Pending Legislation of Interest
Prepared by: CCAO Policy Team
Report created on April 25, 2024
 
HB1WORKFORCE GRANT PROGRAM (SCHURING K, MANNING N) To establish the Workforce Grant Program, to authorize an income tax credit equal to 25% of the student loan payments a grant recipient makes per year, and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   4/14/2015 - Re-Referred to Committee
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB5PUBLIC OFFICE-STATE AGENCY EFFICIENCY STUDIES (KUNZE S, KOEHLER K) To allow the Auditor of State to conduct business case studies regarding the efficiency of local public offices and state agencies, to authorize the Auditor of State to establish a shared equipment service agreement program among political subdivisions, and to specify that a political subdivision that uses the loaned equipment has potential liability for its use under the Political Subdivision Tort Liability Law.
 Current Status:   6/14/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/14/16
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB8OIL-GAS LAW (HAGAN C) To revise provisions in the Oil and Gas Law governing unit operation, including requiring unit operation of land for which the Department of Transportation owns the mineral rights, and to specify that the discounted cash flow formula used to value certain producing oil and gas reserves for property tax purposes is the only method for valuing all oil and gas reserves.
 Current Status:   4/14/2015 - Senate Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Brian Mead
 
HB9TAX EXPENDITURE REVIEW COMMITTEE (BOOSE T) To create a Tax Expenditure Review Committee for the purpose of periodically reviewing existing and proposed tax expenditures.
 Current Status:   12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/21/2017
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole
 
HB12TIF-INCENTIVE DISTRICTS (BUTLER, JR. J, BURKLEY T) To establish a procedure by which political subdivisions proposing a tax increment financing (TIF) incentive district are required to provide notice to the record owner of each parcel within the proposed incentive district before creating the district, and to permit such owners, under specific conditions, to exclude their parcels from the incentive district by submitting a written response.
 Current Status:   11/30/2016 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HB13POLICE-FIRE LEVY REVENUE (BUTLER, JR. J, BURKLEY T) To require reimbursement of police and fire levy revenue foregone because of the creation of a tax increment financing incentive district.
 Current Status:   3/17/2015 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HB23OIL-GAS LEASE INCOME (AMSTUTZ R) To use one-half of any income from oil and gas leases on state land to fund temporary income tax reductions, to modify the law governing the use of new Ohio use tax collections from remote sellers for income tax reductions, and to require the Director of Budget and Management to recommend whether or not income tax rates should be permanently reduced after the Director certifies a temporary rate reduction resulting from the accrual of money in the Income Tax Reduction Fund.
 Current Status:   11/18/2015 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Brian Mead
 
HB24ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES (DOVILLA M, RETHERFORD W) To revise the laws governing the provision of adult protective services.
 Current Status:   5/25/2016 - Senate Health and Human Services, (Seventh Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
HB26COIN SALES-USE TAX EXEMPTION (MAAG R, HAGAN C) To exempt from sales and use taxes the sale or use of investment metal bullion and coins.
 Current Status:   11/18/2015 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB30CHILD SEAT-VEHICULAR HOMICIDE (PELANDA D) To restrict to cases of negligent vehicular homicide a provision of law that declares that the failure of an operator of a motor vehicle to secure a child in a car seat, in a booster seat, or with a seat belt is inadmissible as evidence in certain criminal actions and to allow the enforcement of child car seat, booster seat, and seat belt requirements as a primary offense if the child is less than eight years of age.
 Current Status:   3/3/2015 - House Judiciary, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB32AIRCRAFT-MOTOR FUEL EXCISE TAX (PERALES R) To subject the receipt of motor fuel used to operate aircraft to the motor fuel excise taxes rather than the sales and use taxes and to require a percentage of motor fuel excise tax revenue to be used for airport improvements.
 Current Status:   2/10/2015 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole
 
HB41ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION SYSTEM (STINZIANO M) To require the Secretary of State to create an online voter registration system.
 Current Status:   2/10/2015 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB45HUMANE SOCIETY AGENTS (GERBERRY R) To require an individual to file proof of successful completion of training with the county recorder prior to being appointed as a humane society agent and to require the revocation or suspension of an appointment under certain circumstances.
 Current Status:   6/16/2015 - House Local Government, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HB46GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE DATABASE (DOVILLA M) To require the Treasurer of State to establish the Ohio State Government Expenditure Database.
 Current Status:   10/13/2015 - Senate Finance, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB47REFRESHMENT AREAS-OPEN CONTAINER EXEMPTION (BLESSING III L, DRIEHAUS D) To allow municipal corporations and townships with a population of more than 25,000 to create outdoor refreshment areas, to exempt persons within such an area from the open container law, and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   4/30/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/30/15
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HB48CONCEALED CARRY-MOTOR VEHICLE-ET AL (MAAG R) To modify the prohibition against carrying a concealed handgun onto institutions
of higher education, day-care facilities, aircraft, certain government facilities, public
areas of airport terminals, and school safety zones, to allow a sheriff to use concealed handgun license fee revenue to purchase ammunition and firearms, and to authorize
certain children's crisis care facilities to maintain firearms.
 Current Status:   12/7/2016 - PASSED BY SENATE; Amended on Floor, Bill Vote 23-9
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB50FOSTER CARE-ADOPTION ASSISTANCE AGE (PELANDA D, GROSSMAN C) To extend the age for which a person is eligible for federal foster care and adoption assistance payments under Title IV-E to age twenty-one, to provide a ward's bill of rights, to require that a guardian receive the Ohio Guardianship Guide; and to conform to recent amendments to federal Title IV-E program requirements.
 Current Status:   6/13/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/13/16
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB51INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION BUDGET (HACKETT R) To make appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2017, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of Commission programs.
 Current Status:   6/30/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 6/30/15; certain provisions effective 9/29/15
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB52WORKERS' COMPENSATION BUDGET (HACKETT R) To make changes to the Workers' Compensation Law, to make appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2017, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau's programs.
 Current Status:   6/30/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 6/30/15; certain provisions effective 9/29/15, other dates
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB53TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (GROSSMAN C) To make appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2017, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs; and to amend the version of section 4507.11 of the Revised Code that is scheduled to take effect January 1, 2017, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date.
 Current Status:   4/1/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 7/1/15; certain provisions effective other dates
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB56PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT-CRIMINAL RECORDS (SCHURING K, SLESNICK S) To limit the use of criminal records in the hiring and employment practices of public employers.
 Current Status:   12/22/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/23/16
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HB58WASTE-COLLECTION VEHICLE ACTIONS (CERA J, ROGERS J) To require motor vehicle operators to take certain actions upon approaching a stationary waste collection vehicle collecting refuse on a roadside.
 Current Status:   5/18/2016 - Senate Transportation, Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Cheryl Subler
 
HB60COMPANION ANIMAL DEFINITION (PATMON B, HALL D) To revise provisions and penalties regarding treatment of companion animals, to revise the definition of "companion animal" in the Offenses Relating to Domestic Animals Law, and to provide a state collaborative effort to assist veterinarians in identifying clients who may use their animals to secure opioids for abuse, and to modify the penalty for assaulting a police dog or horse to require, if the dog or horse is killed, a mandatory prison term and a mandatory fine to be paid to the law enforcement agency served by the dog or horse.
 Current Status:   6/13/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/13/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HB61LAKE ERIE FERTILIZER-DREDGING (BUCHY J, HALL D) To generally prohibit the application of fertilizer or manure in Lake Erie's western basin on frozen ground or saturated soil and during certain weather conditions, to require publicly owned treatment works either to monitor monthly total and dissolved phosphorous or to prepare optimization studies that evaluate their ability to reduce phosphorous, and to prohibit a person, beginning July 1, 2020, from depositing dredged material in Ohio's portion of Lake Erie and its direct tributaries that resulted from harbor or navigation maintenance activities unless authorized to do so by the director of environmental protection.
 Current Status:   3/17/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HB63CHILD ABUSE-NEGLECT REPORTING (PELANDA D, GROSSMAN C) To require mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect to notify the county public children services agency when an attorney in fact under a document that purports to grant parental rights requests services from them, to require the agency to investigate the child's placement with the attorney in fact, and to require the agency to file a dependency complaint if it determines that the placement is unsafe for the child.
 Current Status:   12/8/2016 - Senate Civil Justice, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB64OPERATING BUDGET (SMITH R) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2017, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
 Current Status:   6/30/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 6/30/15; certain provisions effective 9/29/15, other dates
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB77CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION (PATMON B) To require statewide registration of home improvement contractors, to modify the membership of the Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board, and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   11/17/2015 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Commerce and Labor, (Fifth Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB80AGRITOURISM-ZONING (BURKLEY T) To limit the authority of a board of county commissioners or board of township trustees to prohibit agritourism through zoning, to apply current agricultural use valuation to land used for agritourism for property tax purposes, and to establish immunity in a civil action for agritourism providers.
 Current Status:   12/8/2015 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate Civil Justice, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and John Leutz
 
HB81SPECIAL ELECTIONS (HAMBLEY S) To eliminate the ability to conduct special elections in February and to require a political subdivision to prepay sixty-five per cent of the estimated cost of a special election.
 Current Status:   3/10/2015 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
HB82COUNTY-PRISON CONTRACTS (HAMBLEY S) To permit a county, a group of counties, or a group of counties and municipalities to contract for the private operation and management of a correctional facility that houses felon inmates.
 Current Status:   5/13/2015 - House State Government, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HB83OIL-GAS ROYALTY STATEMENT (CERA J) To require the owner of an oil or gas well to provide a royalty statement to the holder of the royalty interest when the owner makes payment to the holder.
 Current Status:   3/10/2015 - House Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB85CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION (RAMOS D) With respect to age-appropriate student instruction in child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention and in-service staff training in child sexual abuse prevention.
 Current Status:   11/28/2016 - Senate Education, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB89MEDICAID SCHOOL PROGRAM (DEVITIS A) To authorize certain Medicaid providers to make referrals for certain services under the Medicaid School Program.
 Current Status:   12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/21/2017
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB94TETHERED ANIMALS (BARNES, JR. J) To prohibit a person from negligently allowing an animal to be tethered outdoors under specified circumstances.
 Current Status:   4/21/2015 - House Agriculture and Rural Development, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HB95DENTAL INSURERS-NO FEE SCHEDULE (DEVITIS A) To prohibit a health insurer from establishing a fee schedule for dental providers for services that are not covered by any contract or participating provider agreement between the health insurer and the dental provider.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - Senate Insurance, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB105UNEMPLOYMENT-MILITARY SPOUSES (CRAIG H, PERALES R) To permit persons who quit work to accompany the person's spouse on a military transfer to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits.
 Current Status:   3/26/2015 - House Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and Brian Mead
 
HB120INNOVATION GRANT PROGRAM (SCHURING K) To create the Ohio Higher Education Innovation Grant Program and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   3/24/2015 - Referred to Committee House Education
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HB128TAX CREDIT-ENDOWMENT DONATIONS (SEARS B, AMSTUTZ R) To authorize an income tax credit for donations to the permanent endowment fund of an eligible community foundation and to require the Director of Budget and Management to reimburse the Local Government Fund and the Public Library Fund for revenue lost because of the credit.
 Current Status:   6/16/2015 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and Brad Cole
 
