February 2012
HB1 JOBSOHIO (DUFFEY M) To authorize the Governor to create JobsOhio, a nonprofit economic development corporation.
Current Status: 2/18/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 2/18/2011
ORC Sections: 1.60, 102.01, 102.02, 102.022, 117.01, 121.01, 121.22, 121.41, 121.60, 121.67, 122.011, 124.01, 145.012, 149.011, 187.01, 187.02, 187.03, 187.04, 187.05, 187.06, 187.07, 187.08, 187.09, 187.10, 187.11, 187.12, 2921.01, 4117.01
HB2 PERFORMANCE AUDITING (SNITCHLER T) To require performance auditing of most state agencies.
Current Status: 3/8/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Finance
ORC Sections: 117.46, 117.461, 117.462, 117.463, 117.47, 117.471, 117.472
HB3 REPEAL ESTATE TAX (GROSSMAN C, HOTTINGER J) To repeal the estate tax for the estates of individuals dying on or after January 1, 2011.
Current Status: 2/16/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5731.02, 5731.19, 5731.21
HB8 TAX PROMPT REMITTANCE DISCOUNT (BLAIR T) To increase the sales and use tax prompt remittance discount and to authorize a discount for prompt remittance of income tax withholding.
Current Status: 1/11/2011 – Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
ORC Sections: 5739.12, 5747.07
HB9 UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE (COLEY II W) To adopt revisions to the general provisions and documents of title portions of the Uniform Commercial Code that were recommended by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
Current Status: 3/30/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/29/2011
HB10 REMEDIATION OF CONTAMINATED SITE (SEARS B) To authorize refundable tax credits for the completion of a voluntary action to remediate a contaminated site and for the return of such sites to productive use, and to exempt persons through 2017 who have issued covenants not to sue under the Voluntary Action Program from certain fees and penalties for one year after the issuance of such a covenant.
Current Status: 3/2/2011 – House Ways and Means, (Fifth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3746.241, 5747.78, 5747.98, 5751.54, 5751.98
HB11 PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (SEARS B) To prohibit state departments and agencies from implementing or enforcing a provision of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act without meeting certain conditions.
Current Status: 2/23/2011 – House Health and Aging, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3901.711
HB12 MEDICAID PROGRAM (SEARS B) To establish new requirements concerning services, providers, third-party liability, and reports for the Medicaid program.
Current Status: 2/2/2011 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5111.035, 5111.083, 5111.093, 5111.141, 5111.142, 5111.165
HB13 MEDICAID-PREMIUM ASSISTANCE (SEARS B) To require the Director of Job and Family Services to seek federal approval to create a premium assistance component of the Medicaid program.
Current Status: 2/2/2011 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5111.862
HB17 TAX CREDIT FOR HIRING UNEMPLOYED (BAKER N) To authorize a $2,400 income tax withholding credit for an employer that hires and employs a previously unemployed individual.
Current Status: 1/11/2011 – Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
ORC Sections: 5747.07, 5747.073, 5747.15
HB18 TAX CREDIT – EXPANDING BUSINESSES (BAKER N) To authorize a nonrefundable tax credit for a business that increases payroll and expands into a vacant facility.
Current Status: 2/2/2012 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 166.03, 166.31
HB19 COUNTY RECORDERS (GOODWIN B) To require county recorders to complete continuing education requirements.
Current Status: 3/1/2011 – House Local Government, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 317.06
HB26 LIQUOR PERMITS (LETSON T) To establish local entertainment districts in municipal corporations or unincorporated areas of counties of specified populations for the purpose of the issuance of D-1, D-2, and D-5 liquor permits under specified conditions and to create the T-1 permit.
Current Status: 2/22/2011 – House State Government and Elections, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4301.62, 4301.82, 4303.235, 4303.29
HB32 SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEMS (AMSTUTZ R) To exempt from the Professional Engineers and Surveyors Law the preparation of plans or drawings for a sewage treatment system or components and measurements necessary to comply with the Household and Small Flow On-site Sewage Treatment Systems Law.
Current Status: 2/1/2012 – PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 26-3
ORC Sections: 4733.011
HB33 PUBLIC RECORD INFORMATION (SNITCHLER T) To exclude the residential and familial information of a federal law enforcement officer from the definition of a public record, to include federal law enforcement officers among the protected individuals, who are authorized to request a public office other than the county auditor to redact the person’s address from any record made available to the general public on the internet, and to include those officers among the protected individuals who may request the county auditor to replace the auditor to replace the person’s name with the person’s initials on the general tax list and duplicate.
Current Status: 1/26/2011 – Referred to Committee House Judiciary and Ethics
ORC Sections: 149.43, 149.45, 319.28, 319.54
HB40 OHIO TURNPIKE COMMISSION (DAMSCHRODER R) To make the Ohio Turnpike Commission responsible for major maintenance and repair and replacement of grade separations at intersections of any turnpike project with county and township roads.
Current Status: 3/2/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5537.051
HB43 OHIO VENTURE CAPITAL AUTHORITY (GOYAL J, WILLIAMS S) To increase the annual and aggregate limit on the amount of tax credits the Ohio Venture Capital Authority may authorize.
Current Status: 1/26/2011 – Referred to Committee House Economic and Small Business Development
ORC Sections: 150.07
HB44 SMALL BUSINESS WORKING CAPITAL LOAN PROGRAM (GOYAL J, GARLAND N) To create the Small Business Working Capitol Loan Program.
Current Status: 1/26/2011 – Referred to Committee House Economic and Small Business Development
ORC Sections: 166.45, 166.46, 166.47, 166.48, 166.49, 166.50, 166.51
HB47 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (HAGAN R) Regarding annual reports about certain employers of public assistance recipients.
Current Status: 2/9/2011 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5101.87
HB48 CORPORATIONS (MECKLENBORG R) To make changes to the law governing corporations dissenting shareholders, the dissolution of a corporation, rights to indemnification or advancement of expenses, directors’ fiduciary duties, and recording of corporate mortgages.
Current Status: 2/2/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
ORC Sections: 1701.13, 1701.56, 1701.59, 1701.66, 1701.74, 1701.76, 1701.84, 1701.85, 1701.86, 1701.87, 1701.88, 1701.881, 1701.882, 1701.883, 1701.89, 1701.90, 1701.91, 1701.911, 1702.12, 1702.30, 1705.01, 1705.081, 1705.161, 1705.18, 1705.19, 1705.281, 1705.282, 1705.29, 1705.47, 1705.61
HB50 TYPE-II ANNEXATION (SNITCHLER T) To require that a political subdivision owner be included in determining the number of owners needed to sign a petition
for an expedited type-II annexation.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – House Local Government, (Eighth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 09.023, 701.07, 701.071, 709.02
HB51 MUNICIPAL UTILITIES (SNITCHLER T) To require a municipal utility supplying surplus electricity to nonresidents to provide written notice of termination one year before terminating the service.
Current Status: 2/1/2011 – Referred to Committee House Public Utilities
ORC Sections: 743.50
HB52 OHIO SECURITIES ACT VIOLATIONS (SNITCHLER T) To specify this form of financial statements and to include administrative assessments and other remedies as a remedy for a violation of the Ohio Securities Act.
Current Status: 2/24/2011 – House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1707.20, 1707.49
HB54 CIVIL FIREARM RIGHTS (MAAG R, MARTIN J) To conform the restoration of civil firearm rights with federal law and U.S. Supreme Court case law to eliminate the prohibition against persons with certain misdemeanor drug offense convictions acquiring or possessing firearms or dangerous ordnance; and to allow restoration of civil firearm rights for firearms that are dangerous ordnance.
Current Status: 6/30/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/30/2011
ORC Sections: 2923.13, 2923.14
HB58 INTERNAL REVENUE CODE (BECK P) To expressly incorporate changes in the Internal Revenue Code since December 15, 2010, into Ohio law.
Current Status: 3/7/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/7/2011
ORC Sections: 122.171, 5701.11, 5725.98, 5729.98, 5733.0610, 5733.98, 5747.058, 5747.98, 5751.50, 5751.98, 718.151
HB61 COMPENSATORY TIME OFF (THOMPSON A, MARTIN J) To give private employers the option to offer and employees the option to accrue and use compensatory time off in lieu of monetary overtime compensation.
Current Status: 2/24/2011 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, House Economic and Small Business Development, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4111.03, 4111.031, 4111.05, 4111.10, 4111.13, 4111.99, 4113.11, 505.60
HB67 CAPITAL PROJECT APPROPRIATIONS WEB SITE (MCGREGOR R) To require the Office of Budget and Management to maintain a web site showing capital project appropriations and re-appropriations and to submit a biennial report to the General Assembly.
Current Status: 11/15/2011 – House Finance and Appropriations, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 126.031, 126.032, 126.033
HB70 INSURANCE POLICY – NO CREDIT INFO (LUCKIE II C) To prohibit an insurer’s use of a credit score, credit history, or credit report in fixing a premium rate for, or the terms and conditions of, an insurance policy, or in determining whether to issue, continue, or renew an insurance policy.
Current Status: 3/1/2011 – House Insurance, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3901.21
HB72 NPDES PERMITS FOR SEWAGE SYSTEMS (DAMSCHRODER R) To require the Director of Environmental Protection to consider, to the extent allowable under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, specified factors before issuing NPDES permits for sewerage systems, enforcing provisions of the Act as applied to sewerage systems.
Current Status: 2/1/2011 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
ORC Sections: 6111.60
HB81 PERFORMANCE BUDGETING (SNITCHLER T) To require performance budgeting by most state agencies.
Current Status: 2/22/2011 – House State Government and Elections, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 126.02, 126.022, 126.18
HB87 WATER WORKS/SEWAGE DISPOSAL COMPANIES (GOYAL J, GROSSMAN C) To limit recovery of rate-case expenses for certain water-works and sewage disposal system companies.
Current Status: 4/6/2011 – House Public Utilities, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4909.181
HB88 COUNTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY (MURRAY D) To make clear that the prosecuting attorney of a county is the legal adviser of all tax-supported public libraries.
Current Status: 3/22/2011 – House Judiciary and Ethics, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 309.09
HB89 AGRICULTURE WEEK (DERICKSON T) To designate the second full week of March as Ohio Agriculture Week.
Current Status: 3/11/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/10/11
ORC Sections: 5.2266
HB90 UNIFORMED LAW ENFORCEMENT VOLUNTEER (DRIEHAUS D) To impose the same criminal penalties for assaulting a resident participating in a uniform law enforcement volunteer program as are imposed for assaulting a peace officer.
Current Status: 3/30/2011 – House Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13
HB93 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (BURKE D, JOHNSON T) To establish and modify the prevention of prescription drug abuse, development of information programs by the State Medical Board, and Medicaid coverage of prescription drugs.
Current Status: 5/20/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 5/20/2011 – some sections 6/19/2011
ORC Sections: 109.57, 109.90, 313.212, 325.19, 3719.031, 3719.08, 3793.22, 4121.50, 4715.30, 4715.302, 4723.064, 4723.28, 4723.487, 4725.092, 4729.01, 4729.071, 4729.162, 4729.29, 4729.291, 4729.51, 4729.54, 4729.541, 4729.55, 4729.552, 4729.571, 4729.69, 4729.75, 4729.77, 4729.78, 4729.79, 4729.80, 4729.81, 4729.82, 4729.83, 4729.84, 4729.85, 4729.86, 4729.99, 4730.53, 4731.052, 4731.054, 4731.055, 4731.22, 4731.241, 4731.283, 4731.391, 4776.02, 4776.04, 5111.085, 5111.1710, 5111.172, 5111.179
HB94 SMALL BUSINESS RULE REVIEW PROCESS (ROEGNER K, THOMPSON A) To adopt a new small business rule review process.
