Legislative Status Sheet
128th Session of the Ohio General Assembly
Governmental Affairs Legislative Report
This legislative report is intended to keep section members up to date on legislation pending before the Ohio General Assembly.
HB1 BIENNIAL BUDGET (SYKES, V) To make appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2011 for the operation of state programs.
Current Status: 7/17/2009 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, eff. 7/17/09 appropriations; other sections subject to referendum 10/16/09
HB2 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (UJVAGI, P) To make appropriations for the programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2011.
Current Status: 4/1/2009 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, eff. 4/1/2009 - (13 vetoes)
HB3 MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES (FOLEY, M) To declare a six month moratorium on mortgage foreclosures, to require registration of residential mortgage servicers, to regulate residential mortgage servicers, to establish database to track foreclosures, to adopt procedures and requirements related to residential foreclosure actions, to adopt civil and criminal penalties for violations of the bill's provisions, and to terminate the moratorium provisions of this act six months after its effective date by repealing section 2308.03 of the Revised Code on that date.
Current Status: 1/12/2010 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)
HB6 MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION (PATTEN, M) To authorize refundable nontransferable credits against the corporation franchise tax or income tax for production of motion pictures in Ohio.
Current Status: 3/10/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
HB8 AUTISM (CELESTE, T) To prohibit health insurers from excluding coverage for specified services for individuals diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
Current Status: 12/15/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor
HB9 RENTAL PROPERTY FORECLOSURE (CELESTE, T) To require that notice of foreclosure and related sale of residential rental property be given to tenants at that property and to specify that a rental agreement for a residential property that is sold pursuant to a foreclosure action converts to a month-to-month rental agreement.
Current Status: 1/12/2010 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)
HB12 CAMPUS CREDIT CARD MARKETING (LUNDY, M) To prohibit campus credit card marketing activities and to prohibit institutions of higher education from releasing student directory information to any person or group for use in a profit-making plan or activity.
Current Status: 6/24/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance and Financial Institutions
HB15 WORKERS' COMPENSATION BUDGET (SYKES, V) To create the Deputy Inspector General for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and Industrial Commission Fund; to make other changes to the Workers' Compensation Law; to make appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2011; and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau's programs.
Current Status: 6/30/2009 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, Eff. 6/30/2009 (some secs. different dates)
HB22 BULK DATA (FENDE, L) To authorize public offices to limit the number of bulk data requests, impost charges to cover the actual costs associated with bulk data requests, and charge for the cost of redacting certain information.
Current Status: 2/25/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
HB23 FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROOF (OKEY, M) To increase the minimum amounts required for valid proof of financial responsibility.
Current Status: 5/20/2009 - House Insurance, (Fifth Hearing)
HB25 EXECUTIVE BRANCH (ADAMS, J) To reorganize the executive branch of state government.
Current Status: 11/10/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
HB30 PERS (COMBS, C) To require analysis of each proposed retirement incentive plan for Public Employees Retirement System members and to prohibit a member who participates in such a retirement incentive plan from being re-employed by the same employer.
Current Status: 6/10/2009 - House Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Securities, (First Hearing)
HB32 MUNICIPAL PARK IMPROVEMENTS (RUHL, M) To increase the competitive bidding threshold for contracts entered into by a board of park trustees for certain municipal park improvements.
Current Status: 3/10/2009 - BILL AMENDED, House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)
HB37 COMPETITIVE BIDDING (DYER, S) To require the Department of Administrative Services to maintain a web site database including apparent low bidders who failed to be awarded a contract because they were found not to be "responsible," and to require public entities to conduct investigations when apparent low bidders are suspected of failing or fail to meet the "responsible" prong of the "responsive and responsible" competitive bidding threshold.
Current Status: 3/24/2009 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)
HB58 MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS (MCGREGOR, R) To require the Auditor of State to establish a fraud-reporting system for residents and public employees to file anonymous complaints of fraud and misuse of public funds by public offices or officials.
Current Status: 5/6/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
HB61 ESTATE TAXES (HOTTINGER, J) 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 by 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.
Current Status: 4/22/2009 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB65 PERFORMANCE BUDGETING (SNITCHLER, T) To require performance budgeting by most state agencies and to require performance audits of those agencies.
Current Status: 4/22/2009 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB66 STATE GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY COMMISSION (JORDAN, K) To create the State Government Efficiency Commission.
Current Status: 11/10/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
HB74 NURSES (WEDDINGTON, C) Regarding limits on mandatory overtime for nurses, tuition reimbursement for nursing education, tax credits for nursing professors, and tax deduction for nurse aides.
Current Status: 3/18/2009 - Referred to Committee House HealthCare Access and Affordability
HB75 INCOME TAX CONTRIBUTION FUND (CHANDLER, K) To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to the Ohio Historical Society.
Current Status: 1/12/2010 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
HB77 PUBLIC RECORD INFORMATION (SNITCHLER, T) TO exclude the residential and familial information of a federal law enforcement officer from the definition of a public record, to include federal law enforcement officers among the protected individuals who are authorized to request a public office other than the county auditor to redact the person's address from any record made available to the general public on the internet, and to include those officers among the protected individuals who may request the county auditor to replace the person's name with the person's initials on the general tax list and duplicate.
Current Status: 3/31/2009 - House Civil and Commercial Law, (Second Hearing)
HB81 DIABETES (BOYD, B) To require certain health care policies, contracts, agreements, and plans to provide benefits for equipment, supplies, and medication for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of diabetes and for diabetes self-management education.
Current Status: 12/15/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor
HB117 COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY TAX (JONES, S) To require 30% of commercial activity tax revenue to be used indefinitely for local government purposes.
