BILLS OF INTEREST IN THE 127th GENERAL ASSEMBLY AS OF AUGUST, 2008
SENATE BILLS
SJR 1 EMINENT DOMAIN (Coughlin) Proposing to enact Sec. 19b of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to provide limits on the power of a public authority to take private property for a public use. Passed the House without the 60 votes needed. Measure failed.
SJR 2 PROPERTY TAXES (Coughlin) Proposing to amend Sec. 2a of Article XII and to enact Sec. 2b of Article XII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to limit increases in the taxable value of real property to two percent per year. Referred to Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development.
SJR 3 EMINENT DOMAIN (Coughlin) Proposing to enact Sec. 19b of Article 1 of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to provide limits on the power of a public authority to take private property for a public use. Referred to Senate State & Local Government & Veteran Affairs Committee.
SJR 7 ECONOMIC STIMULUS BOND PACKAGE (WAGONER M) Authorize issuance of general and other obligations of the state to pay costs relating to environmental and related conservation, preservation, and revitalization purposes. Referred to Senate Finance & Financial Institutions Committee.
SB 1 SCHOOL FUNDING (Padgett) To reserve this bill number for the governor's school funding reform plan. Referred to Senate Education.
SB 3 STATE PENSION RESTRICTIONS (Faber) To provide that the privilege of holding a position of honor, trust or profit that is forfeited by reason of conviction of a felony is not restored on completion of a prison term, period of community control sanctions or pardon or release by the Adult Parole Authority and to provide that the office holder will forfeit the portion of any state retirement benefit that is based on employer contributions. Am. & En. 145.56, 145.95, 742.47, 2967.16, 2967.17, 3307.41, 3309.66, 3309.95, and 5505.22, 45.572, 742.463, 2907.151, 3307.372, 3309.672, 5505.262. Signed by the Governor. Effective 5/13/2008.
SB 6 PERSONAL INFORMATION (Niehaus) To allow a consumer to place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report, to specify that Social Security numbers are confidential, to specify that certain personal information is not a public record, to require a public office to redact from a document that is otherwise a public record certain personal information, to require a public office to redact Social Security numbers and other confidential information from any public document that is made available online to the public through the Internet, to require the Office of Criminal Justice Services to make state funding grants available to local law enforcement agencies for enforcement of identity fraud laws, to require the attorney general to support local law enforcement agencies with the enforcement of identity fraud laws and to enact a special statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions and civil actions against identity fraud and to amend the version of section 149.43 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect September 29, 2007, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date. Am. & En. 109.941, 149.43, 149.45, 149.46, 1349.52, 2305.09 & 2901.13. Referred to House Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities Committee.
SB 7 EMINENT DOMAIN (Grendell) To formally state the General Assembly's intentions in its upcoming deliberations on reforming Ohio's laws regulating the exercise of eminent domain. Signed by the Governor. Effective 10/10/2007.
SB 16 SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS (Harris) To generally regulate sexually oriented businesses. En. 3768.01, 3768.02, and 3768.03. Became law without the Governor’s signature. Effective date 9/04/2007.
SB 17 OVI OFFENSES (Grendell) To increase certain penalties for repeat OVI offenders and to remove from the motor vehicle wrongful entrustment statute the requirement that the offender know or have reasonable cause to believe that the person to whom the offender provides a motor vehicle does not have a valid driver's license in order for a violation of that statute to occur. Am. & En. 4503.234, 4507.164, 4510.13, 4511.19, 4511.193, 4511.203 & 4511.198. Signed by the Governor. Effective 9/30/2008.
SB 24 JOB READY PROGRAM (Carey) To require the Director of Development to adopt rules regarding the annual competitive process for the Job Ready Site Program. The bill has been signed by the Governor. Effective 9/29/2007.
SB 32 ALTERNATIVE FUELS/BROWNFIELDS (Boccieri) To promote the production of alternative fuels, the application of clean coal energy generation methods, and the redevelopment of brownfield sites by granting tax incentives for those activities and by expediting the environmental permit approval process for the construction of certain facilities on brownfield sites. Am. & En. 122.16, 5733.01, 5733.98, 5747.32, 5747.98, 5751.01, 5751.98, 3745.15, 3745.16, 3745.17, 5733.58, 5747.71, 5751.54, and 5751.55. Referred to House Energy & Public Utilities Committee.
SB 43 EMS VOLUNTEERS (Carey) To modify the ambulance staffing and personnel certification requirements for emergency medical service organizations that use volunteers. Am. 4765.01, 4765.11, 4765.28, 4765.29, 4765.30, 4765.43, 4765.50, and 4765.99. Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Aging.
SB 50 MUNICIPAL TAX COLLECTIONS (Schaffer) To require municipal corporations with more than $100 million in annual income tax collections to provide a tax credit to nonresident taxpayers. En. 718.17. Referred to Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development.
SB 62 SCHOOL SPEED VIOLATIONS (Miller, R.) To double the fine for a speeding violation that occurs in a school zone during restricted hours. Am. 4511.21. Referred to Senate Highways and Transportation.
SB 83 SEWAGE RULES (Grendell) To require the Public Health Council to rescind rules related to household sewage treatment systems and reinstate the rules related to those systems that were in effect prior to January 1, 2007, to require the Council subsequently to adopt statutorily required rules related to those systems, and to declare an emergency. Referred to Senate Environment & Natural Resources.
SB 84 EMERGENCY AGENCIES (Schaffer) To specify an additional type of Emergency Management Agency for which a political subdivision may make an appropriation. Am. 5502.31. Signed by the Governor. Effective 7/18/2008.