Current Status: 2/24/2011 – House Economic and Small Business Development, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 108.11, 108.12, 108.13, 108.14, 108.21, 108.22, 108.23, 108.24, 108.25, 111.15, 117.20, 119.03, 121.39, 121.81, 121.82, 121.83, 121.91, 122.08, 122.081, 122.94, 1710.02
HB95 NATURAL GAS RATES (STAUTBERG P) To permit certain rate-calculation adjustments for natural gas companies, eliminate public notice requirements for rate cases, and for natural gas companies, to make other regulatory changes concerning audits, alternative rate plans, and forecast reports, and allowing applications for natural gas company capital expenditure programs.
Current Status: 6/2/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/9/2011
ORC Sections: 4903.083, 4905.302, 4909.05, 4909.06, 4909.07, 4909.08, 4909.15, 4909.156, 4909.17, 4909.18, 4909.19, 4909.191, 4928.18, 4929.05, 4929.051, 4929.11, 4929.111, 4935.04
HB97 HIGH DEDUCTIBLE HEALTH CARE (HOLLINGTON R, CARNEY J) To require the Department of Administrative Services to make a high deductible health care plan available to state employees and state elected officials and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 12/13/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 124.824
HB98 INCOME TAX RATE FOR 70 1/2 YEARS OR OLDER (HOLLINGTON R) To reduce the maximum effective income tax rate applicable to unearned income of persons age 70 1/2 years or older to 1% beginning in 2013.
Current Status: 3/30/2011 – House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5747.01, 5747.02, 5747.055
HB101 JOB CREATION/RETENTION CREDITS (WILLIAMS S) To provide for a six-year trial period in which taxpayers may include a limited number of the taxpayer’s employees who work from home and whose rate of pay is at least three times the federal minimum wage as employees employed in the project for purposes of the job creation and retention credits if the recipient of the credit provides a specified level of capital investment, and to require the Director of Development to issue a report at the end if the six-year period.
Current Status: 6/1/2011 – House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: None
HB102 LABOR REQUIREMENTS (YOUNG R) To prohibit state agencies from requiring or prohibiting certain labor requirements as a condition of performing public works and to prohibit the appropriation of state funds for public works when political subdivisions require or prohibit certain labor requirements.
Current Status: 5/11/2011 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Commerce & Labor, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4116.01, 4116.02, 4116.03, 4116.04, 4116.05, 4116.06
HB104 OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY (GARDNER R) To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to the Ohio Historical Society.
Current Status: 3/23/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 149.308, 5747.113
HB106 RENTAL AGREEMENT – ARMED FORCES MEMBER (PILLICH C) To enable members of the armed services and the Ohio National Guard terminate a rental agreement when the member receives military orders to deploy or for a permanent change of station.
Current Status: 3/3/2011 – House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5321.01, 5321.20
HB111 TAX DEDUCTION-SMALL BUSINESS (WILLIAMS S) To authorize an income tax deduction for small business owners’ reinvestment of undistributed profits in business property, employee training, or research and development.
Current Status: 5/11/2011 – House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5747.01, 5747.014
HB112 ENGINE COOLANT/ANTIFREEZE (GROSSMAN C, LETSON T) To require the inclusion of a bittering agent in engine coolant and antifreeze.
Current Status: 5/18/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 2927.28
HB113 TAXPAYER’S RIGHT TO KNOW ACT (LUNDY M) To enact “The Taxpayer’s Right to Know Act,” specifying that records of public-private partnerships that perform or assist with state functions are public records, and such entities must conduct business in open meetings.
Current Status: 2/22/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 121.22, 149.43
HB114 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (MCGREGOR R) To make appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs.
Current Status: 7/13/2011 – HB114 had a provision amended by SB187
HB115 EDUCATIONAL CHOICE SCHOLARSHIPS (STEBELTON G) To gradually increase to 20,000 the number of Educational Choice Scholarships awarded annually.
Current Status: 3/2/2011 – House Education, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3310.02
HB118 COURT JUDGES AND OFFICERS (FENDE L) To provide that residential and familial information of a probation officer is not a public record, to increase the penalties for certain offenses when a judge or magistrate is the victim, to prohibit a person from threatening a judge or magistrate, and to make the killing of a judge or magistrate an aggravating circumstance for the imposition of the death penalty.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Criminal Justice, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 149.43, 2903.01, 2903.11, 2903.12, 2903.13, 2903.21, 2903.23, 2929.04
HB120 WATER ACCESS TO EVERY RESIDENCE (CAREY, JR. J) To create the Water Access to Every Residence Task Force.
Current Status: 6/28/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
ORC Sections: None
HB121 ACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE PARENTS (ROSENBERGER C) Regarding child custody and visitation rights of parents called to active military service.
Current Status: 6/9/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/9/2011
ORC Sections: 3109.04, 3109.051
HB123 WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BUDGET (HOTTINGER J) To allow the administrator of Workers’ Compensation to waive criteria certain public employers must satisfy to become self-insuring employers; to require bills for medical and vocational rehabilitation services in claims that are ultimately denied to be paid from the Surplus Fund Account under specified circumstances; to make appropriations for the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation and for the Workers’ Compensation Council for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013; and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau’s and the Council’s programs.
Current Status: 4/25/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Some provisions eff. 4/25/11; others 7/29/11
ORC Sections: 145.27, 145.56, 145.561, 145.573, 145.82, 145.95, 2329.66, 2929.192, 2929.193, 3305.07, 3305.08, 3305.12, 3305.20, 3305.22, 3307.20, 3307.373, 3307.41, 3307.42, 3309.22, 3309.66, 3309.661, 3309.673, 3309.82, 3309.95, 4121.12, 4121.123, 4121.125, 4121.32, 4121.41, 4121.44, 4121.68, 4123.35, 4123.512, 4123.52, 5505.04, 5505.22, 5505.263, 5505.34, 742.41, 742.46, 742.464, 742.47, 742.64
HB124 INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION BUDGET (HOTTINGER J) To set appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of Commission programs.
Current Status: 4/25/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 4/25/11
ORC Sections: None
HB126 BMV DATABASE – NEXT OF KIN (GROSSMAN C, GONZALES A) To provide that when a person submits an application to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles for a new or renewal driver’s license, commercial driver’s license, temporary instruction permit, motorcycle operator’s license or endorsement, or identification card, the individual must be furnished with a next of kin information form on which the individual may list information in the next of kin database of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
Current Status: 3/2/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
ORC Sections: 4501.81
HB131 EMPLOYMENT RELATED MATTERS (REECE A) To prohibit employers from using a consumer report or investigative consumer report for employment purposes.
Current Status: 5/11/2011 – House Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4113.73, 4113.99
HB133 OIL AND GAS LEASING/DRILLING ON STATE LAND (ADAMS J) To create the Oil and Gas Leasing Board and to establish a procedure by which the Board may enter into leases for oil and gas production on land owned or under the control of a state agency for the purpose of providing funding for capital and operating costs for the agency.
Current Status: 6/30/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/30/2011
ORC Sections: 123.01, 131.50, 1503.012, 1509.70, 1509.71, 1509.72, 1509.73, 1509.74, 1509.75, 1509.76, 1509.77, 1509.78, 1531.06, 1531.33, 1541.26, 3345.181
HB134 CAPITAL GAINS INVESTMENTS (SCHURING K) To reduce the income tax rate on capital gains reinvested in Ohio-based investments.
Current Status: 6/1/2011 – House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5747.01, 5747.014, 5747.02
HB136 PARENTAL CHOICE AND TAXPAYER SAVINGS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (HUFFMAN M) To replace the Educational Choice and the Cleveland scholarship program with the Parental Choice and Taxpayer Savings Scholarship Program.
Current Status: 9/21/2011 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Education, (Eighth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 109.57, 109.572, 3301.0714, 3310.02, 3310.03, 3310.06, 3310.27, 3310.28, 3310.29, 3310.30, 3310.31, 3310.32, 3310.33, 3310.34, 3310.35, 3310.37, 3310.38, 3310.51, 3317.03, 5727.84
HB144 ONLINE SMALL BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER (DOVILLA M, BAKER N) To create an online small business resource center on the Department of Development’s internet web site.
Current Status: 4/7/2011 – House Economic and Small Business Development, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 122.014, 122.015
HB146 LIQUOR PERMITS (WEDDINGTON C) To prohibit the Division of Liquor Control from issuing a retail liquor permit or entering into an agency liquor contract if the permit location or liquor agency store is proposed to be located within 1,000 feet of a school, church, library, public playground, or township park.
Current Status: 3/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 4301.17, 4303.26, 4303.292
HB147 COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSES (WEDDINGTON C) To require the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to disqualify the holder of a commercial driver’s license from operating a commercial motor vehicle upon a municipal OVI conviction and to eliminate the waiver provision for restricted commercial driver’s licenses for farm-related service industries.
Current Status: 6/15/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4506.03, 4506.12, 4506.16, 4506.24
HB150 SUBDIVISION JOIN REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY (GARDNER R, SEARS B) To create an additional procedure for a subdivision 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 that regional authority to withdraw from the authority.
Current Status: 3/15/2011 – Referred to Committee House Local Government
ORC Sections: 306.322, 306.55
HB151 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (MCGREGOR R, CARNEY J) To authorize the Department of Transportation to enter into Public Private Partnership Agreements.
Current Status: 3/15/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
ORC Sections: 3517.13, 3517.151, 3517.992, 5501.70, 5501.71, 5501.72, 5501.73, 5501.74, 5501.75, 5501.76, 5501.77, 5501.78, 5501.79, 5501.80, 5501.81, 5501.82, 5501.83
HB153 BIENNIAL BUDGET (AMSTUTZ R) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
Current Status: 6/30/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Effective 6/30/2011; some sections different dates, 7 line item vetos
HB163 COAL MINING LAWS (BALDERSON T) To revise the coal mining laws regarding permit application and set-back requirements.
Current Status: 6/30/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff, 9/30/2011
ORC Sections: 1513.07, 1513.073, 1513.075, 1513.081, 1513.16, 1513.18, 1513.371
HB165 BINGO/INSTANT BINGO PROFITS (GOODWIN B, LUNDY M) To exclude property taxes from the circulation of net profit from the proceeds of the sale of instant bingo for veterans, fraternal, and sporting organizations and to clarify that no charitable organization is required to pay property taxes on a premises leased from another person to conduct bingo.
Current Status: 5/4/2011 – House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 2915.01, 2915.09
HB168 CAREER TRAINING WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT GRANT (CAREY, JR. J) To establish the Career Training Workforce Development Grant Program and to allocate a portion of casino license fees to finance the program.
Current Status: 4/7/2011 – House Economic and Small Business Development, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3333.38, 3333.46, 3345.32
HB169 PROFESSIONAL LICENSES (WILLIAMS S) To revise the laws governing issuance of certain professional licenses.
Current Status: 4/5/2011 – House State Government and Elections, (First Hearing)
HB170 ACTIONS ON CONTRACTS (MECKLENBORG R) To shorten the period of limitations for actions upon a contract in writing.
Current Status: 6/28/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary – Civil Justice
ORC Sections: 2305.06
HB181 FORECLOSURE NOTIFICATION (CELESTE T, FOLEY M) To require that notice of foreclosure and related sale of residential rental property be given to tenants at that property and to specify that a rental agreement for a residential property that is sold pursuant to a foreclosure action converts to a month-to-month rental agreement.