Current Status: 4/14/2009 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
HB123 TAX CREDIT-SCIENCE DEGREE (GOYAL, J) To grant an income tax credit to individuals who earn degrees in science, technology, engineering, or math-based fields of study and to authorize municipal corporations to grant a credit to individuals qualifying for the state credit.
Current Status: 5/6/2009 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
HB125 FAMILY HEALTH PLUS-MEDICAID (WILLIAMS, S) To require the Director of Job and Family Services to seek federal permission to establish the Family Health Plus component of the Medicaid program, to impose a new assessment on hospitals, and to earmark the proceeds from the new assessment for the Family Health Plus component.
Current Status: 4/14/2009 - Referred to Committee House HealthCare Access and Affordability
HB127 PROFESSIONAL LICENSES (WILLIAMS, S) To revise the laws governing issuance of certain professional licenses.
Current Status: 10/21/2009 - House State Government, (Second Hearing)
HB144 TAX CREDIT-BACCALAUREATE DEGREE (GROSSMAN, C) To grant an income tax credit eliminating tax liability for five years for individuals who obtain a baccalaureate degree and who reside in Ohio.
Current Status: 6/24/2009 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB145 RESIDENTIAL HOUSING (YUKO, K) To require that residential units conveyed pursuant to a land installment contract receive an appraisal and an inspection, to define residential lease option contract, to regulate residential lease option contracts under the Ohio Landlord and Tenant Law, and to provide penalties.
Current Status: 6/9/2009 - House Civil and Commercial Law, (First Hearing)
HB149 CHAPTER 166 LOANS - SUPERMARKETS (MILLER, E) To allow Chapter 155, loans and loan guarantees to be made to establish supermarkets and grocery stores in underserved communities, and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 10/28/2009 - House Finance and Appropriations, (Third Hearing)
HB159 UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE (SKINDELL, M) To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
Current Status: 6/3/2009 - House HealthCare Access and Affordability, (First Hearing)
HB170 EMPLOYER RETALIATION (MURRAY, D) Prohibit an employer from retaliating against the employer's employee for testifying in an unemployment compensation proceeding.
Current Status: 1/12/2010 - House Commerce and Labor, (Fourth Hearing)
HB177 STRS INVESTMENT PERSONNEL (HUFFMAN, M) To provide that investment personnel of the State Teachers Retirement System may not receive performance-based bonuses or premiums in years of negative investment returns and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 6/2/2009 - House Aging and Disability Services, (First Hearing)
HB185 HEALTH CARE CONTRACTS (DEGEETER, T) To specify that material amendment to a health care contract does not become part of the contract unless agreed upon by both parties.
Current Status: 2/9/2010 - Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing)
HB209 LOANS (LUNDY, M) To establish various consumer protections regarding small and short-term loans.
Current Status: 1/20/2010 - House Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Securities, (Sixth Hearing)
HB210 G.A. 5% SALARY REDUCTIONS (MORGAN, S) To decrease by 5% the salaries of General Assembly members and of the statewide elected executive officers until certain increases occur in the Gross Domestic Product of Ohio.
Current Status: 10/28/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
HB218 PUBLIC UTILITY TANGIBLE TAX VALUATION (WINBURN, R) To modify the tax valuation of public utility tangible personal property used to generate electricity from renewable resources.
Current Status: 6/24/2009 - BILL AMENDED, House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
HB220 LOCAL GOVERNMENT PUBLIC NOTICE TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS (CHANDLER, K) To implement the recommendations of the Local Government Public Notice Task force by authorizing legal publication to be made in a newspaper of general circulation, eliminating certain publication and postal privilege requirements, reducing the number of times publication must be made, requiring newspapers to establish a government rate for publication, allowing publication of a summary of an ordinance rather than publishing it in its entirety, and allowing the costs of publishing delinquent property tax lists to be charged to delinquent taxpayers.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (First Hearing)
HB220 LOCAL GOVERNMENT PUBLIC NOTICE TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS (CHANDLER, K) To implement the recommendations of the Local Government Public Notice Task force by authorizing legal publication to be made in a newspaper of general circulation, eliminating certain publication and postal privilege requirements, reducing the number of times publication must be made, requiring newspapers to establish a government rate for publication, allowing publication of a summary of an ordinance rather than publishing it in its entirety, and allowing the costs of publishing delinquent property tax lists to be charged to delinquent taxpayers.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (First Hearing)
HB223 DELINQUENT TAX AND ASSESSMENT COLLECTION FUND (LETSON, T) To temporarily authorize county treasurers and county prosecuting attorneys to designate that part of any surplus balance in the countys Delinquent Tax and Assessment Collection Fund be used to pay operating expenses of the respective office in lieu of county general fund money.
Current Status: 11/4/2009 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (Fourth Hearing)
HB223 DELINQUENT TAX AND ASSESSMENT COLLECTION FUND (LETSON, T) To temporarily authorize county treasurers and county prosecuting attorneys to designate that part of any surplus balance in the countys Delinquent Tax and Assessment Collection Fund be used to pay operating expenses of the respective office in lieu of county general fund money.
Current Status: 11/4/2009 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (Fourth Hearing)
HB224 NONREFUNDABLE TAX CREDIT (SNITCHLER, T) To authorize a nonrefundable tax credit for hiring and employing previously unemployed individuals.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
HB224 NONREFUNDABLE TAX CREDIT (SNITCHLER, T) To authorize a nonrefundable tax credit for hiring and employing previously unemployed individuals.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
HB230 COMMON SENSE REGULATION ACT (MORAN, M) To enact the Common Sense Regulation Act to improve state agency regulatory processes, especially as they relate to small businesses, to require state departments to develop customer service training programs, and to require the
director of environmental protection to provide environmental regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses.