SB 117 VIDEO SERVICE AUTHORIZATION (Jacobson) To provide for the issuance of video service authorizations by the Director of Commerce. Am., En. & Rep. 153.64, 4939.01, 4939.03, 4939.04, 4939.05, 4939.08, 5739.01, 1332.21, 1332.22, 1332.23, 1332.24, 1332.25, 1332.26, 1332.27, 1332.28, 1332.29, 1332.30, 1332.31, 1332.32, 1332.33, 1332.34, 1332.35, 505.90, 505.91, and 505.92. Signed by the Governor. Effective 9/24/2007.
SB 119 TAX-DELINQUENT LAND (Schuler) To modify the tax-delinquent land reutilization law by authorizing political subdivisions to prosecute property tax foreclosures, acquire such land through foreclosures before the land is offered at a tax sale, and sell such property at less than appraised market value; and to impose a one-year limit on property owners' option to obtain a delinquent tax installment payment contract. Referred to Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development.
SB 171 PAWNBROKERS (Stivers) To make certain changes to the Pawnbrokers Law and the Secondhand Dealers Law. Am. & En. 4727.08, 4727.11, 4737.01, 4737.04, 4737.041, 4737.042, 4737.043. Passed Conference Committee. Signed by the Governor. Effective 9/11/08.
SB 189 LAKE ERIE (Grendell) To revise the law governing coastal management and the control of erosion along Lake Erie. Referred to Senate Environment & Natural Resources.
SB191 INCOME TAX (Coughlin) To exempt from the personal income tax local state and federal government employee and military retirement benefits. Am. 5747.01. Referred to Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development.
SB 218 POLICE/FIRE CHIEFS (Schuring) To permit the legislative authority of a city to grant the mayor authority to appoint the chief of the police or fire departments and to provide alternative procedures for the appointments. Am. 124.44 & 124.45. Referred to Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs Committee.
SB 219 PUBLIC OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT (Schuring) To make the period of limitation for the criminal prosecution of a person for an offense directly related to misconduct in office of a public servant the same as the period of limitation for the criminal prosecution of that public servant for the offense involving the public servant's misconduct in office. Am. 2901.13. Signed by the Governor. Effective 7/21/2008.
SB 221 ENERGY POLICY (Schuler) To revise state energy policy to address electric service price regulation, new bonding authority for advanced energy projects, advanced (including renewable) energy portfolio standards, energy efficiency standards, and greenhouse gas emission reporting and carbon control planning requirements. Am. & En. 122.41, 122.451, 3706.01, 3706.02, 706.03, 3706.04, 3706.041, 3706.05, 3706.06, 3706.07, 3706.08, 706.09, 3706.10, 3706.11, 3706.12, 3706.13, 3706.14, 3706.15, 3706.16, 3706.17, 3706.18, 4905.31, 4905.40, 4928.02, 4928.05, 4928.14, 4928.17, 1551.41, 4928.111, 928.141, 4928.142, 4928.64, 4928.68, and 4928.69. Signed by the Governor. Effective 7/31/2008.
SB 252 COURT OPERATIONS (Coughlin) To abolish mayor's courts and to create community courts, to convert three part-time municipal court judgeships into full-time judgeships and to modify the compensation of municipal court judges in territories having a population of more than 50,000. Am. & En. 109.42, 109.572, 109.60, 120.03, 120.14, 120.15, 120.16, 120.18, 120.24, 120.25, 120.26, 120.28, 120.33, 120.36, 309.08, 341.23, 341.33, 503.44, 503.46, 504.04, 504.05, 504.06, 504.08, 504.15, 705.14, 705.55, 733.40, 733.44, 733.51, 733.52, 743.14, 753.02, 753.021, 753.04, 753.08, 925.31, 955.99, 1901.021, 1901.024, 1901.026, 1901.04, 1901.08, 1901.11, 1901.181, 1901.31, 1905.29, 1907.012, 1923.01, 1923.02, 1923.10, 2152.021, 2152.03, 2152.16, 2152.18, 2152.21, 2152.41, 2325.15, 2335.06, 2335.08, 2335.09, 2743.51, 2743.60, 2743.70, 2901.01, 2903.04, 2903.06, 2903.08, 2903.212, 2903.213, 2903.214, 2907.24, 2907.27, 2907.28, 2907.41, 2913.01, 2915.01, 2917.11, 2917.41, 2919.25, 2919.251, 2919.26, 2919.271, 2921.25, 2921.51, 2921.52, 2929.142, 2929.21, 2930.01, 2931.01, 2933.02, 2933.03, 2933.04, 2933.05, 2933.06, 2933.10, 2935.01, 2935.03, 2935.13, 2935.14, 2935.17, 2935.27, 2935.33, 2935.36, 2937.08, 2937.221, 2937.23, 2937.46, 2937.99, 2938.02, 2938.04, 2941.51, 2945.17, 2947.23, 2949.02, 2950.01, 2951.041, 2953.02, 2953.03, 2953.07, 2953.09, 2953.31, 2953.36, 3113.31, 3301.88, 3313.662, 3319.20, 3319.31, 3327.10, 3345.23, 3375.50, 3375.51, 3397.41, 3397.43, 4112.02, 4113.52, 4301.252, 4501.11, 4503.13, 4503.233, 4503.234, 4506.07, 4506.15, 4506.18, 4507.02, 4507.06, 4507.091, 4507.164, 4509.33, 4509.35, 4510.01, 4510.03, 4510.031, 4510.032, 4510.034, 4510.036, 4510.038, 4510.04, 4510.05, 4510.07, 4510.11, 4510.12, 4510.13, 4510.14, 4510.15, 4510.16, 4510.161, 4510.17, 4510.22, 4510.31, 4510.41, 4510.43, 4510.53, 4510.54, 4511.01, 4511.181, 4511.19, 4511.191, 4511.192, 4511.193, 4511.194, 4511.195, 4511.196, 4511.197, 4511.203, 4511.211, 4511.512, 4511.63, 4511.69, 4511.75, 4511.76, 4511.761, 4511.762, 4511.764, 4511.77, 4511.79, 4511.81, 4513.263, 4513.35, 4513.37, 4521.01, 4549.17, 4730.31, 4731.223, 4760.15, 4762.15, 4999.06, 5104.09, 5123.081, 5126.28, 5309.54, 5321.05, 5502.61, and 5503.04; 1901.42, 1905.41, 1905.42, 1905.43, 1905.44, 1905.45, 1905.46, 1905.47, 1905.48, 1905.49, 1905.50, 1905.51, 1905.52, 1905.53, 1905.54, 1905.55, 1905.56, 1905.57, and 1907.25; to repeal sections 1905.01, 1905.02, 1905.03, 1905.031, 1905.032, 1905.033, 1905.04, 1905.05, 1905.08, 1905.17, 1905.20, 1905.201, 1905.21, 1905.22, 1905.23, 1905.24, 1905.25, 1905.26, 1905.28, 1905.30, 1905.31, 1905.32, 1905.34, 1905.35, 1905.36, 1905.37, 2933.07, 2933.08, and 2933.09. Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee- Civil Justice.
