Environment & Energy Issues
May 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
HB2 PERFORMANCE AUDITING (SNITCHLER T) To require performance auditing of most state agencies.
Current Status: 3/8/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Finance
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)
HB32 SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEMS (AMSTUTZ R) To exempt from the Professional Engineers and Surveyors Law the preparation of plans or drawings for a sewage treatment system or components and measurements necessary to comply with the Household and Small Flow On-site Sewage Treatment Systems Law.
Current Status: 2/21/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 5/22/2012
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
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
HB73 TRANSPORTATION OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS (YOUNG R) To require payment of only the cost of police escort services for the highway transportation of limited amounts of certain nuclear materials.
Current Status: 3/2/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Third Hearing)
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)
HB89 AGRICULTURE WEEK (DERICKSON T) To designate the second full week of March as Ohio Agriculture Week.
Current Status: 3/11/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/10/11
HB95 NATURAL GAS RATES (STAUTBERG P) To permit certain rate-calculation adjustments for natural gas companies, eliminate public notice requirements for rate cases, and for natural gas companies, to make other regulatory changes concerning audits, alternative rate plans, and forecast reports, and allowing applications for natural gas company capital expenditure programs.
Current Status: 6/2/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/9/2011
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)
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)
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
HB133 OIL AND GAS LEASING/DRILLING ON STATE LAND (ADAMS J) To create the Oil and Gas Leasing Board and to establish a procedure by which the Board may enter into leases for oil and gas production on land owned or under the control of a state agency for the purpose of providing funding for capital and operating costs for the agency.
Current Status: 6/30/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 9/30/2011
HB158 AMATEUR STATION ANTENNA STRUCTURES (STEBELTON G, OKEY M) To codify federal restrictions on local zoning of amateur station antenna structures thereby preserving amateur radio service communications as a Homeland Security resource and place burden of proof for compliance on zoning authority.
Current Status: 5/8/2012 – Consideration of Senate Amendments
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
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)
HB185 AGGREGATES AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS (CAREY, JR. J) To designate the third week of July as “Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Awareness Week.”
Current Status: 2/21/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 5/22/2012
HB204 ADVANCED ENERGY FUND (FOLEY M) To reimburse the Advanced Energy Fund revenue rider on retail electric distribution service rates and to clarify how Advanced Energy Fund grant amounts are to be determined.
Current Status: 5/25/2011 – House Public Utilities, (Second Hearing)
HB207 OHIO COAL MINERS WEEK (BALDERSON T, LETSON T) To designate the week in which Labor Day occurs each year as “Ohio Coal Miners Week.”
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – REPORTED OUT, Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (Second Hearing)
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)
HB229 AGRICULTURE (BUCHY J) To revise the laws governing agriculture.
Current Status: 7/15/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 10/17/2011
HB231 LAKE ERIE WATERS (WACHTMANN L) To establish a program for the issuance of permits for the withdrawal and consumptive use of waters from the Lake Erie basin.
Current Status: 7/15/2011 – VETOED BY GOVERNOR
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
HB240 OHIO SUSTAINABLE FOOD ADVISORY COUNCIL (WEDDINGTON C, AMSTUTZ R) To create the Ohio Sustainable Food Advisory Council to address program and policy considerations regarding the development of a sustainable food economy in Ohio.
Current Status: 5/25/2011 – Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
HB257 LAKE ERIE WATERS (MURRAY D) To establish a program for the regulation of withdrawals and consumptive uses of waters from the Lake Erie basin.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
HB261 ALTERNATIVE FUEL FACILITY (MCGREGOR R) To allow a credit against the personal income tax or commercial activity tax for the installation of an alternative fuel facility.
Current Status: 9/21/2011 – House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
HB274 TRANSFER FEE COVENANT (LETSON T) To provide that a transfer fee for purposes of a transfer fee covenant does not include any payment required pursuant to a conservation easement or agricultural easement.