Current Status: 3/2/2010 - Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing)
HB230 COMMON SENSE REGULATION ACT (MORAN, M) To enact the Common Sense Regulation Act to improve state agency regulatory processes, especially as they relate to small businesses, to require state departments to develop customer service training programs, and to require the
director of environmental protection to provide environmental regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses.
Current Status: 3/2/2010 - Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing)
HB254 UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS (BALDERSON, T) To allow an individual to claim unemployment benefits for a dependent who is a child in the legal custody of the individual.
Current Status: 9/15/2009 - Referred to Committee House Commerce and Labor
HB255 VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS (BALDERSON, T) To allow a $400 income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Current Status: 11/4/2009 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
HB256 SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH CARE (GARDNER, R) To create the Small Business Health Care Affordability Task Force.
Current Status: 12/8/2009 - House Insurance, (First Hearing)
HB259 WORKERS' COMPENSATION INVESTMENTS (BATCHELDER, W) To specify the classes of investments in which the Administrator of Workers' Compensation may invest the funds specified in the Workers' Compensation Law and to require the Administrator to have criminal records checks conducted for employees of investment consultants with whom the Administrator contracts to facilitate the investment of those funds.
Current Status: 1/13/2010 - House Insurance, (First Hearing)
HB276 TELEPHONE COMPANY REGULATION (SAYRE, A) To revise state regulation of telephone companies, remove telegraph companies from utility regulation, and revise law concerning confidential information or public utilities.
Current Status: 12/8/2009 - House Public Utilities, (Sixth Hearing)
HB277 INCOME TAX WITHHOLDING CREDIT (SNITCHLER, T) To authorize a $2,400 income tax withholding credit for an employer that hires and employs a previously unemployed individual.
Current Status: 10/28/2009 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB281 MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (YUKO, K) To permit additional health care professionals who provide mental health services to take into custody and transport those persons to a hospital.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Judiciary, (Third Hearing)
HB282 STATE AWARDS WEB SITE (SNITCHLER, T) To transfer the responsibility of maintaining a state awards web site from the Department of Administrative Services to the Office of Budget and Management, to alter and expand the information to be included on the web site, and to repeal the Attorney General;s responsibility to monitor state award compliance.
Current Status: 10/6/2009 - Referred to Committee House State Government
HB284 INCOME TAX RATES (HAGAN, R) To increase the marginal income tax rate applicable to income in excess of $200,000 to its pre-2005 rate.
Current Status: 10/6/2009 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
HB285 SALES TAX EXEMPTIONS (BACON, K) To provide a three-day period in August and in December each year during which sales of clothing, footwear, school supplies, personal computers and computer-related items, and sporting equipment are exempt from sales and use taxes.
Current Status: 1/19/2010 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB286 HOME IMPROVEMENTS-TAX EXEMPTION (FENDE, L) To exempt from real property taxation home improvements greater than $5,000 for five years.
Current Status: 10/28/2009 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB287 MEDICAID (BURKE, D) To require the Medicaid program to cover, subject to federal approval, all health benefits established as mandated health benefits under the state's insurance laws and to preclude application of additional mandated health benefits under those laws until the Medicaid program covers the health benefits.
Current Status: 2/24/2010 - House Health, (First Hearing)
HB292 ESTATE TRANSACTION FEES (LETSON, T) To prohibit transfer fee covenants in certain real estate transactions.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice, (Second Hearing)
HB308 MARGINAL INCOME TAX RATE (FOLEY, M) To increase the marginal income tax rate applicable to individuals, estates, and trusts with taxable income greater than $200,000.
Current Status: 10/28/2009 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB311 SMALL BUSINESS (MCGREGOR, R) To require a rule-making agency to prepare cost-benefit and regulatory flexibility reports for rules that may have any adverse impact on small businesses and submit them to the new Ohio Small Business Ombudsperson in the Office of Small Business, to create the Small Business Regulatory Review Board to review objections to those rules and make recommendations to the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review regarding the rules, and to require impact to the Governor and General Assembly.
Current Status: 11/10/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
HB318 INCOME TAX FREEZE (SYKES, V) To postpone for two years the last of five scheduled income tax rate reductions, to create the Construction Reform Demonstration Project, to provide for the granting of a delay in implementing all-day kindergarten, and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 12/22/2009 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, Some sections eff. 12/22/09; others 3/23/10
HB325 SHORT-TERM LOAN ACT (YATES, T) To repeal the Short-Term Loan Act and to prohibit payday lending by entities other than traditional financial institutions.
Current Status: 10/27/2009 - Referred to Committee House Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Securities
HB326 ESTATE TAX (HOTTINGER, J) To reduce the estate tax, 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.
Current Status: 11/4/2009 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB328 SMALL BUSINESS PROFITS (WILLIAMS, S) To authorize an income tax deduction for small business owners' reinvestment of undistributed profits to business property, employee training, or research and development.
Current Status: 12/9/2009 - House Economic Development, (Fifth Hearing)
HB329 JOB CREATION/RETENTION CREDITS (WILLIAMS, S) To include employees working from home as employees employed in the project for purposes of the job creation and retention credits.
Current Status: 12/9/2009 - House Economic Development, (Fifth Hearing)
HB336 POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OFFICE HOLDERS (GARRISON, J) To prohibit an elected officer of a political subdivision or a candidate for an elective office of a political subdivision from accepting contributions from an employee of that political subdivision who is or who would be supervised, directly or indirectly, by the public officer or candidate.
Current Status: 1/12/2010 - House Elections and Ethics, (First Hearing)
HB337 COMPANIES RELOCATING FROM OHIO (BAKER, N) To require the Department of Development annually to compile a report of companies that relocated out of this state and to attempt to determine the motivation behind the relocations.
