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LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES FOR THE WEEK MARCH 5, 2007 MONDAY, MARCH 5 House Finance & Appropriations, (Chr. Dolan, 644-5088), Rm. 313, 1:30 p.m. HB 67 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (Patton) To make appropriations for, and to prescribe terms and conditions pertaining to, transportation purposes. (5th Hearing-All testimony (Amendments due to chair's office by noon Wednesday)) TUESDAY, MARCH 6 Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs, (Chr. Cates, 466-8072), South Hearing Rm., 10 a.m. SJR 1 EMINENT DOMAIN (Coughlin) Proposing to enact Sec. 19b of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to provide limits on the power of a public authority to take private property for a public use. (1st Hearing-Sponsor) SB 7 EMINENT DOMAIN (Grendell) To formally state the General Assembly's intentions in its upcoming deliberations on reforming Ohio's laws regulating the exercise of eminent domain. (1st Hearing-Sponsor) SB 36 LIMITED HOME RULE (Schuler) To permit townships with a population of less than five thousand in its unincorporated territory to adopt a limited home rule government under certain conditions. (1st Hearing-Sponsor) House Finance & Appropriations, (Chr. Dolan, 644-5088), Rm. 313, 1 p.m. HB 67 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (Patton) To make appropriations for, and to prescribe terms and conditions pertaining to, transportation purposes. (6th Hearing-All testimony) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Chr. Amstutz, 466-7505), South Hearing Rm., 9 a.m. SB 24 JOB READY PROGRAM (Carey) To require the Director of Development to adopt rules regarding the annual competitive process for the Job Ready Site Program. (1st Hearing-Sponsor) House Finance & Appropriations, (Chr. Dolan, 644-5088), Rm. 313, 10 a.m. HB 67 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (Patton) To make appropriations for, and to prescribe terms and conditions pertaining to, transportation purposes. (7th Hearing-All testimony) House Economic Development & Environment, (Chr. Collier, 466-1431), Rm. 017, 10:30 a.m. HB 47 CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS (Gibbs) To revise the membership of the board of directors of a conservancy district that includes all or parts of more than sixteen counties, to require the board of directors of such a district rather than the conservancy court to perform certain functions under the Conservancy Districts Law, to prohibit the levying of an assessment by such a conservancy district on real property that is not directly benefited from the assessment, and to make other changes concerning the levying of an assessment by such a conservancy district. (1st Hearing-Sponsor) House Ways & Means, (Chr. Gibbs, 466-2994), Rm. 121, 2:30 p.m. HB 3 ESTATE TAX (Latta) To phase out the estate tax by Jan. 1, 2008, but to authorize voters of a township or municipal corporation to continue the tax locally. (2nd Hearing-Proponent) HB 4 ESTATE TAX (Wolpert) To reduce the estate tax by increasing the credit amount, to authorize townships and municipal corporations, or electors thereof by initiative, to exempt from the estate tax any estate property located in the township or municipal corporation, and to distribute all estate tax revenue originating in a township or municipal corporation that does not exempt property from the tax to the township or municipal corporation. (2nd Hearing-Proponent) House Infrastructure, Homeland Security & Veterans Affairs, (Chr. Reinhard, 644-6265), Rm. 114, 2:30 p.m. HB 30 TRAFFIC CAMERA SIGNS (McGregor, R.) To require any local authority that enforces any traffic law by means of traffic law photo-monitoring devices to erect signs on every highway or freeway that is part of the state highway system and that enters that local authority to inform inbound traffic that the local authority utilizes traffic law photo-monitoring devices to enforce laws. (1st Hearing-Sponsor) THURSDAY, MARCH 8 House Local & Municipal Government & Urban Revitalization, (Chr. Wolpert, 466-9690), Rm. 018, 8:30 a.m. HB 11 JEDD LAW (Setzer) To make changes in and relating to the Joint Economic Development District Law. (1st Hearing-Sponsor) House State Government & Elections, (Chr. Daniels, 466-3506), Rm. 122, 11 a.m. HB 8 RETIREMENT BENEFITS (Hagan, R.) To provide that a member of a state retirement system, on conviction of a felony committed in the course of official duties, will forfeit the portion of any state retirement benefit that is based on employer contributions. (2nd Hearing-Proponent) HB 26 URBAN HOMESTEAD ZONES (Wolpert) To permit the creation of urban homestead zones in cities to encourage the repopulation of certain city cores, to create a state urban homestead scholarship program, and to require tax increment financing in urban homestead zones that participate in the scholarship program to help fund the program. (1st Hearing-Sponsor) |
