---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increase penalty-fleeing police; regards motor vehicle pursuit"
description: "Increase penalty-fleeing police; regards motor vehicle pursuit"
jurisdiction: "us/states/oh"
legislature: "Ohio General Assembly"
session: "135"
identifier: "HB 56"
citation: "Ohio HB 56 (135)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes", "Corrections", "and Law Enforcement", "Crimes", "Corrections", "and Law Enforcement", "Drivers' Licenses", "Law Enforcement", "Motor Vehicles", "Public Safety", "Traffic Offenses", "Transportation", "Transportation", "Transportation", "Transportation", "Transportation", "Vehicle Registration and Titling"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrea White", "Phil Plummer"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 10
vote_count: 16
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2024-10-24T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d20a15f-83ea-4016-aa12-89e3104fe1ce"
source_url: "https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_135//bills/hb56/"
source_hash: "e4f8e68efba86e0efe383ee507db012760df328035c27b18281e146f044dd8b4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-oh"]
---

# Ohio HB 56 (135) — Increase penalty-fleeing police; regards motor vehicle pursuit

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_135/bills/hb56/IN/00/hb56_00_IN?format=pdf)
2. **As Passed by the House** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_135/bills/hb56/PH/02/hb56_02_PH?format=pdf)
3. **As Passed by the Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_135/bills/hb56/PS/04/hb56_04_PS?format=pdf)
4. **As Reported by the House Criminal Justice Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_135/bills/hb56/RH/01/hb56_01_RH?format=pdf)
5. **As Reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_135/bills/hb56/RS/03/hb56_03_RS?format=pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/solarapi/v1/general_assembly_135/bills/hb56/EN/05/hb56_05_EN?format=pdf)

## Votes

- Pass — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported - Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **84–6** (pass) · lower
- Reported - Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **84–6** (pass) · lower
- Reported - Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Concurred in Senate amendments — **91–1** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurred in Senate amendments — **91–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported - Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurred in Senate amendments — **91–1** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **84–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andrea White — primary (person)
- Phil Plummer — primary (person)
- Adam Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Adam Mathews — cosponsor (person)
- Al Cutrona — cosponsor (person)
- Al Landis — cosponsor (person)
- Andrew Brenner — cosponsor (person)
- Bernard Willis — cosponsor (person)
- Bill Seitz — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Hackett — cosponsor (person)
- Bob Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Brett Hillyer — cosponsor (person)
- Cecil Thomas, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Abrams — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel Troy — cosponsor (person)
- Dave Dobos — cosponsor (person)
- Dick Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Don Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Gail Pavliga — cosponsor (person)
- Hearcel Craig — cosponsor (person)
- Ismail Mohamed — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Schmidt — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff LaRe — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Cirino — cosponsor (person)
- Jon Cross — cosponsor (person)
- Josh Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Miller, K. — cosponsor (person)
- Marilyn John — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Romanchuk — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Dolan — cosponsor (person)
- Monica Robb Blasdel — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan Manning — cosponsor (person)
- Nick Santucci — cosponsor (person)
- Nickie Antonio — cosponsor (person)
- Paula Hicks-Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Dell'Aquila — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Creech — cosponsor (person)
- Sara Carruthers — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Oelslager — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Brennan — cosponsor (person)
- Stephanie Kunze — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Thaddeus Claggett — cosponsor (person)
- Theresa Gavarone — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Patton — cosponsor (person)
- Tim Schaffer — cosponsor (person)
- Tom Young, T. — cosponsor (person)
- Tracy Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- William DeMora — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-02-16** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-02-21** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-10-18** Reported
- **2023-12-14** Passed `passage`
- **2023-12-19** Introduced `reading-1`
- **2024-01-24** Refer to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** Passed `passage`
- **2024-06-26** Reported
- **2024-06-27** Concurred in Senate amendments `amendment-passage`
- **2024-10-24T04:00:00+00:00** Effective 10/24/24 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d20a15f-83ea-4016-aa12-89e3104fe1ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Ohio legislature records).