Issues Update – Economic Development
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)
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: 2/15/2012 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 22.176
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
HB234 COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (DEGEETER T) To authorize a nonchartered municipal corporation to establish a community emergency response team within the public safety department of the municipal corporation.
Current Status: 6/15/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 737.053
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
HB238 REFINERS/WHOLESALERS OF PETROLEUM (GERBERRY R, HAGAN R) To require refiners and wholesalers of petroleum products to submit monthly reports to the Director of Commerce regarding petroleum products shipped into, used in, and exported from this state and to create the Gasoline Practices Oversight Commission for the period ending December 31, 2013.
Current Status: 5/25/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 3741.20
HB239 RETIREMENT PAY-COMMISSIONED CORPS OF NOAA/PHS (STAUTBERG P) To exempt retirement pay related to service in the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 5747.01
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
HB247 UNCOLLECTIBLE AMOUNTS DUE COURTS (BUTLER, JR. J) To authorize a court to cancel claims for uncollectible amounts due the court, to authorize a sentencing court to waive, suspend, or modify payment of the costs of prosecution, to define “case” in connection with the imposition of costs in a criminal case, and to abolish the Felony Sentence Appeal Cost Oversight Committee.
Current Status: 2/14/2012 – Senate Judiciary, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 181.25, 1901.263, 1905.38, 1907.25, 1925.151, 2101.165, 2151.542, 2303.23, 2501.161, 2947.23, 2949.091, 2953.08
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
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: 2/15/2012 – Consideration of Senate Amendments; Concurred Vote 88-0 Emergency 86-1
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
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
HB290 ASSAULT AGAINST A DOG WARDEN (GARLAND N) To specify that an assault against a dog warden, deputy dog warden, humane agent, or animal control officer is a felony of the fifth degree.
Current Status: 7/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House Criminal Justice
ORC Sections: 2903.13
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
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
HB314 STATE EMPLOYEE’S SALARY INCREASES (BECK P) To limit the amount by which a state employee’s salary or wage may be increased.
Current Status: 9/13/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 124.16, 4117.10
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
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
HB324 APPORTIONMENT PLANS FOR G.A. MEMBERS (CLYDE K, LETSON T) To specify that plans of apportionment for members of the General Assembly must include or be accompanied by a district map and corresponding list of census blocks, to specify a time when plans must be ready.
Current Status: 9/14/2011 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 3521.11, 3521.12
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
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
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
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: 2/14/2012 – REPORTED OUT, House Local Government, (Third 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
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
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) 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: 2/14/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development
ORC Sections: 5747.01
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: 2/15/2012 – PASSED BY HOUSE; Vote 84-3
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: 2/15/2012 – PASSED BY HOUSE; Vote 69-24 Emergency 75-19
ORC Sections: 121.421, 122.014, 173.121, 2505.09, 2505.12, 2505.122, 2915.01, 2915.02, 2915.06, 2915.08, 2915.09, 2915.091, 2915.092, 2915.093, 2915.094, 2915.10, 2915.101, 2915.12, 2915.18, 2923.31, 2933.51, 3301.0714, 3769.08, 3769.087, 3769.089, 3769.201, 3769.21, 3770.02, 3770.05, 3770.07, 3770.071, 3770.21, 3770.22, 3772.01, 3772.03, 3772.04, 3772.091, 3772.10, 3772.13, 3772.16, 3772.17, 3772.28, 3772.99, 4301.03, 4303.17, 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: 2/14/2012 – House Local Government, (Second 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
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: 2/15/2012 – REPORTED OUT, House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4511.21
HB402 YOUTH SUMMER JOBS PLEDGING INITIATIVE (BARNES, JR. J) To require the Director of Development to establish a youth summer jobs pledging initiative to increase access to summer employment opportunities for high school and college youth.
Current Status: 1/17/2012 – Referred to Committee House Economic and Small Business Development
ORC Sections: 122.043
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: 2/16/2012 – House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (Second 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: 2/15/2012 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
ORC Sections: 135.631, 135.73, 135.74, 135.75
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
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: 2/8/2012 – Referred to Committee House Local Government
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: 2/16/2012 – House Economic and Small Business Development, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 122.97, 122.971
HB443 RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCE (CONDITT M) To include cogeneration technology using waste or byproduct gas from an air contaminant source as a renewable energy resource.
