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November 2011

POLITICAL EDUCATION NEWSLETTER

Hi Everyone,

    This will be the last Political Education newsletter that I write. Someone else will take over that job beginning in 2012. So....what I am going to start with in this last letter is why I chose the pink girly newsletter background.
    Let's not be a pink girly organization. Let's put forth our best efforts to achieve our goals of electing and re-electing women to office and, of course, electing a new president.  And let's do it without any in-fighting, or sabotaging each other and/or our parties.
    Don't forget the women at the bottom of the political food chains because they are often the women who work their way up to be state representatives and senators and congresswomen. The bottom line, which I know you hate to hear, is that that support supporting these women also means money. If everyone of you sent ten or twenty dollars to every one of our women candidates, they would have a strong start to their funds.
    I send this newsletter to 88 contacts across the state...if each of you gave the letter to two women, that's 264. If each of them gave just $10.00 to two women candidates, that's $2,640 each. I know you are out there and I know that you care. What I would like leave you with is the challenge to financially support women candidates. 
    Together we are very strong. Let's keep it that way.

 Sharon C. Gingerich 

Excuses

I missed some of the bills, but all you have to do is change the last number in  your browser when you are looking at the bills. Also, I had some formatting problems - the spacing was correct and the little lines were gone when I save it. Next time I looked, they were mysteriously back. The weird underline problem would not go away. I gave up trying. So, forgive me my flaws.

 House Bills Introduced

HB 282 - ROAD NAMING  (Martin, J.)   To designate State Route 235 within the municipal corporation of Fairborn the "Army Specialist Jesse Adam Snow Memorial Highway."

 

HB 283 - DRIVER'S LICENSES  (Grossman, C.)   To require each person under eighteen years of age applying for a driver's license to complete a first-aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training course.

 

HB 284 - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS  (Gonzales, A., Letson, T.)   To modify the laws governing physician assistants

 

HB 300 - SEARCH & RESCUE DOGS (Goyal, J., Ruhl, M.) To provide protections for search and rescue dogs and to make changes to the law regarding emergency volunteers

 

HB 301 - MISSING CHILDREN (Hottinger, J., Beck, P.) To require a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child under the age of thirteen to report to a law enforcement agency within twenty-four hours after the child is missing or the parent, legal guardian, or custodian discovers that the child! is deceased.

 

HB 302 - MIAMI COUNTY COURTS (Adams, R.) To make the clerk of courts of Miami County the clerk of the Miami County Municipal Court and to declare an emergency

 

HB 306 - BUILDING STANDARDS  (Pillich, C.)   To require a building or structure constructed using state capital budget moneys to adhere to certain energy efficiency and building standards and to encourage the use of Ohio-produced products

 

HB 307 -    ROAD NAMING (Peterson, B.) To designate a portion of State Route 104 within Ross County as the "David A. Gibson Memorial Highway."

 

HB 308 - VIDEO MEETINGS (Damschroder, R.) To authorize a joint board of county commissioners to conduct proceedings regarding existing joint county ditches via teleconference or video conference.

 

HB 309 - STATE SEAL (Butler, J., Rosenberger, C.) To add a representation of the Wright Brothers' first piloted airplane to the Coat of Arms and Great Seal of the State of Ohio.

 

HB 310 - ELECTRIC VEHICLES (Goodwin, B.) To reduce the amount of sales tax due on the purchase or lease of a qualifying electric vehicle by up to $2,000.

 

HB 311 - ROAD NAMING (Schuring, K.) To designate a portion of U.S. Route 62 in Stark County as the "U.S. Army Spc. Zachary Grass Memorial Highway."

 

HB 312 - ROAD NAMING (Schuring, K.) To designate a portion of State Route 172 in Stark County as the "Lt. Jason S. Manse Memorial Highway."

 

HB 313 - MUTUAL AID  (Carney, J., Carey, J.)   To modify the laws governing the Intrastate Mutual Aid Compact.

 

HB 314 - STATE EMPLOYEE SALARIES  (Beck, P.)   To limit the amount by which a state employee's salary or wage may be increased.

 

HB 315 - ELECTION COMPLAINTS  (Baker, N., Sears, B.)   To increase the penalties for making a false statement in campaign materials related to nomination or election for a statewide office or office of a member of the General Assembly, or in regard to any campaign for or against a ballot question or issue, and to require the person who made the false statement to pay reasonable attorney's fees.

 

HB 316 - MOTORCYCLE HANDLEBARS  (Rosenberger, C., Landis, A.)   To permit motorcycle handlebars to be of any height so long as the height does not adversely affect the ability of the operator to operate the motorcycle safely.

 

HB 317 - STATE HIRING FREEZE  (Young, R., Thompson, A.)   To impose a temporary hiring freeze in state government until the state workforce is reduced by ten per cent.

 

HB 318 - PRIMARY ELECTION (Blessing, L.) To eliminate March primary elections in presidential election years by requiring all primary elections to be conducted on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, and to declare an emergency.

 

HB 319 - CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING (Huffman, M.) To establish Congressional district boundaries for the state based on the 2010 decennial census of Ohio.

 

HB 320 - LICENSE PLATE (Johnson, T., Bubp, D.) To create "Military Sacrifice" license plates.

 

HB 321 - ROAD NAMING (Peterson, B.) To designate a portion of State Route 772 within Ross County the "Staff Sergeant Joshua Gire Memorial Highway."

 

HB 322 - INTEREST RATES

Brenner, A.) To permit Ohio banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, and credit unions to charge the same interest  

rate and other charges that out-of-state banks may charge Ohio customers.

 

HB 323 - PENSION TRUSTEE FELONIES (Dovilla, M., Anielski, M.) To add extortion and perjury to the felonies committed by a public retirement system member while serving in a position of honor, trust, or profit under the law governing the forfeiture of retirement system benefits and the termination of retirement system disability benefits.

 

HB 324 - APPORTIONMENT MAPS (Clyde, K., Letson, T.) To specify that plans of apportionment for members of the General Assembly must include or be accompanied by a district map and corresponding list of census blocks, to specify a time by which plans of apportionment must be ready, to specify that the plans of apportionment must receive a public hearing at four locations throughout the state, and to declare an emergency.

 

HB 325    ROAD NAMING (Landis, A.) To designate a portion of State Route 39 within Tuscarawas County the "Lance Corporal Peter James Clore Memorial Highway."  

 

 HB 326    PUBLIC FUND USE (McClain, J., Hill, B.) To prohibit a person from using public funds for specified purposes and to specify that a person or a political subdivision who violates the prohibition is guilty of a first degree misdemeanor.