HB130PUBLIC RECORDS-DATA BOARD (HAGAN C, DUFFEY M) To create the DataOhio Board, to specify requirements for posting public records online, to require the Auditor of State to adopt rules regarding a uniform accounting system for public offices, to establish an online catalog of public data at data.Ohio.gov, to establish the Local Government Information Exchange Grant Program, and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   9/28/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB131ANIMAL DISEASES LAW-PESTICIDE LICENSING (PELANDA D) To include diseases of concern within the scope of the Animal Diseases Law, and to make changes to the laws governing weights and measures, livestock dealers, and auctioneers, the membership of the Farmland Preservation Advisory Board, and the pesticide licensing renewal process.
 Current Status:   12/22/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/23/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HB134FORECLOSURES-VACANT PROPERTIES (GROSSMAN C, CURTIN M) To establish summary actions to foreclose mortgages on vacant and abandoned residential properties, to expedite the foreclosure and transfer of unoccupied, blighted parcels, to make other changes relative to residential foreclosure actions, and to terminate certain provisions of this act on December 31, 2019, by repealing sections of the Revised Code on that date.
 Current Status:   5/25/2016 - BILL AMENDED, Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB141HISTORICAL SOCIETY NAME CHANGE (HAMBLEY S, BOYCE K) To change the name of the Ohio Historical Society to the Ohio History Connection.
 Current Status:   6/30/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/29/15
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB150HOTEL SALES-USE TAX (GROSSMAN C, SCHERER G) To require hotel intermediaries to collect and remit applicable sales and use tax on the full amount paid for hotel lodging, to require hotel intermediaries to supply customers with itemized invoices, to specify that a hotel intermediary is presumed to have "substantial nexus" with Ohio if the intermediary arranges lodging at Ohio hotels, and to specify that hotels are not liable for the failure of a hotel intermediary to properly collect or remit applicable taxes.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - House Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB153PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DATE (DOVILLA M) To change the date on which presidential primary elections are held.
 Current Status:   6/10/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/9/15
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB162SEVERANCE TAX RATES (CERA J) To change the basis, rates, and revenue distribution of the severance tax on oil and gas, to create a grant program to encourage compressed natural gas as a motor vehicle fuel, to authorize an income tax credit for landowners holding an oil or gas royalty interest, and to exclude some oil and gas sale receipts from the commercial activity tax base.
 Current Status:   5/12/2015 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Brian Mead
 
HB166LOCAL TAX-FISCAL REVISIONS (GREEN D) To make changes to the law governing community improvement corporations, the administration of property taxes, and the functions of county auditors.
 Current Status:   6/8/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/8/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB170VACCINATION-EMPLOYMENT (HAGAN C) To prohibit an employer from taking an adverse employment action against a person who has not been or will not be vaccinated against influenza.
 Current Status:   12/1/2015 - House Commerce and Labor, (Sixth Hearing)
 
HB173VETERAN ID CARDS (ANIELSKI M, TERHAR L) To authorize county recorders to issue Ohio veterans identification cards.
 Current Status:   6/8/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/8/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and John Leutz
 
HB176GAS-FUEL CONVERSION PROGRAM (HALL D, O'BRIEN S) To create the Gaseous Fuel Vehicle Conversion Program, to allow a credit against the income or commercial activity tax for the purchase or conversion of an alternative fuel vehicle, to reduce the amount of sales tax due on the purchase or lease of a qualifying electric vehicle by up to $500, to apply the motor fuel tax to the distribution or sale of compressed natural gas, to authorize a temporary, partial motor fuel tax exemption for sales of compressed natural gas used as motor fuel, and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   11/18/2015 - REPORTED OUT, House Finance, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HB177ANIMAL CRUELTY-VIOLATOR REGISTRY (CELEBREZZE N) To require violators of specified statutes in the Animal Cruelty Law to register with the Attorney General, to require the Attorney General to establish a registry of those violators, and to prohibit an animal shelter from placing for adoption a companion animal in the shelter's care with such a violator.
 Current Status:   5/5/2015 - Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Rural Development
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HB179AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION (STINZIANO M, SYKES E) To amend the versions of sections 4507.05 and 4507.06 of the Revised Code that are scheduled to take effect January 1, 2017, to continue the provisions of this act on and after the effective date, to require that eligible persons in the database of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles be automatically registered to vote or have their registrations updated automatically, as applicable, unless those persons decline to be registered or to update their registrations.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB180RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS (MAAG R) To prohibit a public authority from requiring a contractor to employ a certain percentage of individuals from the geographic area of the public authority for the construction or professional design of a public improvement.
 Current Status:   5/31/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 8/31/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole
 
HB181ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION-AUTO UPDATE (CLYDE K) To require that eligible persons in certain government and school databases be automatically registered to vote or have their registrations updated automatically unless those persons decline to do so and to create an online voter registration system.
 Current Status:   11/30/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB182JOINT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS (SCHURING K) To revise the law governing the creation and operation of joint economic development districts (JEDDs) and enterprise zones, to exempt from property taxation real property owned by a nonprofit organization selected by the Federal Small Business Administration as an intermediary lender in the Federal Microloan Program, to lower the contribution threshold necessary to maintain an income tax refund contribution "check-off" option, to extend the deadline for municipal corporations to report information to enable a computation of fiscal effects of recent changes to net operating loss deductions for municipal income tax purposes, and to modify eligible investment criteria for the state New Markets Tax Credit.
 Current Status:   6/13/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/13/16
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HB187FIRST RESPONDERS-INJURED ANIMALS (GINTER T) To authorize a first responder, emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, emergency medical technician-paramedic, or volunteer firefighter to stabilize an injured animal in an emergency.
 Current Status:   5/31/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 8/31/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HB188PHARMACIST CONSULT AGREEMENTS (MANNING N, HUFFMAN S) To revise the laws governing pharmacist consult agreements and the laws governing the circumstances under which a pharmacist may dispense or sell a drug without a prescription.
 Current Status:   12/22/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/23/16
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB189VOTER IDENTIFICATION (BRENNER A) To revise the law concerning the identification an elector must provide in order to cast absent voter's ballots, to vote in person at a polling place, or to cast a provisional ballot.
 Current Status:   5/12/2015 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
HB190WIND FARM SETBACKS-COUNTY (BURKLEY T, BROWN T) To create an alternative wind farm setback in cases where a process has been initiated to interconnect the wind farm to a transmission system and the wind farm is in the Ohio wind corridor.
 Current Status:   5/18/2016 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Public Utilities, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB191MENTAL HEALTH-ADDICTION CLIENT ASSESSMENT (PELANDA D) Regarding the assessment of a client who has been referred to a community mental health or addiction services provider for treatment related to probation for a criminal offense.
 Current Status:   10/6/2015 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB193ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY (CLYDE K, FEDOR T) To establish an address confidentiality program for individuals who reasonably believe that they are in danger of being threatened or physically harmed by another person, 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:   5/12/2015 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Cheryl Subler
 
HB196HEALTHIER BUCKEYE COUNCILS (AMSTUTZ R, DERICKSON T) To require boards of county commissioners to establish local healthier buckeye councils; to rename the Ohio Healthier Buckeye Advisory Council the Ohio Healthier Buckeye Council and to expand its duties; to establish the Healthier Buckeye Grant Program; to establish the Comprehensive Case Management and Employment Program; and to make changes to the law governing the Prevention, Retention, and Contingency Program.
 Current Status:   6/2/2015 - House Community and Family Advancement, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB198HUMANE SOCIETY ATTORNEY AUTHORITY (HAMBLEY S, JOHNSON G) To abolish the humane society's authority to employ an attorney to prosecute certain violations of law dealing with animal cruelty or acts involving mistreatment or nonsupport of children.
 Current Status:   6/16/2015 - House Judiciary, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HB204PEACE OFFICER-BASIC TRAINING (DERICKSON T, MANNING N) To prohibit the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission from recommending and the Attorney General from adopting a rule limiting the number of hours of basic training required for peace officers and to generally require all persons newly appointed to a peace officer position to have received a high school diploma or certificate of high school equivalence.
 Current Status:   6/24/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight and Reform
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB205SELF-INSURING EMPLOYERS (HENNE M, RETHERFORD W) To modify the requirements for an employer to become a self-insuring employer for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Law, to transfer authority over the workers' compensation self-insurance program to the Superintendent of Insurance, and to allow certain employers and groups of employers to obtain workers' compensation coverage from a private workers' compensation insurer.
 Current Status:   2/9/2016 - House Insurance, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB206INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION-CLAIM STATISTICS (HENNE M) To require the Industrial Commission to keep statistics on individual hearing decisions of contested workers' compensation claims.
 Current Status:   6/9/2015 - House Insurance, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB207WORKERS' COMPENSATION-SURPLUS FUND (HENNE M, MCCOLLEY R) To allow a state fund employer to have a workers' compensation claim that is likely to be subrogated by a third party paid from the surplus fund account in the state insurance fund rather than charged to the employer's experience.
 Current Status:   5/31/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 8/31/16
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB210COUNTY ACCOUNTS (GREEN D) Regarding certain accounts of county agencies and county elected officials.
 Current Status:   6/16/2015 - House Local Government, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB214PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT-PIPING MATERIAL (THOMPSON A) To restrict when a public authority may preference a particular type of piping material for certain public improvements.
 Current Status:   5/24/2016 - House Energy and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Brian Mead
 
HB218DRONE OPERATION-RETAIL (BARNES, JR. J) To regulate the operation of drones near airports and to impose certain record-keeping requirements on retail sellers of drones.
 Current Status:   12/1/2015 - House Transportation and Infrastructure, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB231PROPERTY VALUATION COMPLAINTS (GROSSMAN C, MCCLAIN J) To require counties, municipal corporations, townships, and school boards that file complaints against the valuation of property they do not own to pass a resolution approving the complaint and specifying the compensation paid to any person retained to represent the county, municipal corporation, township, or school board in the matter of the complaint.
 Current Status:   11/17/2015 - House Local Government, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB232SELLER-USE TAX COLLECTION (GROSSMAN C, SCHERER G) To prescribe new criteria for determining whether sellers are presumed to have substantial nexus with Ohio and therefore required to register to collect use tax, to allow sellers presumed to have substantial nexus to rebut that presumption, and to require a person, before the person enters into a sale of goods contract with the state, to register, along with the person's affiliates, to collect use tax.
 Current Status:   6/2/2015 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole
 
HB233REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS (SCHURING K) To authorize municipal corporations to create downtown redevelopment districts and innovation districts for the purposes of promoting the rehabilitation of historic buildings, creating jobs, encouraging economic development in commercial and mixed-use areas, and supporting grants and loans to technology-oriented and other businesses.
 Current Status:   5/6/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 8/5/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and John Leutz
 
HB234RAPE-STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ELIMINATION (JOHNSON G, FEDOR T) To eliminate the period of limitation for the criminal prosecution of a person for rape, sexual battery, or complicity to commit rape or sexual battery, eliminate the spousal exceptions for the offenses of rape and sexual battery, and to permit a person to testify against the person's spouse in a prosecution for sexual battery.
 Current Status:   12/1/2015 - House Judiciary, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB236ENGINEERING TRAINING (BLESSING III L) To require professional engineers to complete continuing professional development hours in professional ethics or rules relevant to engineering or surveying practices.
 Current Status:   1/4/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/6/17
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB240CORONERS' LAW (HUFFMAN S, JOHNSON T) To define the legal residence of a dead person for purposes of the body's disposal; to recognize that coroners include medical examiners; to change the qualifications for holding office as a coroner of a charter county; to require, under certain conditions, and to authorize, under other conditions, supplemental compensation for coroners who are forensic pathologists; to revise how the office of coroner is filled when a vacancy cannot be filled by election or appointment; to specify the disposition of a firearm when a person meets death under certain circumstances; to specify who pays for the autopsy of an inmate of a state correctional facility; and to make other changes to the coroners' law.
 Current Status:   5/31/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 8/31/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Cheryl Subler
 
