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BILLS OF THE 126th GENERAL ASSEMBLY AS OF JANUARY 2007 SENATE BILLS SJR 1 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BONDS (Austria) Proposing to amend the Constitution of the State of Ohio to foster job creation, economic development, and commercialization of science and technology-based research and development in this state. Resolution was referred to the Senate Finance & Financial Institutions.
SJR 2 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BONDS (Carey) Proposing to enact Sec. 2p of Art. VIII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to permit the issuance of general obligation bonds to fund local government public infrastructure capital improvements. Resolution was referred to the Senate Finance & Financial Institutions.
SJR 4 STATE & LOCAL SPENDING LIMITATIONS (Jordan) Proposing to enact Sections 14 and 15 of Article XII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to establish limitations on the state and local governments regarding expenditures, taxes, and other aspects of governmental finance. Resolution was referred to the Senate Finance & Financial Institutions.
SJR 6 EMINENT DOMAIN (Coughlin) Proposing to amend Sections 3, 4, 10 and 11 of Article XVIII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to eliminate the constitutional grant of eminent domain power to municipal corporations and to provide that the power only can be used when authority has been granted by the General Assembly. The resolution0 has been assigned to the Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs Committee.
SJR 7 TAX LIMITATION (Cates) To establish limitations on the state regarding taxes and expenditures and to require full state funding of local government mandates. En. Section 14 of Article XII of the Ohio Constitution. Resolution was referred to the Senate Finance & Financial Institutions.
SB 1 TAX LAWS (Amstutz) To formally state the General Assembly's intentions in its upcoming deliberations on reforming Ohio's tax laws. The bill has been referred to the Senate Ways & Means Committee.
SB 4 INCIDENT-BASED REPORTING SYSTEM (Stivers) To create the Ohio Incident-Based Reporting System in the Office of Criminal Justice Services and to require that law enforcement agencies that receive certain types of funding participate in the system or in the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the F.B.I. Am. 181.52 & 5502.22 . The bill has been referred to the Senate Judiciary- Criminal Justice Committee.
SB 7 WORKERS' COMPENSATION (Cates) To direct the General Assembly in its deliberations regarding the enactment of reforms of the state's workers' compensation law. The bill becomes effective June 30, 2006.
SB 21 RETIREMENT BENEFITS (Hottinger) Regarding the election by a retirant of one of the state's public retirement systems who has married or remarried to change the plan under which a retirement benefit is paid.Am.145.384, 145.46, 3307.60, 3309.46 & 5505.162. The bill was referred to Senate Health, Human Services & Aging Committee.
SB 27 ADULT ENTERTAINMENT REGULATION (Amstutz) To generally regulate adult entertainment establishments; to permit townships to regulate the location and operation of those establishments; to create an expedited appeal from orders, adjudications, or decisions denying an application for, or suspending or revoking, a license or permit to locate or operate such an establishment; to create an expedited appeal in any case in which a court determines there is a threat of restraint of protected expression; and to create the offense of permitting unlawful operation of viewing booths depicting sexual conduct. Am. 303.02, 503.29, 519.02, 2505.08, 2506.01, 2506.02, 2506.03, 2506.04, 2907.01, & 4301.25, to Am., for the purpose of adopting a new section number as indicated in parentheses, section 503.29 (503.53), enact new sections 503.51 & 503.52 and sections 2506.05, 2506.06, 2506.07, 2506.08, 2907.38, 3768.01, 3768.02, 3768.03, 3768.04, 3768.05, 3768.06, & 3768.99, and Rep. 503.51, 503.52, 503.53, 503.54, 503.55, 503.56, 503.57, 503.58, 503.59, 503.65, & 503.99. The bill has been referred to the Senate State & Local Government & Veteran Affairs Committee.
SB 51 TANGIBLE PROPERTY TAXATION (Fingerhut) To eliminate the tangible property tax beginning in tax year 2006; to create the Tangible Property Tax Replacement Fund from which taxing units are reimbursed for tax revenue forgone as a result of the elimination of the tangible property tax; to make permanent the one per cent increase in the sales and use tax currently scheduled to expire on July 1, 2005; to one-sixth of the tax revenue collected from the sales and use taxes to the Tangible Property Tax Replacement Fund beginning July 1, 2005; and to authorize the use of any excess money in the Tangible Property Tax Replacement Fund to finance a temporary increase in the existing 2.5% real property tax reduction on homesteads. The bill has been referred to the Senate Ways & Means & Economic Committee.
SB 78 GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION (Grendell) To reorganize the executive branch of state government. Am. 121.02, 121.03, 121.05, 121.06, 121.07, 121.11, 121.13, 121.15, & 121.17, En. 121.04, and Rep. 121. The bill has been assigned to the Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs Committee.