SB 267 PERS LAW ENFORCEMENT (Faber) Regarding the Public Employee Retirement System law enforcement division. Am. & En. 145.01, 145.19, 145.191, 145.33, 145.35, 145.49 and 145.2914. Referred to House Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Securities Committee.
SB 275 OHIO HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTOR LAW (SPADA R) Establish the Ohio Home Improvement Contractor Law, to deem that specified violations of the law constitute a violation of the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act, and to provide civil remedies for owners who are damaged by a contractor who violates the law. Passed the Senate.
SB 276 CONSERVATION/REVITALIZATION PROJECTS (Stivers) To authorize a county, municipal corporation, or township to issue public obligations to provide, or assist in providing, grants, loans, loan guarantees, or contributions for conservation and revitalization purposes. En. 133.52. Referred to House Finance & Appropriations Committee. Bill was incorporated into HB 562.
SB 277 NUISANCE PROPERTIES (Stivers) To create a new cause of action in foreclosure in the environmental or housing division of a municipal court to abate nuisance properties. Am.1901.185 and 3767.50. Referred to House Civil & Commercial Law Committee.
SB 283 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (Roberts, T) Municipal corporations collect unpaid costs for correcting hazardous conditions or abating nuisances caused by unsafe structures by attaching a lien against the property's owner's primary residence. Referred to Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs Committee.
SB 291 GREAT LAKES COMPACT (Grendell) To ratify the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact and to establish related requirements. Am. 1522.01, 1522.02, 1522.03, 1522.04, 1522.05, 1522.06, 1522.07, and 1522.08. Referred to Senate Environment & Natural Resources.
SB 300 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FUNDING (CAFARO C) Create the Public Transit Funding Task Force to study Ohio’s public transportation funding and issue a report by June 30, 2008. Referred to Senate Highways & Transportation Committee.
SB 303 MILITARY LEAVE (Stivers) To grant annual military leave of up to 408 hours to firefighters and those other public employees who do not work a traditional workweek of 40 hours and to entitle firefighters and these public employees to use such leave to cover an entire work shift any part of which was used to perform military service. Am. 5923.05. Referred to Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee.
SB 310 CONVICTED FELONS (Cates) To make existing laws prohibiting a person who has been convicted of a felony from holding public office and denying such person other specified privileges applicable upon the determination of the person’s guilt. Am. 2961.01 and 2961.02. Pending in Senate Rules Committee.
SB 318 GUN LAWS (Faber) To remove the requirement for a retired peace officer identification card that the officer have a nonforfeitable right to retirement benefits, to provide that a retired police officer's successful completion of a firearms requalification program requalifies the peace officer for five years for purposes of obtaining the rights of a concealed carry licensee, to allow a concealed carry licensee to carry concealed handguns in buildings that are owned or leased by the state or a political subdivision of this state and are located in a park or rest area or are not used for a primary governmental function, to alter the requirements for renewing a concealed carry license, to allow a concealed carry licensee to carry a handgun in places of higher education, places of worship, daycare centers, and government buildings if the handgun is unloaded and in a closed package, box, or case, to prohibit a landlord from prohibiting a concealed carry licensee who is a tenant or guest from lawfully carrying or possessing handguns in residential premises, to allow concealed carry licensees to carry a concealed handgun in designated drop-off and pick-up areas of school safety zones, to allow a concealed carry licensee to carry a concealed handgun in a type D liquor permit establishment if the D permit holder does not allow consumption of beer, wine, or intoxicating liquor on the premises, to exempt from certain concealed carry law requirements a person transporting a weapon in a motor vehicle, to modify the records related to the concealed carry licensing process, that a sheriff must destroy to provide that certain records relating to concealed carry licensing are not public records, to redefine unloaded for purposes of the offense of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle, and to prohibit the confiscation of lawfully owned and carried firearms during a state of emergency or disaster. Am. & En. 311.41, 2923.12, 2923.121, 2923.122, 2923.125, 2923.126, 2923.129, 2923.1212, 2923.16 and 5502.371. Referred to Senate Judiciary-Criminal Justice Committee.