 

HB 327 - JOB TAX CREDIT (Gonzales, A.) To provide for a six-year trial period in which taxpayers may receive a job creation or job retention tax credit for the employment of home-based employees and to require the Director of Development to issue a report at the end of the six-year period.

 

HB 328    CCW JOURNALIST EXCEPTION (Uecker, J.) To modify the journalist exception to the provision that makes concealed handgun license records confidential.

 

 HB 329    TELECOMMUNICATIONS FRAUD (McGregor, R.) To allow the Attorney General to investigate the offenses of unauthorized use of property and telecommunications fraud, to modify the penalties for telecommunications fraud, and to create the offense of telecommunications fraud perpetrated against an elderly person or disabled adult.

 

HB 330    AWARENESS MONTH  (Brenner, A., Celeste, T.) To designate October as "Dyslexia Awareness Month."

 

HB 331    CYBERSECURITY COUNCIL (Dovilla, M., Bubp, D.) Create the Cybersecurity, Education, and Economic Development Council.

 

HB 332 - ACCESSIBILITY TAX CREDIT (Stinziano, M., Grossman, C.) To authorize a nonrefundable income tax credit for the purchase or construction of an accessible home or for the renovation of a home to improve its accessibility.  

 

HB 333 - TEMPORARY DRIVERS LICENSE (Young, R.) To establish, under certain circumstances, a grace period and prorated fees when a temporary resident applies for a nonrenewable driver's license.

 

HB 334 - PRESCRIPTION TRACKING (Johnson, T., Bubp, D.) Regarding the participation of pharmacies, retailers, and the Attorney General in electronically tracking pseudoephedrine and ephedrine product sales through a national exchange.

 

HB 335 - DISCRIMINATION BAN (Antonio, N., McGregor, R.) To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

 

 HB 336    OWF ELIGIBILITY (Uecker, J.) To terminate an individual's eligibility for the Ohio Works First program or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for three years on conviction of a felony offense that has as an element the possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance.

 

HB 337    COMMERCIAL DRIVERS LICENSE (Rosenberger, C.) To make changes in the law governing commercial drivers' licenses, including hazardous material endorsements, medical certification requirements, disqualifications, conviction records, establishing texting while driving as a serious traffic violation, and licensure of private commercial driver's license test administrators, and to exclude certain components from the prohibited length dimensions of specified types of vehicles.

 

 HB 338     SEX EDUCATION (Slesnick, S.) To establish statutory standards for comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention education in public schools and to designate section 3313.6011 of the Revised Code as the "Act for Our Children's Future."

 

HB 339      LICENSE PLATE (Patmon, B.) To create the "Birthplace of Superman" license plate.

 

HB 340      FISHING LICENSES (Patmon, B., Dovilla, M.) To specify that an applicant for a fishing license cannot be required to provide more than the last four digits of the applicant's Social Security number.

 

HB 341 - FRATERNAL SOCIETIES  (Henne, M.)   To make changes to the law regulating fraternal benefit societies.

 

HB 342 - PRIVATIZATION  (Pillich, C., Driehaus, D.)   To limit agreements to privatize state property, facilities, services, or functions.

 

HB 343 - DRUG TESTING (Hagan, R.) To establish a controlled substance testing requirement for statewide elected officials, members of the General Assembly, the Supreme Court, the board of directors of JobsOhio, and recipients of Trouble Asset Relief Program money and to establish a process for recalling statewide elected officials and members of the General Assembly.

 

HB 344    GLOBAL SALES (Barnes, J.) To establish the Ohio International Initiative by creating the "SellOhio Global Initiative" within the Department of Development and the Global Initiative on International Relations within the General Assembly to create new, untapped global markets for Ohio businesses and thereby promote job creation, and to make an appropriation.

 

HB 345    OIL & GAS DRILLING (Driehaus, D., Heard, T.) Established a moratorium on horizontal stimulation of oil and gas wells until the United States Environmental Protection Agency publishes a report containing the results of a study of the relationship of hydraulic fracturing to drinking water resources and the Chief of the Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management issues a report analyzing how Ohio's rules address issues raised in the USEPA report.

 

HB 346 - LAW ENFORCEMENT (Yuko, K.) 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.

HB 347    VILLAGE GOVERNANCE (Anielski, M.) To authorize the legislative authority of a statutory nonchartered village to be composed of five instead of six members and to authorize the terms of office to be nonstaggered.

 

HB 348   DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS (Liggett Pelanda, D.) To change the definition of the duration of marriage for the purposes of division of marital property, to replace spousal support awards with compensatory spousal support awards, and to create presumptions for circumstances under which a compensatory spousal support award should be made and standards for the length and duration of compensatory spousal support awards.   

 

HB 349  TRAFFIC SIGNALS (McGregor, R.) To make changes in certain provisions relating to road signs and traffic signals for purposes of the Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.

 

HB 350 - RED CROSS DONATIONS  (Hackett, B., Grossman, C.)   To allow taxpayers to make contributions to the American Red Cross Ohio Disaster Response Readiness and Preparedness Fund through their income tax returns.

 

HB 351 - GASANDOIL DRILLING  (Antonio, N., Fedor, T.)   To establish requirements governing well stimulation, brine disposal, and water that is used in the drilling and operation of oil and gas wells, including a requirement that oil and gas permittees pay a seven per cent overriding royalty for each well that is stimulated.

 

HB 352 - EXOTIC ANIMAL BAN  (Phillips, D.)   To prohibit the future acquisition of a dangerous exotic animal, to require a person owning a dangerous exotic animal on the act's effective date to register it with the Division of Wildlife, and to declare an emergency.

 

HB 353 - HOSPITAL REPORTING  (Sears, B.)   To repeal certain hospital performance reporting requirements.

 

 HB 354      LICENSE PLATE (Uecker, J.) To redefine eligibility for issuance of a "Gold Star Family" license plate.  

  

 HB 355      STATE CONTRIBUTIONS (Blair, T.) To allow taxpayers to contribute an amount to the state through their income tax returns and designate how the state must use the contribution.  

  

 HB 356      BEER CONTENT (Ramos, D.) To increase the legally permitted alcohol content of beer and to generally prohibit the inclusion of caffeine or other stimulants in beer containing more than 12% of alcohol by volume.  

 

HB 357      CONTROLLING BOARD PURVIEW (Ramos, D.) To require JobsOhio and state agencies offering economic development assistance to obtain Controlling Board approval before providing economic development assistance to a person who, at or near the time of receiving the assistance, relocates employment positions from one taxing district to another or eliminates positions at an existing location.  