SB 80 LOCAL GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES (Dann) To provide financial incentives to encourage counties, townships and municipal corporations to save money through expenditure reductions and consolidation of services. The bill has been referred to Senate Finance & Financial Institutions.
SB 82 RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS (Grendell) To generally prohibit political subdivisions from imposing residency requirements on certain employees. The Governor has signed the bill and it becomes effective May 1, 2006.
SB 86 PUBLIC EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTIVITIES (Gardner) To authorize classified employees to engage in political activities during nonworking hours, to broaden the prohibition against coercion or harassment of classified employees for political purposes, and to authorize the State Personnel Board of Review and local civil service commissions to remedy such coercion or harassment. The bill has been assigned to the Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs Committee.
SB 117 CRIMINAL FINDINGS (Mallory) To provide that a final judgment, entered after a trial or upon a plea of guilty in certain criminal actions generally precludes the offender from denying any fact essential to sustain that judgment when entered in evidence in a civil proceeding that is based on the criminal act. The bill has been vetoed by Governor Strickland. The veto may be subject to a court case.
SB 119 POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS (Hagan, R.) To prohibit county elective officers and candidates for county elective office from accepting contributions from certain county employees; to prohibit municipal elective officers and candidates for municipal elective office from soliciting or accepting contributions from certain employees of the municipal corporation and to prohibit township elective officers and candidates for township elective office from soliciting or accepting contributions from certain township employees. Am. 3517.092 & 3517.992. The bill is pending for a floor vote.
SB 127 LAKE ERIE COAST (Grendell) To revise the law governing coastal management and the control of erosion along Lake Erie. The bill has been referred to Senate Environment & Natural Resources.
SB 143 GOVERNMENT CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS (Jacobson) To impose contract, record-keeping, auditing, and other requirements on persons that receive money from governmental entities for the provision of certain services, to provide civil remedies for the misuse of that and other public money, and to create the Government Contracting Advisory Council. En. 9.23, 9.231, 9.232, 9.233, 9.234, 9.235, 9.236, 9.237, 9.238, 9.239, & 9.241. This bill was amended into HB 66, the biennial budget bill.
SB 167 EMINENT DOMAIN MORATORIUM (Grendell) To establish, until December 31, 2006, a moratorium on the use of eminent domain by any entity of the state government or any political subdivision of the state to take, without the owner's consent, private property that is in an unblighted area when the primary purpose for the taking is economic development that will ultimately result in ownership of the property being vested in another private person, to create the Legislative Task Force to Study Eminent Domain and Its Impact on Land Use Planning in the State, and to declare an emergency. The bill was signed November 16, 2005 and is effective immediately.
SB 180 EMINENT DOMAIN (Coughlin) To prohibit the use of eminent domain authority when the primary purpose for the taking of real property is economic development. Am., En., & Rep. 307.081, 307.082, 4582.06, 4582.31, 163.011 & 719.011. The bill has been assigned to the Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs Committee.
SB 184 ISLAND SPEED LIMITS (Gardner) To establish a 35 mile-per-hour speed limit for highways outside municipal corporations within island jurisdictions. The bill becomes effective June 15, 2006.
SB 226 FIREFIGHTER TRAINING (Cates) To provide for the adoption of rules governing firefighter training. Am. 505.38, 737.08, 737.22, 3737.66, 4765.01, 4765.04, 4765.49 & 4765.55. The bill as been assigned to House Transportation, Public Safety & Homeland Security Committee.
SB 236 ISSUE 1 (Carey) To implement certain provisions of Article VIII, Section 2p of the Ohio Constitution regarding the issuance of obligations to support research and development projects and the development of certain sites and facilities and to make an appropriation. The bill became effective January 4, 2006.
SB 252 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Padgett) To revise the laws regarding licenses to carry a concealed handgun and the authority to carry a concealed handgun under such a license; to limit journalist access to information regarding persons who have such a license and who assert reasonable cause to fear a criminal attack; to provide exemptions from certain carrying of firearms-related offenses for persons in compliance with the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission's firearms requalification program; to specifically provide a self-defense affirmative defense to discharge a firearm while in or on a vessel or motor vehicle-related offense; to clarify when a firearm is loaded for purposes of offenses relating to possession of a loaded firearm while in or on a vessel or motor vehicle and carrying concealed weapons; to provide that the sealing or expungement of a conviction or delinquent child record is an affirmative defense to falsification based on the failure to report the record on an application for a concealed handgun license; and to identify, as a general law and matter of statewide concern, the right of any person, except as provided in the Revised Code, to own, possess, purchase, otherwise acquire, transport, carry, sell, or otherwise transfer a firearm, firearm component, or ammunition. The bill has been referred to Senate Rules Committee.