Current Status: 2/15/2012 – House Public Utilities, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3706.25, 4928.01
HB445 COUNTY COMMISSIONER BOARDS SHARED SERVICES (HILL B) To authorize one or more boards of county commissioners to contract with another board of county commissioners for the services of that county’s coroner.
Current Status: 2/14/2012 – Referred to Committee House Local Government
ORC Sections: 305.03, 313.01, 313.011
HB446 TAX EXPENDITURES EFFECTIVENESS (DRIEHAUS D, FOLEY M) To provide for an appraisal of the effectiveness of tax expenditures.
Current Status: 2/14/2012 – Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
ORC Sections: 5703.95, 5703.951, 5703.952, 5703.953, 5703.954
HB447 OHIO ECONOMIC GARDENING PILOT PROGRAM (STINZIANO M) To create a pilot program in the Department of Development to provide technical assistance to eligible businesses and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 2/14/2012 – Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
ORC Sections: None
HB448 BUSINESS LOGO SIGN PROGRAM (GROSSMAN C) To require the Director of Transportation to establish the business logo sign program and its fees by rule.
Current Status: 2/15/2012 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: 4511.101
HB450 VETERANS’ COMPENSATION ENROLLMENT (PILLICH C) To promote enrollment for the veterans’ compensation authorized in Section 2r of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, by enabling eligible veterans to identify themselves on the personal income tax return.
Current Status: 2/15/2012 – Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
ORC Sections: 5747.084
HB452 TAX EXEMPTION-TOWNSHIPS (BECK P, MAAG R) To allow townships to exempt from taxation property consisting of at least four residential units under a pre-existing tax increment financing resolution.
Current Status: 2/15/2012 – Referred to Committee House Local Government
ORC Sections: 5709.73
HB453 COSMETOLOGY LICENSING LAW (GROSSMAN C) To make changes to the Cosmetology Licensing Law and to change the method by which state agencies send notice of a party’s right to a hearing under the Administrative Procedure Act.
Current Status: 2/15/2012 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: 119.062, 119.07, 3711.14, 4713.01, 4713.02, 4713.03, 4713.06, 4713.07, 4713.08, 4713.081, 4713.09, 4713.10, 4713.14, 4713.141, 4713.16, 4713.20, 4713.21, 4713.22, 4713.24, 4713.25, 4713.26, 4713.28, 4713.29, 4713.30, 4713.31, 4713.32, 4713.34, 4713.35, 4713.37, 4713.39, 4713.41, 4713.42, 4713.44, 4713.45, 4713.48, 4713.55, 4713.56, 4713.58, 4713.60, 4713.61, 4713.62, 4713.63, 4713.64, 4713.66, 4713.67, 4715.30, 4717.14, 4723.281, 4725.24, 4730.25, 4731.22, 4734.36, 4734.37, 4757.361, 4760.13, 4762.13, 4774.13, 4779.29, 5123.0414
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
HCR11 SUPPORT ARIZONA’S CONTROL OF IMMIGRATION (COMBS C) To express the General Assembly’s support of the State of Arizona to control illegal immigration.
Current Status: 5/24/2011 – House State Government and Elections, (First Hearing)
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: 2/14/2012 – REPORTED OUT, 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: 2/16/2012 – House Economic and Small Business Development, (Second Hearing)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
SB159 STATE UNIVERSITY – PROPERTY CONVEYANCE (SEITZ B, GRENDELL T) To permit the board of trustees of a state institution of higher education to enter into an agreement to convey certain property to a conduit entity which will enter into a lease-leaseback arrangement with an independent funding source.