  

HB 358  - Re the June Primary  

  

HB 359- Sgt. Mark T. Smykowski Memorial Highway
 

HB 360 - Re the revision of the amount and methods of collection and remittance of the wireless 9-1-1 charge for prepaid wireless services.  

  

HB 361 - Railroads  

  

HB 362 - To prohibit the Ohio Turnpike Commission from increasing tolls before January 1, 2013, and to declare an emergency.  

  

HB 363 - to increase the balance that must exist in the Budget Stabilization Fund, from 5% to 10% of the General Revenue Fund revenue, before revenue surpluses are applied to income tax reductions.  

 

HB 364 - to establish standards for the securitization of costs for electric distribution utilities. 

  

HB 365 - to allow taxpayers who claim an enhanced federal income tax depreciation deduction to reduce the amount of the deduction the taxpayer must add-back for Ohio income tax purposes if the taxpayer increases payroll in the year the enhanced federal deduction is taken.
 
HB 366 - To establish requirements for contract carriers that transport railroad employees.
 

HB 367 - Revisions regarding licensure of pediatric respite care programs
   

 

HB 368 - Finance reporting issues   

  

HB 369 - CONGRESSIONAL MAP REVISIONS  (Huffman, M.)   To repeal Sections 3, 4, and 5 of Sub. H.B. 318 of the 129th General Assembly, and to repeal Section 3 of Sub. H.B. 319 of the 129th General Assembly to establish Congressional district boundaries for the state based on the 2010 decennial census of Ohio, to eliminate the requirement that Ohio conduct two primary elections in 2012, to eliminate the appropriation that would pay for the second primary election in 2012, to eliminate the requirement of mailing an election notice to each registered elector prior to the March 6, 2012 primary election, and to declare an emergency.

  

HB 370 - New Community Authority Law.    

 

HB 371 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT INNOVATION  (Amstutz, R., Weddington, C.)   Regarding the Local Government Innovation Program and to make an appropriation.

  

HB 372 - ALCOHOL SALES (Sykes, V.) To allow an A-1 liquor permit holder to sell beer or beer products for personal consumption on the premises of the permit holder.  

  

HB 373 - PRESCRIPTION DISPENSING (Johnson, T., Gonzales, A.) To prohibit a pharmacist from substituting another drug for a tamper resistant opioid analgesic drug unless the substituted drug is also tamper resistant or consent is obtained from the prescribing health professional.  

 

HB 374 - MINORITY BUSINESSES (Reece, A.) To provide that the state certification for minority business enterprises satisfies any similar minority business certification requirement imposed by a political subdivision    

 

HB 375 - EDUCATION PROPERTY SALES (Butler, J.) To allow school districts to sell real property to private, nonprofit institutions of higher education.   

 

HB 382 - ADULT EXPLOITATION (Gentile, L.) To provide that "exploitation" under the adult protective services law includes action by any person, rather than only by a caretaker

 

HB 383 -  RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION (Slaby, L.) To make changes relative to residential construction and the Consumer Sales Practices Act and to establish laws governing the practices of home construction service suppliers. 

 

 Senate Bills Introduced

SB 201         FAMILY PLANNING (Jordan, K., Lehner, P.) To prioritize the distribution of funds for family planning services.

 

SB 202 -  TRESPASSING  (Seitz, B.)   To specify the responsibility of a possessor of real property to a trespasser and the circumstances in which the possessor may be liable in a tort action for the death or injury of a trespasser.

 

SB 203 - MISSING CHILDREN  (Cafaro, C.)   To require a parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker of a child under the age of thirteen to report to a law enforcement agency within twenty-four hours after the child is missing, to require a parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker of a child above the age of twelve and under the age of eighteen to report to a law enforcement agency within forty-eight hours after the child is missing, to require a parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker to report to a law enforcement agency within one hour after the parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker discovers that the child is deceased, to increase penalty for falsification to mislead a public official, and to specify that the above provisions are to be known as "Caylee's Law."

SB 204 - VEHICLE MEDICAL INFORMATION  (Tavares, C.)   To establish the "Yellow Dot" motor vehicle medical information program within the Department of Public Safety.

 

 SB 205 - ART THERAPY  (Skindell, M., Grendell, T.)   To regulate the practice of art therapy

 

SB 206 - TAX CREDIT REQUIREMENTS  (Schaffer, T.)   To allow taxpayers to count employees employed through a temporary or professional employment agency toward the payroll and income tax withholding requirements of the job creation and job retention tax credits.

 

SB 207 - COUNTY DITCH HEARINGS  (Burke, D.)   To authorize a joint board of county commissioners to conduct proceedings regarding existing joint county ditches via teleconference or video conference.

 

 SB 208 - COMMERCIAL CODE  (Obhof, L.)   To make changes to Ohio's Uniform Commercial Code

 

SB 209 - ELECTRIC VEHICLES  (Hite, C., Turner, N.)   To reduce the amount of sales tax due on the purchase or lease of a qualifying electric vehicle by up to $2,000.

 

SB 210     HUNTING LICENSES (Burke, D.) To exempt an applicant for a hunting license who is an active, reserve, or honorably discharged member of the armed forces or an active duty or retired law enforcement officer from completing a hunter education and conservation course in order to obtain the license.

 

SB 211       COURT COSTS (Bacon, K.) To require that all moneys collected by the clerk of a municipal or county court be paid to the appropriate person, fund, or entity on or before the twentieth day of each month, to permit a municipal or county court to collect unpaid court costs, fees, or fines from an obligor's state income tax refund, to require the Auditor of State to create and maintain a chart detailing the distribution of court costs, fees, and fines collected by municipal and county court clerks, to create the Committee on Court Costs, and to ensure that neither the Registrar nor any deputy registrar accepts any application for the issuance or renewal of a driver's license, commercial driver's license, or temporary instruction permit, or for the registration or transfer of registration of a motor vehicle of a person who fails to pay court costs imposed for offenses by a municipal mayor's, or county court.

 

 SB 212     OIL & GAS DRILLING (Skindell, M.) To establish requirements governing well stimulation, brine disposal, and water that is used in the drilling and operation of oil and gas wells on state land, including a requirement that oil and gas permittees pay a five per cent overriding royalty for each well that is stimulated.

 SB 213     OIL & GAS DRILLING (Skindell, M.) Establishes a moratorium on horizontal stimulation of oil and gas wells until the United States Environmental Protection Agency publishes a report containing the results of a study of the relationship of hydraulic fracturing to drinking water resources and the Chief of the Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management issues a report analyzing how Ohio's rules address issues raised in the USEPA report.

SB 214      RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (Burke, D.) To modify when a public retirement system, alternative retirement plan, or deferred compensation program must comply with a withholding order for restitution issued on conviction of a public employee for certain offenses committed in the course of public employment.