SB 270 RETAINAGE (Cates) To modify provisions governing the practice of withholding a percentage of payment from contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers in the form of retainage. Am. & En. 153.12, 153.13, 153.14, 4113.61, 4113.62, 5559.14 & 4113.63. The bill has been referred to Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor.
SB 281 LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING (Stivers) To mandate up to 24 hours a year of continuing professional training for peace officers and state highway patrol troopers and to establish the method by which the Attorney General reimburses the training costs. Am, En. & Rep. 109.761, 109.802 & 109.803. The bill has been signed by the Governor.
SB 292 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Miller, R.) To permit political subdivisions to prohibit the carrying of concealed handguns in any park, swimming pool, sports field, or other outdoor premises or property owned, leased or otherwise under the control of the political subdivision. The bill has been referred to Senate Judiciary- Criminal Justice Committee.
SB 321 TOBACCO SETTLEMENT APPROPRIATONS (Carey) To provide for the distribution of money received by the state pursuant to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement by making operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2006, and ending June 30, 2008, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. Am. 183.04, 183.05, 183.30, 3702.72, 3702.73 & 3702, 81; Am. 312.27 & 203.99 of Am. Sub. HB 66 of the 126th General Assembly. The bill became effective June 5, 2006.
SB 333 ACCIDENT CLEARING (Schuler) To permit local law enforcement agencies and fire departments to remove motor vehicles from the roadway after a motor vehicle accident and to provide immunity to local law enforcement agencies and fire personnel for the removal of damaged or inoperable vehicles and roadways. En. 4513.66. The bill has been referred to the Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice Committee.
SB 358 CREDIT REPORT SECURITY (Gardner) To allow a consumer to place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report, to specify that Social Security numbers are confidential, to specify that certain personal information is not a public record, to require a public office to redact from a document that is otherwise a public record certain personal information, to require a public office to redact Social Security numbers and other confidential information from any document that is made available online to the public through the internet, to require the Office of Criminal Justice Services to make state funding grants available to local law enforcement agencies for enforcement of identity fraud laws, to require the attorney general to support local law enforcement agencies with the enforcement of identity fraud laws, and to enact a special statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions and civil actions against identity fraud. Am. Secs. 149.43, 2305.09, 2901.13 & 3705.16 and En. Secs. 109.941, 149.45, 149.46 & 1349.52. The bill has been referred to the Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice Committee.
SB 401 MINIMUM WAGE (Stivers) To implement Section 34a, Article II, of the Constitution of the State of Ohio and to declare an emergency. The bill has been referred to Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor.
SB 402 MINIMUM WAGE (Prentiss) To implement Section 34a of Article II, Ohio Constitution, and to declare an emergency. Am. & Rep. 4111. The bill has been referred to Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor.
HOUSE BILLS HJR 2 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BONDS (Martin) Proposing to amend the Constitution of the State of Ohio to foster job creation, economic development and commercialization of science and technology-based research and development in this state. The resolution has passed both Houses.
HJR 4 STATE & LOCAL SPENDING LIMITATIONS (Reidelbach) Proposing to enact Sections 14 and 15 of Article XII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to establish limitations on the state and local governments regarding expenditures, taxes, and other aspects of governmental finance. The resolution was referred to House Finance & Appropriations Committee.
HJR 7 ECONOMIC GROWTH BOND ISSUE (Redfern) Proposing to enact Section 2a of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to permit the issuance of general obligation bonds to create and preserve jobs, enhance employment and educational opportunities, and promote economic growth through funding research and development and the development of certain sites and facilities and to expand state and local government authority regarding economic development. The resolution was referred to House Finance & Appropriations Committee. The resolution was referred to House Finance & Appropriations Committee.
HJR 8 LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE BONDS (Redfern) Proposing to enact Section 2p of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to permit the issuance of general obligation bonds to fund local government public infrastructure capital improvements. The resolution was referred to House Finance & Appropriations Committee. The resolution was referred to House Finance & Appropriations Committee.
HJR 10 EMINENT DOMAIN (Koziura) To prohibit the use of eminent domain for economic development purposes when the sole or a primary driving force behind the acquisition of private property is a private individual or business entity that seeks the private property of another for its own economic benefit Am. Sec. 19, Art. I and Sec. 3, Art. XVIII, Ohio Const. The Bill has been referred to House Civil & Commercial Law Committee.
HJR 15 EMINENT DOMAIN AMENDMENT (Gibbs) Proposing to enact Section 19b of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to provide limits on the power of public authority to take private property for a public use. The bill was referred to the House Civil & Commercial Law Committee.