HB246ABSENTEE VOTER BALLOTS (CLYDE K) To modify the circumstances under which the Secretary of State and other public officials and employees may mail unsolicited applications for absent voter's ballots.
 Current Status:   6/10/2015 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
HB251MEDICAID-BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (SPRAGUE R, DRIEHAUS D) To establish certain requirements regarding the Medicaid program's coverage of community behavioral health services.
 Current Status:   6/16/2015 - House Insurance, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
HB252COUNTY TREASURER FEES (HACKETT R, RYAN S) To adjust the fees allowed to county treasurers for collecting property taxes.
 Current Status:   1/26/2016 - House Local Government, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB253OHIO RURAL JOBS ACT (RETHERFORD W) To enact the "Ohio Rural Jobs Act" which authorizes a nonrefundable tax credit for insurance companies that invest in rural business growth funds, which are certified to provide capital to rural and agricultural businesses.
 Current Status:   10/27/2015 - REPORTED OUT, House Agriculture and Rural Development, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Brian Mead
 
HB263JUDICIAL-COUNTY SALARY INCREASES (ROGERS J, CELEBREZZE N) To increase judicial salaries and the salaries of county elected officials, township trustees, township fiscal officers, and boards of elections members, to reinstate the annual cost of living adjustment to their salaries, and to make appropriations.
 Current Status:   6/23/2015 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
HB272FEMININE HYGIENE-TAX EXEMPTION (JOHNSON G, SYKES E) To exempt from sales and use tax the sale of tampons and other feminine hygiene products associated with menstruation.
 Current Status:   11/17/2015 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB273MANUFACTURED HOME REMOVAL (PELANDA D) Regarding the removal of abandoned or unoccupied manufactured homes, mobile homes, or recreational vehicles from manufactured home parks.
 Current Status:   2/9/2016 - House Financial Institutions, Housing and Urban Development, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB275VISION CARE-HEALTH INSURERS (SCHURING K) Regarding limitations imposed by health insurers on vision care services.
 Current Status:   11/16/2016 - House Insurance, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB2779-1-1 SYSTEM LEVY (BRENNER A) To authorize a county, township, or municipal corporation to impose a 9-1-1 system levy in only the portion of the subdivision that would be served by the 9-1-1 system and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   6/28/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 6/28/16
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB278COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETIES (HAMBLEY S) To require approval by the board of county commissioners, instead of the probate judge, of appointments of agents by county humane societies outside a municipal corporation, to specify that a county humane society is a political subdivision, to make its directors, agents, officers, and employees subject to the Ethics Law, and to increase the salaries paid to the agents.
 Current Status:   5/24/2016 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Government Accountability and Oversight, (Fourth Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HB279NONECONOMIC DAMAGE-AUTO INSURANCE (HENNE M, REZABEK J) To generally prohibit individuals who do not maintain statutory minimum levels of automobile insurance from collecting noneconomic damages for harm sustained in a motor vehicle accident.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - Senate Insurance, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB282PREVAILING WAGE LAW (ROEGNER K, HOOD R) To repeal Section 509.70 of Am. H.B. 497 of the 130th General Assembly to repeal the Prevailing Wage Law.
 Current Status:   9/16/2015 - Referred to Committee House Commerce and Labor
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB287YOUTH SUMMER EMPLOYMENT (BARNES, JR. J) To require the Director of Development Services to establish a youth summer jobs pledging initiative to increase access to summer employment opportunities for high school and college youth.
 Current Status:   10/7/2015 - House Economic and Workforce Development, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB288SAFETY OPERATIONAL STANDARDS-PSAP (HENNE M, REZABEK J) To require the statewide emergency services internet protocol network steering committee to update the operational standards for public safety answering points.
 Current Status:   9/16/2015 - Referred to Committee House Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB298UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS-DRUG TEST (SCHAFFER T, MAAG R) To require applicants for unemployment benefits to submit to a drug test under certain circumstances, to require the Director of Job and Family Services to operate an Ohio Works First drug testing pilot program, and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - House Community and Family Advancement, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
HB302ANNEXED TERRITORY-LEVY (HENNE M) To provide that, beginning five years after a type-II annexation is approved, the annexed territory is subject to a fire, police, or EMS tax levy only if the levy is imposed by the subdivision that provides the fire, police, or EMS service to the territory.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - House Local Government, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HB304MUNICIPAL WATER RESERVOIR-BUFFERS (LELAND D, STINZIANO M) To eliminate law authorizing the maintenance of buffers around municipal water reservoirs by contiguous property owners.
 Current Status:   11/17/2015 - House Local Government, (First Hearing)
 
HB308TEXTBOOKS-TAX EXEMPTION (DUFFEY M, STINZIANO M) To exempt from sales and use tax textbooks purchased by post-secondary students.
 Current Status:   10/21/2015 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB309ABSENT VOTER'S BALLOTS (CLYDE K) To eliminate the requirement that absent voter's ballots received during the ten days after the day of an election contain a postmark and to specify circumstances under which those ballots must not be counted.
 Current Status:   11/30/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
HB333FORCE ACCOUNT LIMITS-TOWNSHIPS (SCHAFFER T, HAMBLEY S) To increase the monetary thresholds above which competitive bidding is required for township road construction, repair, or maintenance contracts, and to increase the monetary thresholds above which a force account assessment is required for a township road construction, repair, or maintenance project.
 Current Status:   2/23/2016 - House Local Government, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole
 
HB334GYM MEMBERSHIP-TAX EXEMPT (BUCHY J) To exempt memberships to gyms or other recreational facilities operated by nonprofit organizations from sales and use taxation.
 Current Status:   12/1/2016 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB340LOCAL GOVERNMENT INNOVATION COUNCIL (AMSTUTZ R) To extend the operation of the Local Government Innovation Council until Dec. 31, 2019, to make FY16-17 budget corrections and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   12/22/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 12/22/15
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HB342OHIO FARM WINERY PERMIT (YOUNG R) To create the Ohio Farm Winery Permit and to authorize the Division of Liquor Control to issue a D-5l liquor permit to a premise that is located in a municipal corporation that is wholly within the geographic boundaries of a township, provided that a specified population density applies to the municipal corporation and township.
 Current Status:   6/28/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/28/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HB343EMPLOYMENT SERVICES-TAX EXEMPT (YOUNG R, ROMANCHUK M) To exempt employment services and employment placement services from sales and use tax.
 Current Status:   12/6/2016 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
HB344ADOPTION FILES (PELANDA D) Regarding the maintenance of and access to adoption files and social and medical histories.
 Current Status:   10/13/2015 - House Community and Family Advancement, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB349STATE EMISSIONS PLAN (SMITH R, GINTER T) To require the Environmental Protection Agency to submit a state plan governing carbon dioxide emissions to the General Assembly prior to submitting it to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   12/8/2015 - House Energy and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB350AUTISM TREATMENT-COVERAGE (GROSSMAN C, TERHAR L) To mandate coverage of autism treatment.
 Current Status:   5/25/2016 - REPORTED OUT, House Government Accountability and Oversight, (Fifth Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB353SEX OFFENDER NOTIFICATION (RUHL M) To require a sheriff to mail a notice to every adult member of a household where a person who is required to register as a sex offender resides informing those household members that the person has committed a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense.
 Current Status:   4/26/2016 - House Judiciary, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB355EMPLOYEE DEFINITION (RETHERFORD W) To create a generally uniform definition of employee for specified labor laws and to prohibit employee misclassification under those laws.
 Current Status:   11/4/2015 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB358TAX DEDUCTION-SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (DEVER J, CONDITT M) To allow an income tax deduction for contributions to ABLE savings accounts.
 Current Status:   4/19/2016 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB359ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY (DUFFEY M, GONZALES A) To create an address confidentiality program for victims of domestic violence, menacing by stalking, human trafficking, trafficking in persons, rape, sexual battery, and other crimes.
 Current Status:   6/8/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/8/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Cheryl Subler
 
HB365MOBILITY AID-TRANSPORT (KUHNS C, ROMANCHUK M) To modify the provisions governing the transport of persons who may use a wheelchair or other mobility aid.
 Current Status:   2/10/2016 - House Health and Aging, (Fourth Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB368HEALTH INSURANCE LIMITS-EXCLUSIONS (SEARS B) To make changes to the health coverage benefit limits and coverage exclusions for life and health insurance guaranty associations.
 Current Status:   11/4/2015 - House Insurance, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HB374PUBLIC DEPOSITS-REPAYMENT (SCHURING K) To authorize the Treasurer of State to determine by rule the total market value of securities that must be pledged to secure the repayment of all uninsured public deposits at a particular public depository, to make other changes relative to the Ohio Pooled Collateral Program, and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   12/2/2015 - REPORTED OUT, House Finance, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and John Leutz
 
HB380OFFICER-INVOLVED DEATH INVESTIGATIONS (DEVER J, REECE A) To require each law enforcement agency to adopt a written policy regarding the investigation of firearms-related officer-involved deaths that involve an officer serving the agency; to provide for investigations into officer-involved deaths by investigatory panels of law enforcement officers; to require an investigatory panel to provide a report of its investigation findings to the prosecutor and the officer's law enforcement agency; to provide for public access to the report, except for information that is not a public record, if the prosecutor determines that there is no basis to prosecute or a grand jury enters a no bill regarding the involved officer; and to require an investigatory panel to inform the deceased individual's family members of contact information for the office of the prosecutor handling the case.
 Current Status:   12/1/2015 - House Judiciary, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB388OVI OFFENDERS-IGNITION INTERLOCK (SCHERER G) To authorize a court to grant unlimited driving privileges with an ignition interlock device to first-time OVI offenders, to expand the penalties related to ignition interlock device violations, to modify the law governing the installation and monitoring of ignition interlock devices, to extend the look back period for OVI and OVI-related offenses from six to ten years, to modify the penalties for OVI offenses, and to alter the notice requirements applicable to a salvage auction or pool that obtains a salvage certificate of title for a motor vehicle.
 Current Status:   1/4/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/6/17
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
HB390NATURAL GAS-ET AL (SCHAFFER T, RETHERFORD W) To provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs and to make appropriations.
 Current Status:   6/28/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/28/16; certain provisions effective on other dates
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole
 
HB394TAXABLE WAGE-UNEMPLOYMENT (SEARS B) To temporarily change the taxable wage base under Ohio's Unemployment Compensation Law, to remove dependency classes for unemployment compensation benefit eligibility, to temporarily freeze automatic increases for weekly unemployment compensation benefit amounts, to reduce the number of weeks for which an individual may receive unemployment compensation benefits, to abolish the Unemployment Compensation Advisory Council, and to make other changes to Ohio's Unemployment Compensation Law.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - House Insurance, (Sixth Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
HB398CAUV COMPUTATION (HILL B) To require that the computation of the capitalization rate for the purposes of determining CAUV of agricultural land be computed using a method that excludes appreciation and equity buildup and to stipulate that CAUV land used for a conservation practice or enrolled in a federal land retirement or conservation program for at least three years must be valued at the lowest of the values assigned on the basis of soil type.
 Current Status:   5/3/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Brad Cole
 
