To every member of the 136th General Assembly
What you can introduce. What you can co-sponsor. What you can demand the next hearing answer.
Introduce or co-sponsor the standalone bills
Each amendment in this package is structured to function as either a floor amendment on SB174 or as standalone legislation. The lowest-friction first moves are:
- Mandatory perjury referral (§ 2921.11(G)) — drafted as the "Family Court Integrity Act." Activates an existing F3 classification.
- Survivor Rights Card (new § 2935.033) — single-page card, signature on receipt or refusal. No fiscal note worth opposing.
- Marsy's Law civil remedy (§ 2930.19(C)–(F)) — activates rights 83% of Ohio voters approved in 2017.
File a floor amendment when SB174 reaches the House
Amendment 3 of the Accountability Package — replacing "complete discretion" with "sound discretion subject to statutory findings" — is drafted as a floor amendment. It addresses the only structural objection raised in Senate Judiciary testimony that the Ohio Bar did not refute.
Request a fiscal note and statistical baseline
Request that LSC produce a fiscal note assuming compliance — i.e., what the state would spend if the existing felony statutes were actually enforced. Request that the Office of Criminal Justice Services publish:
- Annual DV-call counts and the rate of arrest;
- Perjury referrals from DR courts to county prosecutors;
- Custodial-interference filings and outcomes by county.
The baseline is the rebuttal.
Demand the next committee hearing answer three questions
- What is the agency consequence when a DV non-arrest report is never transmitted to the prosecutor?
- What is the prosecutorial consequence when a victim conference is refused?
- What is the judicial consequence when probable cause of perjury in a custody proceeding is never referred?
If the answer to each is "none," the amendments in this package are the answer.
Frame the public messaging precisely
These amendments do not create new crimes. They do not expand prosecutorial power. They require documentation, referral, and judicial explanation — three things every Ohioan already assumes are happening. The opposition argument against any of them reduces, on examination, to defending concealment.