HB 1 TAX LAWS (Kilbane) To formally state the General Assembly's intentions in its upcoming deliberations on reforming Ohio's tax laws. The bill has been referred to House Ways & Means Committee.
HB 4 INCIDENT-BASED REPORTING SYSTEM (Dolan) To create the Ohio Incident-Based Reporting System in the Office of Criminal Justice Services and to require that law enforcement agencies that receive certain types of funding participate in the system or in the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the F.B.I. Am. 181.52 & 5502.22. The bill becomes effective September 16, 2005.
HB 9 PUBLIC RECORDS LAW (Oelslager) To revise the Public Records Law. Am.149.011 & 149.43 and En.109.43. The bill has been signed by the Governor.
HB 16 CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS (Calvert) To make capital and other appropriations, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. The bill has been signed by the Governor and is effective May 6, 2005.
HB 18 MOTORIZED SCOOTER REGULATION (Miller) To permit certain motorized scooters to be operated in the same manner and in the same locations as motorized bicycles. The bill was referred to House Transportation, Public Safety & Homeland Security.
HB 23 ADULT ENTERTAINMENT REGULATION (Reidelbach) To generally regulate adult entertainment establishments; to permit townships to regulate the location and operation of those establishments; to create an expedited appeal from orders, adjudications, or decisions denying an application for, or suspending or revoking, a license or permit to locate or operate such an establishment; to create an expedited appeal in any case in which a court determines there is a threat of restraint of protected expression; and to create the offense of permitting unlawful operation of viewing booths depicting sexual conduct. Am. 303.02, 503.29, 519.02, 2505.08, 2506.01, 2506.02, 2506.03, 2506.04, 2907.01, & 4301.25, to Am., for the purpose of adopting a new section number as indicated in parentheses, section 503.29 (503.53), enact new sections 503.51 & 503.52 and sections 2506.05, 2506.06, 2506.07, 2506.08, 2907.38, 3768.01, 3768.02, 3768.03, 3768.04, 3768.05, 3768.06, & 3768.99, and Rep. 503.51, 503.52, 503.53, 503.54, 503.55, 503.56, 503.57, 503.58, 503.59, 503.65, & 503.99. The bill becomes effective August 17, 2006.
HB 41 NONRESIDENT TAXPAYERS (Schaffer) To require municipal corporations with more than $100 million in annual income tax collections to provide a tax credit to nonresident taxpayers. The bill has been assigned to House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization Committee.
HB 56 TRAFFICLIGHT CAMERAS (Raussen) To generally prohibit the use by law enforcement agencies of traffic law photo-monitoring devices. The bill has been vetoed by Governor Taft.
HB 66 BIENNIAL BUDGET (Calvert) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2005 and ending June 30, 2007, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. The bill has been signed by the Governor. A major part of the bill became effective June 30, 2005. Other portions will become effective as stated in the bill.
HB 68 ODOT BUDGET (Patton. T.) To make appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2005, and ending June 30, 2007, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs. The bill has signed and is effective June 29, 2005.
HB 76 VILLAGE SOLICITORS (Trakas) To permit the electors of a statutory village to vote on a question to authorize the mayor to appoint the village solicitor with the advice and consent of the village's legislative authority. Am. 733.48. The bill was signed July 20, 2005 and becomes effective October 21, 2005.
HB 77 STATE GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION (Gilb) To reorganize the executive branch of state government. Am. 121.02, 121.03, 121.05, 121.06, 121.07, 121.11, 121.13, 121.15, & 121.17, En. 121.04, and Rep. 121.04. The bill has been referred to the House State Government Committee.
HB 84 RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT (Flowers) To prohibit political subdivisions from imposing residency requirements on certain employees. En. 9.481 The bill was referred to House State Government Committee.
HB 85 ELECTRIC UTILITY AGGREGATION (Blessing) To limit retail electric service automatic governmental aggregation and to create a "Do Not Aggregate" list. The bill has passed both Houses and is effective July 4, 2006.
