Bills of Interest

BILLS OF INTEREST IN THE 128th GENERAL ASSEMBLY AS OF MARCH, 2010

SENATE BILLS
SJR 1 VETERAN BONUSES (Grendell, Wilson) Proposing to enact Section 2q of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Ohio to provide compensation to veterans of the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. Adopted by House.

SJR 8 CASINO GAMING (Goodman, D) To require the General Assembly to enact laws that authorize the submission of a question to the electors of a county on whether to approve the operation of casino gaming within the county before casino gaming may be conducted. Referred to Senate State Government Oversight.

SB1 REVITALIZATION DEBT AUTHORITY (Hughes) To implement the additional debt for conservation and revitalization programs provided by Section 2q of Article VIII of the Ohio Constitution, to authorize the issuance of that debt, to make new appropriations for the purpose of continuing programs established by Am. Sub. H.B. 554 of the 127th General Assembly, the Bipartisan Job Stimulus Act, and to declare an emergency. Am. 133.52, 151.01, 151.09, and 151.40. Referred to House Finance & Appropriations.

SB 2 FEDERAL STIMULUS FUNDING (Carey) To provide for the distribution of moneys received by the state from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by making appropriations and to declare an emergency. Passed the Senate.

SB 4 PERFORMANCE AUDITS (Schaffer) To require the Auditor of State to conduct performance audits of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Health. En. 117.46. Referred to House Finance and Appropriations.

SB 7 FRAUD REPORTING (Wagoner) To require the Auditor of State to establish a fraud-reporting system for residents and public employees to file anonymous complaints of fraud and misuse of public funds by public offices or officials. Am. 124.34. Referred to House State Government.

SB 13 FORECLOSURE ACTIONS (Miller, D.) To require a clerk of courts to notify tenants when a foreclosure action is filed, to require the Director of Commerce to prepare a publication to assist owners and tenants of foreclosed properties, to require clerks of courts to distribute that publication, to require landlords to notify tenants when a property is foreclosed and when a sale is scheduled, to enable tenants to terminate a rental agreement on a foreclosed property, to provide for continuance of a rental agreement after a foreclosure sale, and to provide civil remedies for a tenant whose landlord violates the bill's provisions. Am. 121.086, 2703.10, 5321.20, 5321.21, 5321.22, and 5321.23. Pending Senate Floor vote.

SB 14 HOME INSPECTORS (Miller, D.) To require the licensure of home inspectors and to create the Ohio Home Inspector Board to regulate the licensure and performance of home inspectors. Am. 121.08, 4745.01, 4735.581, 4768.01 to 4768.19, and 4768.99. Referred Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor.

SB 26 NON-RESIDENT TAXPAYERS (Schaffer) To require municipal corporations with more than $100 million in annual income tax collections to provide a tax credit to nonresident taxpayers. Am. 718.17. Referred Ways & Means & Economic Development Committee.

SB 34 GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE (Miller, D.) To require the Department of Administrative Services to create a health insurance program that allows municipal corporations, small employers, and nonprofit corporations or associations to purchase for their employees the same policies or contracts provided to state employees. Am. 124.824. Referred Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor.

SB 35 IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT (Stewart) To direct the Attorney General to pursue a memorandum of agreement that permits the enforcement of federal immigration laws in this state by law enforcement officers. Am. 109.45. Referred to Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs.

SB 42 SEX OFFENSES (Schaffer) To specify that the restriction against offenders convicted of a sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense living near school, preschool, or child day-care premises applies regardless of when the offense was committed or the offender began living in the residence and that a registration requirement for children adjudicated delinquent for a sexually oriented offense and classified a juvenile offender registrant applies regardless of when the offense was committed. Am. 2950.02, 2950.034, and 2950.04. Referred to Senate Judiciary-Civil Justice.

SB 62 LIQUOR SALES (Turner) To prohibit the Division of Liquor Control from issuing a retail liquor permit or entering into an agency liquor contract if the permit location or liquor agency store is proposed to be located within five hundred feet from a school, church, library, public playground, or township park. Am. 4301.17, 4303.26, and 4303.292. Referred to Senate Agriculture.

SB 66 VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS (Faber) To provide health insurance benefits to dependents of volunteer firefighters killed in the line of duty. Am. 146.01, 146.12 and 742.45. Referred to Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor.

SB 70 BUILDING DEMOLITION (Schiavoni) To allow municipalities to use the money derived from the sale of urban renewal bonds for the demolition of buildings located on tax delinquent property that constitute a public nuisance due to blight. Referred to Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development.