Current Status: 12/9/2009 - House Economic Development, (Fourth Hearing)
HB343 STATE GOVERNMENT OPERATING EFFICIENCIES (SCHNEIDER, M) To conduct a study of potential operating efficiencies in state government.
Current Status: 11/18/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
HB345 WEB-SITE PUBLICATIONS (HAGAN, R) To allow political subdivisions to make internet web site publications in lieu of newspaper of general circulation publication requirements if the political subdivision donates all funds that would otherwise be used to provide newspaper notices to a local food bank or food drive for charitable purposes.
Current Status: 12/2/2009 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (First Hearing)
HB348 OHIO VENTURE CAPITAL AUTHORITY (GOYAL, J) To increase the annual and aggregate limit on the amount of tax credits the Ohio Venture Capital Authority may authorize.
Current Status: 12/16/2009 - House Economic Development, (Fourth Hearing)
HB354 DEBIT CARD TRANSACTIONS (YATES, T) Relative to the posting of debit card transactions against a bank account.
Current Status: 11/17/2009 - Referred to Committee House Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Securities
HB355 BANKS (YATES, T) To prohibit banks from imposing minimum balance requirements or charges for providing check cashing and bill processing services in connection with a deposit account opened by a customer for personal use.
Current Status: 11/17/2009 - Referred to Committee House Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Securities
HB356 BOXING COMPETITIONS (MALLORY, D) To include certain Olympic-style boxing competitions as sporting events for which state grants may be awarded to a county or municipal corporation
Current Status: 2/17/2010 - REPORTED OUT, House Local Government / Public Administration, (Third Hearing)
HB360 APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS (SNITCHLER, T) To grant an income tax credit eliminating tax liability for five years for individuals who obtain journeyperson status and who reside in Ohio and to prohibit the Apprenticeship Council from adopting standards for apprenticeship ratios that are stricter than those requirements specified in the federal regulations governing apprenticeship programs and from discriminating against open or merit shops.
Current Status: 1/13/2010 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB365 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING (CHANDLER, K) To eliminate an exemption from the Public Employees' Collective Bargaining Law for specified educational employees.
Current Status: 1/26/2010 - House Commerce and Labor, (Third Hearing)
HB372 CERTIFICATES OF TITLE (AMSTUTZ, R) To require a secured party to convey a physical certificate of title to the owner of a watercraft, outboard, motor vehicle, off-highway motorcycle, or all-purpose vehicle upon discharge of all security interests.
Current Status: 11/30/2009 - Referred to Committee House Transportation and Infrastructure
HB378 MUNICIPAL INCOME TAXATION (YATES, T) To eliminate the authority of municipal corporations to exempt stock options and nonqualified deferred compensation from municipal income taxation.
Current Status: 11/30/2009 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
HB379 CORPORATION LAWS (CARNEY, J) To make changes to the law governing corporations including dissenting shareholders and the dissolution of a corporation.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
HB383 ONLINE SMALL BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER (BAKER, N) To create an online small business resource center on the Department of Development's internet web site.
Current Status: 2/24/2010 - House Economic Development, (Second Hearing)
HB389 COUNTY PAYROLLS (HUFFMAN, M) To authorize counties to adopt a direct deposit payroll policy, and to authorize counties to increase the amount credited to "rainy day" reserve balance accounts to one-sixth of the expenditures made in the preceding fiscal year from the fund in which the reserve balance account is established.
Current Status: 2/17/2010 - BILL AMENDED, House Local Government / Public Administration, (Second Hearing)
HB393 LANDOWNER DEBRIS REMOVAL (GERBERRY, R) To revise the notice required to be provided by a board of township trustees to a landowner for the abatement, control, or removal of vegetation, garbage, refuse, or other debris from the owner's land.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (Fourth Hearing)
HB394 G.A. TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT (GARRISON, J) To require that a member of the General Assembly in fact travel to or from the member's residence and to or from the seat of government to receive a travel reimbursement.
Current Status: 2/24/2010 - REPORTED OUT, House State Government, (Fourth Hearing)
HB396 STATE BUDGET (BLAIR, T) To prohibit the Governor from proposing and the General Assembly from enacting a state budget with aggregate general revenue fund appropriations that exceed ninety-seven per cent of the total money received in aggregate revenue for the two most recent fiscal years, to prohibit the proposal and enactment of a state budget containing transfers from the Budget Stabilization Fund in excess of twenty-five per cent of the amount of the Fund, and to eliminate the state appropriation limitation.
Current Status: 1/12/2010 - Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
HB400 PERSONAL INCOME TAX (ADAMS, J) To phase out the personal income tax over ten years.
Current Status: 2/24/2010 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
HB401 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (LUNDY, M) To authorize property tax exemption for municipally owned facilities housing independent professional minor league baseball teams.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)
HB403 COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (DEGEETER, T) To authorize a nonchartered municipal corporation to establish a community emergency response team within the public safety department of the municipal corporation.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (Third Hearing)
HB404 PROPERTY TAX COLLECTION (BOLON, L) To increase county treasurer fees for property tax collection and to modify how those fees are to be computed.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (Second Hearing)
HB409 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (FOLEY, M) To authorize municipal corporations to have a deficit in special funds under certain circumstances.
Current Status: 2/17/2010 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (First Hearing)
HB416 STATE FEES (SNITCHLER, T) To waive the fees charged for birth records, state I.D. cards, temporary instruction permits, driver's licenses, motorcycle operator's endorsements, and motorized bicycle licenses issued to individuals who are under age twenty-two and, because of age, no longer qualify for foster care maintenance payments.
Current Status: 2/3/2010 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
HB419 FEDERAL PELL GRANT (DERICKSON, T) To authorize an income tax deduction for the otherwise taxable portion of a federal Pell grant used to pay room and board for a post-secondary student.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB430 ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT SALARIES (GOODWIN, B) To base the total amount that the administrative departments spend on the salaries or wages of their employees on changes in the Gross Domestic Product of Ohio.
