Republican state senator Jimmy Stewart says those laws are being broken on a widespread basis, but there's nothing, right now, that local authorities can do about it.
Meantime, an advocate for the Latino community in Ohio says he will fight the bill.
Rubén Herrera says he hears stories everyday about how Latinos who live in Ohio are unjustly harassed, and he fears that giving local officers more authority over federal immigration issues will simply make matters worse.