SB 83 RETIREMENT BENEFITS (Faber) To exclude certain compensation when determining retirement benefits under the Public Employees Retirement System. Am. & En. 145.01 and 145.016. Referred to Senate Health, Human Services & Aging.

SB 85 WATER TANKS (Stewart)To authorize certain political subdivisions to contract for engineering, repair, sustainability, water quality management, and maintenance of a water storage tank through a professional service contract under specified conditions. Am. & En. 9.29, 6101.161, 6103.101, 6115.201, and 6119.101. Pending a floor vote in the House.

SB 88 MILITARY LEAVE (Fedor) To grant annual military leave of up to 768 hours to firefighters and those other public employees who do not work a traditional workweek of 40 hours and to entitle firefighters and these public employees to use such leave to cover an entire work shift any part of which was used to perform military service. Am. 5923.05. Referred to Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor.

SB 90 VACANT HOMES (Kearney, Seitz) To authorize local governments to exempt homes that have been vacant for at least twelve months from non-school district property taxation for up to three years when purchased by an owner-occupant. Am. 5709.89. Pending a Senate floor vote.

SB 94 POLICE & FIRE CONDITIONS (Patton) To provide that a firefighter, police officer, or public emergency medical services worker who is disabled as a result of specified types of cancer or certain contagious or infectious diseases is presumed for purposes of the laws governing workers' compensation and the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund to have incurred the disease while performing official duties as a firefighter, police officer, or public emergency medical services worker. Am. 742.38, 4123.57, and 4123.68. Referred to Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor.

SB 100 HOUSEHOLD SEWAGE (Grendell) To revise the Household Sewage and Small Flow On-Site Sewage Treatment Systems Law, to establish the Household Sewage Treatment System Revolving Loan Program and the Household Sewage Treatment System Grant Program in the Department of Health, to make appropriations, and to declare an emergency. Am. & En. 319.281, 3718.02, 3718.03, 3718.04, 3718.05, 3718.011, 3718.041, and 3718.30 to 3718.38. Referred to Senate Environment & Natural Resources.

SB 104 MILITARY LEAVE (Faber, Fedor) To grant annual military leave of up to 408 hours to firefighters and those other public employees who do not work a traditional workweek of 40 hours and to entitle firefighters and these public employees to use such leave to cover an entire work shift any part of which was used to perform military service. En. 5923.05. Referred to Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor.

SB 107 RACIAL PROFILING (Kearney) To specify that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice that is within the jurisdiction of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission for any law enforcement agency or officer in Ohio to engage in racial profiling; to require the Commission to compile data from law enforcement agencies regarding routine or spontaneous investigatory activities of the agencies' officers and analyze the data for significantly significant disparities related to the race, ethnicity, national origin, or gender of the subjects of the activities; to provide for Commission access to LEADS to obtain the data and require law enforcement agencies to enter the data on LEADS; and to require law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy designed to eliminate racial profiling by the agency and its officers and to cease existing practices by the agency and its officers that permit or encourage racial profiling. Am. & En. 4112.01, 4112.05, 2933.84 and 4112.024. Referred to Senate Judiciary-Criminal Justice.

SB 110 HOUSEHOLD SEWAGE (Niehaus) To revise the Household Sewage and Small Flow On-Site Sewage Treatment Systems Law, and to declare an emergency. Am.711.05, 711.10, 3718.01, 3718.02, 3718.03, 3718.04, 3718.05, 3718.06, 3718.09 and 6117.51. Referred to Senate Environment & Natural Resources.

SB 111 TAX PAYMENTS (Stewart) To make permanent the temporary reimbursements for local government and school district tangible personal property tax losses. The bill was rolled into HB 1, the budget bill. The sections pertaining to this bill were then vetoed by the Governor.

SB 120 SMOKING BAN (Schuler) Regarding exemptions from the smoking ban. Am. 3794.01 and 3794.03. Referred to Senate State & Local Government & Veteran’s Affairs.