Current Status: 4/14/2011 – House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5321.04, 5321.20
HB183 LIQUOR PERMITS (WILLIAMS S) To prohibit the transfer of ownership or the transfer of location of a C-1, C-2, or C-2x liquor permit in, or to a premises located in, a municipal corporation or the unincorporated area of a township in which the number of that class of permits actually issued exceeds the number of that class of permits allowed to be issued under population quota restrictions.
Current Status: 4/5/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 4303.29, 4303.292
HB186 PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYER ORGANIZATION LAW (ADAMS R) To establish certain financial capacity requirements for professional employer organizations, clarify rights and liabilities of professional employer organizations and client employers, and to make other changes to the professional employer organization law.
Current Status: 6/1/2011 – BILL AMENDED, House Commerce & Labor, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4123.291, 4125.01, 4125.02, 4125.03, 4125.041, 4125.042, 4125.05, 4125.051, 4125.07, 4125.08, 4125.10, 4125.11, 4141.24, 5747.07
HB187 RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICERS (DRIEHAUS D, FOLEY M) To require registration of residential mortgage servicers, to regulate residential mortgage servicers, and to adopt civil and criminal penalties for violations of the bill’s provisions.
Current Status: 4/14/2011 – House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 109.572, 1181.05, 1181.21, 1321.52, 1323.01, 1323.02, 1323.03, 1323.04, 1323.05, 1323.06, 1323.07, 1323.08, 1323.09, 1323.10, 1323.11, 1323.12, 1323.13, 1323.14, 1323.15, 1323.16, 1323.17, 1323.18, 1323.19, 1323.20, 1323.99
HB188 OHIO CONSTITUTIONAL MODERNIZATION COMMISSION (BATCHELDER W) To establish the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 7/15/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff, 10/17/2011
ORC Sections: 103.61, 103.62, 103.63, 103.64, 103.65, 103.66, 103.67
HB192 NEW COMMUNITY AUTHORITY LAW (COLEY II W) To modify the New Community Authority Law.
Current Status: 4/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
ORC Sections: 349.01, 349.03, 349.04, 349.06, 349.09, 349.14
HB195 LICENSE SKILL-BASED AMUSEMENT MACHINE OPERATORS (ANIELSKI M, BAKER N) To provide licensing of skill-based amusement machine operators and distributors and sweepstakes terminal device operators and distributors and to make changes to bingo and other gambling law.
Current Status: 12/14/2011 – House State Government and Elections, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 2915.01, 2915.03, 2915.061, 2915.062, 2915.063, 2915.064, 2915.08, 2915.09, 3772.01, 3772.02, 3772.03, 3772.032, 3772.033, 3772.04, 3772.06, 3772.07, 3772.10, 3772.17, 3772.21, 3772.23, 3772.30, 3772.31, 3772.35, 3772.36, 3772.99
HB198 PROPERTY TAX COMPLAINTS (COLEY II W) To permit property tax complaints to be initiated only by the property owner.
Current Status: 5/12/2011 – House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 307.699, 3735.67, 5715.19, 5715.27, 5717.01
HB199 STATE BUDGET-AGGREGATE REVENUE (BECK P) To prohibit the Governor from proposing and the General Assembly from enacting a state budget with aggregate general revenue fund appropriations that exceed ninety-five per cent of the total money received in aggregate revenue.
Current Status: 4/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development
ORC Sections: 107.032, 107.033, 107.034, 107.035, 131.55, 131.56, 131.57, 131.58, 131.59, 131.60
HB200 INCOME TAX DEDUCTION FOR NET CAPITAL GAINS (BECK P) To allow an income tax deduction of up to ten thousand dollars for net capital gains.
Current Status: 4/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
ORC Sections: 5747.01
HB201 RECOVERY AUDITS (ROSENBERGER C, BECK P) To require the Auditor of State to perform recovery audits for overpayments made to vendors by certain state agencies and to permit the Auditor to contract with independent audit consultants to conduct those audits.
Current Status: 4/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 117.13, 117.60, 117.61, 117.62, 117.63, 117.64, 117.65, 117.66, 117.67, 117.68, 117.69, 117.70, 131.02
HB202 RETIREMENT BENEFITS – PUBLIC EMPLOYEES (HOLLINGTON R) To limit the retirement benefit of a re-employed retiree of a public retirement system and eliminate the deferred retirement option plan in the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund and State Highway Patrol Retirement System.
Current Status: 4/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
ORC Sections: 145.01, 145.191, 145.38, 145.384, 145.473, 145.561, 145.58, 3307.35, 3307.42, 3309.341, 3309.661, 3501.13, 5505.51, 742.26, 742.44, 742.46
HB206 COMMUNITY SAFETY PROGRAMS (STINZIANO M) To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to community policing efforts and to grant a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxpayers who donate to community safety programs.
Current Status: 5/25/2011 – House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5502.53, 5747.08, 5747.113, 5747.65, 5747.98
HB213 PROHIBIT SALE/LEASE OHIO TURNPIKE (GERBERRY R) To prohibit the sale, lease, or other disposition of the Ohio Turnpike.
Current Status: 5/3/2011 – Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
ORC Sections: 5537.011
HB220 CAT TAX CREDIT INVESTMENT LOSSES (BECK P, BAKER N) To allow a refundable commercial activity tax credit for investment losses recognized by foreign entrepreneur investors who invest in certain projects in Ohio.
Current Status: 6/23/2011 – House Economic and Small Business Development, (Sixth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5747.01, 5751.98
HB223 EMERGENCY SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATORS (PATMON B) To require certification of emergency service telecommunicators and modify training requirements.
Current Status: 6/15/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4742.02, 4742.03, 4742.04, 4742.05, 4742.06, 4742.07
HB225 COUNTY AUDITORS (PETERSON B, LANDIS A) To vest in county auditors responsibility for reviewing and approving property tax exemption applications for some publicly owned property, to authorize county auditors and boards of township trustees to adopt a direct deposit payroll policy, and to authorize counties to increase the amount credited to “rainy day” reserve balance accounts to one-sixth of the expenditures made in the preceding fiscal year from the fund in which the reserve balance account is established.
Current Status: 12/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 3/22/2012
ORC Sections: 113.43, 135.01, 135.143, 135.35, 148.061, 167.03, 305.171, 305.23, 307.862, 307.88, 329.01, 329.40, 329.41, 329.42, 329.43, 329.44, 329.45, 329.46, 330.04, 349.01, 349.03, 349.04, 349.06, 349.14, 3917.04, 4931.41, 4931.43, 4931.44, 4931.45, 4931.49, 4931.50, 4931.64, 4931.65, 4931.66, 505.603, 5101.01, 5705.13, 5705.392, 5713.07, 5713.08, 5713.081, 5713.082, 5715.13, 5715.27, 5717.02, 9.37, 9.482
HB226 POLICE DOGS (SPRAGUE R) To allow a police dog to accompany its handler in places to which the general public is invited.
Current Status: 9/27/2011 – House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 955.43
HB229 AGRICULTURE (BUCHY J) To revise the laws governing agriculture.
Current Status: 7/15/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 10/17/2011
ORC Sections: 121.04, 121.09, 1711.50, 1711.51, 1711.57, 307.204, 3717.22, 3769.0811, 4707.11, 505.266, 901.08, 901.43, 903.02, 907.11, 923.41, 923.411, 923.52, 924.52, 941.02, 941.041, 941.14, 942.02, 943.03, 943.031, 943.04, 943.05, 943.16, 953.23, 955.35, 959.14
HB230 EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION QUESTIONS (WILLIAMS S) To prohibit employers from including on an employment application any question concerning whether an applicant has pleaded guilty to or been convicted of a felony.
Current Status: 6/1/2011 – House Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4113.13
HB232 COUNTY FACILITIES REVIEW BOARDS (LETSON T, O’BRIEN S) To expand the authority of a county facilities review board to include any facility where an adult ward of the probate court resides or receives services among the institutions subject to its review.
Current Status: 11/29/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs
ORC Sections: 331.01, 331.02, 331.03, 331.04
HB237 SALE OF STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY (GERBERRY R, HAGAN R) To bar the sale of any state correctional facility without prior enactment by the General Assembly of an act that authorizes and approves the sale.
Current Status: 5/25/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 5120.03
HB243 A-3A LIQUOR PERMITS (KOZLOWSKI C) To eliminate the restriction on the number of A-3a liquor permits that may be issued per county and to specify that new A-3a permits issued after the act’s effective date are subject to local option election.
Current Status: 12/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 3/22/2012
ORC Sections: 4301.10, 4301.17, 4301.171, 4301.62, 4303.02, 4303.041, 4303.181, 4303.184, 4303.209, 4303.25, 4303.29
HB246 POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS PURCHASING (ROEGNER K) To authorize political subdivisions to purchase by reverse auction certain services and supplies that they are currently prohibited from purchasing by reverse auction.
Current Status: 12/13/2011 – House Local Government, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 9.314
HB256 CHANGE REQUIREMENTS-CONCEALED CARRY (ADAMS J) 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, except on liquor permit premises, 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, government buildings other than schools, courthouses, law enforcement offices, and correctional facilities; to replace the prohibitions that apply only to a concealed carry licenses 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 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; and to require a sheriff who issues a renewed concealed carry license to return the expired license to the licensee or destroy it.
Current Status: 6/14/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 1547.69, 2923.11, 2923.12, 2923.1212, 2923.1213, 2923.122, 2923.123, 2923.124, 2923.125, 2923.126, 2923.128, 2923.16
HB263 GUN SHOWS (HEARD T) To require that a gun show vendor obtain a criminal records check of a prospective firearm transferee at a gun show to require that a federally licensed firearms dealer who obtains a criminal records check maintain a record of that check and report to law enforcement the name of any prospective transferee who may not legally receive or possess firearms, and to require a gun show promoter to post a notice of the records check requirement at the gun show in the form prescribed by the Attorney General.
Current Status: 6/15/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
ORC Sections: 2923.26, 2923.27, 2923.28, 2923.29, 2923.30
HB264 SUNSET REVIEW COMMITTEE (BURKE D, GROSSMAN C) To implement the recommendations of the Sunset Review Committee by abolishing, terminating, transferring, or renewing various agencies and by reestablishing the Sunset Review Committee but postponing its operation until the 131st General Assembly, to terminate the operation of certain provisions of this act on December 31, 2016; to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 6/22/2011 – House State Government and Elections, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 101.532, 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, 102.02, 109.91, 121.32, 127.14, 173.03, 173.04, 3302.021, 3311.71, 3312.01, 3312.09, 3313.202, 3701.025, 3701.63, 3727.312, 3737.03, 3737.21, 3737.81, 3737.86, 3737.88, 3743.54, 3746.04, 4117.03, 4121.03, 4121.12, 4121.121, 4121.125, 4121.128, 4123.341, 4123.342, 4123.35, 5111.708, 5123.032, 5123.093, 9.90
HB268 JURY SERVICE LAW (SZOLLOSI M, BUTLER, JR. J) To modernize the language of, to reorganize, and to remove obsolete provisions from the jury service law.
Current Status: 2/1/2012 – PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 30-0
ORC Sections: 163.10, 1901.25, 1907.28, 2101.30, 2311.42, 2313.01, 2313.02, 2313.03, 2313.04, 2313.05, 2313.06, 2313.07, 2313.08, 2313.09, 2313.10, 2313.11, 2313.12, 2313.13, 2313.14, 2313.15, 2313.16, 2313.17, 2313.18, 2313.19, 2313.20, 2313.21, 2313.22, 2313.23, 2313.24, 2313.251, 2313.29, 2313.34, 2313.38, 2313.41, 2313.42, 2313.46, 2313.47, 2313.99, 2335.28, 2938.05, 2938.14, 2939.02, 2939.03, 2945.24, 2947.23, 3.08, 311.17, 3314.03, 3326.11, 509.15, 5155.12, 5563.05, 733.73, 733.74
HB269 DRIVER’S LICENSE (DOVILLA M) To provide that a person who holds a current, valid driver’s license from another state be required to pass only vision screening in order to be issued a driver’s license.
