Economic Development -
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Issues Update – Economic Development |
| June 17, 2013 |
| HB1 |
OHIO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT LAW (DERICKSON T, ROMANCHUK M) To require a local workforce investment area to use OhioMeansJobs as the local workforce investment area’s job placement system, to rename county one-stop systems, and to make other changes to Ohio’s Workforce Development Law. |
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Current Status: |
6/12/2013 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 32-1 |
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ORC Sections: |
6301.01, 6301.02, 6301.03, 6301.04, 6301.06, 6301.07, 6301.08, 6301.09, 6301.10, 6301.12 |
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| HB2 |
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION CLAIMANT (DERICKSON T, BROWN T) To require an unemployment compensation claimant to register with OhioMeansJobs to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits and to require a claimant to contact a local one-stop office beginning with the eighth week of filing for unemployment compensation benefits. |
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Current Status: |
6/18/2013 - Senate Workforce and Economic Development, (Second Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
4141.29 | |
| HB3 |
HEALTH INSURANCE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (SEARS B, KUNZE S) To specify licensing and continuing education requirements for insurance agents involved in selling, soliciting, or negotiating sickness and accident insurance through a health benefit exchange and to make changes to copayments, cost sharing, and deductibles for health insuring corporations. |
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Current Status: |
4/30/2013 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 7/30/2013 |
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ORC Sections: |
1751.12, 3905.01, 3905.47, 3905.471, 3905.472, 3905.473, 3905.474, 4713.62 |
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| HB4 |
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT GRANT PROGRAM (STAUTBERG P, BLESSING III L) To establish the Local Government Performance Measurement Grant Program. |
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Current Status: |
3/12/2013 - House State and Local Government, (First Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
189.04, 189.041, 189.05, 189.06, 189.08 |
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| HB5 |
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS INCOME TAXES (GROSSMAN C, HENNE M) To revise the laws governing income taxes imposed by municipal corporations. |
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Current Status: |
5/8/2013 - House Ways and Means, (Seventh Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
5703.059, 5703.57, 5717.011, 5717.03, 5739.12, 5739.124, 5741.122, 5747.063, 5747.064, 715.013, 718.01, 718.011, 718.02, 718.03, 718.04, 718.041, 718.05, 718.051, 718.052, 718.06, 718.07, 718.08, 718.09, 718.10, 718.11, 718.12, 718.121, 718.13, 718.14, 718.18, 718.31, 718.35, 718.39, 718.41, 718.44, 718.50, 718.99 |
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| HB22 |
MILITARY SPOUSE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (PILLICH C) To permit persons who quit work to accompany the person’s spouse on a military transfer to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits. |
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Current Status: |
2/13/2013 - House Commerce, Labor and Technology, (First Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
4141.29 | |
| HB24 |
TAX EXPENDITURE REVIEW COMMITTEE (BOOSE T) To create a Tax Expenditure Review Committee for the purpose of periodically reviewing existing and proposed tax expenditures. |
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Current Status: |
6/12/2013 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
5703.95 | |
| HB26 |
SALES-USE TAX EXEMPTION (MAAG R) To exempt from sales and use taxes the sale or use of investment metal bullion and coins. |
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Current Status: |
6/5/2013 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
5739.02 | |
| HB33 |
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION BUDGET (HACKETT R) To make appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2015, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of Commission programs. |
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Current Status: |
3/26/2013 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 3/26/2013 |
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ORC Sections: |
None | |
| HB34 |
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BUDGET (HACKETT R) To make appropriations for the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2015, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau’s programs. |
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Current Status: |
3/26/2013 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 3/26/2013 |
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ORC Sections: |
4121.129, 4121.44, 4121.441, 4123.29, 4123.291, 4123.353, 4123.37, 4123.411, 4123.47, 4123.511, 4123.512, 4123.66, 4123.82, 4123.93, 4729.80 |
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| HB35 |
TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (MCGREGOR R) To make appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2015, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs. |
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Current Status: |
3/12/2013 - Senate Transportation, (Seventh Hearing) |