SB121 TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES (Niehaus) To authorize the creation of transportation innovation authorities by specified governmental entities and to establish the powers and duties of such authorities. Am. 5501.03, 5501.311, 5531.09, and 5531.18, 5539.01, 5539.02, 5539.03, 5539.031, 5539.04, 5539.05, 5539.06, 5539.07, 5539.08, 5539.09, 5539.10, and 5539.11. Referred to Senate Highways & Transportation

SB 122 SCHOOL LAW ENFORCEMENT (Turner) To authorize a board of education of a school district or governing board of an educational service center to employ public high school law enforcement officers, to provide that public high school law enforcement officers are members of the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System, to prohibit the impersonation of a public high school law enforcement officer, and to specify the powers of arrest and citation of public high school law enforcement officers. Am. 109.57, 109.71, 109.77, 145.01, 145.33, 2921.51, 2935.01, 2935.03, 2935.031, and 2935.24 and to enact section 3313.175. Referred to Senate Education Committee.

SB 148 MUNICIPAL DEFICITS (Turner) To authorize municipal corporations to have a deficit in special funds under certain circumstances. En. 731.60. Referred to Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development.

SB 151 PARK DISTRICTS (Grendell) To authorize a park district's board of park commissioners to create a building department for building code enforcement purposes. En.1545.073. Referred to House Local Government/ Public Administration.

SB 152 UNDERGROUND PROTECTION (Buehrer) To modify the call before you dig notification system and to create the Underground Protection Commission of Ohio and the State Underground Protection Advisory Committee. Am. & En. 121.04, 153.64, 3781.25, 3781.26, 3781.27, 3781.28, 3781.29, 3781.30, 3781.31, and 3781.32, 3781.261, 3781.281 and 3781.33 to 3781.38. Referred to Senate State & Local Government & Veteran’s Affairs.

SB 164 MOBILE PHONE USE (Smith) To prohibit driving a vehicle while text messaging or typing on a mobile communication device and to establish the violation as a secondary traffic offense. Am. & En. 4510.01 and 4511.204. Referred to Senate Highways and Transportation Committee.

SB165 OIL/GAS DRILLING (Niehaus) To revise the Oil and Gas Law. Am. & En. 1509.01, 1509.02, 1509.03, 1509.04, 1509.05, 1509.06, 1509.07, 1509.071, 1509.072, 1509.10, 1509.11, 1509.12, 1509.13, 1509.14, 1509.17, 1509.18, 1509.20, 1509.21, 1509.22, 1509.221, 1509.222, 1509.225, 1509.226, 1509.23, 1509.27, 1509.31, 1509.35, 1509.36, 5749.06, 1509.062, 1509.19, 1509.34, 1509.50, and 1571.18. Referred to House Agriculture and Natural Resources.

SB 187 OHIO PLANNED COMMUNITY LAW (Seitz) To establish the Ohio Planned Community Law. Referred to House Civil and Commercial Law.

SB 188 COUNTY LAND REUTILIZATION (Wagoner, M) - To authorize a county with a population greater than 100,000, or a population between 78,000 and 81,000, to organize a county land reutilization corporation, to authorize a county treasurer of a county with such a corporation to utilize the alternative redemption period in actions to foreclose abandoned lands, and to immunize a county land reutilization corporation from liability for breach of a common law duty in connection with a parcel of land. Referred to Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development.

SB 196 OIL AND GAS LAW (GRENDELL, T) To revise the Oil and Gas Law. Referred to Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee.

SB 198 TAX CREDIT FOR CERTAIN DEGREES (Schiavoni, J) To grant an income tax credit to individuals who earn degrees in science, technology, engineering, or math-based fields of study; authorize municipal corporations to grant credit to those qualifying for the state credit. Referred to Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development.

SB 213 WORKERS' COMPENSATION PREMIUMS (Faber, K) To require the Administrator of Workers' Compensation to make specified changes concerning workers' compensation premium rates. Referred to House Insurance.

SB 218 AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE (SCHAFFER T) To codify federal restrictions on local zoning of amateur stations antenna structures thereby preserving amateur radio service communications as a Homeland Security resource; place burden of proof for compliance on the zoning authority. Referred to Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs.

SB 219 STATE RETIREMENT - FELON (GRENDELL T) Regarding termination of the disability benefit of a state retirement system member convicted of certain felonies committed while serving in a position of honor, trust, or profit. Passed by the Senate.

SB 223 ENERGY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS (Stewart, J) To expand special improvement district energy improvement projects and to expand the municipal solar energy revolving loan program law to include alternative energy. Referred to House Senate Energy and Public Utilities.

SB 227 TAX ABATEMENT (TURNER N) To permit, for a limited time, the abatement of unpaid property taxes, penalties, and interest owed on property owned by a municipal corporation that would have been exempt except for failure to comply with certain procedures.

