Transportation
February 2012
HB16 UNAIDED VISUAL ESTIMATION OF HIGHWAY SPEED (SEARS B) To prohibit a person from being arrested, charged, or convicted for speeding on a public street, highway, private road, or driveway based on a peace officer’s unaided visual estimation of the speed of a motor vehicle, trackless trolley or streetcar.
Current Status: 2/9/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
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)
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)
HB82 PUCO-MOTOR VEHICLE REGULATIONS (GROSSMAN C, BOOSE T) To prescribe the applicability of federal regulations adopted by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to certain motor vehicles.
Current Status: 3/16/2011 – House Public Utilities, (Second Hearing)
HB99 TEXTING WHILE DRIVING BAN (DAMSCHRODER R, GARLAND N) To prohibit driving a vehicle while writing, sending, or reading a text-based communication on an electronic wireless communications device.
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – Senate Highways & Transportation, (Second 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)
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
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)
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
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
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
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
HB248 TO DESIGNATE OCTOBER 13 AS METASTATIC BREAST CANCER AWARENESS DAY. (BOYD B)
Current Status: 6/15/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB269 DRIVER’S LICENSE (DOVILLA M) To provide that a person who holds a current, valid driver’s license from another state be required to pass only vision screening in order to be issued a driver’s license.
Current Status: 6/21/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
HB272 STREET RACING PENALTIES (CELESTE T, RUHL M) To increase the penalties for street racing and to create the offense of “street racing manslaughter.”
Current Status: 6/22/2011 – Referred to Committee House Criminal Justice
HB278 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (STEBELTON G, OKEY M) To increase the minimum amounts required for valid proof of financial responsibility and to amend sections 4509.01, 4509.20, 4590.41, and 4509.51 of the Revised Code two years after the effective date of this act to increase again the minimum amounts required for valid proof of financial responsibility.
Current Status: 9/27/2011 – House Insurance, (First Hearing)
HB282 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (MARTIN J) To designate State Route 235 within the municipal corporation of Fairborn the “Army Specialist Jesse Adam Snow Memorial Highway.”
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
HB283 DRIVER’S LICENSE APPLICANTS (GROSSMAN C) To require each person under eighteen years of age applying for a driver’s license to complete a first-aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training course.
Current Status: 7/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
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: 9/13/2011 – Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
HB311 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (SCHURING K, HAGAN C) To designate a portion of U.S. Route 62 in Stark County as the “U.S. Army Spc. Zachary Grass Memorial Highway.”
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
HB312 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (SCHURING K) To designate a portion of State Route 172 in Stark County as the “Lt. Jason S. Manse Memorial Highway.”
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
HB316 MOTORCYCLES (ROSENBERGER C) To permit motorcycle handlebars to be of any height so long as the height does not adversely affect the ability of the operator to operate the motorcycle safely.
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
HB320 MILITARY SACRIFICE LICENSE PLATES (JOHNSON T, BUBP D) To create “Military Sacrifice” license plates.
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
HB321 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (PETERSON B) To designate a portion of State Route 773 within Ross County the “Staff Sergeant Joshua Gire Memorial Highway.”
Current Status: 11/16/2011 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
HB325 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (LANDIS A) To designate a portion of State Route 39 within Tuscarawas County the “Lance Corporal Peter James Clore Memorial Highway.”
Current Status: 9/15/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
HB333 NONRENEWABLE DRIVER’S LICENSE (YOUNG R) To establish, under certain circumstances, a grace period and prorated fees when a temporary resident applies for a nonrenewable driver’s license.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
HB337 COMMERCIAL DRIVERS’ LICENSES (ROSENBERGER C) To make changes in the law governing commercial drivers’ licenses, including hazardous material endorsements, medical certification requirements, disqualifications, conviction records, and establishing texting while driving as a serious traffic violation, to exclude certain components from the prohibited length dimensions of specified types of vehicles, to revise the law governing self-sufficiency contracts established under the Ohio Works First program, to eliminate
requirements that the Department of Job and Family Services employ, contract with, or designate only attorneys to make decisions in appeals regarding family services programs, to temporarily extend the look-back period from two years to three years for determining whether a state “on” indicator exists based on the total unemployment rate for purposes of state extended unemployment benefits, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 1/27/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
HB339 BIRTHPLACE OF SUPERMAN LICENSE PLATES (PATMON B) To create the “Birthplace of Superman” license plates.”
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
HB341 FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES (HENNE M) To make changes to the law regulating fraternal benefit societies.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, House Insurance, (Third Hearing)
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
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
HB354 GOLD STAR FAMILY LICENSE PLATES (UECKER J) To redefine eligibility for issuance of a “Gold Star Family” license plate.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Veteran’s Affairs
HB359 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (YOUNG R) To designate a portion of State Route 84 in Lake County as the “Sgt. Mark T. Smykowski Memorial Highway.”
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
HB360 WIRELESS 9-1-1 CHARGES (ROSENBERGER C) To revise the amount and methods of collection and remittance of the wireless 9-1-1 charge for prepaid wireless services.