Current Status: 2/2/2010 - Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
HB435 COUNTY BOARD OF REVISION APPEALS (GOODWIN, B) To authorize any person currently permitted to appeal a decision of a county board of revision to the Board of Tax Appeals to instead appeal the decision to the county court of common pleas.
Current Status: 2/24/2010 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB437 TAX CREDIT FOR BUSINESS-INCREASED PAYROLL (BAKER, N) To authorize a nonrefundable tax credit for a business that increases payroll and expands into a vacant facility.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB439 TAX EXEMPTION-RENEWABLE ENERGY (PHILLIPS, D) To exempt from property taxation the cost of energy-conservation or renewable energy improvements to business property and to authorize an additional income tax deduction for the costs of such improvements if the property is sold for a gain.
Current Status: 2/17/2010 - Referred to Committee House Alternative Energy
HB440 ALCOHOL TREATMENT-MEDICAID (BALDERSON, T) To require the Director of Job and Family Services to seek federal approval to establish an alcohol and controlled substance testing and treatment component of the Medicaid program.
Current Status: 2/17/2010 - Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
HB452 TAX RETURNS-RED CROSS DONATIONS (BOLON, L) To allow taxpayers to make contributions to the American Red Cross Ohio Disaster Response Readiness and Preparedness Fund through their income tax returns.
Current Status: 2/23/2010 - Referred to Committee House Public Safety and Homeland Security
HB453 INSURANCE PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE (BOYD, B) To require certain insurers to provide notification of changes to their prescription drug coverage to all network health care providers,network pharmacies, network pharmacists, and insureds and specify w hen change may apply.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Health, (First Hearing)
HB454 TAX DATABASE (ADAMS, R) To require the creation of a tax database and calculator to allow individuals and business to determine their current tax rates and potential tax liabilities.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
HB456 ESTATE TAX (OKEY, M) To repeal the estate tax effective January 1, 2011.
Current Status: 2/24/2010 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
HCR22 INCOME TAX WITHHOLDING SCHEDULES (MANDEL, J) To memorialize the Congress of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Internal Revenue Service to withdraw application of the new federal income tax withholding schedules to prisoners.
Current Status: 5/6/2009 - Referred to Committee House Aging and Disability Services
HCR32 HEALTH CARE REFORM (HAGAN, R) To request that all the members of the 128th General Assembly of the State of Ohio support the public option as part of national health care reform.
Current Status: 11/10/2009 - Referred to Committee House HealthCare Access and Affordability
HJR3 HEALTH CARE SYSTEM PARTICIPATION (MAAG, R) Proposing to enact Section 43 of Article II of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to prohibit a law or rule from compelling a person, employer, or health care provider to participate in a health care system.
Current Status: 12/8/2009 - House Insurance, (First Hearing)
HJR15 STATE G.A. DISTRICTS (LETSON, T) To revise the process for apportioning the state for General Assembly districts.
Current Status: 3/2/2010 - House Elections and Ethics, (Third Hearing)
SB1 BUILDING OHIO JOBS PART II (HUGHES, J) To implement the additional debt authority for conservation and revitalization programs provided by Section 2q of Article VIII of the Ohio Constitution, to authorize the issuance of that debt, to make new appropriations for the purpose of continuing programs established by Am. Sub. H.B. 554 of the 127th General Assembly, the Bipartisan Job Stimulus Act, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 3/5/2009 - Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
SB2 FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING (CAREY, JR., J) To provide for the distribution of moneys received by the state from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by making appropriations and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 3/18/2009 - Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
SB3 SMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT ACT (FABER, K) To require a rule-making agency to prepare a cost-benefit report for, and regulatory flexibility analysis of, rules that may have any adverse impact on small businesses, to create the Small Business Regulatory Review Board.
Current Status: 11/10/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
SB4 PERFORMANCE AUDITS FOR REGULATORY AGENCIES (SCHAFFER, T) To require the Auditor of State to conduct performance audits of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Health, and to require the Auditor of State to develop a schedule to provide for periodic performance audits of all state agencies.
Current Status: 2/2/2010 - Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
SB9 FILM TAX CREDIT (PATTON, T) To authorize income tax credits for investments in motion pictures produced in Ohio.
Current Status: 3/11/2009 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
SB10 TRANSITION ACCOUNTS DISCLOSURE (WIDENER, C) To permit individuals elected or appointed to state office to establish transition funds to receive donations and to make expenditures for transition activities and inaugural celebrations.
Current Status: 2/25/2009 - Senate Government Oversight, (First Hearing)
SB13 FORECLOSURE ACTIONS (MILLER, D) To require a clerk of courts to notify tenants when a foreclosure action is filed, to require the Director of Commerce to prepare a publication to assist owners and tenants of foreclosed residential rental property, the require the Director of Commerce to prepare a publication to assist owners and tenants of foreclosed residential rental property, to require the officer taking lands and tenements to notify the owner of the property of the date, time, and place of the sale of the foreclosed property, to require landlords to notify tenants when a property is foreclosed and when a sale is scheduled, to provide for continuance of a rental agreement after a foreclosure sale, to impose a civil penalty upon the landlord if the landlord fails to notify the tenants when a property is foreclosed, and to provide civil remedies for a tenant whose landlord violates the bill's provisions.
Current Status: 6/24/2009 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice, (Sixth Hearing)
SB14 HOME INSPECTORS (MILLER, D) To require the licensure of home inspectors and to create the Ohio Home Inspector Board to regulate the licensure and performance of home inspectors.
Current Status: 3/10/2009 - Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)
SB16 CREDIT CARD MARKETING (PATTON, T) To prohibit credit card marketing activities on the grounds of state institutions of higher education.