SB 335 ECONOMIC STIMULUS (CAREY, JR. J) Establish Ohio Bioproducts Development Program and Ohio Biomedical Development Program, establish Third Frontier Economic Stimulus Advisory Board, expand economic development programs, and provide additional money for capital improvement projects. Referred to Senate Finance & Financial Institutions Committee.
SB 338 URBAN RENEWAL BONDS (BOCCIERI) To allow municipalities to use the money derived from the sale of urban renewal bonds for the demolition of buildings located on tax delinquent property that constitute a public nuisance due to blight. Referred to Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development.
SB 353 LAND REHABILITATION (Spada) To authorize the creation of land reutilization corporations to facilitate the reclamation, rehabilitation, and reutilization of vacant, abandoned, tax-foreclosed, or other real property and to revise the expedited, nonjudicial foreclosure procedure for abandoned lands. Am. & En. 122.65, 135.341, 135.35, 135.351, 307.01, 307.07, 307.09, 307.10, 307.12, 307.64, 307.698, 307.78, 307.806, 307.846, 319.20, 319.201, 319.30, 319.43, 319.45, 319.54, 321.24, 321.261, 321.34, 323.121, 323.132, 323.15, 323.25, 323.26, 323.28, 323.31, 323.47, 323.49, 323.50, 323.65, 323.66, 323.67, 323.68, 323.69, 323.70, 323.71, 323.72, 323.73, 323.74, 323.75, 323.76, 323.77, 323.78, 715.26, 715.261, 1724.01, 1724.02, 1724.04, 1724.05, 1724.07, 1724.10, 1724.11, 5705.05, 5705.19, 5709.12, 5721.01, 5721.011, 5721.03, 5721.06, 5721.10, 5721.11, 5721.18, 5721.19, 5721.191, 5721.20, 5721.25, 5721.30, 5721.31, 5721.32, 5721.33, 5721.36, 5721.37, 5721.38, 5721.39, 5721.40, 5721.43, 5722.01, 5722.02, 5722.03, 5722.04, 5722.06, 5722.07, 5722.08, 5722.09, 5722.10, 5722.13, 5722.14, 5722.15, 5722.21, 5723.01, 5723.03, 5723.04, 5723.08, 5723.11, 5723.12, and 5723.18.
HOUSE BILLS
HJR 5 ECONOMIC STIMULUS BOND PACKAGE (SEARS B) Authorize issuance of general and other obligations of the state to pay the costs relating to environmental and related conservation preservation, and revitalization purposes. Passed both Houses.
HB 1 EDUCATION FUNDING (Setzer) To reserve this bill number for the Governor’s school funding reform plan. Referred to House Finance & Appropriations.
HB 3 ESTATE TAX (Latta) To phase out the estate tax by Jan. 1, 2008, but to authorize voters of a township or municipal corporation to continue the tax locally. Referred to House Ways & Means.
HB 4 ESTATE TAX (Wolpert) To reduce the estate tax by increasing the credit amount, to authorize townships and municipal corporations, or electors thereof by initiative, to exempt from the estate tax any estate property located in the township or municipal corporation, and to distribute all estate tax revenue originating in a township or municipal corporation that does not exempt property from the tax to the township or municipal corporation. Referred to House Ways & Means.
HB 5 EMINENT DOMAIN (Gibbs) To formally state the General Assembly’s intentions in its upcoming deliberations on reforming Ohio’s laws regulating the exercise of eminent domain. Referred to Senate State & Local Government & Veteran’s Affairs.
HB 8 RETIREMENT BENEFITS (Hagan, R.) To provide that a member of a state retirement system, on conviction of a felony committed in the course of official duties, will forfeit the portion of any state retirement benefit that is based on employer contributions. Referred to Senate Judiciary- Criminal Justice.
HB 11 JEDD LAW (Setzer) To make changes in and relating to the Joint Economic Development District Law. Re-Referred to House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization.
HB 24 MUNICIPAL TAX POLICY (Wagner) To authorize municipalities to allow self-employed taxpayers to take a municipal income tax deduction for amounts paid for medical care insurance and to authorize municipalities to allow individuals to deduct amounts paid into health savings accounts. Effective date 12/21/2007.
HB 26 URBAN HOMESTEAD ZONES (Wolpert) To permit the creation of urban homestead zones in cities to encourage the repopulation of certain city cores, to create a state urban homestead scholarship program, and to require tax increment financing in urban homestead zones that participate in the scholarship program to help fund the program. Referred to House State Government & Elections.
HB 30 TRAFFIC CAMERA SIGNS (McGregor, R.) To require any local authority that enforces any traffic law by means of traffic law photo-monitoring devices to erect signs on every highway or freeway that is part of the state highway system and that enters that local authority to inform inbound traffic that the local authority utilizes traffic law photo-monitoring devices to enforce laws. Signed by the Governor. Effective 9/12/2008.
HB 33 RAILROAD CROSSINGS (Wolpert) To revise state and local authority regarding the safety of railroad crossings and railroad tracks, bridges and other structures and additionally to extend such a state authority to scenic railways. Referred to House Infrastructure, Homeland Security and Veteran Affair.