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| HB37 |
SHAREDWORK OHIO PROGRAM (DUFFEY M, SCHERER G) To create the SharedWork Ohio Program and to declare an emergency. |
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Current Status: |
6/18/2013 - Senate Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
4141.09, 4141.11, 4141.24, 4141.35, 4141.50, 4141.51, 4141.52, 4141.53, 4141.54, 4141.55, 4141.56 |
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| HB38 |
OHIO TURNPIKE COMMISSION TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (MCGREGOR R) To authorize the Ohio Turnpike Commission to issue revenue bonds for infrastructure projects, to rename the Ohio Turnpike Commission as the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission, to repeal authority allowing the Director of Budget and Management and the Director of Transportation to execute a contract with a private entity for the purpose of outsourcing turnpike-related highway services, to make other changes in the law governing the Ohio Turnpike Commission, and to make an appropriation. |
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Current Status: |
2/6/2013 - Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations |
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ORC Sections: |
153.65, 2937.221, 3354.13, 3355.10, 3357.12, 5503.31, 5503.32, 5513.01, 5533.31, 5537.01, 5537.02, 5537.03, 5537.04, 5537.05, 5537.051, 5537.06, 5537.07, 5537.08, 5537.09, 5537.11, 5537.12, 5537.13, 5537.14, 5537.15, 5537.16, 5537.17, 5537.18, 5537.19, 5537.20, 5537.21, 5537.22, 5537.24, 5537.25, 5537.26, 5537.27, 5537.28, 5537.30, 5728.01, 5735.05, 5735.23, 5739.02, 5747.01, 5751.01, 718.01, 9.33 |
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| HB41 |
OIL-GAS DRILLING HEALTH-SAFETY STANDARDS (HAGAN R) To authorize a political subdivision to enact and enforce health and safety standards for oil and gas drilling and exploration. |
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Current Status: |
2/13/2013 - Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources |
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ORC Sections: |
1509.02, 1509.39 |
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| HB42 |
OIL AND GAS LAW CHANGES (HAGAN R) To revise the requirements concerning an oil and gas permit application, an oil and gas well completion record, designation of trade secret protection for chemicals used to drill or stimulate an oil and gas well, and disclosure of chemical information to a health care professional or emergency responder, to require an owner to report all chemicals brought to a well site, and to make other changes in the Oil and Gas Law. |
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Current Status: |
2/13/2013 - Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources |
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ORC Sections: |
1509.06, 1509.091, 1509.31 |
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| HB46 |
SMALL CLAIMS DIVISION-TAX APPEALS BOARD (AMSTUTZ R) To create a small claims division of the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals, to allow for parties to file a notice of appeal to the Board by facsimile or electronic transmission using electronic mail, to require the Board to establish a case management schedule for appeals, and to authorize the Tax Commissioner to expedite and issue a final determination for residential property value appeals with written consent of the parties. |
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Current Status: |
2/13/2013 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means |
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ORC Sections: |
5703.021, 5717.01, 5717.011, 5717.02 |
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| HB48 |
POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS (MILKOVICH Z) To change the age at which an individual may make a political contribution, to reduce the amount of political contributions that may be made by a contributor, and to similarly reduce the amount of contributions that political entities may accept. |
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Current Status: |
6/18/2013 - House Policy and Legislative Oversight, (First Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
3517.102 | |
| HB51 |
TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (MCGREGOR R, PATMON B) To make appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2015, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs. |
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Current Status: |
4/1/2013 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 7/1/2013 or at later date if specified in bill; Other Sections Eff. 4/1/2013 (Exempt from Referendum) |
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| HB54 |
INTERNAL REVENUE CODE (BECK P) To expressly incorporate changes in the Internal Revenue Code since December 20, 2012, into Ohio law, and to declare an emergency. |
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Current Status: |
3/12/2013 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means |
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ORC Sections: |
5701.11 | |
| HB56 |
BUSINESS PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (GERBERRY R) To allow a board of township trustees to reduce the percentage or term of a property tax exemption granted to a business under a tax increment financing agreement if the business fails to create the number of new jobs the business agreed to create in the agreement. |
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Current Status: |
3/12/2013 - House State and Local Government, (First Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