HB402VOTER REGISTRATION-CANCEL (CLYDE K) To modify the circumstances under which a voter registration may be canceled.
 Current Status:   11/30/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
HB422INJECTION WELLS-PERMITS (O'BRIEN S, PATTERSON J) To require recording and notification of assignments of leases for real property for the placing of an injection well, to revise the procedures and requirements governing the application for and issuance of a permit for a well to inject brine and other waste substances from oil and gas operations, to establish an additional fee on the injection of those substances, to require a person conducting brine or other waste substances operations prior to January 1, 2014, to obtain a permit or order to do so, to establish requirements governing ground water monitoring related to that injection, and to make other revisions in the Oil and Gas Law.
 Current Status:   5/24/2016 - House Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Brian Mead
 
HB423PUBLIC RECORD-MILITARY SERVICE (PERALES R) To specify that an order for active military service or other documentation regarding the call to order of an individual in the Armed Forces of the United States or the Ohio organized militia is not a public record.
 Current Status:   12/6/2016 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate State and Local Government, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HB435REVENUE OBLIGATIONS-LOANS (MCCLAIN J) To authorize the Treasurer of State to issue revenue obligations of the state for the purpose of making loans to qualifying public entities for their acquisition of permanent improvements through the Treasurer of State's purchase of public obligations of those qualifying entities.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - Senate Finance, (First Hearing)
 
HB436DRIVING PRIVILEGES-JUDGE (CUPP B, ROGERS J) To authorize a judge that grants limited driving privileges to a second-time OVI offender to order the termination of the mandatory immobilization order.
 Current Status:   1/4/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/6/17
 
HB437OFFICER-INVOLVED DEATHS (BOYD J) To require every law enforcement agency to adopt a written policy that requires an investigation into a death resulting from the actions of a law enforcement officer employed by the law enforcement agency and to require the investigation to be conducted by at least two law enforcement officers who are not employed by a law enforcement agency that employs any law enforcement officer involved in the officer involved death.
 Current Status:   2/2/2016 - Referred to Committee House Judiciary
 
HB443STEP THERAPY-REQUIREMENTS (JOHNSON T, ANTONIO N) To adopt requirements related to step therapy protocols implemented by health plan issuers and the Department of Medicaid.
 Current Status:   2/9/2016 - Referred to Committee House Insurance
 
HB446OVI-PRISON TERM (MANNING N) To specify that the prison term that may be imposed for a third degree felony operating a vehicle while intoxicated ("OVI") offense is a definite period of twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty, thirty-six, forty-two, forty-eight, fifty-four, or sixty months, to add "harmful intoxicant" to the definition of "drug of abuse" for the purposes of commercial driver's licensing law, to allow a person to assert the existing affirmative defense of driving in an emergency with regard to a prosecution for driving under a suspended driver's license under specified laws, and to specify that certain enhanced penalties for speeding violations apply regardless of whether the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to speeding.
 Current Status:   5/17/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Transportation, Commerce and Labor
 
HB454SALES TAX HOLIDAY-PERMANENT (PATTERSON J) To provide for a permanent three-day sales tax "holiday" each August during which sales of back-to-school clothing and school supplies are exempt from sales and use taxes.
 Current Status:   2/23/2016 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
 
HB456POLITICAL PARTY-AFFILIATION (BECKER J) To revise the law concerning electors' political party affiliations, candidates for public office, and the removal of appointed political party central committee members.
 Current Status:   11/15/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (First Hearing)
 
HB458FOSTER CARE-KINSHIP CAREGIVER (BOYD J, REZABEK J) To provide foster care maintenance payments for children in the care of a kinship caregiver without requiring the caregiver to be certified to provide foster care and to require, rather than permit, the creation of the statewide program of kinship care navigators.
 Current Status:   12/7/2016 - House Community and Family Advancement, (Second Hearing)
 
HB462JOINT POLICE DISTRICT-SOLICITATION (HAGAN C, SPRAGUE R) To authorize specified political subdivisions to establish a joint police district, to modify the membership of a joint police district governing body, to expand the offense of solicitation to also apply to a person who agrees with another to engage with the other person in sexual activity for hire, to provide that the "prescription exemption" from the drug possession offenses does not apply to a person who uses more of the drug than the maximum prescribed amount per day or the maximum amount to be used within the prescription timeline or who administers or takes the drug in a manner not prescribed by the prescribing health professional, and to provide immunity from civil liability to a peace officer who administers naloxone to a person who is apparently experiencing an opioid-related overdose.
 Current Status:   4/20/2016 - House Local Government, (Third Hearing)
 
HB463REAL PROPERTY FORECLOSURE-AUTISM INSURANCE (DEVER J) Relative to the Ohio Uniform Commercial Code, real property foreclosure and escrow transactions, certain partial property tax exemptions, and local ballot initiatives; to require the coverage of autism services; to reimburse child abuse and child neglect regional prevention council members for expenses and prohibit conflicts of interest; and to amend the statutory procedure for recalling certain municipal officials to include a deadline for filing a petition for recall.
 Current Status:   1/4/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/6/17
 
HB465PEACE OFFICER-BENEFIT ELIGIBILITY (RUHL M, SMITH R) To retroactively extend eligibility for benefits from the Volunteer Peace Officers' Dependents Fund to situations in which, on or after January 1, 2016, a volunteer peace officer is totally and permanently disabled or killed in the line of duty.
 Current Status:   11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House State Government
 
HB466TAX-EXEMPT-DIGITAL ADVERTISING (SMITH R) To specifically exempt digital advertising services from sales and use tax.
 Current Status:   7/12/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 10/12/16
 
HB467UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FUND (BUTLER, JR. J) To establish a loan from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the Unemployment Compensation Fund, to require the Director of Job and Family Services to recommend a program to incentivize the purchase of private unemployment insurance, and to require a study on the solvency of the Unemployment Compensation Fund.
 Current Status:   4/13/2016 - Referred to Committee House Insurance
 
HB468LEAD TESTING-WATER SYSTEMS (BOCCIERI J) To require a board of health to conduct testing for lead in public water systems, to modify the notice requirements with respect to lead in a public water system, to require an applicant for a renewal of a public water system license to complete specified training, and to specify that civil and criminal penalties apply to the members of a board of health and the Director of Environmental Protection with respect to the failure to provide timely notification regarding lead contamination in drinking water.
 Current Status:   2/23/2016 - Referred to Committee House State Government
 
HB470PALLIATIVE CARE LICENSURE (SCHURING K) To establish an exemption from the requirement that a certificate of need be obtained for certain projects regarding palliative care, to establish requirements for hospital after-care and discharge planning, to prohibit assisting suicide, and to require the development of recommendations concerning the operation of memory care units.
 Current Status:   12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/21/2017
 
HB471BOARDS-COMMISSIONS DISSOLUTION (BLESSING III L) To extend the deadline of the Criminal Justice Recodification Committee recommendations to June 30, 2017, to modify the provisions regarding the membership of the Committee, to modify the Treasurer of State's authority to invest the interim funds of the state, to authorize the conveyance of, and the granting of perpetual easements to, state-owned real property, to implement the recommendations of the Sunset Review Committee by abolishing, terminating, transferring, or renewing various agencies and by requiring a Sunset Review Committee to be convened during each odd-numbered General Assembly, and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 12/19/16
 
HB472RENEWABLE-EFFICIENCY ENERGY REQUIREMENTS (STRAHORN F) To unfreeze the requirements for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and peak demand reduction, to permit changes in and Public Utilities Commission action on electric distribution utility portfolio plans in 2016, to revise the setback requirement for economically significant wind farms, and to repeal the setback requirement for wind farms of fifty megawatts or more.
 Current Status:   2/23/2016 - Referred to Committee House Public Utilities
 
HB473UTILITY SERVICE TAX-LEVY (AMSTUTZ R) To require voter approval before a county may levy a new utilities services tax, to allow small businesses to count employees of related or affiliated entities towards satisfying the employment criteria of the business investment tax credit, to permit a bad debt refund for cigarette and tobacco product excise taxes paid when a purchaser fails to pay a dealer for the cigarettes or tobacco products and the unpaid amount is charged off as uncollectible by the dealer, and to allow vendors to receive a refund of sales taxes remitted for bad debts on private label credit cards when the debt is charged off as uncollectible by the credit card lender.
 Current Status:   5/17/2016 - House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)
 
HB474MBR-HIGHER EDUCATION (BROWN T) With respect to the coordination and administration of higher education programs and the College Credit Plus program.
 Current Status:   5/24/2016 - House Finance Subcommittee on Higher Education, (Seventh Hearing)
 
HB475MOTION PICTURE-TAX CREDIT (SCHURING K) To authorize motion picture companies to transfer the authority to claim refundable motion picture tax credits to other persons, to adjust how the credit is calculated, to increase the total amount of credits that may be awarded per year, to remove the limit on the maximum credit amount that may be awarded to a motion picture, and to create a job training program for resident film crew members.
 Current Status:   5/24/2016 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Finance, (Fourth Hearing)
 
HB476STATE ITERIM FUNDS-ISRAEL DISINVESTMENT (SCHURING K) To raise the foreign debt cap from one per cent to two per cent regarding state interim funds and county inactive and public library fund investments and to prohibit a state agency from contracting with a company that is involved in a boycott.
 Current Status:   12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/21/2017
 
HB478OFFENDER-NO CONTACT ORDER (JOHNSON G) To authorize a court that sentences an offender for a felony to a prison term or term of local incarceration, or for a misdemeanor to a jail term, to impose in the sentence, in addition to the term, an order that prohibits the offender from having direct or indirect contact with any person as specified by the court and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   4/19/2016 - House Judiciary, (First Hearing)
 
HB482EXEMPT PROPERTY-VALUE CALCULATION (DEVER J) To change the calculation of the exempt value of improved property subject to a community reinvestment area exemption, to clarify the calculation of the exempt value of property subject to a brownfield remediation exemption, and to authorize the filing of a complaint with the county auditor challenging the assessed value of fully or partially exempt property.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
 
HB483MBR-DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (AMSTUTZ R) To modify programs administered by the Department of Developmental Disabilities, to modify certain laws pertaining to tax levies for developmental disabilities, to modify certain laws regarding ABLE savings accounts and Ohio's disability savings account program, to designate October as "Disability History and Awareness Month," to require acceptance of certain certificate of need applications regarding relocation of long-term care facility beds, to remove behavioral health services from inclusion as direct care costs of nursing facilities, to delay certain laws regarding community behavioral health services, and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   7/13/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 10/12/16
 
HB484TAX-EXEMPT PRODUCTS (SYKES E, CERA J) To exempt from sales and use tax the sale of nonprescription human drugs, feminine hygiene products associated with menstruation, and disposable baby diapers, to reimburse the Local Government Fund and Public Library Fund and county and transit sales and use tax collections for any revenue lost due to those exemptions, and to create the Legislative Commission on Middle Class Economic Strength to study proposed income, sales, or use tax legislation that changes the proportionate tax burden among income classes or other classes.
 Current Status:   4/13/2016 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
 
HB489MINE FUNDS (CERA J) To credit a portion of the money derived from the Kilowatt-Hour Tax Receipts Fund to the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund, the Acid Mine Drainage Abatement and Treatment Fund, and the Mine Safety Fund and to make other changes to those funds.
 Current Status:   5/10/2016 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 
HB491TAX CREDIT-PILOT PROGRAM (ANIELSKI M) To establish a five-year pilot program whereby taxpayers with facilities in this state with activated foreign trade zone status may claim a nonrefundable commercial activity tax credit equal to the amount redeployed by the taxpayer to job creation or other specified projects.
 Current Status:   5/24/2016 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
 