HOUSE BILLS
HR 20 CITIES TASK FORCE (Patten) To create the Compact With Ohio Cities Task Force to help cities compete for residents and jobs, and to stimulate economic growth. Adopted by the House.

HB 1 BIENNIAL BUDGET (SYKES V) To make appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2011 for the operation of state programs. Signed by the Governor. Most sections were effective upon signature. Certain sections effective dates are stated in the document.

HB 2 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (Ujvagi) To make appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2011, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs. Am. 121.51, 125.11, 133.52, 151.01, 151.09, 151.40, 1548.14, 2949.094, 4501.01, 4501.03, 4501.044, 4501.06, 4501.34, 4503.04, 4503.042, 4503.07, 4503.10, 4503.182, 4503.26, 4503.65, 4505.14, 4506.08, 4507.05, 4507.071, 4507.23, 4507.24, 4509.05, 4511.093, 4513.263, 4519.63, 4561.17, 4561.18, 4561.21, 5501.03, 5501.311, 5501.34, 5502.03, 5502.39, 5502.67, 5502.68, 5515.01, 5515.07, 5517.011, 5525.15, 5531.09, 5537.07, 5537.99, 5703.053, 5703.70, 5735.06, 5735.145, 5735.16, and 5735.23; to enact sections 5502.131, 5531.11, 5531.12, 5531.13, 5531.14, 5531.15, 5531.16, 5531.17, 5531.18, 5531.99, 5539.01, 5539.02, 5539.03, 5539.04, 5539.05, 5539.06, 5539.07, 5539.08, 5539.09, 5539.10, and 5539.11; to repeal section 5735.141. Signed by the Governor. Effective 4/1/2009.

HB 3 HOME FORECLOSURES (Foley, Driehaus) To address the current mortgage foreclosure crisis. Referred to Senate Finance & Financial Institutions.

HB 7 BUILDING STANDARDS (Harris, Pillich) To require a building or structure erected or constructed using state capital moneys to adhere to certain sustainability standards. Am. 153.013. Referred to Senate Finance & Financial Institutions.

HB 11 SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION (Heard, Harris) To provide that any person required to register under Ohio's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law who establishes or occupies residential premises within one thousand feet of any school premises, recreation center, playground, or other place where it is reasonable to expect children to frequent or linger is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and to require a court to order a violator to vacate the premises as part of any injunctive relief granted for the violation. Am. 2950.034 and 2950.99. Referred to House Criminal Justice Committee.

HB 15 BWC BUDGET (Sykes) To create the Deputy Inspector General for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and Industrial Commission Fund; to make other changes to the Workers' Compensation Law; to make appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2011; and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau's programs. Am. 121.52, 4121.12, 4121.125, 4121.62, 4121.70, and 4123.34. Effective June 30, 2008.

HB 22 BULK DATA REQUESTS (Fende) To authorize public offices to limit the number of bulk data requests, impose charges to cover the actual costs associated with bulk data requests, and charge for the cost of redacting certain information. Referred to House State Government.

HB 30 RETIREMENT INCENTIVES (Combs) To require an analysis of each proposed retirement incentive plan for Public Employees Retirement System members and to prohibit a member who participates in such a retirement incentive plan from being re-employed by the same employer. Am. 145.297, 145.298, 145.38. Referred to House Financial Institutions, Real Estate & Securities.

HB 32 COMPETITIVE BIDDING (Ruhl) To increase the competitive bidding threshold for contracts entered into by a board of park trustees for certain municipal park improvements. Am. 755.29. Referred to House Commerce & Labor.

HB 37 COMPETITIVE BIDDING (Dyer) To require the Department of Administrative Services to maintain a web site database including apparent low bidders who failed to be awarded a contract because they were found not to be "responsible," and to require public entities to conduct investigations when apparent low bidders are suspected of failing or fail to meet the "responsible" prong of the "responsive and responsible" competitive bidding threshold. Am. 9.312 and to enact section 125.112. Referred to House Commerce & Labor.

HB 39 ICE REMOVAL (Fende) To require the removal of snow or ice from special parking locations designated for persons with disabilities within 24 hours after the weather condition causing the snow or ice ceases. Am. 3781.111, 3781.99, and 4511.69. Referred to House Public Safety & Homeland Security.

HB 53 REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITIES (Gardner) To create an additional procedure for subdivisions to join a regional transit authority that levies a property tax and that includes a county having a population of at least 400,000 and to allow a subdivision that is a member of such a regional transit authority to withdraw from the authority. En. 306.322 and 306.55. Referred to House Transportation & Infrastructure.