Current Status: 9/22/2009 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)
SB18 ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS (GIBBS, B) To require the proceeds of fines paid by certain political subdivisions under environmental laws to be expended by the state in the county that incurred the fine and require the proceeds of the fines to be deposited in the General Revenue Fund.
Current Status: 3/3/2009 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (Second Hearing)
SB21 CONVICTED FELONS (TURNER, N) To create a tax credit for the employment of individuals who have previously been convicted of felonies.
Current Status: 2/12/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
SB23 LANDLORDS (SCHAFFER, T) To enable a judgment creditor landlord to obtain a court order directing the Tax Commissioner to pay the judgment debtor tenant's income tax refund to the landlord.
Current Status: 9/30/2009 - Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice, (Second Hearing)
SB25 MEDICAL EXPENSES-TAXATION (SCHAFFER, T) To increase the amount of unreimbursed medical expenses that an individual may deduct in computing Ohio income tax.
Current Status: 2/18/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
SB26 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (SCHAFFER, T) To require municipal corporations with more than $100 million in annual income tax collections to provide a tax credit to nonresident taxpayers.
Current Status: 11/18/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Third Hearing)
SB32 HYBRID VEHICLE PURCHASE (TURNER, N) To create a nonrefundable tax credit for individuals who purchase a new hybrid vehicle.
Current Status: 2/12/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
SB34 HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAMS (MILLER, D) To create a health insurance program that allows municipal corporations, small employers, and nonprofit corporations or associations to purchase for their employees the same policies provided to state employees.
Current Status: 3/31/2009 - Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)
SB37 TOBACCO TAX (MILLER, D) To increase the tobacco products excise tax rate and to credit some of the additional revenue to the Tobacco Use Prevention Fund.
Current Status: 2/12/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
SB40 TEACHING MATERIALS (SCHAFFER, T) To allow credit against the personal income tax for amounts spent by teachers for instructional materials.
Current Status: 11/18/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
SB44 PROPERTY OWNERS (MILLER, D) Require county auditors to make reasonable efforts to identify property owners wrongfully receiving the 2.5% property tax rollback.
Current Status: 2/25/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
SB52 EXECUTIVE BRANCH-STATE GOVERNMENT (GRENDELL, T) To reorganize the executive branch of state government.
Current Status: 10/27/2009 - Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs, (Sixth Hearing)
SB53 RESIDENTIAL FORECLOSURE TRACKING SYSTEM (MILLER, D) To require Director of Commerce to establish a residential foreclosure tracking system and prepare an annual report on residential foreclosure filings and sales in each county.
Current Status: 3/10/2009 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (Third Hearing)
SB60 OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY (WAGONER, M) To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income refunds to the Ohio Historical Society.
Current Status: 11/18/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Second Hearing)
SB70 BUILDING DEMOLITION-BLIGHT (SCHIAVONI, J) To allow municipalities to use the money derived from the sale of urban renewal bonds for the demolition of buildings located on tax delinquent property that constitute a public nuisance due to blight.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Third Hearing)
SB78 STATE INFO DATABASE (COUGHLIN, K) To require state employee pay, agency expenses, and tax credit issuances to be published and accessible through one internet web site.
Current Status: 9/22/2009 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)
SB80 ACCOUNTANT-CLIENT PRIVILEGE (SEITZ, B) To create an accountant-client testimonial privilege.
Current Status: 5/6/2009 - REPORTED OUT, Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice, (Fourth Hearing)
SB83 PERS BENEFITS (FABER, K) To exclude certain compensation when determining retirement benefits under the Public Employees Retirement System.
Current Status: 4/28/2009 - Senate Health, Human Services and Aging, (Third Hearing)
SB85 WATER-POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS (STEWART, J) To authorize certain political subdivisions to contract for engineering, repair, sustainability, water quality management, and maintenance of a water storage tank through a professional service contract under specified conditions.
Current Status: 1/20/2010 - REPORTED OUT, House State Government, (Third Hearing)
SB90 VACANT HOMES-TAXATION (SEITZ, B) To authorize local governments to exempt homes that have been vacant for at least twelve months from non-school district property taxation for up to three years when purchased by an owner-occcupant.
Current Status: 1/27/2010 - REPORTED OUT, Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Fifth Hearing)
SB106 ESTATE/TRUST PROCEEDINGS (BUEHRER, S) To exclude from the application of the savings statute certain estate and trust proceedings that have limitation periods, to raise the threshold amount for the termination of avoidance of guardianships of small estates of wards, to raise the threshold amount for the avoidance of guardianship upon the settlement of claims of minors or adult incompetents, and to clarify that termination of marriage revokes any trust provision conferring a beneficial interest on the former spouse, to modify the period within which a plaintiff in a wrongful death action may commence a new action after the reversal of a judgment for the plaintiff of the plaintiff's failure otherwise than upon the merits, and to modify the residency qualifications for a person's appointment as a guardian.
Current Status: 12/22/2009 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, Eff. 3/24/10
SB109 REAL PROPERTY TAXATION (GIBBS, B) To exempt from real property taxation the value of single-family residential property owned by a developer or builder until the developer or builder transfers possession or title.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Third Hearing)
SB111 PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX LOSSES (STEWART, J) To make permanent the temporary reimbursements for local government and school district tangible personal property tax losses.
Current Status: 5/6/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
SB131 BIOBASED SUPPLIES (GILLMOR, K) To require the Director of Administrative Services establish a program that ensures that supplies composed of biobased products are purchased by DAS, state agencies, and state-supported institutions of higher education.
Current Status: 2/27/2010 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, eff. 5/31/10
SB133 HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE (GILLMOR, K) Regarding health insurance coverage for orally administered cancer medications and the procedures insured persons are required or permitted to use in acquiring certain non-self-injectable and compounded medications.