 SB 215      EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION (Burke, D.) To require public improvement or service contracts between a state agency and a contractor to contain a provision requiring the contractor to use an electronic employment verification system.

 

SB 216 - RENEWABLE ENERGY  (Jordan, K.)   To repeal the requirement that electric distribution utilities and electric services companies provide 25% of their retail power supplies from advanced and renewable energy resources by 2025.

 

 SB 217      PRIMARY ELECTION (Faber, K.) To eliminate March primary elections in presidential election years by requiring all primary elections to be conducted on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, and to declare an emergency.

 

SB 218      INTEREST CHARGES (Coley, B.) To permit Ohio banks, savings and loan associations, saving banks, and credit unions to charge the same interest rate and other charges that out-of-state banks may charge Ohio customers.

SB 219      COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Sawyer, T.) To eliminate the exemption for community schools serving dropouts from the requirement to permanently close for poor academic performance.

 

SB 220      OPEN ENROLLMENT (Sawyer, T.) To require a study of interdistrict open enrollment, and to repeal sections of the Revised Code effective July1, 2015, to terminate interdistrict open enrollment on that date with the possibility of renewal following the General Assembly's examination of the study's findings. Am. 3313.984 of the Revised Code to require a study of interdistrict open enrollment, and to amend sections

 

SB 221      ACHIEVEMENT TESTS (Sawyer, T.) To make the elementary-level achievement assessments public records.

SB 222 - FLAG DISPLAY  (Burke, D.)   To require certain flags to be displayed at rest areas along the state's interstates and the Ohio Turnpike

 

SB 223 - FRAUD  (Bacon, K.)   To allow the Attorney General to investigate the offenses of unauthorized use of property and telecommunications fraud, to modify the penalties for telecommunications fraud, and to create the offense of telecommunications fraud perpetrated against an elderly person or disabled adult.

 

SB 224 - CONTRACTS  (Obhof, L.)   To shorten the period of limitations for actions upon a contract in writing.

 

 SB 225    REDISTRICTING (Sawyer, T.) To establish Congressional district boundaries for the state based on the 2010 decennial census of Ohio.

SB 226     PUBLIC RECORDS (LaRose, F.) To exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Act any videotape or other visual media taken by law enforcement personnel that shows the killing of a peace officer, except under certain circumstances.

 SB 227    ELECTION LAWS (Tavares, C., Turner, N.) To restore local control to Ohio's election process and increase voter participation by permitting an individual who wishes to vote by absent voter's ballots to request those ballots via electronic mail, through the internet, if internet delivery is offered by a board of elections or the Secretary of State, by permitting a board of elections to mail unsolicited applications for absent voter's ballots, and by requiring the General Assembly to appropriate funds, and requiring the Secretary of State to reimburse boards, for costs incurred in sending unsolicited applications for general elections held in an even-numbered year.

SB 228 - NURSE ANESTHETISTS (Burke, D.) To authorize certified registered nurse anesthetists to issue medication orders for the administration of drugs to patients during certain phases of patient care and to specify the circumstances in which such nurses may perform clinical support functions.

 

SB 229 - SCHOOL AUDITS (Sawyer, T.) To require the Department of Education to conduct a performance review of each chartered nonpublic school participating in the Educational Choice Scholarship Program.

 

SB 230 - EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY (Sawyer, T.) To create the Office of Regional Services and Accountability in the Department of Education.

 

SB 231     DISCRIMINATION (Skindell, M., Tavares, C.) To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

 

 SB 232     SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION (Skindell, M.) To establish statutory standards for comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention education in public schools and to designate section 3313.6011 of the Revised Code as the "Act for Our Children's Future."

 

 SB 233     PHYSICAL THERAPY (Oelslager, S.) To limit copayments health insurers impose for physical therapy services and to make changes to the law governing health insurers and intermediary organizations.

 

 SB 234      FORECLOSURE SALES (Coley, B.) To authorize county sheriffs to advertise foreclosure sales via a web site.

 SB 235   COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSES (Burke, D.) To establish a waiver for the commercial driver's license test for drivers with military commercial motor vehicle experience

 

SB 236      MILITARY PROPERTY TAXES (Schaffer, T.) To exempt from property taxation the primary residences of military veterans who are 100% disabled from a service-connected disability.

 

SB 237     TAX CONTRIBUTIONS (Burke, D.) To create the Taxpayer Voluntary Contribution Fund for the purpose of receiving contributions to be used for transportation purposes or other general purposes of the state.

 

 SB 238  ETHICS LAW (Lehner, P.) To require persons who are elected or appointed to, or who are candidates for, an office of a township with a population of five thousand or more to file statements under the Ethics law.

 

 SB 239   BOARD OF EDUCATION (Sawyer, T.) To establish state board of education districts based on the 2011 plan of apportionment.

 

SB - 240 - COUNTYCHARTER  (Burke, D., Lehner, P.)   To establish certain requirements to be followed by a county in adopting or amending a charter that provides under Section 3 of Article X, Ohio Constitution, for the succession by the county to the rights, properties, and obligations of any municipal corporations or townships wholly located in the county.

 

SB - 241 - NEW COMMUNITY AUTHORITY  (Coley, B.)   To make changes to the New Community Authority Law

  

SB 247 - DAY DESIGNATION  (Balderson, T.)   To designate the ninth day of July as "Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Day."

  

SB 248 -  UTILITY COST SECURITIZATION  (Balderson, T.)   To establish standards for the securitization of costs for electric distribution utilities.  

  

SB 249 - VETERAN LICENSE PLATES  (Tavares, C.)   To allow a veteran with a service-connected disability of less than 100 per cent to apply for disabled veteran license plates upon payment of one-half of the applicable fees.

  

SB 250 -  TOBACCO TAXES  (Tavares, C.)   To increase the tobacco products excise tax rate and to add dissolvable tobacco products to the kinds of products subject to the tax.

  

SB 251 -   To require the licensure of, and otherwise regulate, providers of debt settlement services.  

  

 SB 252       ROAD SIGNS (Patton, T.) To make changes in certain provisions relating to road signs and traffic signals for purposes of the Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.

  

SB 253 -   ELECTRONICS RECYCLING (Lehner, P.) To establish a recycling program for covered electronic devices, to create the Electronic Waste Advisory Council to evaluate and make recommendations and prepare a report concerning recycling of those devices, and to terminate the Council on July 1, 2015

  

SB 254 -  MAYOR'S COURTS (Patton, T.) To increase from more than 100 to more than 200 the population necessary for a municipal corporation to have a mayor's court unless the municipal corporation is located entirely on an island in Lake Erie.   