HB 58 FRAUD REPORTING (McGregor) To require the Auditor of State to establish a fraud-reporting system for residents and public employees to file anonymous complaints of fraud and misuse of public funds by public offices or officials. Am. 124.341 and 117.103. Referred to House State Government Committee.

HB 61 ESTATE TAXES (Hottinger, Grossman) To reduce the estate tax by increasing the credit amount, to authorize townships and municipal corporations, or electors thereof by initiative, to exempt from the estate tax and any estate property located in the township or municipal corporation, and to distribute all estate tax revenue originating in a township or municipal corporation that does not exempt property from the tax to the township or municipal corporation. Am. 5731.02, 5731.21, 5731.48, 5731.55 and 5731.56. Referred to House Ways & Means.

HB 72 DEFERRED COMPENSATION/PUBLIC RECORDS (Hottinger, Dodd) To provide for confidentiality of certain records maintained by the Ohio Public Employees Deferred Compensation Board, to require the Treasurer of State to be the custodian of contributions into the deferred compensation program, to require new employees to be notified of the deferred compensation program and provided with the opportunity to elect to participate or not participate in the program, and to make other changes to the Deferred Compensation Law. An. & En. 148.02, 148.04, 3105.87 and 148.05. Referred to House Financial Institutions & Real Estate.

HB 79 VICIOUS DOGS (Sears) To remove pit bulls from the definition of "vicious dog" in state law. Am. 955.11.Referred to House Agriculture & Natural Resources.

HB 86 LAND USE (Hagan) To authorize in certain counties the creation of a land reutilization corporation to facilitate the reclamation, rehabilitation, and reutilization of vacant, abandoned, tax-foreclosed, or other real property and to authorize in those counties the use of the expedited, nonjudicial foreclosure procedure for abandoned lands. Am.323.78 and 1724.04. Referred to House Local Government/Public Administration Committee.

HB104 ANTENNA ZONING (Stebelton) To codify federal restrictions on local zoning of the antenna structures of amateur radio stations and place the burden of proof for compliance on the zoning authority. En. 303.214, 519.214, and 713.082. Referred to House Local Government/Public Administration.

HB111 BIDDING PERIODS (DeGeeter) To reduce, from fifteen to ten, the minimum number of days for bidding when a nonchartered municipal corporation sells personal property by Internet auction. Am. 721.15. Referred to House Local Government/Public Administration.

HB 117 LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDING (Jones) To require 30% of commercial activity tax revenue to be used indefinitely for local government purposes. Am. 5751.20 and 5751.22. Referred to House Ways & Means Committee.

HB 119 LAW ENFORCEMENT (Snitchler) To authorize law enforcement agencies to provide law enforcement services to governmental entities in Ohio or other jurisdictions by contract or, in the absence of a contract, with the approval of the governing board of the providing agency. En. 9.601. Referred to House Public Safety & Homeland Security. Referred to House Public Safety & Homeland Security.

HB 141 HOUSEHOLD SEWAGE (Dodd) To revise the Household Sewage and Small Flow On-Site Sewage Treatment Systems Law, and to declare an emergency. Am., En. & Rep. 711.05, 711.10, 3718.01, 3718.02, 3718.03, 3718.04, 3718.05, 3718.06, 3718.09, and 6117.51; 3718.011, 3718.023, 3718.024, 3718.025, and 3718.041; 711.05 and 711.10 of the Revised Code, which are scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2009; Section 120.05 of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly; and Sections 120.01 and 120.02 of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly. Referred to House Environment & Brownfield Development Committee.

HB 148 911 UPGRADES (Miller) To require certain technological improvements and updates for 9-1-1 systems in Ohio. Am. & En. 4931.40 and 4931. Referred to House Public Safety & Homeland Security.

HB 153 POLICE DEPARTMENTS (Yuko) To authorize regional water and sewer districts to establish police departments. Referred to House Local Government/Public Administration.

HB 166 TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES (Carney, McGregor) To authorize the creation of transportation innovation authorities by specified governmental entities and to establish the powers and duties of such authorities. Am. 5501.03, 5501.311, 5531.09, and 5531.18 and to enact sections 5539.01, 5539.02, 5539.03, 5539.031, 5539.04, 5539.05, 5539.06, 5539.07, 5539.08, 5539.09, 5539.10, and 5539.11. Referred to Senate Highways and Transportation.