5709.73 | |
| HB59 |
BIENNIAL BUDGET (AMSTUTZ R) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2015; to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. |
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Current Status: |
6/18/2013 - , (First Hearing) |
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| HB81 |
TAX EXPENDITURES EFFECTIVENESS (DRIEHAUS D, FOLEY M) To provide for the periodic appraisal of the effectiveness of tax expenditures. |
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Current Status: |
2/27/2013 - Referred to Committee House Policy and Legislative Oversight |
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ORC Sections: |
5703.95, 5703.951, 5703.952, 5703.953, 5703.954 |
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| HB82 |
OHIO’S CIVIL RIGHTS LAW EXEMPTION (HAYES B, BLAIR T) To exempt religious corporations, associations, educational institutions, or societies from the definition of “employer” for the purpose of Ohio’s Civil Rights law. |
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Current Status: |
3/6/2013 - House Judiciary, (First Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
4112.01 | |
| HB93 |
OIL AND GAS LAW (HAGAN R) To increase criminal penalties for violations of the Oil and Gas Law relating to improper disposal, transport, and management of brine, to establish a criminal penalty for a negligent violation of certain provisions of the Solid, Hazardous, and Infectious Wastes Law, and to require the revocation of a violator’s permits and registration certificate and denial of future permit and registration certificate applications under the Oil and Gas Law. |
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Current Status: |
3/6/2013 - Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources |
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ORC Sections: |
1509.16, 1509.99, 3734.99 |
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| HB102 |
NATURAL GAS POLICY (ROEGNER K) To change state policy regarding natural gas competition, to require assessments on retail natural gas suppliers for subsidies granted in retail auctions, and to require the assessments to be distributed to nonmercantile customers. |
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| Current Status: |
3/19/2013 - Referred to Committee House Public Utilities |
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ORC Sections: |
None | |
| HB127 |
CAREER-TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLED WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT MONTH (ADAMS R) To designate the month of March as “Career-Technical Education and Skilled Workforce Development Month.” |
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Current Status: |
6/12/2013 - PASSED BY HOUSE; Vote 92-2 |
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ORC Sections: |
5.2279 | |
| HB135 |
INCOME TAX CREDIT-VACANT INDUSTRIAL SITE (PELANDA D, CERA J) To authorize a nonrefundable credit against the income tax and certain business taxes for the rehabilitation of a vacant industrial site. |
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Current Status: |
6/11/2013 - REPORTED OUT, House Economic Development and Regulatory Reform, (Fourth Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
122.177, 5725.35, 5725.98, 5726.58, 5726.98, 5729.18, 5729.98, 5747.78, 5747.98, 5749.11, 5749.18, 5749.98 |
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| HB136 |
THIRD FRONTIER COMMISSION-GRANTS (SCHURING K) To authorize the Third Frontier Commission to award grants related to the establishment and operation of data centers and the development of a high speed fiber optic network in the state, and to authorize a kilowatt-hour excise tax reduction for electric distribution companies supplying such centers at a discounted rate. |
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Current Status: |
5/29/2013 - House Public Utilities, (Fifth Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
184.05, 184.19, 5727.81 |
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| HB140 |
RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS (PATMON B) To require licensure of residential construction contractors and to create the Residential Builders’ and Maintenance and Alteration Contractors’ Licensing Board to regulate the licensure and performance of residential construction contractors. |
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Current Status: |
5/8/2013 - House Commerce, Labor and Technology, (First Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
4722.02, 4745.01, 4785.01, 4785.02, 4785.03, 4785.04, 4785.05, 4785.06, 4785.07, 4785.08, 4785.09, 4785.10, 4785.11, 4785.12, 4785.13, 4785.14, 4785.15, 4785.16, 4785.17, 4785.20, 4785.99 |
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| HB167 |
COLUMBUS PLAN (HEARD T, GROSSMAN C) To authorize school districts with an average daily membership greater than 60,000 and located in a city with a population greater than 700,000 to levy property taxes, the revenue from which may be shared with partnering community schools; to require such districts to place such a levy on the ballot at the next general or special election; to prescribe the creation of the position of independent auditor for such a school district, subject to voter approval; to authorize the mayor of the city in which such a school district is located to sponsor community schools; and to declare an emergency. |
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Current Status: |
6/19/2013 - Senate Education, (Fourth Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
3311.60, 3311.61, 3314.02, 5705.192, 5705.21, 5705.212, 5705.218, 5705.251, 5705.261 |