HB 91 CONCEALED WEAPONS (Brinkman) To authorize a person to carry a concealed handgun without obtaining a license to the same extent as if the person had obtained such a license if the person qualifies for a concealed carry license and is legally permitted to purchase a handgun; to remove the requirements that a concealed carry licensee must be carrying the license in order to carry a concealed handgun, must inform approaching law enforcement officers that the person has a license and is carrying the handgun when the person is carrying a concealed handgun, and must submit a new or renewed competency certification when renewing the license; to eliminate as premises in which a concealed carry licensee may not carry a concealed handgun public or private institutions of higher education, places of worship, day-care centers and homes, and government buildings other than schools, courthouses, law enforcement offices, and correctional facilities; to replace the prohibitions that apply only to a concealed carry licensee who is carrying a handgun in a motor vehicle with a prohibition against a licensee who is in a motor vehicle that is stopped by a law enforcement officer knowingly menacing or threatening an officer with a loaded handgun or knowingly pointing a loaded handgun at an officer; to remove the "in plain sight or secure encasement" criterion that a concealed carry licensee must satisfy to legally possess a handgun in a motor vehicle; to provide a self-defense exemption from the prohibitions against discharging a firearm in or on a vessel or motor vehicle; and to repeal the "Journalist exception" to the provision that otherwise makes confidential the records a sheriff possesses regarding concealed handgun licenses and applications for such licenses. The bill has been referred to House Criminal Justice Committee.
HB 101 PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE (Wolpert) To create the Local Government Public Notice Task Force to study local government public notice requirements and to issue a report including recommendations for meeting those requirements in economic and efficient alternative ways. The bill has becomes effective May 17, 2006.
HB 106 MUNICIPAL REFERENDUM PETITIONS (Setzer) To increase the number of signatures needed on a municipal referendum petition, to permit persons who sign a municipal referendum petition to remove their names from that petition within eight days after the petition is filed, and to permit the circulator of a municipal referendum petition from which names have been removed to amend the statement identifying the number of signatures on the petition. The bill has been referred to House Elections & Ethics Committee.
HB 126 VEHICLE REGISTRATION (Widener) To provide that the owner of a motor vehicle that is removed from a public road may be prevented from registering any vehicle or obtaining a driver's license until the towing and storage fees on the vehicle removed are paid. Am. & En. 4513.01, 4513.62, 4513.621, 4513.622 & 4513.66. The bill was referred to House Transportation, Public Safety & Homeland Security.
HB 142 DEBT COLLECTION (Willamowski) To authorize the Tax Commissioner to collect from state income tax refunds certain debts owed to courts, counties, municipal corporations, and townships. The bill has been referred to the Senate Ways & Means Committee.
HB 148 HOME CONTRACTORS (Trakas) To adopt the Home Improvement Contractor Law, establish the Home Improvement Contractor Registration Board in the Department of Commerce, establish civil and criminal penalties for violation of the law, and grant the attorney general enforcement powers. The bill has been assigned to House Commerce & Labor Committee.
HB 149 HISTORIC BUILDINGS (Calvert) To authorize a nonrefundable tax credit for rehabilitating a historic building. The bill has been signed by the Governor.
HB 168 PUBLIC OFFICIAL VOTING (Boccieri) To permit members of public bodies who are called to active duty, under specified circumstances, to vote from their active duty locations within twenty-four hours after a vote of the public body, to alter who may apply to extend payment of certain taxes on behalf of armed forces personnel and who shall receive notice of such extensions, and to declare an emergency. Am. & En. 121.22, 323.122 & 101.17. The bill has been assigned to House State Government Committee.
HB 169 CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS (Carmichael) To grant firefighters additional credit on civil service examinations based on their training and to revise the law governing volunteer firefighter license plates and the law governing emergency medical services. Am.& En.124.23, 124.26, 124.27, 4503.47, 4765.11, 4765.16, 4765.24, 4765.28, 4765.30, 4765.31, 4765.43, 4765.50, 4766.03 4765.14, 4765.141, 4765.281, 4765.311, & 4765.431. The bill has been assigned to the House State Government Committee.
HB 186 GOVERNMENT COMPETITION REVIEW (Buehrer) To require the Office of Budget and Management to review all services performed by the state, and all goods provided by the state, that are of a commercial nature to determine which of them may be opened to competition by private enterprise, to review the delivery structure of all state administrative services to determine the efficiency of their provision, and to develop a rating system for evaluating the effectiveness of all state programs; to earmark funds appropriated to the Office to support these duties; and to create the Asset and Enterprise Review Committee to inventory and appraise all state assets and enterprises. The bill has been assigned to the House Finance & Appropriations Committee.
HB 187 CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (Buehrer) To implement recommendations of the Civil Service Review Commission. The bill has been signed by the Governor.
HB 188 ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SERVICES (Buehrer) To adopt the Electronic Government Services Act to prohibit a government agency from providing duplicative or competing electronic commerce services with the private sector unless the government agency complies with specified procedures. The bill has been assigned to the House Commerce & Labor Committee.