 

 

SB 255 - WIRELESS 911 FEES (LaRose, F.) To revise the amount and methods of collection and remittance of the wireless 9-1-1 charge for prepaid wireless services. 

  

SB 256 - RIGHT TO CURE (Coley, B.) To allow suppliers and consumers to enter into a Right to Cure agreement. 

  

SB 257 - LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (Daniels, D., Kearney, E.) Regarding the Local Government Innovation Program and to make an appropriation.   

 

SB 258 - BLUE ALERT (Manning, G.) To create the Statewide Blue Alert Program

 

SB 259 - ROAD NAMING (Obhof, L.) To designate a portion of Interstate Route 71 within Wayne County the "First Lieutenant John L. Runkle, Jr. Memorial Highway." 

 

SB 260 AWARENESS MONTH (Obhof, L.) To designate may as "Pediatric Stroke Awareness Month." 

 

SB 261 - EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION (Tavares, C) To prohibit and provide a penalty for employment discrimination and the advertisement of employment positions that discriminate on the basis of an individual's unemployment status. 


 This and That

CASINO REVENUE

As you know, if you are at all interested in county budgets, this last budget severely limited the funding coming back to us from the State. The following link is an estimate put out by the County Commissioners Association of Ohio that estimates the amount of funding that will come to the counties from casino revenues. It's pretty interesting.

 Estimated Revenue

 HOW YOUR COUNTY VOTED

Also in case you are interested, the table below shows how your county voted on issues 1, 2 and 3

 County Voting Statistics

 
YOUTH BEHAVIORAL SURVEY

  The Youth Risk Behavioral Survey tells some interesting things about our Ohio teenagers. I have included the link above to find out more.

  • 83% of Ohioans in grades nine through 12 wear their seatbelts when riding in a car and 79% do not ride with other teens who have been drinking.
  • Teenagers are not practicing healthy nutritional routines. About 7.2% report eating fruits or vegetables two or more times daily as recommended, and 30% report a weight and height that classify them as overweight and obese, according to the survey.
  • A majority of teens, 76.7%, did not attend physical education class daily, the study indicated.
  • 62% of teens do not drink alcohol.
  • 78.9% said they don't smoke cigarettes.
  • 92% report they did not drink and drive in the past month.
  • 85% say they have at least one adult from whom they feel comfortable seeking help with a problem.
  • 60% of Ohio teenagers report seeing a doctor for a checkup in the past year.
  • 32% report eating seven or more meals with their families during an average week.
  • 45% report they have never had sexual intercourse.

ISSUE NEAR AND DEAR TO ME

     One more issue that you really should pay attention to because it tampers with your most important asset - your land ownership records.
 On October 13, 2011, my prosecutor, Dave Joyce, and I filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all Ohio Recorders against Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS). Briefly, this is the company that started bypassing County Recorders in 1997 and created their own data bank where they could assign a mortgage from bank A to bank B to bank C etc., without having to pay assignment fees and wthout leaving a clear path to who owns your mortgage. 
    On November 9, 2011 Senator Bob Corker R-Tennessee, introduced S.1834  (I could not make the direct link work, you will have to scroll down to 1834) that allows for these mortgage assignments to by-pass the County Recorders offices in all states and create a national system within the MERS system protected by the Federal Government. In addition, it would make the MERS registry immune to lawsuits by federalizing it. They realize they have a tremendous liability with the original MERS and are now trying to immunize the banks, Fannie and Freddie, and the big national title underwriters from future liability. MERS would have government protection.
    The last page of S.1834 states:  "MERS2 shall incorporate a single national database for all mortgage title transfers, to be maintained and operated by FHFA."

    And this, my friends, brings you one step closer to a federal land registry. Is that really what you want.....little by little...step by step....one change at a time is how we got to where we are today.

 IN CLOSING

    Thank you for letting me be your Political Education Chair. I have learned a great deal while I was preparing all of this for you. This is an election year for me and I must put all my energies into re-election, so beginning in January, someone else will take over. I will continue to monitor our Face Book page.
    Please support your local women's GOP organizations, your State OFRW and the newly elected officers, and most of all your women candidates. 

 Sharon C. Gingerich

 

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 The Forgotten Fifteen:

15 Jobs Bills the House Republicans Have Passed That Are Now Stuck In the Senate 

 

1)     The Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act (H.R 872) - Reduces overlapping and unnecessary regulation on pesticides; thereby reducing costs to both farmers and small business owners.

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 292-130 on March 31, 2011

  

2)     The Energy Tax Prevention Act (H.R. 910) - Prohibits the federal government from regulating greenhouse gas emissions; thereby by preventing a needless increase in energy prices for American households and businesses.

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 255-172 on April 7, 2011

  

 3)     A Resolution of Disapproval Regarding FCC's Regulation (H.J. Res. 37)- Prevents the federal government from regulating the Internet and broadband providers 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 240 to 179 on April 8, 2011 

 

4)     Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act (H.R 1230)- Helps to reduce energy prices and promote job creation by expediting offshore oil and natural gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and the Virginia coast. 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 266-149 on May 5, 2011

 

 

5)     Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act (H.R. 1229)- Promotes job creation and reduces energy prices by reinstating oil drilling permits in the Gulf Coast. 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 263-163 on May 11, 2011 

 

 

6)     Reversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act (H.R 1231)- Promotes lower energy costs and job creation by allowing drilling in at least 50 percent of the Outer Continental Shelf areas known to contain the most oil and gas. 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 243-179 on May 12, 2011 

 

 

7)     The Jobs and Energy Permitting Act H.R 2021)- Promotes job growth and reduces energy costs by expediting the process of obtaining an offshore drilling permit. 

 

 

 * Passed the House by a vote of 255-166 on June 22, 2011

 

8)     The Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act (H.R 2018) - Prevents the federal government from interfering with a state's water quality program once that state has already met existing federal standards; thereby eliminating needless red tape and tinkering by bureaucrats. 

 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 239 to 184 on July 13, 2011 

 

 

9)     The Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act of 2011 (H.R. 1315)- Improves consumer protection and provides greater economic stability by allowing the Financial Stability Oversight Council to vote to set aside any harmful federal regulation. 

 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 241-173 on July 21, 2011 

 

 

10)     The North American-Made Energy Security Act (H.R. 1938)- Promotes job creation and energy security by ending the needless delay of the construction and operation of the Keystone XL pipeline. 

 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 279-147 on July 26, 2011

  

11)     The Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act (H.R. 2587) - Seeks to guarantee private companies the flexibility to develop their businesses in the state that offers the best opportunities for growth, job creation and stability. 