Current Status: 6/21/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
ORC Sections: 4507.05
HB273 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AWARDS (HENNE M, HAGAN C) To require the Department of Development to report economic development award information to the General Assembly and public remove responsibility of the Attorney General to publish economic development award reports.
Current Status: 9/22/2011 – House Economic and Small Business Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 122.013, 122.94, 125.112
HB274 TRANSFER FEE COVENANT (LETSON T) To provide that a transfer fee for purposes of a transfer fee covenant does not include any payment required pursuant to a conservation easement or agricultural easement.
Current Status: 11/15/2011 – House Judiciary and Ethics, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5301.057
HB275 RIGHT TO CURE AGREEMENT (YOUNG R, SLABY L) To allow suppliers and consumers to enter into a Right to Cure agreement.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1345.09, 1345.092
HB276 DEFINITION OF AGRICULTURE FOR ZONING (BUCHY J, GENTILE L) To include the production from certain feedstocks of biodiesel, biomass energy, electric or heat energy, and biologically derived methane gas in the definition of “agriculture” for purposes of the laws governing zoning, township zoning, and current agricultural use valuation.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1.61, 1309.102, 1311.55, 1729.01, 303.01, 303.21, 3781.06, 519.01, 519.21, 5501.50, 5713.30, 901.511, 903.10, 929.01
HB277 HORSE-RACING TRACK MOVE (BLESSING L, GERBERRY R) To permit a horse-racing permit holder who is eligible to become a video lottery sales agent to apply to the State Racing Commission to move its track to another location.
Current Status: 7/15/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 10/17/2011
ORC Sections: 2915.01, 3772.01, 3772.11, 3772.15, 3772.23, 3772.27, 3772.31, 3772.34, 5751.01, 5753.01
HB278 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (STEBELTON G, OKEY M) To increase the minimum amounts required for valid proof of financial responsibility and to amend sections 4509.01, 4509.20, 4590.41, and 4509.51 of the Revised Code two years after the effective date of this act to increase again the minimum amounts required for valid proof of financial responsibility.
Current Status: 9/27/2011 – House Insurance, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4509.01, 4509.20, 4509.41, 4509.51
HB283 DRIVER’S LICENSE APPLICANTS (GROSSMAN C) To require each person under eighteen years of age applying for a driver’s license to complete a first-aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training course.
Current Status: 7/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
ORC Sections: 4507.21
HB286 EMPLOYMENT OF UNAUTHORIZED ALIENS (COMBS C, BUBP D) To adopt provisions related to the employment of unauthorized aliens.
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4113.81, 4113.82, 4113.83, 4113.84, 4113.85, 4113.86, 4113.87, 4113.88, 4113.99
HB294 LSC PREPARATION OF LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENT (CELESTE T, GOYAL J) To prohibit the Legislative Service Commission staff, when preparing a legislative document, from communicating with outside parties without a member of the General Assembly or General Assembly staff present and to make communications between such parties and Legislative Service Commission staff public records.
Current Status: 7/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 101.30, 101.302
HB295 CHARITY GAMES OF CHANCE ON FAIRGROUNDS (RUHL M) To remove the prohibition that an agricultural society must not permit, during, for one week before, or three days after a fair, a charitable organization to conduct games of chance or bingo on the fairground.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – House Local Government, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1711.09
HB296 CAREER-TECHNICAL PLANNING DISTRICTS (BARNES, JR. J) To require the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents to establish standards and protocols for approving career-technical planning districts to award associate degrees.
Current Status: 9/27/2011 – House Education, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3333.07
HB304 LAKE ERIE OIL/NATURAL GAS (ANTONIO N) To ban the taking or removal of oil or natural gas from and under the bed of Lake Erie.
Current Status: 9/13/2011 – Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
ORC Sections: 1505.07
HB305 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS (MURRAY D) To prohibit disqualifying an individual from receiving unemployment compensation solely because that individual is seeking only part-time employment, to allow training extension benefits under specified conditions, to create the Unemployment Modernization Review Committee, and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 9/13/2011 – Referred to Committee House Commerce & Labor
ORC Sections: 4141.241, 4141.25, 4141.29, 4141.302
HB306 BUILDING STANDARDS (PILLICH C) To require a building or structure constructed using state capital budget moneys to adhere to certain
energy efficiency and building standards and to encourage the use of Ohio-produced products.
Current Status: 9/13/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 153.014
HB309 ADDITION-OHIO’S GREAT SEAL (BUTLER, JR. J, ROSENBERGER C) To add a representation of the Wright Brothers’ first piloted airplane to the Coat of Arms and Great Seal of the State of Ohio.
Current Status: 12/7/2011 – House State Government and Elections, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5.04, 5.10
HB310 ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES TAX REDUCTION (GOODWIN B) To reduce the amount of sales tax due on the purchase or lease of a qualifying electric vehicle by up to $2,000.
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5739.025
HB317 STATE GOVERNMENT TEMPORARY HIRING FREEZE (YOUNG R, THOMPSON A) To impose a temporary hiring freeze in state government until the state workforce is reduced by ten per cent.
Current Status: 12/14/2011 – House State Government and Elections, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 124.395
HB318 ELIMINATE MARCH PRIMARY ELECTIONS (BLESSING L, O’BRIEN S) To set two separate primary elections in 2012 for presidential and congressional races.
Current Status: 10/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 1/20/2012
ORC Sections: 3513.121
HB319 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES (HUFFMAN M) To establish Congressional district boundaries for the state based on the 2010 decennial census of Ohio.
Current Status: 9/26/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/26/2011
ORC Sections: 3521.01
HB322 INTEREST RATES (BRENNER A) To permit Ohio banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, and credit unions to charge the same interest rate and other charges that out-of-state banks may charge Ohio customers.
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1733.413
HB323 RETIREMENT SYSTEM (DOVILLA M, ANIELSKI M) To add extortion and perjury to the felonies committed by a public retirement system while serving in a position of honor, trust or profit under the law governing the forfeiture of retirement system benefits and the termination of retirement system disability benefits.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Criminal Justice, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 145.572, 145.573, 2901.43, 2929.192, 2929.193, 3305.11, 3305.12, 3307.372, 3307.373, 3309.672, 3309.673, 5505.262, 5505.263, 742.463, 742.464
HB327 JOB CREATION-RETENTION TAX CREDIT (GONZALES A) To provide for a six-year trial period in which taxpayers may receive a job creation or job retention tax credit for the employment of home-based employees and to require the Director of Development to issue a report at the end of the
six-year period.
Current Status: 1/26/2012 – BILL AMENDED, House Economic and Small Business Development, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 122.17, 122.171
HB328 CONCEALED CARRY (UECKER J) To modify the journalist exception to the provision that makes concealed handgun license records confidential.
Current Status: 9/21/2011 – Referred to Committee House Criminal Justice
ORC Sections: 2923.129
HB329 TELECOMMUNICATIONS FRAUD (MCGREGOR R) To allow the Attorney General to investigate the offenses of unauthorized use of property and telecommunications fraud, to modify the penalties for telecommunications fraud, and to create the offense of telecommunications fraud perpetrated against an elderly person or disabled adult.
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 2913.05, 4719.17
HB331 CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (DOVILLA M, BUBP D) To create the Cybersecurity, Education, and Economic Development Council.
Current Status: 1/26/2012 – REPORTED OUT, House Economic and Small Business Development, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 121.92
HB333 NONRENEWABLE DRIVER’S LICENSE (YOUNG R) To establish, under certain circumstances, a grace period and prorated fees when a temporary resident applies for a nonrenewable driver’s license.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4507.09, 4507.23, 4510.12
HB335 SEXUAL/GENDER DISCRIMINATION (ANTONIO N, MCGREGOR R) To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Commerce & Labor
ORC Sections: 124.93, 125.111, 1501.012, 1751.18, 2927.03, 3113.36, 3301.53, 3304.14, 3304.50, 3313.481, 3314.06, 3332.09, 340.12, 3721.13, 3905.55, 4111.17, 4112.01, 4112.02, 4112.021, 4112.04, 4112.05, 4112.08, 4117.19, 4735.16, 4735.55, 4757.07, 4758.16, 4765.18, 5104.09, 5107.26, 511.03, 5111.31, 5119.623, 5123.351, 5126.07, 5515.08, 5709.832, 717.01, 9.03
HB336 OHIO WORKS FIRST/SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (UECKER J) To terminate an individual’s eligibility for the Ohio Works First program or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for three years on conviction of a felony that has as an element the possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
ORC Sections: 5101.54, 5101.84
HB337 COMMERCIAL DRIVERS’ LICENSES (ROSENBERGER C) To make changes in the law governing commercial drivers’ licenses, including hazardous material endorsements, medical certification requirements, disqualifications, conviction records, and establishing texting while driving as a serious traffic violation, to exclude certain components from the prohibited length dimensions of specified types of vehicles, to revise the law governing self-sufficiency contracts established under the Ohio Works First program, to eliminate
requirements that the Department of Job and Family Services employ, contract with, or designate only attorneys to make decisions in appeals regarding family services programs, to temporarily extend the look-back period from two years to three years for determining whether a state “on” indicator exists based on the total unemployment rate for purposes of state extended unemployment benefits, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 1/27/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
ORC Sections: 2935.36, 2951.041, 4506.01, 4506.05, 4506.07, 4506.09, 4506.10, 4506.101, 4506.12, 4506.13, 4506.131, 4506.14, 4506.15, 4506.16, 4506.161, 4506.17, 4506.21, 4510.03, 4510.036, 4513.37, 5101.35, 5101.351, 5107.12, 5107.14, 5577.05
HB340 SOCIAL SECURITY NO. ON FISHING LICENSES (PATMON B, DOVILLA M) To specify that an applicant for a fishing license cannot be required to provide more than the last four digits of the applicant’s Social Security number.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
ORC Sections: 1533.32
HB341 FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES (HENNE M) To make changes to the law regulating fraternal benefit societies.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, House Insurance, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3903.81, 3921.10, 3921.101, 3921.13, 3921.19, 3921.191, 3921.22, 3921.28, 3921.29, 3921.30, 3921.31, 3921.33, 3921.35
HB342 AGREEMENTS TO PRIVATIZE STATE PROPERTY (PILLICH C, DRIEHAUS D) To limit agreements to privatize state property, facilities, services, or functions.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 9.27
HB343 DRUG TESTING FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS (HAGAN R) To establish a controlled substance testing requirement for statewide elected officials, members of the General Assembly, the Supreme Court, the board of directors of JobsOhio, and recipients of Troubled Asset Relief Program money and to establish a process for recalling statewide elected officials and members of the General Assembly.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
ORC Sections: 102.10, 187.02, 3.11, 3.18
HB344 OHIO INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE (BARNES, JR. J) To establish the Ohio International Initiative by creating the “SellOhio Global Initiative” with in the Department of Development and the Global Initiative on International Relations within the General Assembly to create new, untapped global markets for Ohio businesses and thereby promote job creation, and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 11/15/2011 – House Finance and Appropriations, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 122.86
HB345 STIMULATION OF OIL AND GAS WELLS (DRIEHAUS D, HEARD T) Establishes a moratorium on horizontal stimulation of oil and gas wells until the USEPA publishes a report containing the results of a study of the relationship of hydraulic fracturing to drinking water resources and the Chief of the Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management issues a report analyzing how Ohio’s rules address issues raised in the USEPA report.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
ORC Sections: None
HB347 NONCHARTERED VILLAGE (ANIELSKI M) To authorize the legislative authority of a statutory nonchartered village to be composed off five instead of six members and to authorize the terms of office to be nonstaggered.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – House Local Government, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 731.09, 731.091
HB349 UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES (MCGREGOR R) To make changes in certain provisions relating to road signs and traffic signals for purposes of the Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
Current Status: 1/20/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 4/20/2012
ORC Sections: 3781.111, 4510.31, 4511.01, 4511.041, 4511.09, 4511.102, 4511.103, 4511.105, 4511.106, 4511.11, 4511.13, 4511.131, 4511.14, 4511.37, 4511.69, 4955.33
HB351 WELL STIMULATION/BRINE DISPOSAL (ANTONIO N, FEDOR T) To establish requirements governing well stimulation, brine disposal and water that is used in the drilling/operation of oil and gas wells, including a requirement that oil and gas permitees pay a seven per cent overriding royalty for each well that is stimulated.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
ORC Sections: 1509.031, 1509.063, 1509.064, 1509.191, 1509.192, 1509.227, 6111.70
HB352 DANGEROUS EXOTIC ANIMALS (PHILLIPS D) To prohibit the future acquisition of a dangerous exotic animal, to require a person owning a dangerous exotic animal, on the act’s effective date to register it with the Division of Wildlife, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
ORC Sections: 1531.99
HB355 TAXPAYERS CONTRIBUTE TO STATE (BLAIR T) To allow taxpayers to contribute an amount to the state through their income tax returns and designate how the state must use the contribution.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5747.113
HB356 INCREASE ALCOHOL CONTENT IN BEER (RAMOS D) To increase the legally permitted alcohol of beer and to generally prohibit the inclusion of alcohol of caffeine or other stimulants in beer containing more than 12% of alcohol by volume.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 4301.01, 4301.71
HB357 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE – TAXING DISTRICT (RAMOS D) To require JobsOhio and state agencies offering economic development assistance to obtain Controlling Board approval before providing assistance to a person who, at or near the time of receiving the assistance, relocates employment positions from one taxing district to another or eliminates positions at an existing location.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
ORC Sections: 9.662
HB358 PRIMARY ELECTIONS (CARNEY J) To require all candidates for nomination to office in 2012 to appear on the ballot at the June 12, 2012, primary
election, to eliminate the requirement that Ohio conduct two primary elections in 2012, to eliminate the appropriation that would pay for the second primary election in 2012, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: None
HB360 WIRELESS 9-1-1 CHARGES (ROSENBERGER C) To revise the amount and methods of collection and remittance of the wireless 9-1-1 charge for prepaid wireless services.
