill. House Bill 180 would allow township...

State budget battles and HB12

7:23am Monday, June 02, 2003
The Ohio General Assembly's struggle to cover a gap between state spending and tax revenue is nearing an end for this fiscal year. The issue worked to delay HB12 slightly in the House earlier this year, and it looks to be having a similar effect in the Senate. No meetings are scheduled on HB12 this week, as Senators and staffs are largely focused on finalizing a budget bill. UPDATE! The Senate...

Letter to Senators from pro-HB12 police officer

8:58am Friday, May 30, 2003
An Ohio police officer and former Marine has copied us on a letter he submitted to the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice. In the letter, Officer Douglas debunks any notion that Ohioans may exercise their constitutional right to self-defense by carrying a firearm "openly", by informing Senators that he was trained in police academy to charge persons doing so with disorderly conduct or inciting...

FLASHBACK: Ohio can learn a lot by studying CCW successes (& mistakes) elsewhere

11:34am Thursday, May 29, 2003
As the Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice enters the final stretch of discussions on potential changes to HB12, we think it is important to keep the following in mind: Tennesseans made a lot of compromises to appease anti-gun pressures when creating their law in 1994. Only now, eight years later, are many of the major problems with Tennessee's CCW law being dealt with, and anti-self-...

''Gun panel'' working on substitute bill; Looking to vote in two weeks

9:27am Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Gongwer News Service - A Senate committee that has heard extensive testimony on a measure (HB 12) that would specifically permit gun owners to carry their weapons in a concealed fashion expects to have a substitute bill prepared for consideration next week and could call for a vote the following week, its chairman said Tuesday. Senator Steve Austria (R-Beavercreek), chair of the Senate Judiciary...

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