Current Status: 3/27/2012 – House Judiciary and Ethics, (Second Hearing)
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: 3/2/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/4/2012 Section 3 Eff. 3/2/2012
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)
HB297 MOTOR FUEL QUALITY TESTING (WEDDINGTON C, FENDE L) To require the Department of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing program under which county auditors may conduct such testing.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
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: 4/18/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
HB340 SOCIAL SECURITY NO. ON FISHING LICENSES (PATMON B, DOVILLA M) To specify that an applicant for a fishing license cannot be required to provide more than the last four digits of the applicant’s Social Security number.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
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
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: 4/18/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
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
HB364 SECURITIZATION COSTS STANDARDS-ELECTRIC UTILITIES (ROEGNER K, DUFFEY M) To establish standards for the securitization of costs for electric distribution utilities.
Current Status: 12/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 3/22/2012
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: 3/28/2012 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Public Utilities, (Fifth Hearing)
HB380 ASBESTOS EXPOSURE COMPENSATION (BLESSING L) To require claimants in asbestos tort actions to make certain disclosures pertaining to asbestos trust claims that have been submitted to asbestos trust entities for the purpose of compensating the claimant for asbestos exposure.
Current Status: 5/8/2012 – Senate Judiciary, (Fifth Hearing)
HB389 WILD ANIMAL HUNTING PRESERVE LAW (HALL D, OKEY M) To establish requirements and procedures governing propagating and hunting captive deer and to revise the law governing wild animal hunting preserves.
Current Status: 3/30/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff 6/29/2012
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
HB415 AGRICULTURAL LINKED DEPOSIT PROGRAM (SPRAGUE R) 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: 3/21/2012 – Re-Referred to Committee
HB416 PUBLIC POOLS-SPAS-SPECIAL USE POOLS (BLAIR T) Regarding public pools, spas, and special use pools.
Current Status: 3/14/2012 – House Health and Aging, (Second Hearing)
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: 4/18/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
HB439 RAIL TRANSPORTATION-HAZARDOUS MATERIALS (HAGAN R) To provide that if a train will be carrying 80,000 pounds or more of hazardous materials, the railroad company must provide the train crew with a list of those hazardous materials at least ten hours prior to the train’s scheduled departure time.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
HB441 CREDIT UNIONS-FARM CREDIT SYSTEM INSTITUTIONS (BLAIR T, HEARD T) To permit credit unions and farm credit system institutions to serve as public depositories under certain circumstances, to allow credit unions and farm credit system institutions to participate in the Capital Access Loan Program and the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program, and to offer community banks that hold a certain amount of public deposits a nonrefundable credit against the corporation franchise tax.
Current Status: 2/14/2012 – Referred to Committee House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development
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: 3/28/2012 – House Public Utilities, (Fourth Hearing)
HB447 OHIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE 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
HB464 WELL STIMULATION REQUIREMENTS (FOLEY M) To prohibit well stimulation unless all methane gas released as a result of the proposed stimulation of the well is captured by the owner of the well or the owner’s authorized representative and to revise other requirements governing well stimulation.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
HB473 GREAT LAKES COMPACT (WACHTMANN L) To establish a program for the issuance of permits for the withdrawal and consumptive use of waters from the Lake Erie basin and to establish other requirements related to the implementation of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact.
Current Status: 5/8/2012 – Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources, (Second Hearing)
HB474 INJECTION WELL LAW MODERNIZATION (GOYAL J) To require a background check of an applicant for an injection well, to establish recycling and treatment requirements for
wastewater from oil and gas drilling and production operations, to revise the procedures and requirements governing the
application for and issuance of a permit for a well to inject such wastewater, to establish an additional fee on that injection, and to establish requirements governing ground water monitoring related to that injection.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
HB478 DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME EXEMPTION (COMBS C) To exempt the state from participating in daylight savings time.
Current Status: 3/14/2012 – Referred to Committee House State Government and Elections
HB480 BPA EXPOSURE HAZARDS (DRIEHAUS D, RAMOS D) Regarding the possible hazards of fetal exposure to the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA).