Current Status: 12/14/2011 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4927.03, 4927.15, 4931.40, 4931.41, 4931.44, 4931.49, 4931.50, 4931.60, 4931.61, 4931.611, 4931.62, 4931.621, 4931.622, 4931.63, 4931.64, 4931.65, 4931.66, 4931.67, 4931.69, 4931.99
HB361 COURT-ORDERED PARENTING TIME-RAILROAD PERSONNEL (LETSON T) To require railroads to allow a conductor or engineer to exercise court-ordered parenting time without terminating employment, reducing pay, or taking other similar action against the parent.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Commerce & Labor
ORC Sections: 3109.054
HB362 TURNPIKE TOLLS (GERBERRY R, LUNDY M) To prohibit the Ohio Turnpike Commission from increasing tolls before January 1, 2013, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
ORC Sections: None
HB363 BUDGET STABILIZATION FUND (DUFFEY M) To increase the balance that must exist in the Budget Stabilization Fund, from 5% to 10% of the General Revenue Fund revenue, before revenue surpluses are applied to income tax reductions.
Current Status: 12/13/2011 – House Finance and Appropriations, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 131.43, 131.44
HB365 ENHANCED FEDERAL INCOME TAX DEPRECIATION DEDUCTION (BECK P, DOVILLA M) To allow taxpayers who claim an enhanced federal income tax depreciation deduction to reduce the amount of the
deduction the taxpayer must add-back for Ohio income tax purposes if the taxpayer increases payroll in the year the enhanced federal deduction is taken.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5747.01
HB366 CONTRACT CARRIER STANDARDS-RAILROAD EMPLOYEES (HAGAN R) To establish requirements for contract carriers that transport railroad employees.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
ORC Sections: 4923.30
HB368 LONG-RANGE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK COUNCIL (ROEGNER K, HAGAN C) To create the Long-range Financial Outlook Council for the purpose of informing the public and the General Assembly about the financial status of the state by studying conditions and issuing an annual long-range financial outlook report.
Current Status: 12/13/2011 – House Finance and Appropriations, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 101.82, 103.13, 103.35, 103.36, 103.37, 103.38, 103.39, 107.036
HB369 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES (HUFFMAN M) To establish Congressional district boundaries for the state based on the 2010 decennial census of Ohio, to eliminate the requirement that Ohio conduct two primary elections in 2012, to eliminate the appropriation that would pay for the second primary election in 2012, to eliminate the requirement of mailing an election notice to each registered elector prior to the March 6, 2012 primary election, to establish a single primary election on March 6, 2012, for the purpose of nominating all candidates for election in 2012,
and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 12/15/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 12/15/2011
ORC Sections: 3521.01
HB370 NEW COMMUNITY AUTHORITY LAW (COMBS C) To make changes to the New Community Authority Law.
Current Status: 11/29/2011 – House Economic and Small Business Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 349.01, 349.03, 349.04, 349.06, 349.14
HB371 LOCAL GOVERNMENT INNOVATION PROGRAM (AMSTUTZ R, WEDDINGTON C) Regarding the Local Government Innovation Program and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 12/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 3/22/2012
ORC Sections: 189.01, 189.03, 189.04, 189.05, 189.06, 189.07, 189.08
HB378 UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS (YOUNG R) To generally require the cancellation of an undocumented alien’s driver’s license and voter registration and the termination of any benefits the undocumented alien receives from programs administered by the Department of Job and Family Services, if the undocumented alien is arrested, identified as an undocumented alien by a federal fingerprint database, and has been issued a driver’s license or provided a false or altered driver’s license or another person’s driver’s license for identification at the tine of arrest or processing.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 109.5722
HB379 WATER-WORKS/SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM COMPANIES (BLESSING L) To permit for water-works and sewage disposal system companies, certain rate-calculation adjustments and a tax adjustment surcharge, to make changes regarding water and sewer infrastructure improvement surcharges, and alter language regarding utility requirements for when rate increases may take effect in the absence of administrative action.
Current Status: 12/14/2011 – House Public Utilities, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4909.05, 4909.06, 4909.07, 4909.08, 4909.15, 4909.156, 4909.172, 4909.18, 4909.191, 4909.42
HB381 SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPERTY (SLABY L) With respect to offering school district property to state universities.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – House Education, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3313.41
HB383 HOME CONSTRUCTION SERVICE SUPPLIERS (SLABY L) To make changes relative to residential construction and the Consumer Sales Practices Act and to establish laws governing the practices of home construction services suppliers.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – House Judiciary and Ethics, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1345.01, 4722.01, 4722.02, 4722.03, 4722.04, 4722.05, 4722.06
HB386 GAMING LAW (BLESSING L) To make changes to the law regarding video lottery terminals, casino gaming, and horse racing, to make an appropriation, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – House State Government and Elections, (Seventh Hearing)
ORC Sections: 111.15, 122.014, 2505.09, 2505.12, 2915.01, 2923.31, 2933.51, 3301.0714, 3769.087, 3769.089, 3770.02, 3770.03, 3770.05, 3770.21, 3772.01, 3772.03, 3772.04, 3772.091, 3772.10, 3772.13, 3772.16, 3772.17, 3772.28, 3772.99, 5753.01, 5753.03
HB387 COUNTY BUILDINGS SALE-LEASEBACK (SEARS B, ASHFORD M) To authorize a board of county commissioners of any county to enter into agreements for the sale and leaseback of county buildings.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – House Local Government, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 307.093
HB388 PERS RETIREE BENEFIT (DAMSCHRODER R) To suspend, during the period of employment, the retirement benefit of a public retirement system retiree who returns to public employment.
Current Status: 12/6/2011 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
ORC Sections: 145.01, 145.191, 145.38, 145.384, 145.386, 145.471, 145.473, 145.58, 145.82, 3307.35, 3307.352, 3307.354, 3309.341, 3309.344, 3309.346, 3501.13, 742.26, 742.261
HB390 SCRAP METAL DEALERS (COMBS C) To prohibit scrap metal dealers from purchasing or receiving copper plumbing pipe from any person other than a plumber and purchasing or receiving an air conditioning unit from any person other than a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning contractor.
Current Status: 12/13/2011 – Referred to Committee House Local Government
ORC Sections: 4737.04
HB391 2012 PRIMARY ELECTION (HUFFMAN M) To eliminate the requirement that Ohio conduct two primary elections in 2012, to eliminate the appropriation that would pay for the
second primary election in 2012, to eliminate the requirement of mailing an election notice to each registered elector prior to the March 6, 2012, primary election, to establish a single primary election on May 22, 2012, for the purpose of nominating all candidates for election in 2012, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 12/14/2011 – Bills for Third Consideration; Pending Committee Report
ORC Sections: 3501.02
HB394 SALES TAX EXEMPTION-METAL BULLION (MAAG R) To exempt from sales and use taxes the sale or use of investment metal bullion and coins
Current Status: 1/17/2012 – Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
ORC Sections: 5739.02
HB395 SPEED LIMIT INCREASE (MAAG R) To increase the speed limit on interstate freeways from 65 to 70 miles per hour for all vehicles and to limit the use of the left-hand lane of interstate freeways.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4511.21, 4511.35
HB406 NEW HOME INCOME TAX CREDIT (BECK P) To authorize a nonrefundable income tax credit for the purchase of a new home.
Current Status: 1/17/2012 – Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
ORC Sections: 5747.78, 5747.98
HB407 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION-DEVELOPER OWNED PROPERTY (BECK P) To exempt from real property taxation the value of single-family residential property owned by a developer or builder until the developer or builder transfers possession or title.
