Jobs, Economic Development & Infrastructure Legislative Report
Prepared by: CCAO Policy Team
Report created on April 19, 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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-1
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-8
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-23
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-47
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-53
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-58
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-61
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-77
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-80
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-83
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-134
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-162
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-176
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-180
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-182
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-190
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-214
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-233
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-253
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-273
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-287
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-302
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-333
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-349
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-365
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-422
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-468
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-472
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-489
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-512
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-522
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-540
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-541
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-554
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-567
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HB-579
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HCR-9
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HCR-29
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-HJR-5
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-1
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-40
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-41
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-47
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-57
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-58
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-75
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-99
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-113
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-118
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-152
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-166
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-185
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-201
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-209
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-249
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-267
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-269
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-320
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-325
 
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
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-327
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SB-333
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SJR-3
 
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)
 State Bill Page:   https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA131-SR-256
 
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