Require names submitted by BMV be included on the jury list

hb964_00_IN

As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
H. B. No. 964

2025-2026

Representatives Sims, Thomas, C.

To
amend
section

2313.06
of the Revised Code
to
require names submitted by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to be
included on the annual jury source list.

BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section
1.
That

section

2313.06
of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:

Sec.
2313.06.
(A)
The commissioners of jurors shall compile a new and complete jury
source list annually in accordance with both of the following:

(1)(a)
Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(1)(b) of this section,
on a date ordered by the court of common pleas, the board of
elections for each county shall compile and file with the
commissioners of jurors of the county a certified, current list
containing the names, addresses, and dates of birth of all the
electors of the county shown on the registration lists for the most
recent general election. The board of elections shall remove from the
list of all electors those electors who have failed to vote at least
once during the preceding four consecutive years. The voter list so
compiled shall be the current voter list.

(b)
The current voter list shall not include any elector who has a
confidential voter registration record, as described in section
111.44 of the Revised Code.

(2)(a)
Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2)(b) of this section,
on a date ordered by the court of common pleas of any particular
county, the registrar of motor vehicles shall compile and file with
the commissioners of jurors of each county a certified, current list
containing the names, addresses, dates of birth, and citizenship of
all residents of the particular county who have been issued, on or
after January 1, 1984, a commercial driver's license pursuant to
Chapter 4506. or a driver's license or identification card pursuant
to Chapter 4507. of the Revised Code that is valid and current on the
date of the compilation of the list, who are or will be eighteen
years of age or older as of the day of the general election of the
year in which the list is filed, and who, regardless of whether they
actually are registered to vote, would be electors if they were
registered to vote.

(b)
The list compiled under division (A)(2)(a) of this section shall not
include any person who has provided to the registrar of motor
vehicles an address designated by the secretary of state to use as
the person's address because the person is a program participant in
the address confidentiality program described in sections 111.41 to
111.99 of the Revised Code.

(B)
In compiling the annual jury source list, the commissioners, unless
otherwise ordered by the court of common pleas, shall include all
names from the current voter list and
may
include
all
names
for

from

the
certified, current list of
all

names
provided
to
the commissioners from
by

the
registrar of motor vehicles; provided that, upon merging the lists,
any duplication shall be eliminated. The commissioners shall exclude
from the annual jury source list the names of any jurors permanently
excused under section 2313.14 of the Revised Code and the names of
any jurors discharged under section 2313.21 of the Revised Code.

(C)
The annual jury source list so compiled shall be certified by the
commissioners and filed in their office before the beginning of each
jury year. The names shall be entered in a suitable book or record,
to be known as the "annual jury source list," and shall be
arranged alphabetically. With each name shall be recorded the place
of residence, date of birth, and citizenship of the person as nearly
as they can be ascertained. A duplicate of the list shall be
certified by the commissioners and filed in the office of the clerk
of the court of common pleas.

(D)(1)
Except as otherwise provided in division (D)(2) of this section, the
commissioners may, by order of the court, supplement the annual jury
source list with the names of persons who, after the list has been
filed, are discovered to be qualified to serve as jurors. The
commissioners shall certify any supplemental jury source list and
file it in their office and in the office of the clerk of the court
of common pleas. Any supplemental jury source list shall be added to
the annual jury source list, and the supplemented annual jury source
list shall be used for the rest of the jury year.

(2)
A supplemental jury source list shall not include any person who
appears to the commissioners to be a program participant in the
address confidentiality program described in sections 111.41 to
111.99 of the Revised Code.

Section
2.
That
existing
section

2313.06
of the Revised Code
is

hereby
repealed.