Current Status: 1/17/2012 – Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
ORC Sections: 5709.29
HB408 METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITIES (TERHAR L) To change the composition of certain metropolitan housing authorities.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3735.27
HB415 AGRICULTURAL LINKED DEPOSIT PROGRAM (SPRAGUE R, HILL B) To modify the Agricultural Linked Deposit Program with respect to the maximum amount the Treasurer of State may invest in
agricultural linked deposits, the interest rate at which loans are made under the Program, and the maximum loan amount.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 135.631, 135.73, 135.74, 135.75
HB416 PUBLIC POOLS-SPAS-SPECIAL USE POOLS (BLAIR T) Regarding public pools, spas, and special use pools.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
ORC Sections: 3749.01, 3749.02, 3749.03, 3749.04, 3749.05, 3749.06, 3749.07, 3749.08
HB418 FRACKING MORATORIUM (HAGAN R) To establish a moratorium until January 1, 2015, on the disposal by injection into an underground formation of brine and other waste substances associated with the exploration or development of oil and gas resources.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
ORC Sections: None
HB420 NUISANCE WILD ANIMAL CONTROL COMPANIES-INDIVIDUALS (PETERSON B, STINZIANO M) To require nuisance wild animal control companies and individuals who provide nuisance wild animal removal or control services to be licensed by the Director of Natural Resources.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1531.40, 1531.41, 1531.42, 1531.43, 1531.44
HB422 CONCEALED CARRY (MAAG R, THOMPSON A) To repeal requirements that a concealed carry licensee inform an approaching law enforcement officer that the licensee is a licensee and is carrying a concealed handgun and keep the licensee’s hands in plain sight after the officer begins approaching and until the officer leaves; to remove from a general requirement that a licensee stopped for a law enforcement purpose comply with lawful orders of a law enforcement officer a reference to orders to keep the licensee’s hands in sight; to revise the definition of “unloaded” that applies to the offense of “improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle”; to repeal the concealed carry license suspension required for certain
misdemeanor convictions of that offense; and to conform certain provisions to changes to that offense made by Sub. S.B. 17 of the 129th General Assembly.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 2923.12, 2923.124, 2923.126, 2923.128, 2923.16
HB424 OHIO FAIR EMPLOYMENT ACT (CELESTE T, FOLEY M) To prohibit and provide a penalty for posting an advertisement of an employment position that discriminates on the
basis of an individual’s unemployment status.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – Referred to Committee House Commerce & Labor
ORC Sections: 4112.01, 4112.02, 4112.05, 4112.15, 4112.99
HB430 COUNTY COMPETITIVE BIDDING & PROCUREMENT THRESHOLDS (BOOSE T, HACKETT R) To increase the county competitive bidding and other procurement thresholds, to make other changes to the county competitive bidding law, and to eliminate the annual adoption of certain resolutions.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – Referred to Committee House Local Government
ORC Sections: 307.12, 307.86, 307.861, 307.863, 307.88, 5705.41
HB434 POLITICAL SUBDIVISION-TORT LIABILITY (NEWBOLD C) To require that a political subdivision other than a county exhaust its own assets to satisfy its contract or tort liability, before it may seek contribution out of the assets of the county or counties having territory within the political subdivision.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – Introduced
ORC Sections: 2744.02, 2744.09
HB436 SITEOHIO CERTIFICATION PROGRAM (GROSSMAN C, ANIELSKI M) To create the SiteOhio certification program within the Department of Development to certify and market eligible commercial, industrial, and manufacturing sites and facilities.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – Introduced
ORC Sections: 122.97, 122.971
HCR3 HEALTH COVERAGE TAX CREDIT (O’BRIEN S) To request the members of the United States Congress to reauthorize and continue the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) enhancements including provisions related to the monthly reimbursement program, the qualified family members program, and Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Associations (VEBAs).
Current Status: 2/10/2011 – Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
ORC Sections: None
HCR4 URANIUM ENRICHMENT (ROSENBERGER C) To urge the President of the United States to direct the United States Department of Energy to ensure the continuation of the uranium enrichment work being developed by USEC, Inc. at its Piketon, Ohio plant by granting USEC’s application for a federal loan guarantee and to direct the Secretary of Energy to strongly consider providing federal funding assistance for the Clean Energy Park Demonstration Project.
Current Status: 4/12/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs
ORC Sections: None
HCR12 ENCOURAGE DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF COAL (THOMPSON A) To urge the Administration of President Barack Obama to reconsider proposals to increase taxes on producers of coal, natural gas, and petroleum and instead commit to adopting policies that encourage domestic production of these important resources.
Current Status: 6/15/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources
ORC Sections: None
HCR24 OHIO CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS (BATCHELDER W) To delegate to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives authority to designate groups of members to prepare arguments for and against amendments to the Ohio Constitution proposed by
the General Assembly, a person or persons to prepare an argument for any law, section, or item submitted to the electors by referendum petition, and a person or persons to prepare an argument against any constitutional
amendment proposed by initiative petition.
Current Status: 8/15/2011 – ADOPTED BY SENATE
ORC Sections: None
HCR31 VILLAGE OF ZOAR (LANDIS A, OKEY M) To urge the United States Army Corps of Engineers to take all actions necessary to preserve the Village of Zoar in its present location in Tuscarawas County by repairing a levee that is protecting the Village.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – House Local Government, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: None
HCR33 FEDERAL WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT (DERICKSON T, NEWBOLD C) To urge the Congress of the United States to take action on the federal Workforce Investment Act to allow states greater flexibility to address current economic realities.
Current Status: 2/9/2012 – House Economic and Small Business Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: None
HJR1 JUDICIAL CHANGES (HUFFMAN M, FENDE L) Proposing to amend Section 6 of Article IV and to repeal Sections 19 and 22 of Article IV of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to change the age at and after which a person may not be able to be elected or appointed to a judicial office and to eliminate the authority of the General Assembly to establish courts of conciliation and to reappoint a Supreme Court commission.
Current Status: 7/6/2011 – Filed with Secretary of State
ORC Sections: None
HJR2 HEALTH CARE COVERAGE (MAAG R, SEARS B) To preserve the freedom of Ohioans to choose their health care and health care coverage.
Current Status: 3/23/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Health and Aging, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: None
HR27 RONALD REAGAN DAY (ADAMS J) Recognizing February 6, 2011, as Ronald Reagan Day.
Current Status: 2/8/2011 – ADOPTED BY HOUSE; Vote 94-3
ORC Sections: None
HR97 TRANSCANADA KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE PROJECT (SEARS B) To urge Congress to support the continued and increased importation of oil derived from Canadian oil sands and urge Congress to ask the U.S. Secretary of State to approve the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline project from Alberta to Oklahoma.
Current Status: 6/15/2011 – ADOPTED BY HOUSE; Vote 92-0
ORC Sections: None
SB1 JOBSOHIO (WAGONER M) To authorize the creation of JobsOhio, the non-profit economic development corporation.
Current Status: 2/2/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Finance
ORC Sections: None
SB2 REGULATORY REFORM (HUGHES J) To evaluate the economic impact of agency rules and regulations on small business in Ohio.
Current Status: 3/4/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/7/2011; some sections 1/1/2012
ORC Sections: 103.0511, 107.51, 107.52, 107.53, 107.54, 107.55, 107.61, 107.62, 107.63, 111.15, 117.20, 119.03, 119.032, 121.39, 121.81, 121.82, 121.83, 121.91, 122.08, 122.081, 122.94, 1710.02
SB4 PERFORMANCE AUDITS OF STATE AGENCIES (SCHAFFER T) To require the Auditor of State to conduct performance audits of certain state agencies.
Current Status: 4/5/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 4/5/2011
ORC Sections: 117.46, 117.461, 117.462, 117.463, 117.47, 117.471, 117.472
SB6 JOB RETENTION TAX CREDIT (PATTON T) To authorize a refundable job retention tax credit.
Current Status: 2/22/2011 – SB6 became part of HB58
ORC Sections: 122.171, 5725.98, 5729.98, 5733.0610, 5733.98, 5747.058, 5747.98, 5751.50, 5751.98, 718.151
SB7 IRS TAX CHANGES (OBHOF L) To expressly incorporate changes in the Internal Revenue Code since December 15, 2010, into Ohio law, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 2/17/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5701.11
SB11 GOVERNMENT REGULATION PROCESS (CAFARO C) To enact the Common Sense Regulation Act to improve state agency regulatory processes, especially as they relate to small businesses, to require state departments to develop customer service training programs, and to require the Director of Environmental Protection to provide environmental regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses.
Current Status: 2/2/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight & Reform
ORC Sections: 103.051, 103.0511, 121.24, 121.81, 121.811, 121.812, 121.813, 121.814, 121.815, 121.82, 122.08, 122.081, 122.084, 127.18, 3745.016
SB12 SMALL BUSINESS SET ASIDE (KEARNEY E) To generally require that state agencies set aside a certain amount of purchases for which only small business enterprises may compete.
Current Status: 2/2/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs
ORC Sections: 125.083
SB14 MORTGAGE SERVICERS REGISTRATION (SKINDELL M) To require registration of residential mortgage servicers, to regulate residential mortgage servicers, and to adopt civil and criminal penalties for violations of the bill’s provisions.
Current Status: 6/15/2011 – Senate Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 109.572, 1181.05, 1181.21, 1321.52, 1323.99
SB16 AGRICULTURAL EASEMENT EXEMPT ESTATE TAX (WILSON J) To exempt from the gross estate the value of real property subject to agricultural or conservation easements for the purpose of calculating a decedent’s estate tax liability.
Current Status: 2/17/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5731.15
SB17 CONCEALED CARRY LIQUOR PREMISES (SCHAFFER T) To permit a concealed carry licensee to possess a firearm in liquor permit premises, or an open air arena, for which a D permit has been issued if the licensee is not consuming liquor or under the influence of alcohol or a drug of abuse and to modify the offense of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle as it applies to concealed carry licensees.
Current Status: 6/30/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff, 9/30/2011
ORC Sections: 2923.121, 2923.125, 2923.128, 2923.16, 2953.321, 2953.33, 2953.35, 2953.37
SB22 NPDES PERMITS SEWAGE SYSTEMS (SCHAFFER T) To require the Director of Environmental Protection to consider, to the extent allowable under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, specified factors before issuing NPDES permits for sewerage systems, requiring and approving long-term control plans for wet weather discharges from sewerage systems, and enforcing provisions of that Act as applied to sewerage systems.
Current Status: 6/30/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/30/2011
ORC Sections: 6111.60
SB34 PROHIBIT CREDIT SCORE FOR INSURANCE (TAVARES C) To prohibit an insurer’s use of a credit score, credit history, or credit report in fixing a premium rate for, or the terms and conditions of, an insurance policy, or in determining whether to issue, continue, or renew an insurance policy.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3901.21
SB47 CAT TAX CREDIT GROCERY STORES (KEARNEY E) To authorize a commercial activity tax credit for underserved community grocery stores.
Current Status: 2/17/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5751.54, 5751.98
SB49 RESTRICT LIQUOR PERMITS (KEARNEY E) To prevent the issuance or transfer of a retail liquor permit if the place for which the permit is sought is so situated that it will substantially and adversely affect the normal, orderly conduct of a nursing home or childcare center and to prevent issuing or transferring the location of a retail liquor permit if the number of existing permits in the neighborhood is such that the issuance or transfer would be detrimental to and interfere with public morals, safety, or welfare.
Current Status: 3/22/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4303.292
SB58 TAX CREDIT EMPLOYMENT CONVICTED FELONS (TAVARES C) To create a tax credit for the employment of individuals who have been convicted of felonies.
Current Status: 2/10/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5733.421, 5733.98, 5747.391, 5747.98
SB61 CIVIL FIREARM RIGHTS (WILSON J) To conform the restoration of civil firearm rights with federal law and U.S. Supreme Court case law; to eliminate the prohibition against persons with certain misdemeanor drug offense convictions acquiring or possessing firearms or dangerous ordnance; and to allow restoration of civil firearm rights for firearms that are dangerous ordnance.
Current Status: 5/3/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 149.43, 149.45, 2923.13, 2923.14
SB62 COMPENSATORY TIME OFF (BEAGLE B) To give private sector employers the option to offer and employees the option to accrue and use compensatory time off in lieu of monetary overtime compensation.
Current Status: 2/16/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor
ORC Sections: 4111.03, 4111.031, 4111.05, 4111.10, 4111.13, 4111.99
SB65 EDUCATIONAL CHOICE SCHOLARSHIPS (CATES G) To eliminate the limit on the number of Educational Choice scholarships and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 3/1/2011 – BILL AMENDED, Senate Education, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3310.02, 3310.03, 3310.04, 3310.05, 3310.06, 3310.07, 3310.08, 3310.09, 3310.11, 3310.12, 3310.15, 3310.17
SB67 PUBLIC COLLEGE PREP. BOARDING SCHOOLS (CATES G) To permit the establishment of public college-preparatory boarding schools for at-risk students to be operated by private nonprofit entities.