Current Status: 3/2/2010 - Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor, (Third Hearing)
SB134 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION (MILLER, R) To create the Department of Health Care Administration; to transfer the Medicaid Program, Children’s Health Insurance Program, Children’s Buy-In Program, Hospital Care Assurance Program, Disability Medical Assistance Program, Ohio’s Best Rx Program, and Residential State Supplement Program to the new department; to require the new department to create a central pharmaceutical purchasing office; and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance and Financial Institutions
SB134 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION (MILLER, R) To create the Department of Health Care Administration; to transfer the Medicaid Program, Children’s Health Insurance Program, Children’s Buy-In Program, Hospital Care Assurance Program, Disability Medical Assistance Program, Ohio’s Best Rx Program, and Residential State Supplement Program to the new department; to require the new department to create a central pharmaceutical purchasing office; and to make an appropriation.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance and Financial Institutions
SB136 INSURANCE AND MEDICAID COVERAGE (MILLER, R) Regarding insurance and Medicaid coverage of telemedicine services.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor
SB136 INSURANCE AND MEDICAID COVERAGE (MILLER, R) Regarding insurance and Medicaid coverage of telemedicine services.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor
SB137 OHIO PROMPT PAYMENT LAW APPLICATION (MILLER, R) To specify that the Ohio prompt payment law applies to payment of claims by Medicaid managed care organizations for health care services provided to Medicaid managed care participants.
Current Status: 6/24/2009 - Senate Health, Human Services and Aging, (First Hearing)
SB137 OHIO PROMPT PAYMENT LAW APPLICATION (MILLER, R) To specify that the Ohio prompt payment law applies to payment of claims by Medicaid managed care organizations for health care services provided to Medicaid managed care participants.
Current Status: 6/24/2009 - Senate Health, Human Services and Aging, (First Hearing)
SB138 INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CHEMOTHERAPY (MILLER, R) To require certain insurers that provide coverage for cancer chemotherapy treatment to provide coverage for certain prescribed, orally administered anticancer medication on a basis no less favorable than intravenously administered or injected cancer medications that are covered under the policy.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor
SB138 INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CHEMOTHERAPY (MILLER, R) To require certain insurers that provide coverage for cancer chemotherapy treatment to provide coverage for certain prescribed, orally administered anticancer medication on a basis no less favorable than intravenously administered or injected cancer medications that are covered under the policy.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor
SB145 EMPLOYER TAX CREDIT FOR FELONS (MILLER, R) To create a tax credit for wages paid by employers to employees who have been convicted of felonies.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
SB145 EMPLOYER TAX CREDIT FOR FELONS (MILLER, R) To create a tax credit for wages paid by employers to employees who have been convicted of felonies.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
SB146 MINORITY BUSINESS SET ASIDE REQUIREMENTS (MILLER, R) To require community colleges, state community colleges, technical colleges, and university branches to comply with minority business enterprise set aside requirements.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance and Financial Institutions
SB146 MINORITY BUSINESS SET ASIDE REQUIREMENTS (MILLER, R) To require community colleges, state community colleges, technical colleges, and university branches to comply with minority business enterprise set aside requirements.
Current Status: 6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance and Financial Institutions
SB148 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS DEFICIT (TURNER, N) To authorize municipal corporations to have a deficit in special funds under certain circumstances.
Current Status: 11/18/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
SB148 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS DEFICIT (TURNER, N) To authorize municipal corporations to have a deficit in special funds under certain circumstances.
Current Status: 11/18/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
SB155 STATE AGENCY BIENNIAL AUDITS (CAREY, JR., J) To require that the costs of all biennial audits of state agencies be charged to the state agency being audited, to alter the allocation of the proceeds of the existing fee on the sale of new tires in order to provide funding for the Soil and Water Conservation District Assistance Fund, and to increase the maximum amount of the annual soil and water conservation district subsidy.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Finance and Appropriations, (First Hearing)
SB158 HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS (MILLER, R) To require certain health care professionals to complete instruction in cultural competency.
Current Status: 9/15/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services and Aging
SB159 HEALTH CARE INSURERS (MILLER, R) To prohibit health insurers from denying payment for a service during or after the performance of the service if the insurer provided prior written authorization for the service.
Current Status: 9/15/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor
SB163 INSURANCE POLICIES (MILLER, R) To prohibit an insurer's use of a credit score, credit history, or credit report in fixing a premium rate for, or the terms and conditions of, an insurance policy or in determining whether to issue, continue or renew an insurance policy.
Current Status: 9/15/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor
SB171 RECOVERY/REINVESTMENT ACT SIGNAGE (PATTON, T) To limit the amount of money that may be spent on signs that identify the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as the source of specific project funding.
Current Status: 9/29/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Highways and Transportation
SB177 TAX LAW CHANGES (SEITZ, B) To partially decouple Ohio law from recent tax law changes, and to amend the version of section 5747.01 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect January 1, 2010, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date and to make appropriations.
Current Status: 11/5/2009 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (Second Hearing)
SB179 AMERICAN RECOVERY/REINVESTMENT FUNDS (GRENDELL, T) To prohibit spending American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds on signs that identify the source of specific project funding and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 10/20/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Highways and Transportation
SB182 VETERANS-PROPERTY TAXES (SCHAFFER, T) To exempt from property taxation the primary residences of military veterans who are 100% disabled from a service-connected disability.
Current Status: 1/20/2010 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Second Hearing)
SB185 GENERAL REVENUE FUND (JONES, S) To prohibit the transfer of cash from certain non-General Revenue Funds to the General Revenue Fund.
