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   Policy Alert - Ohio Senate Committee Hearing on SB 35 - Next TUESDAY ShareToday at 10:03am Special Policy Alert:
   
   Senate Committee Hearing on SB 35 Will Take Place Next Week,
   
   Sponsor-Only Testimony
   
   SB 35 - "Local Law Enforcement Immigration Authority"
   
   Senate Bill 35 (language and link below), which would mandate that the Ohio Attorney General pursue a memorandum of agreement with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to deputize Ohio law enforcement officers as immigration enforcement officers is scheduled for a committee hearing. The hearing information is as follows:
   
   Tuesday, March 3, 2009
   10:30 AM - (indefinite)
   South Hearing Room,
   Senate Building
   Columbus, Ohio 43215
   
   The hearing is SPONSOR TESTIMONY ONLY, which means that only the bill sponsor, Senator Jimmy Stewart (R - Albany), will testify before the committee regarding the bill.
   
   If you can make it to the hearing, great. But if you believe that the times you will be able to make it to Columbus are limited, your presence is not as critical as it may become in the future.
   
   The bill language below is also available at: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=128_SB_35
   
   Senator Stewart
   Cosponsor: Senator Seitz
   
   SB 35, A BILL
   
   To enact section 109.45 of the Revised Code to direct the Attorney General to pursue a memorandum of agreement that permits the enforcement of federal immigration laws in this state by law enforcement officers.
   
   BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO :
   
   Section 1. That section 109.45 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
   
   Sec. 109.45. (A) The attorney general shall pursue a memorandum of agreement under the federal "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996," 110 Stat. 3009, 8 U.S.C. 1357(g), between the state of Ohio and the United States attorney general or the appropriate federal agency the United States attorney general designates, to permit the enforcement in this state of federal immigration laws, both criminal and civil, including the apprehension, detention, and investigation of illegal aliens located in this state.
   
   (B) Any memorandum of agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall be signed on behalf of this state by the Ohio attorney general or as the memorandum otherwise requires.
   
   (C)(1) The attorney general shall designate appropriate law enforcement officers to be trained in the enforcement of the relevant federal immigration laws as the memorandum of agreeement specifies. Any law enforcement officer the attorney general designates to receive training shall be trained as the memorandum specifies.
   
   (2) A law enforcement officer who is certified as trained in accordance with the memorandum of agreement shall enforce the federal immigration laws the memorandum specifies while performing within the scope of that law enforcement officer's authorized duties.
   
   (3) No law enforcement officer shall enforce the federal immigration laws specified in the memorandum of agreement unless that law enforcement officer has received the training this section requires.
   
   
   
   
   

   Posted by Esteban Ortiz on 02/27/2009 @ 09:25AM PT