HB 42 SCHOOL FUNDING (Stewart, J.) To establish a bipartisan committee to recommend to the General Assembly a system that provides state funds to pay one hundred per cent of the actual cost of providing a thorough and efficient education to each public school student and to require the Department of Education to report certain school funding information to the parents and taxpayers of each school district. Referred to House Finance & Appropriations.
HB 47 CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS (Gibbs) To revise the membership of the board of directors of a conservancy district that includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties, to require the board of directors of such a district rather than the conservancy court to perform certain functions under the Conservancy Districts Law, to prohibit the levying of an assessment by such a conservancy district on real property that is not directly benefited from the assessment, and to make other changes concerning the levying of an assessment by such a conservancy district. Am. & En. 6101.10, 6101.48, 6101.53, 6101.67, 6101.70, 6101.101. Referred to Senate Natural Resources and Environment.
HB 67 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (Patton) To make appropriations for, and to prescribe terms and conditions pertaining to, transportation purposes. Signed by the Governor. Effective 6/30/2007.
HB 69 DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS (Wolpert) to permit townships, counties, and combinations of certain political subdivisions to establish transfer of development rights programs. En. 303.024, 307.071, 505.708, 519.023, 713.16, and 713.17. Referred to House Local and Municipal Government and Urban Revitalization.
HB 80 FUEL TESTING (Healy) To require the Department of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing program under which county auditors may conduct such testing. Am. & En. 1327.99, 319.56 and 1327.70. Referred to House Infrastructure, Homeland Security and Veteran Affairs.
HB 86 ABORTION COVERAGE (Wachtmann) to prohibit the state offering, sponsoring, or endorsing a health insurance policy that covers nontherapeutic abortion. Am. 124.85. Referred to House Health Committee.
HB 103 WATER FEES (Blessing) To modify the circumstances under which a lien may be created to collect unpaid water rates and charges owed local authorities and to specify certain requirements prior to creation of the lien. Am. 735.29, 743.04, 5321.03, 6103.02, and 6119.06. Referred to House Local and Municipal Government and Urban Revitalization.
HB 116 HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (Blessing) To require public employers to make health savings accounts available to public employees. Am. & En. 124.82 and 9.902. Referred to House State Government & Elections.
HB 117 SCHOOL TAXES (Raussen) To authorize school districts to enter into agreements with the Department of Taxation or other entities for the collection and administration of school district income taxes. Am. & En. 5747.021, 5747.03, 5747.112, 5748.03, 5748.06, 5748.08, 5748.11, 5748.12, 5748.13, 5748.14, 5748.15, and 5748.16. Referred to House Ways & Means Committee.
HB 119 BUDGET BILL (Dolan) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2009, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. Signed by the Governor. Effective 6/30/2007.
HB 127 MUNICIPAL INCOME TAXES (Bacon) To expressly authorize municipal corporations to disclose to the public aggregated municipal income tax data. Am. 718.13. This proposal was incorporated into HB 119.
HB 140 TOWING FEES (Widener) To provide that the owner of a motor vehicle that is removed from a public road may be prevented from registering any vehicle until the towing and storage fees on the vehicle removed are paid. Am. & En. 4513.01, 4513.62, 4513.621, 4513.622, and 4513.66.
HB 154 MAYOR’S COURT (Wolpert) To abolish mayor’s courts and to create community courts and to modify the compensation of municipal court judges in territories having a population of more than 50,000. Am. 705.14, 705.55, 733.40, 733.44, 733.51, 733.52, 753.02, 753.021, 955.99, 1901.021, 1901.024, 1901.04, 1901.11, 1901.181, 1901.31, 1905.29, 2335.06, 2903.212, 2921.25, 2931.01, 2933.02, 2933.03, 2933.04, 2933.05, 2933.06, 2933.10, 2937.08, 2938.04, 2953.03, 2953.07, 3375.50, 4503.13, 4503.233, 4507.091, 4507.164, 4509.33, 4509.35, 4510.03, 4510.031, 4510.036, 4510.13, 4510.14, 4510.53, 4511.193, 4511.197, 4513.263, 4521.01, 5502.61, and 5503.04. The bill is pending in House Rules Committee.
HB 173 JUDICIAL OPERATIONS (Seitz) To increase the compensation of justices and judges of the courts, to change the qualifications for all judges, to require the Supreme Court to establish a qualification program for candidates for judicial office, to create the Judicial Allotment Review Commission to study and review the allotment of judgeships in the courts for the purpose of recommending legislation to ensure the efficient and prompt administration of justice in Ohio, to create the Judicial Appointment Review Commission to make recommendations of persons to fill judicial vacancies, to specify that a portion of certain court costs currently deposited to the credit of the Reparations Fund be deposited in the fund for court security, and to make appropriations for court-related purposes. Am. & En. 107.08, 141.04, 1901.06, 1907.13, 2301.01, 2501.02, 2503.01, 2743.191, 2743.70, and 2949.111, 145.2914, 2503.51, 2503.52, 2503.53, 2503.54, 2503.55, and 2503.60. The bill passed the House.
HB 187 TOWING REGULATION (Reinhard) To require the Public Utilities Commission to regulate towing companies. Am. & En. 4513.60, 4921.04, 4921.30, 4923.12, 4925.01 to 4925.06, and 4925.99. Referred to House Public Utilities Committee.
HB 206 SCRAP MATERIALS (Domenick, Healy) To establish new record-keeping requirements for dealers in scrap copper, scrap aluminum siding, or scrap catalytic converters. Referred to House Commerce & Labor.