Current Status: 2/16/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Education
ORC Sections: 109.57, 3313.61, 3317.03, 3319.31, 3319.311, 3328.01, 3328.02, 3328.03, 3328.04, 3328.11, 3328.12, 3328.13, 3328.14, 3328.15, 3328.17, 3328.18, 3328.19, 3328.191, 3328.192, 3328.193, 3328.20, 3328.21, 3328.22, 3328.23, 3328.24, 3328.25, 3328.26, 3328.31, 3328.32, 3328.33, 3328.34, 3328.35, 3328.36, 3328.41, 3328.45, 3328.50, 3328.99, 4117.01
SB71 MUNICIPALLY OWNED FACILITIES (MANNING G) To authorize property tax exemption for municipally owned facilities housing independent professional minor league baseball teams.
Current Status: 6/14/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/15/2011
ORC Sections: 5709.081
SB73 NONBEVERAGE FOOD MANUFACTURERS (MANNING G) To allow manufacturers of nonbeverage food products to purchase at wholesale beer and intoxicating liquor from A and B liquor permit holders.
Current Status: 4/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 7/22/2011
ORC Sections: 4301.20
SB74 REDUCE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SALARIES (WILSON J) To reduce temporarily salaries of General Assembly members by up to ten per cent.
Current Status: 3/8/2011 – Senate Finance, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 101.27
SB78 NATURAL GAS LAKE ERIE (SKINDELL M) To ban the taking or removal of oil or natural gas from and under the bed of Lake Erie.
Current Status: 2/23/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources
ORC Sections: 1505.07
SB86 COMMUNITY SCHOOL – DYS ADULTS (SAWYER T) To permit the establishment of a community school to serve adults of school age who are incarcerated or who have been released from the custody of the Department of Youth Services abed to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 5/11/2011 – House Education, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3314.019
SB89 LABOR REQUIREMENTS (JORDAN K) To prohibit state agencies from requiring or prohibiting certain labor requirements as a condition of performing public works and prohibit the appropriations of state funds for public works when political subdivisions require or prohibit certain labor.
Current Status: 3/8/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review
ORC Sections: 4116.01, 4116.02, 4116.03, 4116.04
SB90 ESTATE TAX (JORDAN K) To repeal the estate tax for the estates of individuals dying on or after January 1, 2011.
Current Status: 4/14/2011 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Fifth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5731.02, 5731.19, 5731.21
SB91 PURE FOOD AND DRUG LAW (SCHAFFER T) To exclude manufacturers and distributors of wine and distributors of beer from regulation as food processing establishments under the Pure Food and Drug Law.
Current Status: 3/8/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
ORC Sections: 3715.021
SB93 ANTENNA STRUCTURES (SCHAFFER T) To codify federal restrictions on local zoning of amateur station antenna structures thereby preserving amateur radio service communications as a Homeland Security resource.
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 303.214, 519.214, 5502.031, 713.082
SB96 WATER SYSTEM’S ANNUAL REPORT (STEWART J) To require a community water system’s annual report to its customers to include information concerning the amount of water lost by the system during the transmission of water between the source waters utilized by the system to the consumers serviced by the system.
Current Status: 4/5/2011 – Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 6109.04
SB100 ACADEMIC CAMPUS – NORTHEASTERN OHIO UNIVERSITIES (PATTON T) To establish an academic campus of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine at Cleveland State University.
Current Status: 3/8/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Finance
ORC Sections: 3350.15
SB102 SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE (BACON K) To exempt state surplus lines insurance from regulation in Ohio when Ohio is not the home state of the insured and to make other changes to the law regulating surplus lines insurance.
Current Status: 3/8/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor
ORC Sections: 3901.17, 3905.30, 3905.31, 3905.33, 3905.331, 3905.34, 3905.36, 3905.37, 3905.38
SB108 OIL & GAS LEASING (JORDAN K) To create the Oil and Gas Leasing Board and to establish a procedure by which the Board may enter into leases for oil and gas production on land owned or under the control of a state agency for the purpose of providing funding for capital and operating costs for the agency.
Current Status: 3/29/2011 – Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 123.01, 131.50, 1505.07, 1509.70, 1509.71, 1509.72, 1509.73, 1509.74, 1531.06, 3345.181, 5119.40, 5120.12, 5123.23
SB109 ABANDONED PARCEL TRESPASSING (SCHIAVONI J) To provide that a person is not criminally or civilly liable for trespassing on certain abandoned land, blighted parcels, or similar places of public amusement if the person enters or remains on the land or parcel to beautify it.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Judiciary, (Fifth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 2305.11, 911.21
SB115 PROPERTY SALE GAINS (KEARNEY E) To exempt from income taxation any gains from the sale of Ohio property used in a trade or business and held for at least two years.
Current Status: 3/24/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5747.01
SB119 STATE LOTTERY SALE (KEARNEY E) To create the Commission to Study the Sale of the State Lottery.
Current Status: 3/16/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Finance
ORC Sections: None
SB125 POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS (SEITZ B) To generally authorize political subdivisions to enter into agreements to perform services for one another and to authorize a regional council of governments to enter into unit price contracts related to buildings on behalf of member political subdivisions.
Current Status: 5/18/2011 – Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 167.081, 9.64
SB130 DOG LICENSING/DOG BREEDING KENNELS (HUGHES J, CATES G) To establish licensing requirements and standards of care for certain dog breeding kennels, dog retailers, and animal rescues for dogs.
Current Status: 2/1/2012 – PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 30-0
ORC Sections: 1901.183, 955.02, 955.10, 955.12, 955.20, 955.26, 956.01, 956.02, 956.03, 956.04, 956.05, 956.06, 956.08, 956.09, 956.10, 956.11, 956.12, 956.13, 956.14, 956.15, 956.16, 956.17, 956.18, 956.19, 956.20, 956.21
SB137 COAL MINING LAWS (STEWART J) To revise the coal mining laws regarding permit application and set-back requirements.
Current Status: 6/7/2011 – Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1513.07, 1513.073
SB139 PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYER ORGANIZATION LAW (HUGHES J) To establish certain financial capacity requirements for professional employer organizations, clarify rights and liabilities of professional employer organizations and client employers, and make other changes to the professional employer organization law.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – House Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4123.291, 4125.01, 4125.02, 4125.03, 4125.041, 4125.042, 4125.05, 4125.051, 4125.07, 4125.08, 4125.10, 4125.11, 4141.24, 5747.07
SB143 RECOVERY-FRAUD AGAINST THE STATE (HUGHES J, OELSLAGER S) To provide for the recovery of damages and civil penalties for defrauding the state of money or property and to authorize private persons to bring qui tam civil actions in the name of the state to remedy the frauds.
Current Status: 11/15/2011 – Senate Judiciary, (Fourth Hearing)
ORC Sections: 2747.01, 2747.02, 2747.03, 2747.04, 2747.05, 2747.06, 2747.07, 2747.08, 2747.09
SB145 TAX CREDIT FOR NONRESIDENTS-MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (SCHAFFER T) To require municipal corporations with more than $100 million in annual income tax collections to provide a tax credit to nonresidential taxpayers.
Current Status: 5/19/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 718.17
SB146 TAX CREDIT FOR TEACHERS-INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS (SCHAFFER T) To allow a credit against the personal income tax for amounts spent by teachers for instructional materials.
Current Status: 6/23/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5747.08, 5747.98
SB147 INCOME TAX CONTRIBUTIONS TO RED CROSS (SCHAFFER T, HITE C) To allow taxpayers to make contributions to the American Red Cross Ohio Disaster Response Readiness and preparedness Fund through their income tax returns.
Current Status: 6/23/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1517.11, 1531.26, 5101.98, 5502.23, 5747.113
SB150 RATE-CASE EXPENSES FOR WATER/SEWER (HUGHES J) To limit recovery of rate-case expenses for certain water-works and sewage disposal system companies.
Current Status: 9/27/2011 – Senate Energy & Public Utilities, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4909.181
SB154 TEXTING WHILE DRIVING (SMITH S) To prohibit driving a vehicle while using an electronic wireless communication device to write, send, or read a text-based communication and to establish the violation as a secondary traffic offense.
Current Status: 5/10/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Highways & Transportation
ORC Sections: 4508.022, 4510.01, 4511.093, 4511.204
SB155 JOHN GLENN FRIENDSHIP 7 DAY (CATES G, SAWYER T) To designate February 20 as “John Glenn Friendship 7 Day.”
Current Status: 12/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 12/21/2011
ORC Sections: 5.2270
SB164 WATER RESOURCES PROJECT (OBHOF L) To declare that a water resources project of a regional water and sewer district remains under the jurisdiction of the district after the municipal annexation of the territory where the project is located, to establish contracting authority for regional water and sewer districts regarding the conveyance of water resource projects to municipal corporations, and to expand the scope of the contracting authority of a county sewer district when conveying water supply facilities and sewer facilities to a municipal corporation.
Current Status: 5/10/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources
ORC Sections: 6103.04, 6117.05, 6119.061
SB168 AGGREGATES/INDUSTRIAL MINERALS (WILSON J) To designate the third week of July as “Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Awareness Week.”
Current Status: 5/17/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources
ORC Sections: 5.2267
SB169 CHARITABLE ELECTRONIC INSTANT BINGO (GRENDELL T) To permit veterans, fraternal, and sporting organizations to conduct charitable electronic instant bingo.
Current Status: 5/17/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Finance
ORC Sections: 2915.01, 2915.08, 2915.081, 2915.083, 2915.09, 2915.095, 2915.096, 2915.101, 2915.12
SB170 WITHDRAWAL/USE OF LAKE ERIE WATERS (GRENDELL T) To establish a program for the issuance of permits for the withdrawal and consumptive use of waters from the Lake Erie basin.
Current Status: 6/21/2011 – Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1501.33, 1521.04, 1522.03, 1522.05, 1522.10, 1522.101, 1522.11, 1522.12, 1522.13, 1522.14, 1522.15, 1522.16, 1522.17, 1522.18, 1522.19, 1522.20
SB171 SUNSET REVIEW COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS (GILLMOR K) To implement the recommendations of the Sunset Review Committee by abolishing, terminating, transferring, or renewing various agencies and reestablishing the Sunset Review Committee but postponing operation until the 131st General Assembly, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 6/30/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/30/2011
ORC Sections: 101.532, 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, 102.02, 109.91, 121.32, 127.14, 173.03, 173.04, 3302.021, 3311.71, 3312.01, 3312.09, 3313.202, 3701.025, 3701.63, 3727.312, 3737.03, 3737.21, 3737.81, 3737.86, 3737.88, 3743.54, 3746.04, 4117.03, 4121.03, 4121.12, 4121.121, 4121.125, 4121.128, 4123.341, 4123.342, 4123.35, 5111.708, 5123.032, 5123.093, 9.90
SB172 JUDGMENT CREDITOR LANDLORD (SCHAFFER T) To enable a judgment creditor landlord to obtain a court order directing the Tax Commissioner to pay the judgment debtor tenant’s income tax refund to the landlord.
Current Status: 2/2/2012 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 2333.01, 5747.124
SB180 A-3A LIQUOR PERMITS (GILLMOR K) To eliminate the restriction on the number of A-3a liquor permits that may be issued per county and to specify that new A -3a permits issued after the act’s effective date are subject to local option election.
Current Status: 6/7/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor
ORC Sections: 4303.041
SB184 COMMUNITY SERVICE TAX CREDITS (TAVARES C) To authorize nonrefundable tax credits for authorized donations to projects of nonprofit entities and municipal agencies providing community services.
Current Status: 9/22/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5725.98, 5729.98, 5733.01, 5733.98, 5747.98, 5751.98, 715.58
SB187 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (GRENDELL T) To designate a portion of United States Route 322 within Geauga County only the “Chief Warrant Officer Christopher R. Thibodeau Memorial Highway,” and establishes maximum loads for vehicles subject to vehicle weight allowances.