Current Status: 3/14/2012 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
HB487 MBR-MID-BIENNIUM REVIEW BUDGET (AMSTUTZ R) To make operating and other appropriations, to levy taxes and provide for implementation of those levies, and to provide
authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
Current Status: 5/10/2012 – Senate Finance, (Fifth Hearing)
HB493 OIL AND GAS LAW (OKEY M, FEDOR T) To establish additional requirements governing wells that are drilled into the Marcellus shale formation or a deeper formation, to establish requirements governing oil and gas land professionals, including the registration of such professionals and the creation of disclosure forms that must be presented to a prospective lessor of oil and gas mineral rights and to a prospective seller of mineral rights, and to make other changes in the Oil and Gas Law.
Current Status: 4/17/2012 – Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
HB500 BRINE RECYCLING FEE (GERBERRY R) To authorize a fee on the recycling of brine from oil and gas operations to benefit local governments.
Current Status: 4/17/2012 – Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
HB508 MBR-TAX LAW CHANGES (BECK P) To make changes to the laws governing the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes in the state.
Current Status: 5/10/2012 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Second Hearing)
HB509 MBR-LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW CHANGES (BLAIR T) To make changes to the laws governing local governments, to modify the requirements of arresting authorities and courts regarding venereal disease testing of individuals accused of certain offenses, to modify the manner in which funds are allocated from the Ohio Legal Aid Fund,and to expand the ability of counties to form joint county boards of job and family services.
Current Status: 5/9/2012 – Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs, (Second Hearing)
HB515 MATERIAL ASSISTANCE/NONASSISTANCE QUESTIONNAIRE (DAMSCHRODER R) To eliminate the declaration of material assistance/nonassistance questionnaire.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
HB522 SERVICE PROVIDER-CERTAIN MOTOR TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES (MCGREGOR R) To establish a test to determine whether an individual providing services for or on behalf of certain motor transportation companies is considered an employee under Ohio’s Overtime, Workers’ Compensation, and Unemployment Compensation Laws.
Current Status: 4/24/2012 – Referred to Committee House Commerce, Labor & Technology
HB528 OIL-GAS LEASES (CARNEY J, OKEY M) To require the lessee of an oil and gas lease to provide monthly oil and gas production statements, to specify the minimum information that must be included in a monthly statement, and to establish procedures and requirements in accordance with which a lessor may conduct an audit of the lessee’s records and documents related to production or post-production costs under the lease.
Current Status: 5/1/2012 – Introduced
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
HCR9 PROPOSED AIR POLLUTION TRANSPORT RULE (THOMPSON A) To urge the Congress, the President of the United States, and the United Environmental Protection Agency to immediately suspend the Proposed Air Pollution Transport Rule.
Current Status: 5/17/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
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
HCR15 AIR QUALITY/GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS (BALDERSON T) To urge Congress to take certain actions regarding the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed regulations on air quality and greenhouse gas emissions.
Current Status: 5/25/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Second Hearing)
HR48 STREAM PROTECTION RULE (LANDIS A) To express opposition to the implementation of the stream protection rule and environmental impact statement of the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement in the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Current Status: 6/23/2011 – Re-Referred to Committee
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
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
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)
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
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
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)
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)
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)
SB140 BITTERING AGENT IN ENGINE COOLANT (BACON K, SKINDELL M) To require the inclusion of a bittering agent in engine coolant and antifreeze.
Current Status: 11/15/2011 – Senate Judiciary, (Second Hearing)
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)
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
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
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)
SB179 OHIO GEOLOGY LICENSE PLATE-BUSINESS LOGO SIGN PROGRAM (WILSON J) To create the “Ohio Geology” license plate, to require the Ohio Geology Advisory Council to establish and administer a grant program utilizing the contributions that are paid by persons who obtain the license plate, to eliminate the provision in the Special Vehicle Law that permits owners of certain off-highway motorcycles and all-purpose vehicles to register the motorcycles and vehicles by presenting affidavits of ownership rather than certificates of title, to relocate the portion of State Route 170 designated as the “Cpl. Kenneth Tyler Butler Memorial Highway,” and to require the Director of Transportation to establish the business logo sign program and its fees by rule.
Current Status: 4/2/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 7/3/2012
SB188 ALTERNATIVE FUEL FACILITY (PATTON T) To allow a credit against the personal income tax or commercial activity tax for the installation of an alternative fuel facility.