 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 238-186 on September 15, 2011 

 

12)     The Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts (TRAIN) Act (H.R. 2401) - establishes an interagency committee to evaluate the economic impacts of EPA regulations and delay the final dates for both the maximum achievable control technology (Utility MACT) standards and the cross-state air pollution rule (CSAPR) until the full impact has been studied. Both regulations would cost consumers and businesses $184 billion from 2011-2030 and would skyrocket electrical prices. 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 249-169 on September 23, 2011 

 

 

13)     The Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act (H.R. 2681)- provides a stay of the EPA's overly burdensome rules and allows for the implementation of effective regulation that protects communities both environmentally and economically.

 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 262-161 on October 6, 2011

 

14)     The EPA Regulatory Relief Act (H.R. 2250)- alleviates the excessive regulatory burden placed on employers by the EPA's Boiler MACT rules, potentially costing companies $14 billion and 224,000 American jobs, and replacing them with sensible, achievable rules that do not destroy jobs. 

 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 275-142 on October 13, 2011 

 

15)     The Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act (H.R. 2273)- bipartisan legislation providing consistent, safe management of coal combustion residuals in a way that protects jobs and encourages recycling and beneficial use. 

 

* Passed the House by a vote of 276-144 on October 14, 2011 

 

 

 

Call your Senator today and tell them to start moving on American job creation!  

 

 

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Information courtesy of Office of Majority Whip, United States House of Representatives

 

Republican Jobs Plan Takes Major Step Forward with Passage of Three Free Trade Agreements 

 

 

On Wednesday, October 12, 2011, both the House and Senate finally passed three free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama. The free trade agreements were negotiated under President Bush's administration but were tabled for years due to stalling from Democrats and labor organizations.

 

Republicans have long maintained that the free trade agreements must be passed in order to create new American jobs. The treaties will benefit the U.S as economies like that of South Korea have far more barriers to U.S exports than the U.S. puts on their imports.

 

The largest agreement with South Korea could potentially create about 70,000 jobs domestically and help to increase US exports by more than $10 billion.   The combined deals are estimated to boost U.S. exports by at least $13 billion to the three countries.  The International Trade Commission says the free trade agreements could create 250,000 jobs in the United States as a result.

 

All three trade agreements have now been sent to President Obama to be signed and could go into effect in the next few months.  

 

Congress also passed a program in conjunction with the free trade agreements that would provide financial aid and retraining assistance for U.S. workers who lose their jobs due to trade. 

Final Vote Count

 

House

 

300-129 in favor of Panama

278-151 in favor of South Korea

262-167 in favor of Colombia

 

Senate

 

83-15 in favor or South Korea

77-22 in favor of Panama

66-33 in favor of Colombia

 

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POLITICAL EDUCATION
Summer 2011

Greetings Ohio Federation of Republican Women Members and Friends:

    I hope you are enjoying your summer...too quickly gone.
    This is a ballot year for mostly local officials and levies. However, this is a very important year for issues as well. Some of these issues are critical to our future. I won't attempt to tell you how to vote. I will give you the tools to read and decide for yourself. The Internet is at your disposal. I have not covered anywhere near all that is out there on the issues, but I hope you will see what has been introduced and follow up and inform yourself of all that went on in the budget bill.

Sharon C. Gingerich

   

Jon Husted set the numbers for the fall ballot issues based on the order in which the three issues were filed with his office as follows:

 

Issue 1: Judicial age increase

       Issue 1 - House Joint Resolution 1, proposed constitutional amendment to change the retirement age for judges. Currently, judges cannot be elected or appointed if they are 70 or older when their term starts. The amendment would change that to 76 and make the cutoff date the date of election, not the start of the term.

 

Issue 2: SB 5 referendum

       Issue 2 - referendum on Senate Bill 5, legislation restricting public employee collective bargaining.

 Issue 3: health care

       Issue 3 - Health Care Freedom Act Constitutional Amendment 

It would exempt Ohio from the individual mandate in the federal health care law and from any similar state mandate.

  

  

 Issue 2: SB 5 referendum        Issue 2 - Some information  - you decide

 

The Governor's organization in favor of SB5 is Building a Better Ohio  

Call or email them if you want to be involved. Go to the above linked website and learn more.  

 

We Are Ohio is one of the groups against SB5.  It's important to know who you are dealing with and what their ultimate agendas are. Be informed. I am sure there are other groups  

    Labor groups call SB5 an Anti-Union Law. They have drawn $7 million in contributions. Their claim is that the law would sharply restrict the collective bargaining ability of 350,000 state and local government employees. They have raised almost $7 million to repeal the measure at the Nov. 8 election.

    We Are Ohio filed a semiannual campaign finance report with Jon Husted's office that listed $4.9 million in total contributions thus far for its referendum to reject SB 5. 

    The largest individual contributions of $1 million each came from the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, and the Communications Workers of America, both in Washington, D.C. A combined $1.5 million came from the National AFL-CIO and AFL-CIO State Battles political action committees, also based in Washington. 

    The Service Employees International Union, Washington, contributed $500,000, and the Ohio Education Association $250,000. The report also reflected in-kind contributions of an additional $1.9 million, including a combined $595,302 in donated staff time from the OEA and the Ohio Council AFL-CIO. 

    Expenditures amounted to $2.3 million, with at least $990,073 going to Professional Petition Management in Columbus for services in gathering the signatures needed to ensure placement before voters. Another $129,800 went to America Votes, Washington, for consulting services. The committee's report showed a balance on hand of $2.61 million. 

    Building a Better Ohio said it was not required to disclose contributions in a semiannual report. "Based on the type of funds being raised we are not required to report an amount at this time," said Jason Mauk, the group's spokesman.

Defenders of the law are raising money as an Internal Revenue Service 501C(4) non-profit organization. The money will be transferred into the state campaign committee. 

    "None of our staff actually came on board until the (state) budget was done. We have made expenditures since June 30, but that was beyond the cutoff (date) for this report," Mr. Mauk said in an interview. 

    The group said it would file a report with the secretary of state showing a zero balance. "Our fund raising is going very well. It's actually exceeding our expectations at this stage of the campaign. We're seeing some incredible financial support from Ohioans and from people across the nation who have an interest in seeing these reforms succeed," Mr. Mauk said. (Reports from Gongwer

 
Issue 3: health care

       Issue 3 - Health Care Freedom Act Constitutional Amendment  
The Health Care Measure is also on the ballot this November. This is another one you need to be informed about so that you can talk about it. 