HB 189 DANGEROUS DOGS (Walcher) To establish a process by which owners, keepers, or harborers of dogs that have been designated as dangerous or vicious may appeal that designation, to revise the definitions of "dangerous dog," "vicious dog," and "without provocation," to increase the fee imposed for the transfer of ownership of a dog, and to make other changes to the laws governing dogs. Am. 955.11, 955.22, 955.28, 955.99, 1901.18, 1907.031, & 4741.03 and En. 955.222. The bill has been assigned to House Agriculture & Natural Resources.
HB 206 LAKE ERIE COASTAL MANAGEMENT (Martin) To revise the law governing coastal management and the control of erosion along Lake Erie. The bill has been referred to House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee.
HB 208 SALVAGE MOTOR VEHICLE LAW (Raga) To allow licensed salvage motor vehicle auctions and pools to sell salvage motor vehicles only to specified authorized purchasers, to require the registration of motor vehicle mechanical repair facilities, to change the name of the Board of Motor Vehicle Collision Repair Registration to the Board of Motor Vehicle Repair Registration, and to further amend section 4775.03 of the Revised Code of January 1, 2006, to dissolve the Board of Motor Vehicle Repair Registration and replace it with a new board of the same name. Am. 1345.81, 4738.01, 4738.03, 4738.18, 4738.19, 4738.99, 4775.02, 4775.03, 4775.04, 4775.05, 4775.06, 4775.07, 4775.08, 4775.09, 4775.10, 4775.11, 4775.99 & 5703.21. The bill has assigned to Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor Committee.
HB 219 LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONSOLIDATION (Mason) To provide financial incentives to encourage counties, townships, and municipal corporations to save money through expenditure reductions and consolidation of services. Am.5727.45, 5727.84, 5733.12, 5739.21, 5741.03, & 5747.03 and En. 9.27, 9.271, 9.272, 9.273, 9.274, 9.275, 9.276, 9.277, 9.278, & 9.279 and Rep. section 139 of Am.Sub.H.B.95 of the 125th General Assembly. The bill has been assigned to the House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization Committee.
HB 222 PREVAILING WAGE LAW (Hood) To repeal the Prevailing Wage Law. Am. 121.08, 164.07, 166.02, 176.011, 307.022, 307.671, 307.673, 307.674, 307.696, 351.06, 1311.25, 1509.071, 1521.26, 1551.33, 1710.02, 1728.07, 3383.07, 4116.01, 4582.12, 5540.03, & 6117.012 and Rep. 122.452, 165.031, 176.05, 1551.13, 3706.042, 4115.03, 4115.031, 4115.032, 4115.033, 4115.034, 4115.04, 4115.05, 4115.06, 4115.07, 4115.071, 4115.08, 4115.09, 4115.10, 4115.101, 4115.11, 4115.12, 4115.13, 4115.131, 4115.132, 4115.133, 4115.14, 4115.15, 4115.16, 4115.21, 4115.99, 4582.37, 4981.23, & 6121.061. The bill has been referred to House Commerce & Labor Committee.
HB 226 COURT COSTS (Hoops) To authorize the legislative authority of a municipal corporation to establish a schedule of fees to be taxed as costs in a civil, criminal, or traffic proceeding in a municipal court for services performed by officers or employees of the municipal corporation's police department or marshal's office. The bill became effective February 27, 2006.
HB 239 ABORTION PROHIBITION (Schneider) To prohibit the use of public funds or facilities for nontherapeutic abortions, proscribe public employees acting in the scope of their employment from performing or inducing a nontherapeutic abortion, and to declare that it is the public policy of the state to prefer childbirth over abortion to the extent that is constitutionally permissible. Am. 124.85, 505.60, 505.601 & 5101.55 and En. 9.041, 9.901, 305.172, 306.481, 339.161, 351.081, 505.604, 1545.073, 1901.112, 1901.313, 1907.162, 3709.162 & 5101.551. The bill has signed by the Governor.
HB 272 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM (Schneider) Regarding the Public Employees Retirement System. The bill has been assigned to the House Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities Committee. The bill has signed by the Governor.
HB 286 LAW ENFORCEMENT RETIREMENT (Willamowski) To include municipal park rangers and township police cadets in the law enforcement division of the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), to provide for conversion by municipal park rangers and township police cadets of regular PERS service credit to PERS law enforcement service credit, and to create special provisions in the Public Employees Retirement System for public safety officers. Am.145.01, 145.33& 145.49. The bill has been assigned to the House Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities Committee.
HB 297 INTERNET PUBLICATION (Wagoner) To permit statutory villages to publish ordinances and resolutions or their summaries on the Internet rather than by other publication methods. The bill has been referred to the House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization Committee.
HB 299 DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES (Peterson) To authorize counties, townships, and school districts to levy impact fees on new development to finance capital improvements necessitated by that development. The bill has been referred to the House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization Committee.