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| HB174 |
BEER MANUFACTURERS (BUCHY J, GERBERRY R) To prohibit a beer manufacturer from taking certain actions regarding the awarding or acquiring of beer distribution franchises or beer distribution territories prior to July 30, 2013, and to declare an emergency. |
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Current Status: |
5/29/2013 - House Commerce, Labor and Technology, (First Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
None | |
| HB189 |
JOBSOHIO ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (LUNDY M) To create the JobsOhio Accountability Act. |
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Current Status: |
6/4/2013 - Referred to Committee House Policy and Legislative Oversight |
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ORC Sections: |
102.01, 117.01, 121.22, 121.41, 125.20, 149.43, 187.03, 187.14, 187.15, 187.16, 187.17, 4113.51 |
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| HB190 |
PREVAILING WAGE LAW-PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (HOOD R) To increase the threshold to trigger the requirement that the prevailing wage be paid for work on vertical public improvement projects and to allow political subdivisions and state institutions of higher education to elect whether to be subject to the Prevailing Wage Law for a public improvement project. |
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Current Status: |
6/19/2013 - House Commerce, Labor and Technology, (Second Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
1506.44, 164.07, 1710.02, 307.022, 307.671, 307.673, 307.674, 307.696, 351.06, 4115.03, 4115.034, 4115.04, 4115.06, 4115.09, 4115.10, 4115.133, 5540.03, 6117.012, 6121.061 |
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| HB198 |
TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (BUTLER, JR. J, BURKLEY T) To establish a procedure by which political subdivisions proposing a tax increment financing (TIF) incentive district are required to provide notice to the record owner of each parcel within the proposed incentive district before adopting the TIF resolution, and to permit such owners to exclude their parcels from the incentive district by submitting a written response. |
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Current Status: |
6/11/2013 - Referred to Committee House State and Local Government |
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ORC Sections: |
5709.40, 5709.73, 5709.78, 5709.911 |
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| SB1 |
OHIOMEANSJOBS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING LOAN FUND (BEAGLE B, BALDERSON T) To create the OhioMeansJobs Workforce Development Revolving Loan Fund, to create the OhioMeansJobs Workforce Development Revolving Loan Program, to allocate a portion of casino license fees to finance the loan program, and to make an appropriation. |
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Current Status: |
6/18/2013 - House Manufacturing and Workforce Development, (Fifth Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
6301.14 | |
| SB8 |
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS-MILITARY SPOUSE (LAROSE F) To permit persons who quit work to accompany the person’s spouse on a military transfer to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits. |
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Current Status: |
3/6/2013 - Senate Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
4141.29 | |
| SB15 |
EDUCATION FUNDING (SAWYER T) To prescribe a system and timeline for the General Assembly to deliberate and determine the components and cost of a high quality public primary and secondary education, to make property tax law changes to fund a high quality public primary and secondary education, and to provide that the provisions of this act take effect only after being approved by the electors. |
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Current Status: |
2/13/2013 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance |
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ORC Sections: |
127.14, 131.51, 319.301, 3301.0713, 3317.016, 3317.017, 5705.17, 5705.194, 5705.199, 5705.21, 5705.212, 5705.213, 5705.217, 5705.218 |
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| SB16 |
ABANDONED LAND (SCHIAVONI J) To provide that a person is not criminally or civilly liable for trespassing on certain abandoned land or similar places of public amusement if the person enters or remains on the land or place of public amusement to remediate it and knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the land or place of public amusement is in one of those categories; to provide the property owner with immunity from liability to a person who enters or remains on the land or place of public amusement in those circumstances subject to the statute governing liability to trespassers; and to provide that a person who enters or remains on the land or place of public amusement in those circumstances is not entitled to any reimbursement for any cost of the remediation unless agreed to by the property owner. |
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Current Status: |
6/18/2013 - Senate Civil Justice, (Second Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
2305.117, 2911.21 |
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| SB17 |
OIL-GAS LAW CHANGES (SKINDELL M) To revise the requirements concerning an oil and gas permit application, an oil and gas well completion record, designation of trade secret protection for chemicals used to drill or stimulate an oil and gas well, and disclosure of chemical information to a health care professional or emergency responder, to require an owner to report all chemicals brought to a well site, and to make other changes in the Oil and Gas Law. |