  
Ohioans for Healthcare Freedom said it raised $327,131 in its campaign for Issue 3, a constitutional amendment intended to have Ohio opt out of a key part of the new federal health insurance law. The single largest contribution of $165,000 came from the Ohio Liberty Council, a coalition of Tea Party groups. Another $100,000 came from the U.S. Health Freedom Coalition in Phoenix, Arizona.

 

The Ohio Project  listed total contributions of $8,500. Just over half of that amount ($4,500) came from the Ohio Tea Party PAC, Inc. in Cincinnati. 

    Health Care: The debate over the proposed constitutional amendment saw the parties trade accusations over the efficacy of the federal health care law as well as the political undertones of the vote. 
    With no Democrats planning to support it and Republicans holding only 59 of the chamber's 99 seats, the measure seemed doomed to miss the required 60-vote majority for ballot placement, but Speaker Bill Batchelder (R-Medina) said after session that he wasn't sure that was a foregone conclusion. 
    "I go on the floor (with bills) every day and I don't often do headcounts, so I don't know how many people I have and I'm not allowed to do headcounts in their caucus so I for sure don't know whether something could pass or not," he said. 
    "This particular legislation as passed by the federal Congress has created a great deal of animosity in many communities, not just Republican districts, and there's always a hope that when you have that close of a vote someone will come over." 
    Rep. Ron Maag (R-Lebanon) said the resolution was "about giving your constituents the right to voice opinions. A yes vote on this bill allows hard-working, middle-class Ohioans to choose what kind of health care they want," he said. The measure "seeks to protect two essential rights." 
    "First it protects a person's right to participate, or not, in any health care system, and prohibits the government from imposing fines or penalties on that person's decision. Secondly, it protects the right of individuals to purchase, and the right of doctors to provide, lawful medical services without government fines or penalties." 
    Rep. John Carney (D-Columbus) charged that the vote was as much about politics as policy, the GOP was misguided on both counts and in fact the effort was futile.
    "The Supremacy Clause of the federal Constitution indicates that the Constitution and the laws of the United States shall not be abridged," he said, adding that there are already challenges to the law pending in federal court and they would ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. "I ask myself, 'Why are we here in the state of Ohio, the state legislature, dealing with what is clearly a federal issue?' My only answer seems to be that it's about politics." 
    Rep. Debbie Phillips (D-Athens) responded that while an anti-SB5 coalition has in a relatively short period already managed to triple the required amount of signatures to place the referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot, Tea Party groups and others opposed to the health care changes are after two years still collecting names to force a constitutional amendment vote.
    Did you notice the above report about all the money going for the signatures to get HB5 on the ballot? It said $990,073 went to Professional Petition Management in Columbus for services in gathering the signatures needed to ensure placement before voters. Another $129,800 went to America Votes, Washington, for consulting services. I would guess the Tea Party folks did it themselves...after they worked all day).   
     However, the Ohio Liberty Council, which has retained the support of the Ohio Republican Party reached the minimum signature threshold of 385,245 signatures.
    "It's fitting that this announcement from the Ohio Liberty Council comes less than 24 hours after America learned of Obamacare's latest $450 billion blunder which would provide three million middle class Americans with nearly free health care insurance under a program typically reserved for our nation's poorest citizens," ORP Chairman Kevin DeWine said in a statement. 

    "The thousands of grassroots activists across Ohio who have circulated petitions  deserve tremendous credit for their all-volunteer effort." 
    Rep. Barbara Sears (R-Sylvania) said, "When taxes and spending are fully phased in, the cost of these mandates could reach nearly $2 trillion over the next decade. We don't want Washington imposing these health care mandates against the will of Ohio's citizens because of the enormous costs that will be forced onto our families and businesses."

    For me...here is the bottom line. I don't want government telling me what to do...what I have to buy including cars, light bulbs and food. We are losing our freedoms a bit at a time and we are sleeping while it is happening. Be aware - stay informed - know what is going on.

(Report from Gongwer)

I am also going to throw in a concern I have that you also need to know about. There is a move afoot to eliminate your County Recorders. This is being couched under the guise of saving money - something that cannot be proven. Someone has to run the office and if not the Recorder, it will be someone else. But, my concern goes deeper than that and not for just while I am in office, but afterwards. You know that we lose our freedoms a little bit at a time, while we are not being vigilant. When you hear about these plans in your own county remember three words - National Deed Registry - and think again. These things only happen when we let them.

Sharon 

SENATE BILLS

(I did not get the summaries for all of the Senate and House Bills. When you click on the link to the ones listed, all you have to do is change the last digit of the url to get any that are not listed here and you can write your own summary)

SB 136
HEALTH CARE SERVICES (Oelslager, S., Cafaro, C.) To make changes to the law regarding preapproval of and payment for health care services.
SB 137 
COAL MINING  (Stewart, J.)   To revise the coal mining laws regarding permit application and set-back requirements.  
SB 138 
ALZHEIMER'S CHECKOFF  (Hughes, J.)   To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to the Alzheimer's Association.
SB 139 
EMPLOYER ORGANIZATIONS  (Hughes, J.)   To establish certain financial capacity requirements for professional employer organizations, clarify rights and liabilities of professional employer organizations and client employers, and make other changes to the professional employer organization law.  
SB 140
 
BITTERING AGENTS  (Bacon, K., Skindell, M.)   To require the inclusion of a bittering agent in engine coolant and antifreeze.
SB 141 
MEDICAL SERVICES (Gillmor, K.) To authorize a licensed physician from another state to provide medical services to an out-of-state athletic team and accompanying individuals when the team is participating in a sporting event in Ohio.
SB 142
AUTO EMISSIONS (Grendell, T.) To provide authority for the implementation of a decentralized motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program through June 30, 2017. 
SB 143 
FRAUD DAMAGES  (Hughes, J., Oelslager, S.)   To provide for the recovery of damages and civil penalties for defrauding the state of money or property and to authorize private persons to bring qui tam civil actions in the name of the state to remedy the frauds.   
SB 144 
PARENTAL RIGHTS  (Skindell, M., Grendell, T.)   To ensure that court orders and decrees that allocate parental rights and responsibilities with respect to the care of and access to children provide for equality between the parents except where clear and convincing evidence shows that equal legal and physical access would be harmful to the children.   
SB 145
 