HB 208 TRANSIT AUTHORITIES (Latta) To allow a subdivision that is a member of a regional transit authority to withdraw from the authority. Referred to House Infrastructure, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs.
HB 220 PLANNED COMMUNITIES (Beatty) To establish the Ohio Planned Community Law. Referred to House Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities.
HB 221 CAMPAIGN FINANCE (Stewart, D.) To re-establish the Campaign Finance Law and Public Contract Law as it existed prior to the enactment OF Am. Sub. H.B. 694 of the 126th General Assembly. En. 3517.13 & 3517.992 and Rep. 109.96, 3517.093, 3517.13, 3517.992 and Section 4 of Am. Sub. H.B. 694 of the 126th General Assembly. Referred to House State Government & Elections Committee.
HB 224 MUNICIPAL TAXES (Schindel) To specify that the municipal income tax annual return filing date for individuals shall not be earlier than the federal income tax filing date, to allow return preparers to use facsimile signatures on returns, and to permit taxpayers to authorize return preparers to communicate directly with municipal tax administrators. Signed by the Governor. Effective 3/24/08.
HB 225 CONCEALED HANDGUNS (Adams) To authorize a person to carry a concealed handgun without obtaining a license to the same extent as if the person had obtained such a license if the person qualifies for a concealed carry license and is legally permitted to purchase a handgun; to remove the requirements that a concealed carry licensee must be carrying the license in order to carry a concealed handgun, must inform approaching law enforcement officers that the person has a license and is carrying the handgun when the person is carrying a concealed handgun, and must submit a new or renewed competency certification when renewing the license; to eliminate as premises in which a concealed carry licensee may not carry a concealed handgun public or private institutions of higher education, places of worship, day-care centers and homes, and government buildings other than schools, courthouses, law enforcement offices, and correctional facilities; to replace the prohibitions that apply only to a concealed carry licensee who is carrying a handgun in a motor vehicle with a prohibition against a licensee who is in a motor vehicle that is stopped by a law enforcement officer knowingly menacing or threatening an officer with a loaded handgun or knowingly pointing a loaded handgun at an officer; to remove the “in plain sight or secure encasement” criterion that a concealed carry licensee must satisfy to legally possess a handgun in a motor vehicle; to provide a self-defense exemption from the prohibitions against discharging a firearm in or on a vessel or motor vehicle; to repeal the “journalist exception” to the provision that otherwise makes confidential the records a sheriff possesses regarding concealed handgun licenses and applications for such licenses; and to amend the version of section 2923.129 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect September 29, 2007, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date. Am. 1547.69, 2923.12, 2923.122, 2923.123, 2923.124, 2923.125, 2923.126, 2923.128, 2923.129, 2923.1212, & 2923.16. Referred to House Criminal Justice Committee.
HB 227 WATER DISTRICTS (Evans) To authorize regional water and sewer districts to establish police departments. Am. & En. 109.71, 109.73, 109.77, 6119.60, 6119.61, 6119.62, 6119.63, and 6119.64. Referred to House State Government & Elections Committee.
HB 235 UNTREATED SEWAGE DISCHARGE (Oelslager) To enact section 6111.051 of the Revised Code to establish notification requirements for the discharge of untreated or partially treated sewage onto land or into the waters of the state. Referred to House Economic Development & Environment.
HB 240 RE-EMPLOYED RETIREES (Goodwin) regarding employment of retired members of the Public Employees Retirement System, School Employees Retirement System, State Teachers Retirement System, and Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund. Am. & En. 145.38, 742.26, 3307.35, 3309.341, 145.386, 724.261, 3307.354, and 3309.346. Referred to House Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities.
HB 256 PUBLIC RECORDS (Wagoner) To establish the office of Public Access Counselor in the Court of Claims to receive complaints and issue advisory opinions concerning the Public Records Law and Open Meetings Law. Am. & En. 121.22, 149.43, 2743.31, 2743.32, 2743.33 2743.34. Referred to House Judiciary.
HB 257 HOME INSPECTORS (Schneider) To require the certification of home inspectors and to regulate the certification and performance of home inspectors. Am. & En. 121.08, 4745.01, 4768.01 to 4768.19 and 4768.99. Referred to Senate Insurance Commerce and Labor Committee.
HB 270 PENSIONER REEMPLOYMENT (Schneider) To provide that a member of the Public Employees Retirement System, Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund, State Teachers Retirement System, or School Employees Retirement System who retires and then returns to public employment in the same position will not receive a pension while earning a salary for that employment. Am. 145.01, 145.191, 145.38, 145.384, 145.473, 145.58, 742.26, 3307.35 & 3309.341. Referred to House Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities.
HB 309 MANUFACTURED HOMES (Foley) To make changes to the law governing manufactured homes. Am. & En. 1923.02, 3733.09, 3733.091, 3733.10, 3733.101, 3733.11, 3733.99, 3767.41, 4503.06, 3733.092, 3733.111, 3733.112, and 3733.113. Referred to House Commerce & Labor Committee.
HB 327 HEALTH BOARDS (McGregor, J.) With regard to boards of health of city and general health districts. Am., En. & Rep. 133.01, 140.03, 3701.15, 3701.342, 3707.01, 3709.01, 3709.11, 3709.14, 3709.15, 3709.28, 3709.31, 3709.32, 3709.34, 5705.01, 5705.31, 5709.40, 5709.73, 5709.78, 3709.08, 3709.29, 319.282, 3701.36, 3709.011, 3709.092, 3709.311, 3709.08, 3709.081, and 3709.29. Referred to Senate State & Local Government & Veteran’s Affairs.