HB492CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT-PILOT (ROGERS J, DRIEHAUS D) To create the Supplemental State Capital Improvements Pilot Program funded by a temporary transfer from the Budget Stabilization Fund and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   11/16/2016 - House Finance, (First Hearing)
 
HB495PERRY COUNTY MUNICIPAL COURT (HAYES B) To create the Perry County Municipal Court in New Lexington on January 1, 2017, to establish one full-time judgeship in that court, to provide for the nomination of the judge by petition only, to abolish the Perry County County Court on that date, to designate the Perry County Clerk of Courts as the clerk of the Perry County Municipal Court, and to provide for the election for the Perry County Municipal Court of one full-time judge in 2017.
 Current Status:   4/27/2016 - House State Government, (Second Hearing)
 
HB497OPIOID THERAPY-OFFENDERS (BRENNER A, HUFFMAN S) To establish a statewide pilot program for the provision of long-acting opioid antagonist therapy for offenders confined in a state or local correctional facility or a community residential facility under a sentence imposed for a felony opioid-related offense or a sentence of at least 30 days for a misdemeanor opioid-related offense who will be released on supervised release, and to specify that the therapy is to be provided during both their confinement and their supervised release.
 Current Status:   4/19/2016 - House Judiciary, (First Hearing)
 
HB500CASE MANAGEMENT EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM (ARNDT S) To revise the Comprehensive Case Management and Employment Program, to establish a case management pilot program, to transfer cash from the Economic Development Program Fund (Fund 5JC0) to the Case Management Pilot Program Fund (Fund 5SK0), and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   4/26/2016 - House Finance, (First Hearing)
 
HB502CAMPAIGN FINANCE (BECKER J) To modify the Campaign Finance Law.
 Current Status:   11/15/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (First Hearing)
 
HB503AGENCY RULE-MAKING (DUFFEY M) To reform agency rule-making and legislative review thereof.
 Current Status:   5/24/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (Fifth Hearing)
 
HB508FISCAL DISTRESS-LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDING (SMITH K, BOGGS K) To make supplemental appropriations to the Auditor of State for purposes of distributing these funds to political subdivisions in fiscal caution, watch, or emergency.
 Current Status:   11/15/2016 - House Finance, (First Hearing)
 
HB509VILLAGE DISSOLUTION (SCHERER G) To allow electors of a village to petition the board of elections, as an alternative to the legislative authority, for the dissolution of the village, to provide for the timely transfer of village property and services with the assistance of the Auditor of State, to require the Auditor of State to perform and complete an audit or agreed-upon procedures before transferring any cash balances to a township following a village dissolution, and to modify the deadline to file a county charter petition with the board of county commissioners.
 Current Status:   5/11/2016 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
 
HB511FAMILY-MEDICAL LEAVE ACT (KUHNS C, BOYD J) To establish family and medical leave insurance benefits to provide paid leave to allow an individual to address the individual's own serious health condition, to care for a family member, or to bond with a new child and to exempt those benefits from personal income tax.
 Current Status:   12/6/2016 - House Insurance, (First Hearing)
 
HB512MBR-WATER SYSTEM TESTING (GINTER T) To establish requirements governing lead and copper testing for community and nontransient noncommunity water systems, to revise the law governing lead contamination from plumbing fixtures, to make appropriations to the Facilities Construction Commission for purposes of providing grants for lead fixture replacement in eligible schools, and to revise the laws governing the Water Pollution Control Loan and Drinking Water Assistance Funds.
 Current Status:   6/9/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/9/16
 
HB518CONCEALED CARRY-GOVERNMENT FACILITY (VITALE N) To permit an elected officeholder of this state or a political subdivision of this state who holds a valid concealed handgun license to carry a concealed handgun in a government facility of this state or a political subdivision of this state.
 Current Status:   11/17/2016 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
 
HB519LSC-HUMAN IMPACT STATEMENT (HOWSE S) To require the Director of the Legislative Service Commission to prepare a human impact statement concerning a bill or resolution that proposes to amend the law governing criminal justice.
 Current Status:   11/30/2016 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
 
HB520PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (SCHURING K, RAMOS D) To revise the law governing the state's public retirement systems.
 Current Status:   1/4/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 90 days
 
HB522INJECTION WELLS (PHILLIPS D) To prohibit injection of brine and other waste substances except in class I injection wells, to prohibit the conversion of oil and gas wells, to require municipal or township approval prior to the issuance of an oil or gas well permit, and to levy a fee on the injection of brine and other waste substances into a class I injection well.
 Current Status:   12/6/2016 - House Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
 
HB523MEDICAL MARIJUANA (HUFFMAN S) To authorize the use of marijuana for medical purposes and to establish the Medical Marijuana Control Program.
 Current Status:   6/8/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/8/16
 
HB5259-1-1 DEFAULT CONFIGURATION (JOHNSON G) to require multi-line telephone systems to have a default configuration that permits users to directly initiate a call to 9-1-1 without dialing any additional digit or code.
 Current Status:   11/30/2016 - House Public Utilities, (First Hearing)
 
HB526ANIMAL TRESPASSING (BISHOFF H) To prohibit a person from killing or injuring a cat or dog that is trespassing on the person's property.
 Current Status:   4/26/2016 - Referred to Committee House State Government
 
HB527EMPLOYEE SELECTION-INFORMATION (DEVER J) To regulate the collection, use, and retention of certain information obtained from an applicant during the employee selection process.
 Current Status:   5/10/2016 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)
 
HB528MOTOR VEHICLE-LICENSE TAXES (RUHL M) To authorize additional permissive local motor vehicle license taxes up to a total of $15.
 Current Status:   5/17/2016 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 
HB529CONCEALED CARRY-TACTICAL MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL (RETHERFORD W, HAGAN C) To provide for firearms training for tactical medical professionals; to permit such a professional who has received that training or comparable training and who is authorized to carry firearms by the law enforcement agency the professional is serving to carry firearms while on duty in the same manner, to the same extent, in the same areas, and subject to the same potential for civil and criminal liability as a law enforcement officer of the agency; and to grant such a professional, while on duty in that capacity, the same right to carry a concealed handgun in this state as a person who was issued a concealed handgun license.
 Current Status:   11/16/2016 - House State Government, (Second Hearing)
 
HB530SICK-CHILD CENTER-LICENSURE (RETHERFORD W) To provide for the licensure of sick-child care centers.
 Current Status:   5/17/2016 - House Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing)
 
HB531MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT-TOWNSHIPS (HILL B) To require townships to provide mileage reimbursement to a member of a board of township trustees and to a township fiscal officer for travel within the township that is necessary in the performance of the member's or fiscal officer's duties.
 Current Status:   5/24/2016 - House Local Government, (Second Hearing)
 
HB535EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION-NATIONAL GUARD (PERALES R) To extend employment and reemployment protection to a person who is a member of another state's national guard or organized militia and who is employed in Ohio.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 
HB538DEPUTY REGISTRARS-DRIVER LICENSES (BOYCE K) To require the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to adopt rules that establish a training program for deputy registrars and their employees regarding the proper issuance of driver's licenses that includes training on evaluating all types of documentation necessary for issuing a driver's license and a cultural competency component, and that establish an administrative penalty applicable to a deputy registrar that improperly denies a driver's license to an eligible applicant.
 Current Status:   5/10/2016 - House Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety, (First Hearing)
 
HB540OIL-GAS WELL FUND REVENUE (CERA J) To limit the amount of revenue that may be credited to the Oil and Gas Well Fund and to allocate funds in excess of that amount to local governments and fire departments.
 Current Status:   5/17/2016 - Referred to Committee House Finance
 
HB541STATE AGENCY-CLEAN POWER PLAN (LANDIS A) To prohibit any state agency from implementing the federal "Clean Power Plan."
 Current Status:   5/4/2016 - Referred to Committee House Energy and Natural Resources
 
HB542POLLING PLACE-EXTENDED HOURS (MCCOLLEY R) To specify the conditions under which a court may order that a polling place be kept open for extended hours on the day of an election and to require a person who votes pursuant to such an order to cast a provisional ballot.
 Current Status:   11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight
 
HB543IN-PERSON ABSENT VOTING (RAMOS D) To specify the conditions under which a board of county commissioners may establish one or more branch offices of the board of elections for in-person absent voting.
 Current Status:   11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight
 
HB546CIVIL LIABILITY-VOLUNTEER LAW ENFORCEMENT (DEVITIS A) To authorize a board of education or governing authority of a school to enter into an agreement with a volunteer who is a current or retired law enforcement officer to patrol school premises to prevent or respond to a mass casualty event, to generally provide to a board of education or governing authority of a school and to such a volunteer immunity from civil liability for injury, death, or loss arising from the volunteer's services, and to provide a tax credit for volunteer service.
 Current Status:   11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
 
HB547MBR-OBM (SMITH R) To provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs and to make appropriations.
 Current Status:   5/24/2016 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, House Finance, (Fourth Hearing)
 
HB554RENEWABLE ENERGY REQUIREMENTS (AMSTUTZ R) To revise the requirements for renewable energy, energy efficiency savings, and peak demand reduction and to revise provisions governing which customers can opt out of related programs.
 Current Status:   12/27/2016 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR
 
HB559MEDICAL CLAIMS (CUPP B) To grant qualified civil immunity to certain medical providers who provide emergency medical services as a result of a disaster or mass hazard; to provide that certain communications made regarding an unanticipated outcome of medical care, the development or implementation of standards under federal laws, and an insurer's reimbursement policies on health care are inadmissible as evidence in a medical claim; to provide that medical bills itemizing charges are inadmissible as evidence and a payment for medical services accepted by a defendant from an insurer is admissible as evidence of the reasonableness of the charges; to specify the manner of sending a notice of intent to file a medical claim and provide a procedure for the discovery of other potential claims within a specified period after the filing of a medical claim; to provide that any loss of a chance of recovery or survival by itself is not an injury, death, or loss for which damages may be recovered; to provide civil immunity to certain medical providers regarding the discharge of a patient with a mental condition that threatens the safety of the patient or others; to require that governmental agencies that receive peer review committee records maintain their confidentiality; and to clarify the definition of "medical claim."
 Current Status:   12/6/2016 - House Judiciary, (Second Hearing)
 
HB561PARK BOARD COMMISSIONERS (BOCCIERI J, CLYDE K) To require boards of county commissioners to appoint additional park board commissioners and allow for public comment during appointment process.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - House Local Government, (First Hearing)
 
HB562NOTICES BY MAIL (HAMBLEY S, RYAN S) To authorize local governments and officers to deliver certain notices by ordinary mail and electronically instead of by certified mail.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - House Local Government, (First Hearing)
 
HB567JOBSOHIO-FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (DRIEHAUS D) To require that, if JobsOhio provides financial assistance for the cleanup and remediation of brownfields, at least 85% of the assistance must be in the form of grants.
 Current Status:   11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Government Accountability and Oversight
 
HB568EMPLOYEE DEFINITION-LABOR LAWS (PHILLIPS D, ROGERS J) To create a generally uniform definition of employee for specified labor laws, to create a uniform standard to determine whether an individual performing services for an employer is an employee of that employer, and to regulate the payment of wages via payroll card.
 Current Status:   11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Commerce and Labor
 
HB569BIAS-MOTIVATED CRIME (ANTONIO N) To rename the offense of ethnic intimidation to bias-motivated crime; to expand the scope of the offense to include specified crimes committed based on a person's actual or perceived ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability; to require peace officer training on bias-motivated crime, and to require law enforcement agencies to submit data on bias-motivated crime to the Ohio Department of Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and provide for the annual public release of the data.
 Current Status:   11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Judiciary
 