HB 194 HOUSEHOLD SEWAGE (Dolan) Regarding the operation of certain provisions of the Household and Small Flow On-Site Sewage Treatment Systems Law and that enacted temporary provisions regarding that Law by extending the termination of the suspension and temporary law from July 1, 2009, to December 31, 2009, and to declare an emergency. Am. 120.01, 120.02, and 120.05. Referred to House Environment & Brownfield Development.

HB 195 PARK COMMISSIONERS (Slesnick) To authorize the dissolution of a municipal board of park commissioners. Am. 755.021. Referred to House Local Government & Public Administration.

HB 202 INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION (Mallory) To create the Infrastructure Protection Center within the Division of Homeland Security of the Department of Public Safety. Am. & En. 5502.03 and 5502.04. Referred to House Public Safety & Homeland Security.

HB 218 UTILITY TAXES (Winburn) To modify the tax valuation of public utility tangible personal property used to generate electricity from renewable resources. Am. 5727.01, 5727.11, and 5727.111. Referred to House Ways & Means Committee.

HB 220 LOCAL GOVERNMENT NOTICES (Chandler) To implement the recommendations of the Local Government Public Notice Task Force by authorizing legal publication to be made in a newspaper of general circulation, eliminating certain publication and postal privilege requirements, reducing the number of times publication must be made, requiring newspapers to establish a government rate for publication, allowing publication of a summary of an ordinance rather than publishing it in its entirety, and allowing the costs of publishing delinquent property tax lists to be charged to delinquent taxpayers. Am. 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 118.17, 131.23, 133.18, 133.55, 135.05, 301.02, 301.15, 301.28, 306.35, 306.43, 306.70, 307.022, 307.041, 307.10, 307.12, 307.676, 307.70, 307.79, 307.791, 307.81, 307.82, 307.83, 308.13, 317.20, 319.11, 321.18, 322.02, 322.021, 323.08, 324.02, 324.021, 343.08, 345.03, 349.03, 501.07, 503.05, 503.162, 503.41, 504.02, 504.03, 504.12, 504.21, 505.108, 505.17, 505.264, 505.28, 505.373, 505.55, 505.73, 511.23, 511.25, 511.28, 511.34, 513.14, 515.04, 517.12, 517.22, 521.03, 705.16, 711.35, 715.011, 715.47, 718.09, 718.10, 719.012, 719.05, 721.03, 721.15, 721.20, 723.07, 727.011, 727.012, 727.08, 727.14, 727.46, 729.08, 729.11, 731.141, 731.20, 731.21, 731.211, 731.22, 731.23, 731.24, 731.25, 735.05, 735.20, 737.32, 745.07, 747.05, 747.11, 747.12, 755.41, 755.42, 755.43, 759.47, 951.11, 1515.08, 1515.24, 1545.09, 1545.12, 1547.302, 1711.05, 1711.07, 1711.18, 1711.30, 1728.06, 2105.09, 2329.26, 2329.27, 3311.21, 3311.213, 3311.214, 3311.50, 3311.53, 3311.73, 3313.41, 3313.533, 3313.911, 3349.29, 3354.12, 3355.09, 3375.41, 3381.11, 3501.03, 3505.13, 3709.21, 3735.36, 3735.66, 4301.80, 4301.81, 4503.06, 4504.02, 4504.021, 4504.15, 4504.16, 4504.18, 4513.62, 4582.31, 4585.10, 4928.20, 4929.26, 4929.27, 4931.51, 4931.52, 4931.53, 5126.42, 5310.35, 5540.031, 5540.05, 5543.10, 5552.06, 5553.05, 5553.19, 5553.23, 5553.42, 5555.07, 5555.27, 5555.42, 5559.06, 5559.10, 5559.12, 5561.04, 5561.08, 5571.011, 5573.02, 5573.10, 5575.01, 5575.02, 5591.15, 5593.08, 5705.16, 5705.191, 5705.194, 5705.196, 5705.21, 5705.211, 5705.218, 5705.25, 5705.251, 5705.261, 5705.314, 5705.71, 5713.01, 5715.17, 5715.23, 5719.04, 5721.01, 5721.03, 5721.04, 5721.31, 5722.13, 5723.05, 5727.57, 5733.23, 5739.021, 5739.022, 5739.026, 5739.101, 5747.451, 5748.02, 5748.021, 5748.04, 5748.08, 6101.16, 6103.05, 6103.06, 6103.081, 6103.31, 6105.131, 6115.01, 6115.20, 6117.06, 6117.07, 6117.251, 6117.49, 6119.10, 6119.18, 6119.22, 6119.25, and 6119.58, to enact section 7.16, and to repeal sections 7.14 and 701.04. Referred to House Local Government & Public Administration

