Senate Bill 17

To amend sections 1547.11, 1547.111, 1547.99, 2929.18, 2929.28, 2945.75, 4503.231, 4503.233, 4510.13, 4510.43, 4511.181, 4511.19, 4511.191, 4511.192, and 4511.203 and to enact sections 4503.235, 4510.45, 4510.46, 4511.198, and 5502.10 of the Revised Code to increase certain penalties for repeat OVI offenders; to authorize a court to issue a vehicle immobilization waiver order in favor of specified family members of an OVI offender; to specify that wrongful entrustment of a motor vehicle applies when a vehicle is subject to a vehicle immobilization order and a subject person is prohibited from operating the vehicle; to require a person with two prior applicable convictions to submit upon request to a chemical test under the vehicle or watercraft Implied Consent Law; to require the consideration of certain prior convictions in determining the length of a refusal suspension under the vehicle Implied Consent Law; to expand the list of offenses that are "equivalent offenses" for certain vehicle or watercraft OVI purposes; to clarify the application of a qualified immunity to persons who withdraw blood at the request of law enforcement personnel pursuant to the Implied Consent Law; to expand the circumstances when evidence on the concentration of alcohol or drugs of abuse in a bodily substance may be admitted in a watercraft OVI case; to require the Department of Public Safety to establish a state registry of Ohio's habitual OVI/OMWI offenders and an Internet database, both of which are public records, containing information about persons who on or after the act's effective date receive their fifth or subsequent Ohio conviction within the preceding twenty years for vehicle OVI or watercraft OMWI; to revise the criteria for certification of ignition interlock devices; to authorize a court to impose as a financial sanction reimbursement of the cost of immobilizing and disabling devices required for limited driving privileges; and to create the indigent drivers interlock and alcohol monitoring fund.