HB 304 SERVICE LIENS (Blessing) To modify the circumstances under which a lien may be created an action at law commenced to collect unpaid water, sewage, and other service rates and charges owed local authorities. Am. 343.08, 729.49, 743.04, 6103.02, 6117.02 & 6119.06. The bill has been referred to House Civil & Commercial Law.
HB 308 OIL & GAS WELL PERMITS (Williams) To establish additional public notice and public meeting requirements concerning applications for certain permits for oil or gas wells. Am. 1509.06, 1509.072 & 1509.31. The bill has been referred to House State Government Committee.
HB 312 VOTER PARKING/BALLOT COMMITTEES (Evans, C.) To ensure handicapped parking at polling places and to require the director of a board of elections to sign a statement verifying the availability of that parking after each election and to permit petitions proposing to place initiatives and referenda on the ballot to be withdrawn. Am. 3501.29. The bill will become effective August 22, 2006.
HB 313 PUBLIC FUNDS (Stewart, J.) To reduce pledging requirements by public depositories securing repayment of public moneys; to specify debt and other obligations of certain out-of-state subdivisions as eligible to secure repayment of state or political subdivision public moneys; and to authorize investment of certain state, political subdivision, and county public moneys in certificates of deposit issued by federally insured banks and savings and loan associations, wherever located, provided certain conditions apply. Am. & En. 135.18, 135.181, 135.144 & 135.353. The bill becomes effective July 4, 2006.
HB 314 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING (Brinkman) To remove any requirement under the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law that public employees join or pay dues to any employee organization; to expand the scope of unfair labor practices under that law; to make other changes in the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Law; to prohibit any requirement that employees of private employers join or pay dues to any employee organization and require public and private employers to post notices to that effect; to prohibit certain actions by private employers relative to employee organization membership and to establish civil and criminal penalties against private employers who violate those prohibitions. Am. & En. 9.81, 4113.02, 4117.03, 4117.05, 4117.09, 4117.11, 4113.02, 4117.031, 4117.081, 4119.01, 4119.02, 4119.03, 4119.05, 4119.06, 4119.07 & 4119.99. The bill has been referred to the House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization Committee.
HB 331 EMINENT DOMAIN (Gibbs) To establish, until December 31, 2006, a moratorium on the use of eminent domain by any public body of the state to take unblighted private property when the sole or primary purpose for the taking is economic development that will ultimately result in ownership of the property being vested in another private person, to create the Legislative Task Force to Study Eminent Domain and Land Use Planning in the State, and to declare an emergency. The bill has been referred to House Civil & Commercial Law Committee.
HB 347 CONCEAL-CARRY REVISIONS (Aslanides) To revise the laws regarding licenses to carry a concealed handgun and the authority to carry a concealed handgun under such a license; to limit journalist access to information regarding persons who have such a license and who assert reasonable cause to fear a criminal attack; to provide exemptions from certain carrying of firearms-related offenses for persons in compliance with the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission's firearms requalification program; to specifically provide a self-defense affirmative defense to discharge of a firearm while in or on a vessel or motor vehicle-related offenses; to clarify when a firearm is loaded for purposes of offenses relating to possession of a loaded firearm while in or on a vessel or motor vehicle and carrying concealed weapons; to provide that the sealing or expungement of a conviction or delinquent child record is an affirmative defense to falsification based on the failure to report the record on an application for a concealed handgun license; and to identify, as a general law and matter of statewide concern, the right of any person, except as provided in the Revised Code, to own, possess, purchase, otherwise acquire, transport, carry, sell, or otherwise transfer a firearm, firearm component, or ammunition. Am. En. & Rep. 109.71, 109.731, 109.801, 311.41, 311.42, 1547.69, 2921.13, 2923.12, 2923.121, 2923.122, 2923.123, 2923.125, 2923.126, 2923.127, 2923.128, 2923.129, 2923.1210, 2923.1213, 2923.16, 9.68 & 109.542. The bill was vetoed by the Governor and it was overridden by the General Assembly. The bill will be effective in March 14, 2007.
HB 352 ISLAND SPEED LIMITS (Redfern) To establish a 35-mile per hour speed limit for highways outside municipal corporations within island jurisdictions. The bill has been referred to Senate Highways & Transportation Committee.
HB 365 JOINT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS (Setzer) To remove the limitation that only four types of municipal corporations and townships may create a joint economic development district under specified statutes. Am. 715.70. The bill has been referred to the House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization Committee. The bill passed the House.
HB 381 PREDATORY LENDING (McGregor, R.) To fund the enforcement of predatory lending laws. The bill has been referred to House Finance & Appropriations.