Current Status: 9/22/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing)
SB198 MOTOR FUEL QUALITY TESTING PROGRAM (TAVARES C) To require the Department of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing program under which county auditors may conduct such testing.
Current Status: 9/20/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources
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
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
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)
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: 3/28/2012 – Senate Energy & Public Utilities, (First Hearing)
SB245 USED VEHICLE DEALERS MANDATORY TRAINING (HUGHES J) To establish mandatory training for used motor vehicle dealers.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – REPORTED OUT, House Commerce, Labor & Technology, (Third Hearing)
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
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: 5/1/2012 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Second Hearing)
SB289 COGENERATION TECHNOLOGY (COLEY W) To include cogeneration technology using waste or byproduct gas from an air contaminant source as a renewable energy resource.
Current Status: 4/13/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 7/16/2012
SB290 RECYCLING (JONES S) To exempt source separated recyclable materials from the definition of “solid wastes” and to prohibit a solid waste management district from spending district money to purchase or operate assets for recycling purposes when two or more privately owned companies offer to provide or are providing recycling services for recyclable materials that are generated in the district.
Current Status: 2/14/2012 – Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources, (Second Hearing)
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: 3/21/2012 – Senate Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)
SB294 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION LAW (SCHAFFER T) To revise the laws governing environmental protection.
Current Status: 5/9/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
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
SB300 BRIDGE NAME DESIGNATION (MANNING G, WAGONER M) To designate the bridge spanning the Vermillion River, that is part of State Route 113, as the “Staff Sgt. James P. Hunter Memorial Bridge.”
Current Status: 4/17/2012 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
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: 5/9/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
SB309 AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES’ MARKETING AGREEMENTS (HITE C) To establish procedures and requirements for the establishment of marketing agreements for agricultural commodities.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 33-0
SB310 DANGEROUS WILD ANIMAL POSSESSION (BALDERSON T) To establish requirements governing the possession of dangerous wild animals and restricted snakes.
Current Status: 5/10/2012 – House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Fourth Hearing)
SB312 CAPITAL REAPPROPRIATIONS (WIDENER C) To modify the Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities Bond Retirement Fund and to make capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2014.
Current Status: 3/30/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/29/2012
SB315 MBR-MID-BIENNIUM REVIEW – ENERGY (JONES S) To make changes to the energy and natural resources laws and related programs of the state.
Current Status: 5/9/2012 – Senate Energy & Public Utilities, (Seventh Hearing)
SB316 MBR-MID-BIENNIUM REVIEW – EDUCATION/EARLY EDUCATION/WORKFORCE (LEHNER P) To revise the law governing type B family day-care homes on January 1, 2014.
Current Status: 5/8/2012 – Senate Education, (Eighth Hearing)
SB318 OIL AND GAS LAW CHANGES (CAFARO C) To require wells in urbanized areas to comply with zoning requirements, to revise the setback distances of a well from an occupied dwelling, to require the disclosure of all chemicals and substances used in hydraulic fracturing, to eliminate mandatory pooling, to apply the Consumer Sales Practices Act to lease agreements for the exploration for or development of oil and gas on residential property, to require a surety bond for an injection well, to make other changes in the Oil and Gas Law, and to make appropriations to support oil and gas training programs, including employee training grants to oil or gas well owners.
Current Status: 4/17/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources
SB328 GOVERNOR’S AWARD-ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP (BALDERSON T) To establish the Governor’s Award for Environmental Stewardship to be awarded annually to the company or person involved in the oil and gas industry that best represented wise environmental stewardship during the previous one-year period.
Current Status: 5/8/2012 – Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
SB338 AIR CONVEYANCE SYSTEM CLEANING SERVICERS (BACON K) To require registration and establish laws governing the practices of air conveyance system cleaning servicers.
Current Status: 5/3/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor
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
SR69 TRANSCANADA KEYSTONE COAST EXPANSION PROJECT (WAGONER M) To urge Congress to support the continued and increased importation of oil derived from Canadian oil sands and urge Congress to take the U.S. Secretary of State to approve the TransCanada Keystone Coast Expansion pipeline project.
Current Status: 1/18/2012 – ADOPTED BY SENATE; Vote 25-7