HB 236 HOUSEHOLD SEWAGE (Newcomb) To revise the Household Sewage and Small Flow On-Site Sewage Treatment Systems Law, to establish the Household Sewage Treatment System Revolving Loan Program and the Household Sewage Treatment System Grant Program in the Department of Health, to amend Section 120.05 of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly and to repeal Sections 120.01 and 120.02 of Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly, to make appropriations, and to declare an emergency. Am. 319.281, 3718.02, 3718.03, 3718.04, and 3718.05 and to enact sections 3718.011, 3718.041, and 3718.30 to 3718.38. Referred to House Environment & Brownfield Development.

HB 246 OP&F DISEASE COVERAGE (Yuko) To provide that a firefighter, police officer, or public emergency medical services worker who is disabled as a result of specified types of cancer or certain contagious or infectious diseases is presumed for purposes of the laws governing workers' compensation and the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund to have incurred the disease while performing official duties as a firefighter, police officer, or public emergency medical services worker Am. 742.38, 4123.57, and 4123.68. Referred to House Aging & Disability Services.

HB 260 ELECTION LAW (Stewart, D) To revise the Election Law. Referred to Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs.

HB 261 WIRELESS PHONE USE (DeBose) To prohibit driving a vehicle while text messaging or typing on a mobile communication device and to establish the violation as a secondary traffic offense. Am. & En. 4510.01 and 4511.204. Referred to House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.

HB 262 WIRELESS PHONE USE (DeBose) To prohibit driving a vehicle while talking, text messaging or typing on a mobile communication device and to establish the violation as a secondary traffic offense. Am. & En. 4510.01 and 4511.204. Referred to House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.

HB 266 DRIVING/COMMUNICATIONS (Koziura) To generally prohibit driving a vehicle while using a handheld or manually operated mobile communication device. En. 4511.204. Referred to House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.

HB 272 LIQUOR PERMIT FEES (Williams, S.) To increase the annual fee for the C-1, C-2, and C-2x liquor permits to $2,500. Am. 4303.11, 4303.12, and 4303.121. Referred to House State Government Committee.

HB 273 LIQUOR PERMIT TRANSFERS (Williams, S.) To prohibit the transfer of ownership or the transfer of location of a C-1, C-2, or C-2x liquor permit in, or to a premises located in, a municipal corporation or the unincorporated area of a township in which the number of that class of permits actually issued exceeds the number of that class of permits allowed to be issued under population quota restrictions. Am. 4303.29 and 4303.292. Referred to House State Government Committee.

HB 288 PAWNBROKERS/PRECIOUS METAL DEALERS (HARWOOD S) To make changes in the laws regulating pawnbrokers and precious metal dealers to revise item information furnished to law enforcement agencies, specify which law enforcement agencies are to receive item information. Referred to House Civil & Commercial Law.

HB 296 MUNICIPALLY-ADMINISTERED CONSTRUCTION (WILLIAMS S) To require contractors for certain municipally-administered construction projects and for certain state-assisted classroom facilities projects to comply with certain municipal ordinances regarding use of local residents/businesses. Referred To House State Government Committee.

HB 297 MUNICIPALLY-ADMINISTERED CONSTRUCTION (WILLIAMS S) To require contractors for certain municipally-administered construction projects and for certain state-assisted classroom facilities projects to comply with certain municipal ordinances regarding use of local residents/businesses. Referred To House State Government Committee.

HB 303 MAYOR'S COURTS (DYER S) To authorize the Attorney General to dissolve a mayor's court that is operating in violation of statutory population, training, or registration requirements. Referred To House Judiciary Committee.

HB 309 COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA (BATCHELDER, W) To lengthen the period for which certain
structures in a Community Reinvestment Area may be exempted from property taxation. Referred to House Ways and Means Committee.

HB 313 COUNTY LAND REUTILIZATION (Ujvagi, P) - To authorize a county with a population greater than 100,000, or a population between 78,000 and 81,000 to organize a county land reutilization corporation, to authorize a county treasurer of a county with such a corporation to utilize the alternative redemption period in actions to foreclose abandoned lands, and to immunize a county land reutilization corporation from liability for breach of a common law duty in connection with a parcel of land. Referred to Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development.