HB573PET STORE LICENSES (SCHERER G) To regulate the sale of dogs from pet stores and dog retailers and to require the Director of Agriculture to license pet stores.
 Current Status:   5/24/2016 - House Finance, (First Hearing)
 
HB576PUBLIC RECORD-FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS (RYAN S) To exempt from the Public Records Act financial account numbers and identifying information in public records and to provide that taxpayer electronic mail address lists used by county treasurers to deliver tax bills are not public records.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - House Local Government, (First Hearing)
 
HB579ODOT APPROPRIATIONS (ASHFORD M, SWEENEY M) To make supplemental appropriations to the Department of Transportation in order to provide political subdivisions with funding for critical road maintenance repairs.
 Current Status:   11/10/2016 - Referred to Committee House Finance
 
HCR7TAX EXEMPT MUNICIPAL BONDS (SPRAGUE R) To urge the President and the Congress of the United States to preserve the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds.
 Current Status:   5/11/2016 - ADOPTED BY SENATE; Vote 33-0
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and Brad Cole
 
HCR9SUSTAINABLE ENERGY-ABUNDANCE PLAN (BAKER N) To establish a sustainable energy-abundance plan for Ohio to meet future Ohio energy needs with affordable, abundant, and environmentally friendly energy.
 Current Status:   6/17/2015 - ADOPTED BY SENATE; Vote 32-1
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and John Leutz
 
HCR11GOVERNOR-WATER QUALITY EFFORTS (HALL D) To commend Governor John Kasich on his efforts to improve the water quality of Lake Erie and to affirm the Governor's ability to form an interstate compact with other states in furtherance of this objective.
 Current Status:   1/26/2016 - Senate Agriculture, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HCR12INFANT MORTALITY-PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS (LATOURETTE S, ANTONIO N) To declare Ohio's rate of infant mortality a public health crisis and urge comprehensive preterm birth risk screening for all pregnant women in Ohio.
 Current Status:   6/30/2015 - Consideration of Senate Amendments; House Does Concur with Senate Amendments, Vote 87-1
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HCR21CMS-EMPLOYMENT SERVICES (ROMANCHUK M, ANTONIO N) To urge the Congress of the United States to request that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revise its guidance on employment services for individuals with developmental disabilities to maintain their right to participate in programs offered by facility-based day programs, training centers, and sheltered workshops.
 Current Status:   4/20/2016 - Senate Medicaid, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HCR24CLEAN WATER RULE-OPPOSITION (REZABEK J, GINTER T) To encourage the United States Senate to take legislative action opposing a clean water rule proposed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
 Current Status:   12/1/2015 - REPORTED OUT, House Energy and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
HCR29OPPOSITION-CLEAN POWER PLAN (HILL B) To oppose the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.
 Current Status:   9/28/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Energy and Natural Resources
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
HJR4ANTI-MONOPOLY-CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS (SMITH R) Proposing to amend Sections 1a, 1b, and 1e of Article II of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to prohibit an initiated constitutional amendment that would grant a monopoly or a special economic interest, privilege, benefit, right, or license to any person or entity and to modify the procedure to propose a law or a constitutional amendment by initiative petition.
 Current Status:   7/1/2015 - Filed with Secretary of State
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
HJR5WATER-SEWER IMPROVEMENTS (LEPORE-HAGAN M, SMITH K) To permit the issuance of general obligation bonds to fund sewer and water capital improvements.
 Current Status:   11/16/2016 - House Finance, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Cheryl Subler
 
SB1GREAT LAKES-HARMFUL ALGAE (GARDNER R, PETERSON B) To transfer the administration and enforcement of the Agricultural Pollution Abatement Program from the Department of Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture, to require applicators of fertilizer or manure to comply with specified requirements, to create the Office of Harmful Algae Management and Response in the Environmental Protection Agency, to establish requirements governing dredged material, nutrient loading, phosphorous testing by publicly owned treatment works, and household sewage treatment systems, and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   4/2/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 7/3/15
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
SB5WORKERS' COMPENSATION-PTSD (PATTON T, BROWN E) To make peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical workers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder arising form employment without an accompanying physical injury eligible for compensation and benefits under Ohio's Workers' Compensation Law.
 Current Status:   10/13/2015 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate Finance, (Sixth Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB8PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAM REVIEW (BURKE D) Regarding the General Assembly’s review of public assistance programs.
 Current Status:   2/4/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight and Reform
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB9INFANT MORTALITY-DATA COLLECTION (JONES S, LEHNER P) Regarding data collection on state-administered services provided in the home that are aimed at reducing infant mortality and negative birth outcomes or health disparities among women who are pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant and who belong to a racial or ethnic minority and Medicaid coverage of certain services for pregnant women, new mothers, or women who may become pregnant.
 Current Status:   6/3/2015 - BILL AMENDED, Senate Medicaid, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB16WATERSHEDS-FERTILIZER APPLICATION (BROWN E) To require applicators of fertilizer or manure to comply with specified requirements and to authorize the Director of Environmental Protection to study and calculate nutrient loading to Ohio watersheds from point and nonpoint sources.
 Current Status:   2/10/2015 - Senate Agriculture, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
SB22LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUND-ALLOCATION INCREASE (TAVARES C) To increase monthly allocations to the Local Government Fund from 1.66% to 3.68% of the total tax revenue credited to the GRF each month.
 Current Status:   5/3/2016 - Senate Finance, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole
 
SB28CORONER-LABORATORY SURVEY (PATTON T) To require the Director of Health to survey coroners and laboratories concerning the collection, retention, and processing of blood and tissue specimens for postmortem genetic testing, to recommend legislative and fiscal policies after analyzing survey results, and to establish an advisory council to assist the Director with those responsibilities.
 Current Status:   11/18/2015 - Senate Health and Human Services, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and Kate Neithammer
 
SB29FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-U.S. ARMED FORCES (PATTON T) To require the Director of Veterans Services, upon application by a person who is a veteran or active duty member of any branch of the armed forces of the United States, to issue to the person a military transportation card that entitles the person to travel on any type of public transportation without charge.
 Current Status:   2/11/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Brad Cole
 
SB30OHIO FAMILY STABILITY COMMISSION (TAVARES C) To create the Ohio Family Stability Commission and to repeal section 5101.345 of the Revised Code four years after the effective date of that section.
 Current Status:   12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/21/2017
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB40ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TAX CREDIT (BEAGLE B) To authorize tax credits for contributions of money to economic and infrastructure development projects undertaken by local governments and non-profit corporations.
 Current Status:   6/10/2015 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Brad Cole
 
SB41NEW MARKETS TAX CREDIT QUALIFICATIONS (BEAGLE B, TAVARES C) To modify the qualifications for the New Markets Tax Credit and the schedule for receiving the credit.
 Current Status:   6/3/2015 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Brad Cole
 
SB47DEEP WELL BRINE INJECTION PROHIBITION (SKINDELL M) To prohibit land application and deep well injection of brine, to prohibit the conversion of wells, and to eliminate the injection fee that is levied under the Oil and Gas Law.
 Current Status:   5/11/2016 - Senate Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
SB52AIRCRAFT FUEL EXCISE TAX (BEAGLE B) To subject the receipt of motor fuel used to operate aircraft to the motor fuel excise taxes rather than the sales and use taxes and to require a percentage of motor fuel excise tax revenue to be used for airport improvements.
 Current Status:   2/18/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole
 
SB57TOWNSHIP ROAD REGULATION (EKLUND J) To authorize counties to adopt resolutions regulating motor vehicle traffic on county and township roads.
 Current Status:   3/3/2015 - Senate State and Local Government, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
SB58CONDITIONAL SEWAGE CONNECTION (PETERSON B) To authorize a property owner whose property is served by a household sewage treatment system to elect not to connect to a private sewerage system, a county sewer, or a regional sewerage system under specified conditions.
 Current Status:   3/4/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Energy and Natural Resources
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Cheryl Subler
 
SB63ONLINE VOTER REGISTRATION (LAROSE F) To create an online voter registration system, to require the secretary of state to annually review the Statewide Voter Registration Database for non-citizens, and to clarify when political parties can appoint a person to fill a vacancy for certain elective offices.
 Current Status:   6/13/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/13/16
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB75AGRITOURISM-ZONING (JONES S, PETERSON B) To limit the authority of a board of county commissioners or board of township trustees to prohibit agritourism through zoning, to apply current agricultural use valuation to land used for agritourism for property tax purposes, and to establish immunity in a civil action for agritourism providers.
 Current Status:   5/17/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 8/16/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and John Leutz
 
SB83ADDRESS-OFFICER CONFIDENTIALITY (WILLIAMS S) To establish an address confidentiality program for individuals who reasonable believe that they are in danger of being threatened or physically harmed by another person, 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:   3/24/2015 - Senate State and Local Government, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Cheryl Subler
 
SB85PROPERTY-TAX COMPLAINTS (COLEY W) To limit the right to initiate most types of property tax complaints to the property owner and the county recorder of the county in which the property is located.
 Current Status:   11/18/2015 - Senate Ways and Means, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
SB90HEALTH CARE WORKER-IDENTIFICATION (TAVARES C) To require that a health care professional wear identification when providing care or treatment in the presence of a patient.
 Current Status:   11/18/2015 - Senate Health and Human Services, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB94MEDICAID SCHOOL PROGRAM (BACON K, LEHNER P) Regarding the Medicaid School Program.
 Current Status:   3/25/2015 - Senate Medicaid, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB99UNPAID WATER SERVICE-LIENS (BROWN E) Regarding property liens for unpaid county or municipal water service charges.
 Current Status:   3/10/2015 - Senate State and Local Government, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
SB100SALES TAX HOLIDAY-ENERGY STAR (BROWN E) To provide a three-day sales tax "holiday" each April during which sales of qualifying Energy Star products are exempt from sales and use taxes.
 Current Status:   9/28/2016 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
SB107JFS-FUNERAL SERVICES (TAVARES C) To require that, under certain circumstances, the Department of Job and Family Services pay funeral, cremation, cemetery, and burial expenses of deceased recipients of public assistance.
 Current Status:   9/27/2016 - Senate Finance, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB109TOWNSHIP-IMPACT FEES (TAVARES C) To authorize townships to levy impact fees on new development to finance capital improvements necessitated by that development.
 Current Status:   3/4/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB112ADULT CHANGING STATION - PUBLIC RESTROOM (LEHNER P) To require public buildings to have at least one rest room facility with an adult changing station.
 Current Status:   6/3/2015 - Senate State and Local Government, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
SB113REMEDIATION PROPERTY-ILLEGAL METH LAB (LAROSE F) To provide for the remediation of real property on which an illegal methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory has been discovered.
 Current Status:   6/17/2015 - Senate Health and Human Services, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
SB118MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY-HOUSEHOLD SEWAGE TREATMENT (EKLUND J) To authorize a board of county commissioners or municipal legislative authority to elect to withdraw the county or municipal corporation from the application.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - Senate Energy and Natural Resources, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Cheryl Subler
 