HB 366 VICIOUS DOGS (Webster) To remove pit bulls from the definition of “vicious dog” in state law and to authorize the adoption of local ordinances or resolutions that define “dangerous dog” and “vicious dog” more broadly than state law defines those terms. Am. 955.11 and 955.221. Referred to House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veterans Affairs Committee.
HB 380 WORKER RECORDS (Coley) To require a commercial or public entity to maintain records regarding each worker who performs services for that entity and to establish penalties for failure to maintain those records. Am. & En. 4113.99 and 4113.80. Referred to House Civil & Commercial Law Committee.
HB 389 SPEED TRANSITION ZONES (Setzer) To require the Director of Transportation or a local authority with jurisdiction over a street or highway to establish speed transition zones at locations where a speed limit decreases by 20 or more miles per hour. Am. 4511.21. Referred to House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veterans Affairs Committee.
HB 416 WATER COMPACT (Dolan) To ratify the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact and to establish related requirements. Signed by the Governor. Effective 12/08/2008.
HB 431 FIREFIGHTER/EMS DISABILITIES (PATTON T) Provide that firefighter or emergency medical services worker disabled as result of cancer or contagious/infectious diseases is presumed for purposes of workers' compensation and Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund to have incurred the disease while performing duties. Referred to House Commerce and Labor Committee.
HB 436 MUNICIPAL CONTRACTS (STEWART J) Authorize municipal and other political subdivision contracts for maintenance/repair of a water storage tank to be awarded without competitive bidding. Referred to House Local and Municipal Government and Urban Revitalization.
HB 437 OHIO HOME IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTOR LAW (SCHINDEL C) Establish the Ohio Home Improvement Contractor Law, to deem that specified violations of the law constitute a violation of the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act, and to provide civil remedies for owners who are damaged by a contractor who violates the law. Referred to House Civil and Commercial Law Committee.
HB 443 PUBLIC NOTICE WEBSITE (PETERSON J) Establish the State-Sanctioned Public Notice web site, to permit any notice required to be published by statute or rule to be published on the web site. Referred to House Civil and Commercial Law Committee.
HB 446 ANIMAL CONTROL (Webster) To revise the statutes governing animal control. Referred to Senate State Local Government & Veteran’s Affairs.
HB 453 MUNICIPAL CORPORATION PRISONERS (BACON K) Regarding liability for medical care provided to persons imprisoned in a municipal corporation's institution or in the custody of a municipal corporation's law enforcement officer. Referred to House Civil and Commercial Law.
HB 466 POLICE COMMANDER TRAINING (STRAHORN F) Exempt individual who is appointed to a command position with a police department of an Ohio municipal corporation from Ohio's peace officer certification/training requirements in certain circumstances. Referred to Senate State & Local Government & Veteran’s Affairs Committee.
HB 478 CONCEALED CARRY FEES (Dodd) To allow a refundable tax credit against the personal income tax for concealed-carry license fees. Am. & En. 5747.08, 5747.98 and 5747.72. Referred to House Ways & Means Committee.
HB 479 OPF ELECTIONS (Evans, Foley) Regarding election of the chairperson of the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Board of Trustees. En. 742.03. Referred to House Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Securities Committee.
HB 480 TRANSIT MEMBERSHIP (Gardner) To create an additional procedure for subdivisions to join a regional transit authority that levies a property tax and that includes a county having a population of at least 400,000 and to allow a subdivision that is a member of such a regional transit authority to withdraw from the authority. Referred to Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization.
HB 482 BULK DATA REQUESTS (Fende) To authorize public offices to limit the number of bulk data requests, impose charges to cover the actual costs associated with bulk data requests, and charge for the cost of redacting certain information. Am. 149.43. Referred to House Civil & Commercial Law Committee.
HB 490 INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION CENTER (Mallory) To create the Infrastructure Protection Center within the Division of Homeland Security of the Department of Public Safety. Am. & En. 5502.03 and 5502.04. Referred to House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veteran’s Affairs Committee.
HB 496 CAPITAL REAPPROPRIATIONS (HOTTINGER J) Make capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2010, and certain capital appropriations. Signed by the Governor. Effective June 20, 2008.
HB 498 MILITARY LEAVE (Fessler) To grant annual military leave of up to 408 hours to firefighters and those other public employees who do not work a traditional workweek of 40 hours and to entitle firefighters and these public employees to use such leave to cover an entire work shift any part of which was used to perform military service. Am. 5923.05. Referred to House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veteran’s Affairs Committee.
HB 521 LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Wolpert) To create the Ohio Commission on Local Government Reform and Collaboration to develop recommendations on reforming and restructuring local government in Ohio. The bill has been assigned to House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization. A version of this bill was incorporated into HB 562.
HB 550 WIRELESS 911 FEES (Flowers, Driehaus) To extend until 2013 the wireless 9-1-1 charge, to raise the minimum, annual fund disbursement amount for each county from $25,000 to $90,000, and to broaden local uses of that revenue. Am. 4931.61, 4931.62, 4931.63, 4931.64, 4931.65, 4931.66, and 4931.70. Referred to House Finance & Appropriations Committee.
HB 554 ECONOMIC STIMULUS (HOTTINGER J) Establish Ohio Bioproducts Development Program and Ohio Biomedical Development Program, establish Third Frontier Economic Stimulus Advisory Board, expand economic development programs, provide additional money for capital improvement projects. Signed by the Governor. Most portions of the bill are effective 6/12/2008. Other sections will be effective in 9/11/2008.