HB 318 INCOME TAX FREEZE (Sykes, V) To postpone for two years the last of five scheduled income tax rate reductions, to reduce salaries of General Assembly members by five per cent, and to make conforming amendments. Signed by the Governor. Certain sections effective immediately.

HB 323 FORECLOSURE ACTIONS (MURRAY D) Relative to foreclosure actions and certain related nuisance abatement actions. Rereferred to House Housing and Urban Revitalization Committee.

HB 326 ESTATE TAX (HOTTINGER J) To reduce the estate tax, to authorize townships and municipal corporations, or electors thereof by initiative, to exempt from the estate tax any estate property located in the township or municipal corporation. Referred to House Ways and Means Committee.

HB 332 HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND AFFORDABILITY (STEWART, D) To prohibit sickness and accident insurance policies, public employee benefit plans, and health insuring corporation policies, contracts, and agreements from limiting or excluding coverage for prescription contraceptive devices. Referred to House Healthcare Access and Affordability Committee.

HB 335 COURT FEES (COMBS C) To require that certain fees paid by parties in a municipal court that is not a county operated municipal court and that appoints counsel for indigent defendants in a certain manner be transmitted to the municipal corporation treasurer. Referred to House Judiciary Committee.

HB 336 POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OFFICE HOLDERS (GARRISON J) To prohibit an elected officer of a political subdivision or a candidate for an elective office of a political subdivision from accepting contributions from an employee of that subdivision. Referred to House Elections and ethics Committee.

HB344 WATER-WORKS/DISPOSAL SYSTEM COMPANIES (GOYAL, J) To limit recovery of rate-case
expenses for certain water works and sewage disposal system companies. Referred to House Public Utilities Committee.

HB 345 WEB-SITE PUBLICATIONS (HAGAN, R) To allow political subdivisions to make internet web site
publications in lieu of newspaper of general circulation publication requirements if they donate funds used
to provide newspaper notices to local food bank or food drive. Referred to House Local Government / Public Administration Committee.

HB 378 MUNICIPAL INCOME TAXATION (YATES T) To eliminate the authority of municipal corporations to exempt stock options and nonqualified deferred compensation from municipal income taxation. Referred to House Ways & Means Committee.

HB 401 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (LUNDY M) To authorize property tax exemption for municipally owned facilities housing independent professional minor league baseball teams. Referred to House Ways and Means.

HB 403 COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (DEGEETER T) To authorize a nonchartered municipal corporation to establish a community emergency response team within the public safety department of the municipal corporation. Referred to House Local Government/Public Administration.

HB 409 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (Foley, M) To authorize municipal corporations to have a deficit in special funds under certain circumstances. Referred to House Local Government/Public Administration.

HB 412 PREVAILING WAGE (BLAIR, T) To limit the requirement to pay the prevailing rate of wages to new construction, to increase the threshold that triggers the application of the Prevailing Wage Law to one million dollars. Referred to House Commerce and Labor.

HB 415 TEXT MESSAGING WHILE DRIVING (DEBOSE, M) To prohibit driving a vehicle while text messaging on a mobile communication device. Referred to House Public Safety & Homeland Security.

HB 425 TOWING COMPANIES-PUCO REGULATION (HEARD) To grant the Public Utilities Commission exclusive regulatory jurisdiction over all common and contract carrier towing companies and preempt local regulation, authorize the commission to establish a new certification program for common and contract carrier towing companies and a registration system for towed vehicle storage companies, revise law governing private tow-away zones, and make conforming changes in motor transportation company public utility law. Referred to House Public Utilities Committee.

HB 426 OIL AND GAS LAW (SKINDELL) To revise the Oil and Gas Law. Referred to House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.

HB 433 FIRE FIGHTERS-MILITARY LEAVE (UJVAGI, P) To provide publicly employed fire fighters and
emergency medical technicians with a minimum paid military leave of seventeen 24-hour days. Referred to House Veterans Affairs.

HB 445 LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS (LETSON, T) To establish local entertainment districts in
municipal corporations or unincorporated areas of counties of specified populations for the purpose of the issuance of D-1, D-2, and D-5 liquor permits under specified conditions. Referred to House State Government.

HB 456 ESTATE TAX (OKEY, M) To repeal the estate tax effective January 1, 2011. Referred to House Ways and Means.