SB123EMERGENCY PERSONNEL-REPORT TRAFFIC VIOLATION (HUGHES J) To allow emergency personnel in public safety vehicles to report traffic law violations under certain circumstances.
 Current Status:   6/14/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/14/16
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
SB134CIVIL RIGHTS LAW-HOUSING PROVISIONS (SEITZ B) To make permissive actual damages and attorney's fees, to limit certain civil penalties, to allow respondents to recover attorney's fees in certain instances, and to exempt certain landlords from the housing provisions of the Ohio Civil Rights Law.
 Current Status:   10/7/2015 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Civil Justice, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
SB147DISABILITY EXPENSE-SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (EKLUND J, JONES S) To require the Treasurer of State to create a program offering federally tax-advantaged savings accounts used to pay for a person's qualified disability expenses and to disregard the value of and income from that account in determining whether that person is eligible for state or local means-tested public assistance.
 Current Status:   6/3/2015 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB151VICIOUS DOG LAW (BEAGLE B) To revise provisions of the Dogs Law governing nuisance, dangerous, and vicious dogs, to revise enforcement of that Law, and to establish a notification process regarding complaints of certain violations of that Law.
 Current Status:   12/6/2016 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 31-0
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
SB152GEOGRAPHIC EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS (UECKER J) To prohibit a public authority from requiring a contractor to employ a certain percentage of individuals from the geographic area of the public authority for the construction or professional design of a public improvement.
 Current Status:   5/4/2016 - Consideration of House Amendments; Senate does not concur, Vote 25-8
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole
 
SB158AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION (YUKO K) to require that eligible persons in certain government and school databases be automatically registered to vote or have their registrations updated automatically unless those persons decline to do so and to create an online voter registration system.
 Current Status:   5/12/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight and Reform
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
SB160HOTEL INTERMEDIARY TAX (HUGHES J, PATTON T) To require hotel intermediaries to collect and remit applicable sales and use tax on the full amount paid for hotel lodging, to require hotel intermediaries to supply customers with itemized invoices, to specify that a hotel intermediary is presumed to have "substantial nexus" with Ohio if the intermediary arranges lodging at Ohio hotels, and to specify that hotels are not liable for the failure of a hotel intermediary to properly collect or remit applicable taxes.
 Current Status:   5/27/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
SB166HORIZONTAL WELL EMERGENCY PLAN (GENTILE L) To require the owner of a horizontal well to develop and implement an emergency response plan for the purpose of responding to emergencies at the surface location of the well and to specify what must be included in the plan and to whom and the manner in which it must be submitted.
 Current Status:   10/7/2015 - Senate Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Brian Mead
 
SB172METAL BULLION-COIN INVESTMENT (JORDAN K) To exempt from sales and use taxes the sale or use of investment metal bullion and coins.
 Current Status:   6/14/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/14/16
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
SB173SPECIAL ELECTIONS (JORDAN K) To eliminate the ability to conduct special elections in February and August.
 Current Status:   6/3/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight and Reform
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
SB174RIGHT TO RECORD LAW ENFORCEMENT (TAVARES C) To grant a person the right to lawfully record any incident involving a law enforcement officer and to impose civil liability upon the state or a local law enforcement agency if a law enforcement officer employed by the state or local law enforcement agency interferes with the recording of the incident, destroys the recording, seizes the recording without a warrant or subpoena or the person's consent, or retaliates against the person who recorded the incident.
 Current Status:   12/8/2015 - Senate Civil Justice, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Cheryl Subler
 
SB177PATIENT MEDICAL RECORDS (JORDAN K) To prohibit a physician from submitting patient medical records to an electronic database maintained by another party without patient authorization and from asking a patient about firearm ownership or possession.
 Current Status:   6/16/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Health and Human Services
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB180ANTI DISCRIMINATION-EMPLOYMENT (UECKER J) To prohibit an employer from discharging or otherwise discriminating against a person who exercises a constitutional or statutory right within the person's private real property or motor vehicle.
 Current Status:   10/7/2015 - Senate Civil Justice, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
SB185SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS (SEITZ B) To revise the law governing special improvement districts created for the purpose of developing and implementing plans for special energy improvement projects.
 Current Status:   5/25/2016 - REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate Energy and Natural Resources, (Fifth Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
SB186OHIO ELECTIONS COMMISSION (LAROSE F, SEITZ B) To authorize the Ohio Elections Commission to hear complaints regarding violations of the laws prohibiting use of public funds for political campaign purposes, impose civil penalties for violations of those laws, and establish additional enforcement measures for violations of those laws.
 Current Status:   6/17/2015 - Referred to Committee Senate Government Oversight and Reform
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
SB201NUISANCE-VACANT PROPERTY (HUGHES J, YUKO K) To expand nuisance law to apply to any real property, including vacant land, on which an offense of violence has occurred or is occurring.
 Current Status:   10/14/2015 - Senate Civil Justice, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
SB206CAMPAIGN FINANCE-ELECTRONIC FILING (LAROSE F) To require certain campaign committees and other entities to file campaign finance statements electronically and to require the Secretary of State to make the information in those statements available online.
 Current Status:   12/7/2016 - REPORTED OUT, House Government Accountability and Oversight, (Third Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
SB208STATE INCOME TAX (BEAGLE B) To make technical changes to the state income tax law, to modify the requirements for receiving the joint filing credit, and to provide that, for the 2015 taxable year, any taxable business income under $125,000 for married taxpayers filing separately or $250,000 for other taxpayers is subject to the graduated tax rates applicable to nonbusiness income, while business income in excess of those amounts remains subject to the existing 3% flat tax.
 Current Status:   11/15/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 2/15/16; certain provisions effective 11/15/15
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole
 
SB209OHIO RURAL JOBS ACT (HITE C) To enact the "Ohio Rural Jobs Act" which authorizes a nonrefundable tax credit for insurance companies that invest in rural business growth funds, which are certified to provide capital to rural and agricultural businesses.
 Current Status:   12/8/2015 - House Agriculture and Rural Development, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz and Brian Mead
 
SB211NON-PROFIT REC FACILITIES-TAX EXEMPTION (BEAGLE B) To exempt memberships to gyms or other recreational facilities operated by nonprofit organizations from sales and use taxation.
 Current Status:   5/18/2016 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
SB212VOTING PRECINCT OFFICIALS (UECKER J) To reduce the minimum number of precinct election officials in a precinct in which electronic pollbooks are used and to eliminate the requirement that a board of elections send a notice to a person's residence address when the board cancels the person's voter registration because it received a report of the person's death.
 Current Status:   1/26/2016 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
SB217LOCAL OFFICIAL-CONTINUING EDUCATION EXEMPTION (EKLUND J) To permit exemptions for local officials from continuing education requirements of the office for an illness or disability or for out-of-state military service.
 Current Status:   10/21/2015 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB220OHIO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE-ROTH FEATURES (HOTTINGER J) To authorize the Ohio Public Employees Deferred Compensation Board and local governments to establish designated Roth account features and other tax-deferred or nontaxdeferred features permitted for government deferred compensation plans.
 Current Status:   12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/21/2017
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB222VICTIM CONFIDENTIALITY (LEHNER P, WILLIAMS S) To create an address confidentiality program for victims of domestic violence, menacing by stalking, human trafficking, trafficking in persons, rape, sexual battery, and other crimes.
 Current Status:   12/1/2015 - Senate State and Local Government, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Cheryl Subler
 
SB223HEALTH COVERAGE LIMITS-EXCLUSIONS (BACON K) To make changes to the health coverage benefit limits and coverage exclusions for life and health insurance guaranty associations.
 Current Status:   12/22/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 12/22/15, certain provisions effective 3/23/16
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB224ANIMAL FEED FACILITIES (BROWN E) To revise the application and enforcement of the law governing operation and management plans, and to require certain animal feeding facilities to annually report the amount of manure that is applied by or for the facilities.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - Senate Agriculture, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
SB235PROPERTY TAX-UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (BEAGLE B, COLEY W) To authorize political subdivisions to exempt from property taxation the increased value of property on which industrial or commercial development is planned for up to six years, to make changes to Ohio's unemployment compensation law, and to modify laws governing other state and local government authority and operations.
 Current Status:   12/27/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Some provisions line-item vetoed; eff. 3/28/2017
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
SB238MONTH NAME DESIGNATION (TAVARES C) To designate the month of October as "Ohio Principals Month."
 Current Status:   12/8/2015 - Senate Education, (First Hearing)
 
SB244BAD DEBT DEDUCTION-REFUND (PATTON T) To allow vendors to deduct or apply for a refund of sales tax remitted for bad debts on private label credit cards used to make purchases from the vendor.
 Current Status:   5/11/2016 - Senate Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brad Cole and Cheryl Subler
 
SB245MALNUTRITION PREVENTION COMMISSION (MANNING G) To create the Malnutrition Prevention Commission to study malnutrition among older adults.
 Current Status:   11/16/2016 - House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SB246CAUV COMPUTATION-CAPITALIZATION RATE (HITE C) To require that the computation of the capitalization rate for the purposes of determining CAUV of agricultural land be computed using a method that excludes appreciation and equity buildup and to stipulate that CAUV land used for a conservation practice or enrolled in a federal land retirement or conservation program for at least three years must be valued at the lowest of the values assigned on the basis of soil type.
 Current Status:   12/1/2016 - Senate Ways and Means, (Fifth Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Brad Cole
 
SB248MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION-MEDICAID PAYMENT (PATTON T) To increase the Medicaid payment rates for certain medical transportation services.
 Current Status:   4/20/2016 - Senate Medicaid, (Second Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
SB249COMMERCIAL ROOFING LICENSE (PATTON T) To require commercial roofing contractors to have a license.
 Current Status:   12/7/2016 - REPORTED OUT, Senate Transportation, Commerce and Labor, (Fourth Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   John Leutz
 
SB258PEACE OFFICER RELATED DEATH (WILLIAMS S, TAVARES C) To establish the duties and authority of the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute cases relating to the death of a person caused by a peace officer.
 Current Status:   1/20/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 
SB262CHILD SUPPORT (JONES S) To make changes to the laws governing child support.
 Current Status:   5/4/2016 - Senate Civil Justice, (Third Hearing)
 
SB263COURT-CANCEL NEGOTIATED PLEA (HUGHES J) To authorize a court, upon request of the prosecution, to cancel a negotiated plea in a felony or first degree misdemeanor case if the offender does not provide information, cooperate with law enforcement, or perform another function or activity when required as a condition of the underlying agreement.
 Current Status:   5/11/2016 - Senate Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing)
 
SB264SALES TAX HOLIDAY (BACON K) To provide for a three-day sales tax "holiday" in August 2016 during which sales of back-to-school clothing and school supplies are exempt from sales and use taxes.
 Current Status:   5/6/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 8/5/16; effective until 8/10/16
 
SB266ELECTED OFFICE-APPOINTMENTS (OELSLAGER S) To clarify the circumstances under which a political party may appoint a person to fill a vacancy in certain county elective offices.
 Current Status:   2/10/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 
SB267GASEOUS FUEL VEHICLE-CONVERSION PROGRAM (SEITZ B, PETERSON B) To create the Gaseous Fuel Vehicle Conversion Program, to allow a credit against the income or commercial activity tax for the purchase or conversion of an alternative fuel vehicle, to apply the motor fuel tax to the distribution or sale of compressed natural gas, to authorize a temporary, partial motor fuel tax exemption for sales of liquid and compressed natural gas used as motor fuel, and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   4/26/2016 - Senate Finance, (First Hearing)
 
SB268STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS-EMPLOYER (SEITZ B) To modify Ohio civil rights laws related to employment and the statute of limitations for other specified claims against an employer.
 Current Status:   11/30/2016 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & AMENDED, Senate Civil Justice, (Third Hearing)
 
