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SB 291: Revise community control sanctions for felonies and misdemeanors
What SB 291 does, verified March 11, 2026
This bill amends sections of the Ohio Revised Code to change the maximum periods of community control sanctions authorized for felonies and misdemeanors. It also modifies the confinement sanctions for technical violations of community control sanction conditions. The amendments affect the prosecution of controlled substance offenses, allowing certain individuals, such as licensed health professionals and researchers, to be exempt from prosecution under certain circumstances. The bill repeals existing sections of the code and replaces them with revised versions, harmonizing the amendments with existing law.
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| Oct. 15, 2025 | Referred to committee: Judiciary |
| Oct. 14, 2025 | Introduced |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, November 14, 2025 · 526 words
As Introduced
136th General Assembly
Regular Session
S. B. No. 291
2025-2026
Senators Manning, Reynolds
To amend sections 2925.11, 2929.15, 2929.20, 2929.25, 2951.02, and 2951.07 of the Revised Code to change the maximum periods of community control sanctions authorized for felonies and misdemeanors and to modify the confinement sanctions authorized for a technical violation of community control sanction conditions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1.
That sections 2925.11, 2929.15, 2929.20, 2929.25, 2951.02, and 2951.07 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2925.11.
(A)
No person shall knowingly obtain, possess, or use a controlled substance or a controlled substance analog.
(B)
(1)
This section does not apply to any of the following:
(a)
Manufacturers, licensed health professionals authorized to prescribe drugs, pharmacists, owners of pharmacies, and other persons whose conduct was in accordance with Chapters 3719., 4715., 4723., 4729., 4730., 4731., 4741., and 4772. of the Revised Code;
(b)
If the offense involves an anabolic steroid, any person who is conducting or participating in a research project involving the use of an anabolic steroid if the project has been approved by the United States food and drug administration;
(c)
Any person who sells, offers for sale, prescribes, dispenses, or administers for livestock or other nonhuman species an anabolic steroid that is expressly intended for administration through implants to livestock or other nonhuman species and approved for that purpose under the "Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act," 52 Stat. 1040 (1938), 21 U.S.C.A. 301, as amended, and is sold, offered for sale, prescribed, dispensed, or administered for that purpose in accordance with that act;
(d)
Any person who obtained the controlled substance pursuant to a prescription issued by a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs if the prescription was issued for a legitimate medical purpose and not altered, forged, or obtained through deception or commission of a theft offense.
(C)
Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of one of the following:
Section 2.
That existing sections 2925.11, 2929.15, 2929.20, 2929.25, 2951.02, and 2951.07 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3.
The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the following sections, presented in this act as composites of the sections as amended by the acts indicated, are the resulting versions of the sections in effect prior to the effective date of the sections as presented in this act:
Section 2929.15 of the Revised Code as amended by H.B. 110, H.B. 281, and S.B. 288, all of the 134th General Assembly.
Section 2925.11 of the Revised Code as amended by both H.B. 29 and S.B. 95 of the 135th General Assembly.
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