SENATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGY & AEROSPACE, 9:30 a.m., South Hearing Rm.

SB 238 REINVESTMENT AREAS (Horn) Prohibits a municipal corporation or county from entering into a community reinvestment area (CRA) tax-exemption agreement with any person that has business operations elsewhere in Ohio if part or all of those operations will be relocated to the CRA, unless the Director of Development determines that specified conditions are met and issues a relocation waiver and makes other changes. (1st Hearing)

HB 434 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONES (Schuring) Makes various changes in procedures governing the creation of joint economic development zones and certain joint economic development zones and certain joint economic development districts and makes other changes. (2nd Hearing)

SENATE WAYS & MEANS, After Session, South Hearing Rm.

HB 648 DISABILITY BENEFITS (Van Vyven) Makes changes to the disability benefit programs offered by the five state retirement systems and makes other changes in the law governing the state retirement systems. (2nd Hearing-Possible vote)

SB 237 ELECTRIC DEREGULATION (B. Johnson) Provides for competition in retail electric service and makes other changes. (2nd Hearing)

HOUSE COMMERCE & LABOR, 7 p.m., Rm. 121

SB 72 BUILDING STANDARDS (Cupp) Makes various changes in the Board of Building Standards Law and maintains the provisions of the act on and after July 1, 1997. (2nd Hearing)

HOUSE LOCAL GOVERNMENT & TOWNSHIPS, 4 p.m., Rm. 121

HB 645 FARMLAND PRESERVATION (Krebs) Provides for the preservation of farmland through agricultural conservation easements and the Farmland Preservation Linked Deposit Program and makes other changes. (4th Hearing)

HB 705 TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT (Batchelder) Refers to townships that have adopted the limited self-government form of township government as "limited home rule townships" and makes other changes. (4th Hearing)

HB 765 TOWNSHIP PARTITIONING (Terwilleger) Provides that a township reduced at the request of a municipal corporation to less than 22 square miles may continue as a reduced township unless a petition is filed by the township electors, changes the procedure for partitioning a township, and changes who may petition in a township to have the unincorporated township territory separated from the incorporated township territory. (1st Hearing-Possible vote)

HOUSE PUBLIC UTILITIES, 4 p.m., Rm. 017

HB 220 ELECTRIC COMPETITION (Amstutz) Establishes a state policy promoting competition and customer choice in the supply of electricity within the state and makes other changes. (2nd Hearing)

HB 732 ELECTRIC DEREGULATION (Mead) Provides for competition in retail electric service, including provisions regarding market structure, consumer protection, retail marketing areas, and transition revenues and makes other changes.(2nd Hearing)

SENATE STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT & VETERAN'S AFFAIRS, 5 p.m., South Hearing Rm.

HB 204 GOVERNMENT PURCHASES (Wachtmann) Allows certain political subdivisions to purchase supplies and services outside of a Department of Administrative Services purchase contract and without complying with competitive selection procedures if the purchase can be made at a lower price than is available through such a contract. (1st Hearing)

HOUSE WAYS & MEANS, 9 a.m., Rm.121

HB 662 TAX ABATEMENTS (Brady) Requires the legislative authority of a political subdivision that grants certain property tax exemptions to fully reimburse school districts for the amount of tax revenue that would have been received had the property not been exempted. (1st Hearing)

SB 142 MANUFACTURED HOUSING (B. Johnson) Revises the sales and use taxes applicable to manufactured homes and makes other changes. (2nd Hearing)

SB 223 LAND USE (Drake) Clarifies the agricultural land uses that may be the subject of conservation easements and makes other changes. (2nd Hearing-Possible vote)

HOUSE STATE GOVERNMENT, 10:30 a.m., Rm. 122