SB269PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM-LEAD CONTAMINATION (SCHIAVONI J) To require a public water system to provide notice of lead contamination not later than thirty days after becoming aware that lead contamination may effect the system's drinking water, to require the Director of Environmental Protection to provide the notice if the public water system fails to provide it, to require employees of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide continuing assistance to a public water system that fails to provide the required notice of lead contamination, and to require the Director to adopt rules that increase the monitoring frequency for lead and copper under specified circumstances.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - Senate Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
 
SB271LAW ENFORCEMENT-POLICE DOG-HORSE (GENTILE L) To authorize a law enforcement officer to purchase a police dog or horse for fair market value when the officer retires in good standing from a law enforcement agency and certain conditions are met, and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   12/1/2016 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 27-0
 
SB275TRAFFIC PHOTO DEVICES-REVENUE (PATTON T) To prohibit a local authority from deriving more than 30 per cent of the total annual revenue of the local authority from the issuance of tickets for traffic law violations based on evidence recorded by traffic law photo-monitoring devices.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - Senate State and Local Government, (First Hearing)
 
SB276TRAFFIC PHOTO DEVICES-POPULATION (PATTON T) To prohibit a local authority, in any year, from issuing a total number of traffic tickets based on the use of traffic law photo-monitoring devices that exceeds two times the population of the local authority.
 Current Status:   2/23/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 
SB277TRAFFIC PHOTO DEVICES-SMALL POPULATION (PATTON T) To prohibit a local authority with a population of 200 or fewer from utilizing traffic law photo-monitoring devices.
 Current Status:   2/23/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 
SB278TRAFFIC PHOTO DEVICES-FIRE-EMS (PATTON T) To prohibit a municipal corporation or township that does not operate either a fire department or an emergency medical services organization from utilizing traffic law photo-monitoring devices.
 Current Status:   2/23/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 
SB283RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITIES (CAFARO C) To authorize alternative sanctions for residential care facilities, to authorize memory care units in residential care facilities, to provide funds to regional long-term care ombudsman programs to hire additional staff, and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Finance
 
SB284RECORD EXPUNGEMENT-HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIM (OBHOF L) To provide that a person who is found not guilty of an offense by a jury or a court or who is the defendant named in a dismissed complaint, indictment, or information may apply to the court for an order to expunge the person's official records in the case if the complaint, indictment, or information or finding of not guilty was the result of the applicant having been a victim of human trafficking and to authorize intervention in lieu of conviction for persons charged with committing an offense while a victim of compelling prostitution.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - House Judiciary, (First Hearing)
 
SB286POLICE DOG-HORSE ASSAULT (HUGHES J) To modify the penalty for assaulting a police dog or horse to require, if the dog or horse is killed, a mandatory prison term and a mandatory fine to be paid to the law enforcement agency served by the dog or horse.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Criminal Justice
 
SB293MBR-NATURAL RESOURCES (BALDERSON T) To revise specified laws relating to natural resources.
 Current Status:   6/14/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/14/16
 
SB296POLLING PLACE-EXTENDED HOURS (SEITZ B) To specify the conditions under which a court may order that a polling place be kept open for extended hours on the day of an election and to require a person who votes pursuant to such an order to cast a provisional ballot.
 Current Status:   6/17/2016 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR
 
SB299PERRY COUNTY MUNICIPAL COURT (HOTTINGER J) To create the Perry County Municipal Court in New Lexington on January 1, 2017, to establish one full-time judgeship in that court, to provide for the nomination of the judge by petition only, to abolish the Perry County County Court on that date, to designate the Perry County Clerk of Courts as the clerk of the Perry County Municipal Court, and to provide for the election for the Perry County Municipal Court of one full-time judge in 2017.
 Current Status:   12/6/2016 - REPORTED OUT, House Judiciary, (Third Hearing)
 
SB300PSYCHOLOGIST-PRESCRIBING POWER (SEITZ B) To authorize certain psychologists to prescribe psychotropic and other drugs for the treatment of drug addiction and mental illness.
 Current Status:   11/16/2016 - Senate Health and Human Services, (Third Hearing)
 
SB301PREGNANCY REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION ACT (JONES S, CAFARO C) To enact the "Pregnancy Reasonable Accommodation Act" to generally require employers to make reasonable accommodations for employees who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
 Current Status:   11/30/2016 - SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED, Senate Civil Justice, (Fourth Hearing)
 
SB302PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION-MILITARY VETERANS-DISABLED (SCHIAVONI J, GENTILE L) To exempt from property taxation the primary residence of military veterans who are disabled.
 Current Status:   11/30/2016 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 
SB303AGENCY RULE MAKING REFORM-LEGISLATIVE REVIEW (UECKER J) To reform agency rule-making and legislative review thereof.
 Current Status:   4/27/2016 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (Second Hearing)
 
SB304POLITICAL SUBDIVISION-REFUSAL OF DUTY (WILLIAMS S) To grant a cause of action to an employee or injured person against a political subdivision that refuses to perform its statutory duty to indemnify an employee in the amount of a judgment for certain damages if specified conditions apply.
 Current Status:   4/12/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Civil Justice
 
SB305TAX CERTIFICATES-SALE PROHIBITION (WILLIAMS S) To prohibit the sale of tax certificates for parcels owned by a person sixty-five years of age or older and that include the primary residence of the owner.
 Current Status:   9/28/2016 - Senate Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 
SB307FAMILY-MEDICAL LEAVE ACT (CAFARO C) To establish family and medical leave insurance benefits to provide paid leave to allow an individual to address the individual's own serious health condition, to care for a family member, or to bond with a new child and to exempt those benefits from personal income tax.
 Current Status:   5/11/2016 - Senate Transportation, Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)
 
SB310CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS (OELSLAGER S) To make capital appropriations and changes to the law governing capital projects for the biennium ending June 30, 2018.
 Current Status:   5/17/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 8/16/16, certain provisions effective 7/1/16
 
SB315TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS (MANNING G) To make supplemental appropriations related to transportation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2017, and to declare an emergency.
 Current Status:   5/26/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 5/26/2016
 
SB319OPIATE MBR (EKLUND J) To revise certain laws regarding the regulation of drugs, the practice of pharmacy, and the provision of addiction services.
 Current Status:   1/4/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 4/6/17
 
SB320RENEWABLE ENERGY (SEITZ B) To revise the requirements for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and peak demand reduction, to permit property owners to petition municipal corporations and townships for the purpose of developing and implementing special energy improvement projects, to govern condominium association participation in special improvement districts, to require deployment and permit cost recovery of advanced energy analytics technology by electric distribution utilities, and to revise the law governing net metering service provided by electric utilities and electric services companies.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - Senate Energy and Natural Resources, (Fourth Hearing)
 
SB321PUBLIC RECORDS (FABER K) To create a procedure within the Court of Claims to hear complaints alleging a denial of access to public records and to modify the circumstances under which a person who files a mandamus action seeking the release of public records may be awarded court costs and attorney's fees. Protects higher education institutions from liability for disclosure of public records.
 Current Status:   6/28/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 9/28/16
 
SB322CHIEF OF POLICE TRAINING COURSE (HITE C) To require the Ohio peace officer training commission to develop and conduct a chief of police training course for newly appointed chiefs of police appointed on or after January 1, 2017, and to require newly appointed chiefs of police of villages, cities, and townships to attend the training course within six months of appointment as a chief of police.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 33-0
 
SB323CHILD ABUSE-NEGLECT REPORTING (JONES S) To make changes in the child abuse and neglect reporting law.
 Current Status:   5/18/2016 - Senate Civil Justice, (First Hearing)
 
SB324REGISTERED NURSES (SKINDELL M) To establish minimum ratios of direct-care registered nurses to patients in hospitals, to specify rights of registered nurses working in hospitals, and to prohibit retaliatory actions by hospitals against registered nurses.
 Current Status:   5/4/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Health and Human Services
 
SB325ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION-RENEWABLE REQUIREMENT (JORDAN K) To repeal the requirement that electric distribution utilities and electric services companies provide 12.5% of their retail power supplies from qualifying renewable energy resources by 2027, to repeal energy efficiency and peak demand reduction requirements for electric distribution utilities, and to modify the topics included in the Energy Mandates Study Committee report.
 Current Status:   5/4/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate Energy and Natural Resources
 
SB327OIL-GAS LAW REVISION (BALDERSON T) To revise provisions in the Oil and Gas Law governing unit operation and to specify that the discounted cash flow formula used to value certain producing oil and gas reserves for property tax purposes is the only method for valuing all oil and gas reserves.
 Current Status:   5/11/2016 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
 
SB328HOST FAMILY AFFIDAVITS (COLEY W) Regarding host family affidavits for the care of children.
 Current Status:   5/18/2016 - BILL AMENDED, Senate Civil Justice, (First Hearing)
 
SB331DOG SALE-PET RETAILER-BESTIALITY BAN (PETERSON B) To regulate the sale of dogs from pet stores and dog retailers, to require the Director of Agriculture to license pet stores, and to revise the civil penalties applicable to dog breeders and other specified entities; to govern construction and attachment activities related to micro wireless facilities in the public way; to prohibit political subdivisions from
establishing minimum wage rates different from the rate required by state law; to
generally grant private employers exclusive authority to establish policies
concerning hours and location of work, scheduling, and fringe benefits, unless an
exception applies; to prohibit a person from engaging in sexual conduct with an
animal and related acts, to provide for the seizure and impoundment of an animal
that is the subject of a violation, and to authorize a sentencing court to require an
offender to undergo psychological evaluation or counseling; to prohibit and
establish an increased penalty for knowingly engaging in activities associated
with cockfighting, bearbaiting, or pitting an animal against another; to remove the
residency requirement for the appointment of an agent to a county humane
society; and to make an appropriation.
 Current Status:   12/19/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; eff. 3/21/2017
 
SB333MBR-WATER QUALITY (HITE C) To revise specified laws relating to environmental protection.
 Current Status:   11/29/2016 - Senate Energy and Natural Resources, (Third Hearing)
 
SCR20AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES (PETERSON B) To support the use of science-based data to assess the impacts and regulation of modern agricultural technologies, and to oppose federal, state, or local legislative or regulatory actions that are not based on sound science and that may result in unnecessary restrictions on the use of modern agricultural technologies.
 Current Status:   5/17/2016 - Senate Agriculture, (Second Hearing)
 
SJR1PUBLIC OFFICE COMPENSATION COMMISSION (FABER K) Proposing to amend Sections 4, 20, and 31 of Article II, Section 19 of Article III, and Section 6 of Article IV and to enact Section 20a of Article II of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to establish the Public Office Compensation Commission.
 Current Status:   5/25/2016 - House Government Accountability and Oversight, (Seventh Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler and John Leutz
 
SJR2CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING (LAROSE F, SAWYER T) Proposing to enact Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Article XIX of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to revise the redistricting process for congressional districts.
 Current Status:   11/30/2016 - Senate Government Oversight and Reform, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Cheryl Subler
 
SJR3FUND SEWER-WATER CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS (SCHIAVONI J) Proposing to enact Section 2t of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to permit the issuance of general obligation bonds to fund sewer and water capital improvements.
 Current Status:   2/9/2016 - Senate Finance, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead and Cheryl Subler
 
SR256LAKE ERIE-PHOSPHORUS REDUCTION (BROWN E) To encourage support for the agreement reached between Ontario, Michigan, and Ohio regarding the reduction of phosphorous in the western basin of Lake Erie.
 Current Status:   12/7/2016 - Senate Energy and Natural Resources, (First Hearing)
 Staff Assigned:   Brian Mead
 
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