OH HB 54 Bill Summary

Bill summary copy and pasted from the Ohio State Legislative Services web site.
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/analysis.cfm?ID=129_HB_54&ACT=As Reported by House Committee&hf=analyses129/h0054-rh-129.htm

- Eliminates the prohibition against persons with certain misdemeanor drug offense convictions acquiring or possessing firearms or dangerous ordnance.

- Expands the categories of persons who may apply for relief from a disability against acquiring, having, carrying, or using any firearm so that any person who is prohibited from acquiring, having, carrying, or using firearms may apply for relief.

- Specifies that a court's grant of relief to a person who is prohibited from acquiring, having, carrying, or using firearms restores the person to all civil firearms rights to the full extent enjoyed by any citizen, subject to certain existing conditions described in the next dot point.

- Regarding the conditions that apply to a relief from disability described in the preceding dot point, eliminates the provision that specifies that the relief does not apply to dangerous ordnance, conforms one condition to the changes described in the preceding dot points, and retains the other conditions.

- Specifies that: (1) it is the intent of the General Assembly in making the changes described above to apply the changes retroactively to any restoration of rights granted previously to any person under any version of the statute providing for the relief from disability, and (2) the General Assembly is explicitly making those changes to clarify that relief from a weapons disability granted under that statute restores a person's civil firearm rights to such an extent that the uniform federal ban on possessing any firearms at all does not apply to that person, in correlation with a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court interpreting a statute related to the federal ban.