Current Status: 7/27/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 7/27/2011
ORC Sections: 5533.374, 5533.622, 5533.623, 5577.042, 5577.043
SB196 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PLAN LAW (WAGONER M) To make changes to Ohio’s Business Opportunity Plan Law.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – House Judiciary and Ethics, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1334.01, 1334.05, 1334.06, 1334.09, 1334.10, 1334.12, 1334.13, 1334.15
SB197 SALE AND LEASEBACK OF COUNTY BUILDINGS (WAGONER M) To authorize a board of county commissioners of any county to enter into agreements for the sale and leaseback of county buildings.
Current Status: 12/6/2011 – Senate Finance, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 307.093
SB200 EDISON JOBS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (HUGHES J) To create the Edison Jobs Development Program within the Department of Development and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 12/6/2011 – Senate Finance, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 122.09, 122.091, 122.092, 122.093, 122.094, 122.095, 184.19, 184.191
SB202 PROPERTY OWNERS RESPONSIBILITY-TRESPASSER (SEITZ B) To specify the responsibility of a possessor of real property to a trespasser and the circumstances in which the possessor may be liable in a tort action for the death or injury of a trespasser.
Current Status: 2/1/2012 – PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 26-4
ORC Sections: 2305.402
SB206 TAX CREDIT-TEMP EMPLOYMENT AGENCY HIRES (SCHAFFER T) To allow taxpayers to count employees employed through a temporary or professional employment agency toward the payroll and income tax withholding requirements of the job creation and job retention tax credits.
Current Status: 9/20/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development
ORC Sections: 122.17, 122.171
SB207 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS VIA TELECONFERENCE (BURKE D) To authorize a joint board of county commissioners to conduct proceedings regarding existing joint county ditches via teleconference or video conference.
Current Status: 2/1/2012 – Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 6133.041
SB208 OHIO’S UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE (OBHOF L, KEARNEY E) To make changes to Ohio’s Uniform Commercial Code.
Current Status: 1/17/2012 – Referred to Committee House Judiciary and Ethics
ORC Sections: 1309.102, 1309.105, 1309.307, 1309.311, 1309.316, 1309.317, 1309.326, 1309.406, 1309.408, 1309.502, 1309.503, 1309.507, 1309.515, 1309.516, 1309.518, 1309.521, 1309.607
SB209 ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES TAX REDUCTION (HITE C, TURNER N) To reduce the amount of sales tax due on the purchase or lease of a qualifying electric vehicle by up to $2,000.
Current Status: 9/22/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5739.025
SB210 HUNTING LICENSE (BURKE D) To exempt an applicant for a hunting license who is an active, reserve, or honorably discharged member of the armed forces or an active duty or retired law enforcement officer from completing a hunter education and conservation course in order to obtain the license.
Current Status: 9/20/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources
ORC Sections: 1533.10
SB212 OIL/GAS WELL STIMULATION (SKINDELL M) To establish requirements governing well stimulation, brine disposal, and water that is used in the drilling and operation of oil and gas wells on state land, including a requirement that oil and gas permittees pay a five per cent overriding royalty for each well that is stimulated.
Current Status: 9/20/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources
ORC Sections: 1509.031, 1509.191, 1509.192, 1509.227, 1509.74, 6111.70
SB213 MORATORIUM ON HORIZONTAL STIMULATION OF OIL/GAS WELLS (SKINDELL M) Establishes a moratorium on horizontal stimulation of oil and gas wells until the USEPA publishes a report containing the results of a study of the hydraulic fracturing to drinking water resources and the Chief of the Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management issues a report analyzing how Ohio’s rules address such issues raised in the USEPA report.
Current Status: 9/20/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources
ORC Sections: 1509.01
SB214 RETIREMENT PLANS (BURKE D) To modify when a public retirement system, alternative retirement plan, or deferred compensation program must comply with a withholding order for restitution issued on conviction of a public employee for certain offenses committed in the course of public employment.
Current Status: 9/20/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight & Reform
ORC Sections: 145.57, 148.10, 2907.15, 2921.41, 3305.09, 3307.37, 3309.67, 5505.26, 742.461
SB215 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTS (BURKE D) To require public improvement or service contracts between a state agency and a contractor to contain a provision requiring the contractor to use an electronic employment verification system.
Current Status: 11/15/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 9.51, 9.52, 9.53
SB216 ELECTRIC COMPANIES (JORDAN K) To repeal the requirement that electric distribution utilities and electric services companies provide 25% of their retail power supplies from advanced and renewable energy resources by 2025.
Current Status: 2/1/2012 – Senate Energy & Public Utilities, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4928.142, 4928.143, 4928.20, 4928.61, 5501.311, 5727.75
SB218 INTEREST RATES (COLEY W) To permit Ohio banks, savings and loan associations, saving banks, and credit unions to charge the same interest rate and other charges that out-of-state banks may charge Ohio customers.
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – BILL AMENDED, Senate Financial Institutions, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1121.051, 1155.181, 1163.221, 1733.413
SB223 TELECOMMUNICATIONS FRAUD (BACON K) To allow the Attorney General to investigate the offenses of unauthorized use of property and telecommunications fraud, to modify the penalties for telecommunications fraud, and to create the offense of telecommunications fraud perpetrated against an elderly person or disabled adult.
Current Status: 2/1/2012 – Consideration of House Amendments; Senate failed to concur with House changes Vote 21-9
ORC Sections: 109.88, 2913.05, 4719.17
SB224 WRITTEN CONTRACTS (OBHOF L) To shorten the period of limitations for actions upon a contract in writing.
Current Status: 12/13/2011 – Senate Judiciary, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 2305.06
SB231 SEXUAL/GENDER DISCRIMINATION (SKINDELL M, TAVARES C) To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 124.93, 125.111, 1501.012, 1751.18, 2927.03, 3113.36, 3301.53, 3304.14, 3304.50, 3313.481, 3314.06, 3332.09, 340.12, 3721.13, 3905.55, 4111.17, 4112.01, 4112.02, 4112.021, 4112.04, 4112.05, 4112.08, 4117.19, 4735.16, 4735.55, 4757.07, 4758.16, 4765.18, 5104.09, 5107.26, 511.03, 5111.31, 5119.623, 5123.351, 5126.07, 5515.08, 5709.832, 717.01, 9.03
SB234 FORECLOSURE SALES (COLEY W) To authorize county sheriffs to advertise foreclosure sales via a web site.
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 2329.26
SB235 COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE TEST (BURKE D) To establish a waiver for the commercial driver’s license skills test for drivers with military commercial motor vehicle experience.
Current Status: 12/7/2011 – Senate Highways & Transportation, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4506.09
SB236 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION-DISABLED VETERANS (SCHAFFER T) To exempt from property taxation the primary residences of military veterans who are 100% disabled from a service-connected disability.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 323.151, 323.152, 323.153, 4503.065, 4503.066
SB237 TAXPAYER VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION FUND (BURKE D) To create the Taxpayer Voluntary Contribution Fund for the purposes of receiving contributions to be used for transportation purposes or other general purposes of the state.
Current Status: 10/20/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Finance
ORC Sections: 113.081, 113.082, 113.083, 113.084
SB241 NEW COMMUNITY AUTHORITY LAW (COLEY W) To make changes to the New Community Authority Law.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development
ORC Sections: 349.01, 349.03, 349.04, 349.06, 349.14
SB242 RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDITS (PATTON T) To specify that renewable energy resources do not have to be converted to electricity to receive renewable energy credits.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Energy & Public Utilities
ORC Sections: 4928.65
SB243 INTRASTATE MUTUAL AID COMPACT (HUGHES J) To modify the laws governing the Intrastate Mutual Aid Compact.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3345.042, 5502.21, 5502.29, 5502.41
SB244 DEPUTY REGISTRARS-CREDIT AND DEBIT CARDS (KEARNEY E) To require the Registrar of Motor Vehicles and all deputy registrars to accept credit and debit cards for transactions of more than ten dollars.
Current Status: 2/1/2012 – Senate Highways & Transportation, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4503.102
SB246 PORTABLE ELECTRONICS INSURANCE (BACON K) To establish requirements and procedures for issuing portable electronics insurance.
Current Status: 11/29/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3905.01, 3905.06, 3905.062
SB248 ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION UTILITIES (BALDERSON T) To establish standards for the securitization of costs for electric distribution utilities.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Referred to Committee House Public Utilities
ORC Sections: 4928.143, 4928.20, 4928.23, 4928.231, 4928.2310, 4928.2311, 4928.2312, 4928.2313, 4928.2314, 4928.2315, 4928.2316, 4928.2317, 4928.2318, 4928.232, 4928.233, 4928.234, 4928.235, 4928.236, 4928.237, 4928.238, 4928.239
SB255 WIRELESS 9-1-1 CHARGE (LAROSE F) To revise the amount and methods of collection and remittance of the wireless 9-1-1 charge for the prepaid wireless services.
Current Status: 1/18/2012 – Senate Energy & Public Utilities, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4927.03, 4927.15, 4931.40, 4931.41, 4931.44, 4931.49, 4931.50, 4931.60, 4931.61, 4931.611, 4931.62, 4931.621, 4931.622, 4931.63, 4931.64, 4931.65, 4931.66, 4931.67, 4931.69, 4931.99
SB256 RIGHT TO CURE AGREEMENT (COLEY W) To allow suppliers and consumers to enter into a Right to Cure agreement.
Current Status: 12/13/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 1345.09, 1345.092
SB257 LOCAL GOVERNMENT INNOVATION PROGRAM (DANIELS D, KEARNEY E) Regarding the Local Government Innovation Program and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 12/13/2011 – Senate Finance, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 189.01, 189.03, 189.05, 189.06, 189.07, 189.08, 189.10
SB258 STATEWIDE BLUE ALERT (MANNING G, PATTON T) To create the Statewide Blue Alert Program.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – REPORTED OUT, House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5502.53
SB262 PAWNBROKERS (DANIELS D) To make changes to the law regulating pawnbrokers, including additional requirements for the recovery of leased property, extension of the property holding period for military service members and on purchased merchandise, require pawnbrokers to file biennial report.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4727.06, 4727.061, 4727.09, 4727.11, 4727.12, 4727.13, 4727.22, 4727.23, 4727.24, 4727.25, 4727.26, 4727.27, 4727.28, 4727.29, 4727.30
SB263 SALES TAX-TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT (COLEY W) To remove the requirement that certain telecommunications equipment used in direct marketing must be purchased by a direct marketing vendor in order for the equipment to be exempt from the sales tax.
Current Status: 2/2/2012 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5739.02
SB265 BUDGET STABILIZATION FUND BALANCE (BACON K) To increase the balance that must exist in the Budget Stabilization Fund, from 5% to 10% of the General Revenue Fund revenue, before revenue surpluses are applied to income tax reductions.
Current Status: 12/13/2011 – Senate Finance, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 131.43, 131.44
SB267 GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE TESTING (TURNER N) To establish a controlled substance testing requirement for members of the General Assembly.
Current Status: 12/13/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight & Reform
ORC Sections: 101.48
SB280 METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITIES (SEITZ B) To change the composition of certain metropolitan housing authorities.
Current Status: 1/18/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs
ORC Sections: 3735.27
SB281 AGRICULTURAL LINKED DEPOSITS (BEAGLE B) To modify the Agricultural Linked Deposit Program with respect to the maximum amount the Treasurer of State may invest in agricultural linked deposits, the interest rate at which loans are made under the Program, and the maximum loan amount.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – Senate Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 135.631, 135.73, 135.74, 135.75