HB 404 URBAN HOMESTEAD ZONES (Wolpert) To permit the creation of urban homestead zones in cities to encourage the repopulation of certain city areas, to create a state urban homestead scholarship program administered jointly by the Department of Development and the Department of Education, and to require tax increment financing in urban homestead zones that participate in the scholarship program to help fund the program. En. 730.01 to 730.10, 3310.70 to 3310.79 & 5709.45. The bill was referred to House Economic Development & Environment Committee.
HB 420 MOTOR VEHICLE STOPS (Mitchell) To require every law enforcement agency to record detailed data whenever one of its law enforcement officers causes the operator of a motor vehicle to stop the motor vehicle, to require the data to be submitted to the Attorney General, and to require the Attorney General to analyze the data, draw conclusions from the data, and report the data, analysis and conclusions to the General Assembly. En. Sec.109.46.The bill has been referred to the House Criminal Justice Committee.
HB 429 REZONING NOTICES (DeWine) To require a county, township, or statutory municipal corporation zoning authority to give notice to the commander of a military base, camp, installation, or airfield that is at least 30 acres in size when considering proposed rezoning or redistricting of property that is within 3,000 feet of that base, camp, installation, or airfield. Am 303.12, 519.12, 713.12 & 4504.18.The bill has been referred to the House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization Committee.
HB 451 MAYOR'S COURTS (Domenick) To eliminate the jurisdiction of a mayor to hear cases in which the person charged has been convicted of or pleaded guilty two or more times to driving under OVI suspension and to increase the penalty for a third or subsequent conviction for driving under OVI suspension. Am. 1905.01, 2929.13, 2929.14 & 4510.14. The bill was referred to the House Criminal Justice Committee.
HB 456 POUNDAGE FEES (Peterson) To allow a clerk of a municipal court, mayor's court, or county court to collect a five per cent poundage fee for receiving and disbursing certain fines or costs not established by the court. En. 1901.314, 1905.06 & 1907.04. The bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee.
HB 492 DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS (Wolpert) To permit townships, counties, and combinations of certain political subdivisions to establish transfer of development rights programs. En. 303.024, 307.071, 505.708, 519.023, & 713.16. The bill has been assigned to the House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization Committee.
HB 497 RETAINAGE (Hagan) To modify provisions governing the practice of withholding a percentage of payment from contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers in the form of retainage. Am. & En. 153.12, 153.13, 153.14, 4113.61, 4113.62, 5559.14 & 4113.63. The bill has been referred to House Commerce & Labor.
HB 530 BUDGET CORRECTIONS/CAPITAL REAPPROPRIATIONS (Calvert) To make capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2008, to make certain supplemental and capital appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. The bill becomes effective June 30, 2006.
HB 533 VICIOUS DOG LAWS (Webster) To remove pit bulls from the definition of "vicious dog" in state law and to authorize the adoption of local ordinances or resolutions that define "dangerous dog" and "vicious dog" more broadly than state law defines those terms. Am. 955.11 & 955.221. The bill has been referred to House Agriculture & Natural Resources.
HB 589 ESTATE TAX (Setzer) To reduce the estate tax by increasing the credit and exclusion amounts. The bill has been referred to the House Ways & Means Committee.
HB 621 MAYORS COURTS (Wolpert) To increase from more than 100 to more than 300 the population necessary for a municipal corporation to have a mayor's court and to prohibit a mayor from conducting a mayor's court unless the mayor has been admitted to the practice of law in Ohio. Am., En. & Rep. 901.181, 1905.01, 1905.031, 1905.032, 1905.033, 1905.05, 1905.20, 1905.201, 1905.21, 1905.23, 1905.011 & 1905.03. The bill has been referred to House Judiciary Committee.
HB 666 PUBLIC OFFICIAL OFFENSES (Schaffer) To provide that a person's privilege of holding an office of honor, trust, or profit that is forfeited by reason of the person's conviction of a felony is not restored upon the person's completion of a prison term or period of community control sanctions or upon the grant of a conditional pardon or a final release by the adult parole authority. The bill was referred to House Criminal Justice Committee.
HB 691 PEACE OFFICER TRAINING (Schaffer) To mandate up to 24 hours a year of continuing professional training for peace officers and state highway patrol troopers; to establish the method by which the Attorney General reimburses the costs of training programs for officers and troopers of public appointing authorities and to make an appropriation. Am. & En. 109.761, 109.802 & 109.803. The bill was referred to House State Government Committee.
HB 699 CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS (Calvert) To make capital and other appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs. The bill has been signed by the Governor. |