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Current Status: |
2/13/2013 - Referred to Committee Senate Energy and Natural Resources |
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ORC Sections: |
1509.06, 1509.091, 1509.10, 1509.31 |
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| SB25 |
SHAREDWORK OHIO PROGRAM (PETERSON B, LAROSE F) To create the SharedWork Ohio Program and to declare an emergency. |
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Current Status: |
4/10/2013 - Referred to Committee House Commerce, Labor and Technology |
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ORC Sections: |
4141.09, 4141.50, 4141.51, 4141.52, 4141.53, 4141.54, 4141.55, 4141.56 |
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| SB27 |
PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION-MILITARY VETERANS (SCHAFFER T) To exempt from property taxation the primary residences of military veterans who are 100% disabled from a service-connected disability. |
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Current Status: |
2/27/2013 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
323.151, 323.152, 323.153, 4503.065, 4503.066 |
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| SB28 |
INTERNAL REVENUE CODE (OBHOF L) To expressly incorporate changes in the Internal Revenue Code since December 20, 2012, into Ohio law, and to declare an emergency. |
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Current Status: |
3/22/2013 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 3/22/2013 |
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ORC Sections: |
5701.11, 5751.01 |
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| SB33 |
ADENA PIPE (BACON K, LAROSE F) To adopt the Adena Pipe as the official artifact of the state. |
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Current Status: |
5/16/2013 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR |
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ORC Sections: |
5.075 | |
| SB34 |
ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION 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. |
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Current Status: |
2/13/2013 - Referred to Committee Senate Public Utilities |
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ORC Sections: |
4928.142, 4928.143, 4928.20, 4928.61, 4928.62, 4928.64, 4928.65, 5501.311, 5727.7 |
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| SB46 |
OIL AND GAS LAW (SCHIAVONI J, LAROSE F) To increase criminal penalties for violations of the Oil and Gas Law relating to improper disposal, transport, and management of brine, to establish a criminal penalty for a negligent violation of certain provisions of the Solid, Hazardous, and Infectious Wastes Law, and to require the revocation of a violator’s permits and registration certificate and denial of future permit and registration certificate applications under the Oil and Gas Law. |
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Current Status: |
6/19/2013 - Senate Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
1509.16, 1509.99, 3734.99 |
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| SB86 |
STATE-COUNTY INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS (JORDAN K) To require the Treasurer of State and each county investing authority to invest at least 5% of the state’s total average investment portfolio of interim funds and in each county’s total average investment portfolio of inactive moneys, respectively, in precious metals by June 30th of each year. |
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Current Status: |
3/20/2013 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance |
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ORC Sections: |
135.143, 135.35, 135.351, 135.353, 135.40, 135.45 |
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| SB112 |
ENTERPRISE ZONE AGREEMENTS (BEAGLE B) To extend the authority of municipal corporations and counties to enter into enterprise zone agreements with businesses until October 15, 2014. |
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Current Status: |
6/18/2013 - House Economic Development and Regulatory Reform, (Third Hearing) |
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ORC Sections: |
5709.62, 5709.63, 5709.632 |
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| SB134 |
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FINANCING (LAROSE F, SAWYER T) Relative to the financing of capital improvement projects in this state by another state or a political subdivision of another state. |
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Current Status: |
5/22/2013 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance |
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ORC Sections: |
9.58, 9.581, 9.582, 9.583, 9.584, 9.585, 9.586, 9.587 |
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| SB142 |
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUND DISTRIBUTION (SEITZ B) To establish a new default formula for determining the share allocated to each subdivision from the Local Government Fund distribution of each county in which the largest city or township has a population of more than 13,435 and to require minimum annual distributions from the Fund to all county funds. |
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Current Status: |
6/12/2013 - Introduced |
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ORC Sections: |
5705.29, 5747.501, 5747.51, 5747.511, 5747.512, 5747.52, 5747.53, 5751.20 |
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