Current Status: 12/14/2011 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)
HB361 COURT-ORDERED PARENTING TIME-RAILROAD PERSONNEL (LETSON T) To require railroads to allow a conductor or engineer to exercise court-ordered parenting time without terminating employment, reducing pay, or taking other similar action against the parent.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Commerce & Labor
HB362 TURNPIKE TOLLS (GERBERRY R, LUNDY M) To prohibit the Ohio Turnpike Commission from increasing tolls before January 1, 2013, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
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
HB366 CONTRACT CARRIER STANDARDS-RAILROAD EMPLOYEES (HAGAN R) To establish requirements for contract carriers that transport railroad employees.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
HB384 ASSAULT AGAINST TRANSIT WORKER (DRIEHAUS D, PILLICH C) To increase to a felon of the fifth degree the penalty for committing assault against an Ohio transit system bus operator or maintenance
worker or a contracted employee performing those services for an Ohio transit system.
Current Status: 11/29/2011 – Referred to Committee House Criminal Justice
HB395 SPEED LIMIT INCREASE (MAAG R) To increase the speed limit on interstate freeways from 65 to 70 miles per hour for all vehicles and to limit the use of the left-hand lane of interstate freeways.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (Second Hearing)
HB398 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATIONS (BUBP D, JOHNSON T) To designate a portion of State Route 41 in Adams County the “LCpl. Luke C. Scott Memorial Highway” and a portion of United States Route 62 in Brown County the “Pfc. Seth Blevins Memorial Highway.”
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
HB400 DRIVER’S LICENSE HOLDERS RE-EXAMINATION (HAGAN R) To require the written re-examination of holders of driver’s licenses upon every renewal and the on-road re-examination of those holders upon every other renewal.
Current Status: 1/17/2012 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
HB409 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (PETERSON B) To designate a portion of United States Route 50 within Ross County the “Lance Cpl. Aaron Reed Memorial Highway.”
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
HB410 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (SCHURING K, SLESNICK S) To designate a portion of State Route 172 in Stark County as the “U.S.M.C. Sgt. Daniel J. Patron Memorial Highway.”
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security, (First Hearing)
HB432 AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE POLICIES (BOYD B) To prohibit automobile insurance policies that include uninsured and underinsured coverage from excluding coverage for family members solely on the basis of that relationship and from limiting or contradicting coverage requirements specified in law.
Current Status: 1/31/2012 – Introduced
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: 2/2/2012 – Introduced
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)
HCR22 SHORT SEA SHIPPING ACT (KOZLOWSKI C, YOUNG R) To urge Congress to pass the “Short Sea Shipping Act of 2011.”
Current Status: 11/29/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Second Hearing)
SB35 MOBILE DEVICE OPERATION MOTOR VEHICLE (TAVARES C) To prohibit driving a vehicle while using a handheld or manually operated mobile communication device and to establish the violation as a secondary traffic offense.
Current Status: 2/2/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Highways & Transportation
SB36 EMERGENCY PERSONNEL REPORT TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS (HUGHES J) To allow emergency personnel in public safety vehicles to report traffic law violations under certain circumstances.
Current Status: 3/30/2011 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate Highways & Transportation, (Third Hearing)
SB92 TRAFFIC LAWS (SCHAFFER T) To provide for increased penalties when a person violates the motor vehicle traffic law assured clear distance ahead provision or commits a failure to yield the right-of-way offense that results in serious physical harm or death.
Current Status: 12/14/2011 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Highways & Transportation, (Second Hearing)
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)
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)
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
SB179 OHIO GEOLOGY LICENSE PLATE (WILSON J) To create the “Ohio Geology” license plate and 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.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
SB195 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (HUGHES J) To designate part of Interstate 71 in southern Franklin County as the “Deputy Marty Martin Memorial Highway.”
Current Status: 9/20/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Highways & Transportation
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
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)
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)
SB222 DISPLAY FLAGS ALONG INTERSTATES (BURKE D) To require certain flags to be displayed at rest areas along the state’s interstates and the Ohio Turnpike.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
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)
SB245 USED VEHICLE DEALERS MANDATORY TRAINING (HUGHES J) To establish mandatory training for used motor vehicle dealers.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – House Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
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)
SB259 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (OBHOF L, LAROSE F) To designate a portion of Interstate Route 71 within Wayne County the “First Lieutenant John L. Runkle Jr. Memorial Highway.”
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
SB272 NONRENEWABLE DRIVER’S LICENSE (EKLUND J) To establish, under certain circumstances, a grace period and prorated fees when a temporary resident applies for a nonrenewable driver’s license.
Current Status: 2/1/2012 – Senate Highways & Transportation, (First Hearing)
SB279 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (SEITZ B) To designate a portion of State Route 264 in Hamilton County as the “Sergeant David Kreuter Memorial Highway.â€
Current Status: 1/18/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Highways & Transportation
SB282 HIGHWAY NAME DESIGNATION (BALDERSON T) To designate State Route 78 in Athens County only as the “78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry Highway.”
Current Status: 1/18/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Highways & Transportation
SCR9 AVIATION AWARENESS MONTH (WILSON J) Declaring May 2011 as Aviation Awareness Month in Ohio.
Current Status: 5/10/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Highways & Transportation