Current Status: 2/2/2010 - Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
SB188 COUNTY LAND REUTILIZATION (WAGONER, M) To authorize a county with a population greater than 100,000, or a population between 78,000 and 81.000, to organize a county land reutilization corporation , to authorize a county treasurer of a county with such a corporation to utilize the alternative redemption period in actions to foreclose abandoned lands, and to immunize a county land reutilization corporation from liability for breach of a common law duty in connection with a parcel of land.
Current Status: 1/20/2010 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Third Hearing)
SB193 TAX CREDIT FOR HIRING UNEMPLOYED (GIBBS, B) To authorize a $2,400 income tax withholding credit for an employer that hires and employs a previously unemployed individual.
Current Status: 1/20/2010 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (Second Hearing)
SB194 DIRECT DEPOSIT INCOME TAX REFUNDS (KEARNEY, E) To permit individual taxpayers to direct the state to transmit an income tax refund directly to the taxpayer's savings or tax-qualified retirement account.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
SB198 TAX CREDIT FOR CERTAIN DEGREES (SCHIAVONI, J) To grant an income tax credit to individuals who earn degrees in science, technology, engineering, or math-based fields of study and to authorize municipal corporations to grant a credit to individuals qualifying for the state credit.
Current Status: 12/2/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
SB199 GOLF COURSES (GIBBS, B) To define certain golf course landscape features as personal property for tax purposes, and to prescribe a method of estimating the true value of golf courses for tax purposes.
Current Status: 12/2/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
SB200 NURSE ANESTHETISTS (MORANO, S) To authorize certified registered nurse anesthetists to issue prescription for the administration of drugs during certain phases of patient care.
Current Status: 2/9/2010 - Senate Health, Human Services and Aging, (Second Hearing)
SB202 PUBLIC UTILITY WORKERS (TURNER, N) To increase the penalties for certain offenses when a public utility worker is the victim and to make the killing of a public utility worker an aggravating circumstance for the imposition of the death penalty for aggravated murder.
Current Status: 11/17/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary - Criminal Justice
SB204 MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS LAW (WAGONER, M) Relative to the termination of franchises and prohibited acts under the Motor Vehicle Dealers Law.
Current Status: 1/12/2010 - Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing)
SB206 POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS (GRENDELL, T) To limit to $500 the amount of political contributions that may be made by or accepted from the principals and key employees of an entity that is applying for a license or other authorization, or that is licensed o otherwise authorized, to operate video lottery terminal games or a casino in this state.
Current Status: 12/9/2009 - Senate Government Oversight, (First Hearing)
SB209 REDUCE SALARIES FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY (SCHAFFER, T) To reduce salaries of General Assembly members, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and administrative department heads by five per cent.
Current Status: 11/18/2009 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (Second Hearing)
SB212 CLAIMS - UNPAID WAGES (MORANO, S) To allow the Director of Commerce to investigate and enforce specified claims involving unpaid wages.
Current Status: 12/2/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor
SB213 WORKERS' COMPENSATION PREMIUMS (FABER, K) To require the Administrator of Workers' Compensation to make specified changes concerning workers' compensation premium rates and to prohibit the Bureau of Workers' Compensation Board of Directors from issuing a refund or rebate to subscribers to the State Insurance Fund without approval of the Genearl Assembly.
Current Status: 2/17/2010 - House Insurance, (First Hearing)
SB214 PASSPORT PROGRAM (CAREY, JR., J) To revise the waiting list provisions of the PASSPORT and Assisted Living programs, to require the Director of Budget and
Management to make certain cash transfers and expenditure authorizations regarding long-term care budget services, to revise the law governing the collection of long-term care facilities' Medicaid debts, and to revise the law governing the reasons for denying a Certificate of Need application.
Current Status: 2/9/2010 - REPORTED OUT, Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (Fifth Hearing)
SB221 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (MORANO, S) To authorize property tax exemption for municipally owned facilities housing independent professional minor league baseball teams.
Current Status: 2/24/2010 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Second Hearing)
SB227 TAX ABATEMENT (TURNER, N) To permit for a limited time, the abatement of unpaid property taxes, penalties, and interest owed on property owned by a municipal corporation that would have been tax exempt except for a failure to comply with certain tax-exemption procedures.
Current Status: 2/17/2010 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
SB231 TAX RETURNS-RED CROSS DONATIONS (SCHAFFER, T) To allow taxpayers to make contributions to the American Red Cross Ohio Disaster Response Readiness and Preparedness Fund through their income tax refund.
Current Status: 2/24/2010 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
SB232 RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITIES (WIDENER, C) To exempt from taxation renewable energy facilities that are not financed through the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority and require a payment in lieu of taxes on the basis of each megawatt of production capacity in such facilities.
Current Status: 3/3/2010 - Referred to Committee Senate Energy and Public Utilities
SCR10 TAX WITHHOLDING SCHEDULES (STEWART, J) To memorialize the Congress of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Internal Revenue Service to withdraw application of the new federal income tax withholding schedules to pensioners.
Current Status: 4/29/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
SJR3 REAL PROPERTY TAXES (COUGHLIN, K) To limit increases in the taxable value of real property to two per cent per year.
Current Status: 3/10/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
SJR8 CASINO GAMING (GOODMAN, D) To require the General Assembly to enact laws that authorize the submission of a question to the electors of a county on whether to approve the operation of casino gaming within the county before casino gaming may be conducted in that county.
Current Status: 2/3/2010 - Sent to Governor for Signature
SJR9 STATE LOTTERY (COUGHLIN, K) To authorize the state lottery to be operated by a private entity and to authorize the net profit of the state lottery to be used for scholarships for Ohio residents who are students at institutions of higher education located in Ohio in addition to the current use of the net profit for the support of elementary, secondary, vocational, and special education programs.
Current Status: 2/9/2010 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)
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