HB 562 CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS/BUDGET CORRECTIONS (Hottinger) To make capital and other appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. Signed by the Governor. Most portions of the bill are effective 6/24/2008. Other sections will be effective in 9/23/2008.
HB 563 RADIO/ANTENNA ZONING (Stebelton) To codify federal restrictions on local zoning of the antenna structures of amateur radio stations and place the burden of proof for compliance on the zoning authority. Am 303.213, 519.213, and 713.08. The bill has been assigned to House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization.
HB 566 FIREARMS LAWS (Yates) To remove provisions regarding the statewide effect of state firearms laws and the Concealed Carry Licensing Law. Rep. 9.68. Referred to House Criminal Justice Committee.
HB 567 LIQUOR CONTROL HEARINGS (Yates) To require that certain hearings of the Liquor Control Commission be held in the county seat of the county where the premises that is the subject of the hearing is located. Am. 4301.04. Referred to House State Government & Election Committee.
HB 568 PIT BULLS (Yates) To prohibit the owning, keeping, or harboring of pit bull dogs beginning ninety days after the effective date of the act and to require specified officers to seize all pit bull dogs after that date. Am & En. 955.11 and 955.111. Referred to House State Government & Election Committee.
HB 583 WELL DRILLING (Schindel) To establish certain notification and noise requirements for the drilling of an oil or gas well and to authorize the Chief of the Division of Mineral Resources Management in the Department of Natural Resources to deny a permit for the drilling of an oil or gas well based on past violations of the Oil and Gas Law by the permit applicant. Am. 1509.06 & 1509.073. Referred to House Agriculture & Natural Resources.
HB 584 WELL SAFETY (Schindel) To allow the applicable board of township trustees or legislative authority of a municipal corporation where an existing or proposed oil or gas well is or is to be located to submit written comments specifically describing safety issues regarding the well to the Chief of the Division of Mineral Resources Management in the Department of Natural Resources, to require the Chief to review any such comments before determining whether to issue a permit for the well, to establish certain notification and noise requirements for the drilling of an oil or gas well, and to establish other permit requirements. Am. & En. 1509.06, 1509.062, 1509.063, and 1509.073. Referred to House Agriculture & Natural Resources.
HB 586 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW FINES (GIBBS B) Require proceeds of fines paid by certain political subdivisions under environmental laws to be expended in the county that incurred the fine. Referred to House Economic Development & Environment.
HB 589 TRANSPORTATION REVIEW ADVISORY COUNCIL (DODD D) To revise the membership of the transportation review advisory council.
HB 591 WELL DRILLING/PUBLIC NOTICE (Williams, B.) To establish additional public notice and public meeting requirements concerning applications for certain permits for oil or gas wells. Am. 1509.06, 1509.072, and 1509.31.
HB 594 FUEL TAX MORATORIUM (Fessler) To provide a 90-day moratorium on the state motor fuel tax. Am. 5735.05, 5735.25, 5735.29, and 5735.30.
HB 600 RETIREMENT CREDIT PURCHASES (Wachtmann) To modify the purchase of service credit in the Public Employees Retirement System. Am., En. & Rep. 145.01, 145.20, 145.201, 145.29, 145.291, 145.293, 145.294, 145.298, 145.299, 145.30, 145.33, 145.34, 145.36, 145.401, 145.41, 145.452, 145.47, 145.48, 145.51, 145.814, 3375.411, 145.29 (145.292); 145.29 145.2914, 145.2915; 145.02, 145.292, 145.42, and 145.44.
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HB 602 LAND REHABILITATION (Patton) To authorize the creation of land reutilization corporations to facilitate the reclamation, rehabilitation, and reutilization of vacant, abandoned, tax-foreclosed, or other real property and to revise the expedited, nonjudicial foreclosure procedure for abandoned lands. Am. & En. 122.65, 135.341, 135.35, 135.351, 307.01, 307.07, 307.09, 307.10, 307.12, 307.64, 307.698, 307.78, 307.806, 307.846, 319.20, 319.201, 319.30, 319.43, 319.45, 319.54, 321.24, 321.261, 321.34, 323.121, 323.132, 323.15, 323.25, 323.26, 323.28, 323.31, 323.47, 323.49, 323.50, 323.65, 323.66, 323.67, 323.68, 323.69, 323.70, 323.71, 323.72, 323.73, 323.74, 323.75, 323.76, 323.77, 323.78, 715.26, 715.261, 1724.01, 1724.02, 1724.04, 1724.05, 1724.07, 1724.10, 1724.11, 5705.05, 5705.19, 5709.12, 5721.01, 5721.011, 5721.03, 5721.06, 5721.10, 5721.11, 5721.18, 5721.19, 5721.191, 5721.20, 5721.25, 5721.30, 5721.31, 5721.32, 5721.33, 5721.36, 5721.37, 5721.38, 5721.39, 5721.40, 5721.43, 5722.01, 5722.02, 5722.03, 5722.04, 5722.06, 5722.07, 5722.08, 5722.09, 5722.10, 5722.13, 5722.14, 5722.15, 5722.21, 5723.01, 5723.03, 5723.04, 5723.08, 5723.11, 5723.12, and 5723.18.
HB 604 INTERNET AUCTIONS (DeGeeter) To reduce, from fifteen to ten, the minimum number of days for bidding when a nonchartered municipal corporation sells personal property by Internet auction. Am. 721.15