Current Status: 5/10/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Finance
ORC Sections: 3345.55
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
SB178 PUBLIC RECORDS RETENTION (SEITZ B, WILSON J) To limit the forfeiture amount and attorney’s fees a person may recover for the unlawful destruction or disposal of a public record of a public office, to establish a four-year statute of limitations for the commencement of a civil action for injunctive relief or to recover a forfeiture for such unlawful conduct, to require one-half of all forfeiture amounts recovered to be paid to the state for use by the state archives, to revise the Ohio Historical Society’s procedure for selecting records of historical value before political subdivisions dispose of them, to allow the Attorney General to iffier programs regarding the records retention procedure, and to move the date for meetings of a county microfilming board. such
Current Status: 6/2/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary – Civil Justice
ORC Sections: 109.43, 149.351, 149.38, 149.381, 149.39, 149.41, 149.411, 149.412, 149.42, 1901.41, 307.801, 3313.29
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
SB196 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY PLAN LAW (WAGONER M) To make changes to Ohio’s Business Opportunity Plan Law.
Current Status: 2/14/2012 – House Judiciary and Ethics, (Second 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: 2/15/2012 – House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing)
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: 2/14/2012 – House Judiciary and Ethics, (First Hearing)
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: 2/15/2012 – Consideration of Conference Committee Report; Vote 87-0
ORC Sections: 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
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
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 – REPORTED OUT, House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Second Hearing)
ORC Sections: 3345.042, 5502.21, 5502.29, 5502.41
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
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
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: 2/15/2012 – PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 33-0
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
SB275 REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCE-DEFIANCE COUNTY (HITE C) To authorize the conveyance of state owned real estate in Defiance County to the city of Defiance and to release the state’s right of reversion on property in Dayton.
Current Status: 2/15/2012 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
ORC Sections: None
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: 2/15/2012 – PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 33-0
ORC Sections: 135.631, 135.73, 135.74, 135.75
SB284 SPECIAL ELECTIONS (JORDAN K) To eliminate the ability to conduct special elections in February and August.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight & Reform
ORC Sections: 323.17, 3501.01, 5705.194, 5739.021, 5739.026
SB292 CREDIT UNIONS-FARM CREDIT SYSTEM INSTITUTIONS (OELSLAGER S, KEARNEY E) To permit credit unions and farm credit system institutions to serve as public depositories under certain circumstances and to participate in the Capital Access Loan Program and the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program.
Current Status: 2/14/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Financial Institutions
ORC Sections: 122.60, 122.71, 135.011, 135.03, 135.031, 135.032, 135.04, 135.06, 135.08, 135.10, 135.14, 135.144, 135.18, 135.32, 135.321, 135.322, 135.33, 135.35, 135.353, 135.37, 135.51, 135.52, 135.53, 1733.04, 1733.041, 1733.24, 1733.30, 1733.31, 2909.32, 2909.33
SB294 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION LAW (SCHAFFER T) To revise the laws governing environmental protection.
Current Status: 2/14/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources
ORC Sections: 3714.07, 3714.073, 3734.01, 3734.02, 3734.021, 3734.027, 3734.05, 3734.06, 3734.12, 3734.121, 3734.41, 3734.42, 3734.573, 3734.85, 3737.87, 3737.88, 3745.017, 3745.11, 3745.31, 3746.02, 6109.31, 6109.32, 6109.99, 6111.02, 6111.022, 6111.023, 6111.024, 6111.025, 6111.027, 6111.03, 6111.0382, 6111.30
SB296 OIL & GAS INDUSTRY JOB TRAINING (BALDERSON T) To establish state funding for job training related or ancillary to the oil and gas industry and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 2/14/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Finance
ORC Sections: None
SB297 CLINICAL RESEARCH FACULTY CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS (PATTON T) To specify requirements for obtaining and renewing a clinical research faculty certificate and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 2/15/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
ORC Sections: 4731.293
SB302 SOLID, HAZARDOUS, INFECTIOUS WASTES LAW (MANNING G) To revise requirements governing background investigations for purposes of the Solid, Hazardous, and Infectious Wastes Law.
Current Status: 2/15/2012 – Introduced
ORC Sections: 3734.41, 3734.42
SCR4 URANIUM ENRICHMENT (DANIELS D) 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: 6/15/2011 – ADOPTED BY HOUSE; Vote 87-6
ORC Sections: None
SCR5 CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION MONTH (WIDENER C) Declaring February 2011 as Career and Technical Education Month in Ohio.
Current Status: 3/1/2011 – REPORTED OUT, Senate Education, (First Hearing)
ORC Sections: None