MUNICIPAL TAXES  (Schaffer, T.)   To require municipal corporations with more than $100 million in annual income tax collections to provide a tax credit to nonresident taxpayers.   
SB 146 
TEACHER TAX CREDIT  (Schaffer, T.)   To allow a credit against the personal income tax for amounts spent by teachers for instructional materials.
SB 147 
RED CROSS CHECKOFF  (Schaffer, T., Hite, C.)   To allow taxpayers to make contributions to the American Red Cross Ohio Disaster Response Readiness and Preparedness Fund through their income tax returns.    
SB 148 
ELECTION LAWS  (Wagoner, M.)   To revise the Election Law. 
SB 149 
MOBILITY IMPAIRED (Bacon, K., Jones, S.) To revise the definition of "mobility impaired person" to include a person who is diagnosed with autism for purposes of the statutes governing assistance dogs.    
SB 150 
WATER RATES  (Hughes, J.)   To limit recovery of rate-case expenses for certain water-works and sewage disposal system companies.
SB 151 
CHILD CUSTODY  (LaRose, F.)   Regarding child custody and visitation rights of parents called to active military service.
SB 152 
KINSHIP INCENTIVES  (Kearney, E.)   To extend from 36 months to 60 months the period over which permanency incentive payments may be made to a child's kinship caregiver.
SB 153 
CUSTODY NOTICES  (Kearney, E.)   To require a public children services agency that receives temporary custody of a child to exercise due diligence to notify the child's adult relatives.
SB 154 
DRIVER TEXTING  (Smith, S.)   To prohibit driving a vehicle while using an electronic wireless communication device to write, send, or read a text-based communication and to establish the violation as a secondary traffic offense
SB 155 
GLENN DAY  (Cates, G.)   To designate February 20 as John Glenn Friendship 7 Day.
SB 156 
ROAD NAMING  (Patton, T.)   To designate the portion of Interstate 77 located within the city of Broadview Heights as the Senior Airman Alecia Good Memorial Highway.
SB 157 
DISABLED CHILDREN SIGNS  (Patton, T.)   To authorize the use of traffic signs warning of the presence of a child with a disability.
SB 158 
ROAD NAMING  (Patton, T.)   To designate a portion of Pearl Road within CuyahogaCounty as the Lance Corporal David Mendez Ruiz Memorial Highway.
SB 159 
UNIVERSITY FINANCING  (Seitz, B.)   To permit the board of trustees of a state institution of higher education to enter into an agreement to convey certain property to a conduit entity which will enter into a lease-leaseback arrangement with an independent funding source.
SB 160    
SENTENCING LAWS  (Bacon, K.)   To require automatic notice to victims of first, second, or third degree felony offenses of violence of certain prisoner or alleged juvenile offender release or transfer proceedings; to expand victim participation in parole hearings; to require five years of post-release control for offenders who commit first, second, or third degree felony offenses of violence; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to keep information on such offenders in a publicly accessible database for ten years following final discharge; to require the Department to provide certain information related to paroles to designated public officials; to require the Department to notify the appropriate prosecuting attorney when a felon serving a specified sentence is released pursuant to a pardon, commutation of sentence, parole, or completed prison term; to prohibit the Parole Board from considering a sentence in effect since July 1, 1996, in making parole determinations; to make other changes related to the release of prisoners and victim's rights; to provide that voluntary manslaughter committed with a sexual motivation is a sexually oriented offense, makes an offender or juvenile 
offender registrant who commits it a tier III sex offender/child-victim offender, and may qualify a juvenile offender registrant who commits it as a public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrant; and to name the victim and family notification provisions Roberta's Law
SB 161 
CHILD SUPPORT  (Kearney, E.)   To direct the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services to adopt rules governing the use of the Federal Parent Locator Service by the Office of Child Support.
SB 162
CHILD PLACEMENT  (Kearney, E.)   To require the Department of Job and Family Services to conduct a feasibility study of current trends in the placement of children by public children services agencies into relative caregiver homes.
SB 163 
SIBLING PLACEMENT  (Kearney, E.)   To require generally that siblings in the custody of a public children services agency be placed together.
SB 164 
WATER DISTRICTS  (Obhof, L.)   To declare that a water resources project of a regional water and sewer district remains under the jurisdiction of the district after the municipal annexation of the territory where the project is located, to establish contracting authority for regional water and sewer districts regarding the conveyance of water resource projects to municipal corporations, and to expand the scope of the contracting authority of a county sewer district when conveying water supply facilities and sewer facilities to a municipal corporation.
SB 165 
SCHOOL CURRICULUM  (Obhof, L., Grendell, T.)   To include content on specified historical documents in the state academic standards and in the high school American history and government curriculum.
SB 166 
SANITARY DISTRICTS  (LaRose, F.)   To establish procedures for the exclusion of a municipal corporation from the territory of a sanitary district established solely for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods.
SB 167 
BOARDING SCHOOLS  (Cates, G.)   To permit the establishment of public college-preparatory boarding schools for at-risk students to be operated by private nonprofit entities and to establish the College-Preparatory Boarding School Facilities Program.  
SB 169    
INSTANT BINGO (Grendell, T.) To permit veterans, fraternal, and sporting organizations to conduct charitable electronic instant bingo.
SB170
LAKE ERIE WATER (Grendell, T.) To establish a program for the issuance of permits for the withdrawal and consumptive use of waters from the Lake Erie basin.

SB171 

SUNSET REVIEW (Gillmor, K.) To implement the recommendations of the Sunset Review Committee by abolishing, terminating, transferring, or renewing various agencies and by reestablishing the Sunset Review Committee but postponing its operation until the 131st General Assembly, to terminate the operation of certain provisions of this act on December 31, 2016, by repealing sections 101.82, 101.83, 101.84, 101.85, 101.86, and 101.87 of the Revised Code on that date, and to declare an emergency.

SB172 

TENANT DEBTS (Schaffer, T.) To enable a judgment creditor landlord to obtain a court order directing the Tax Commissioner to pay the judgment debtor tenant's income tax refund to the landlord  

SB173 

PUBLIC DEPOSITS (Hughes, J.) To permit a political subdivision, upon the deposit of public moneys with an eligible public depository, to arrange for the public depository to redeposit those moneys with other federally insured banks and savings and loan associations in accordance with specified conditions.

SB174 

SCHOOL ADVERTISING (Schiavoni, J.) To authorize school districts to sell commercial advertising space on school buses.

SB175 

COMMUNITY SCHOOLS  (Schiavoni, J.)   To generally prohibit a community school from admitting a student from the school district in which it is located if the student's district school has a better performance rating than the community school.

SB176 

VETERANS COMMISSIONS  (LaRose, F.)   To correct an obsolete reference and to eliminate the authority for additional Veterans' Commission members in counties with a population of more than five hundred thousand.

SB177 

STUDENT ADVISORS  (Turner, N.)   To require public high schools that receive federal school improvement grant moneys to establish student advisory committees.

SB178 

RECORDS RETENTION  (Seitz, B., Wilson, J.)   To limit the forfeiture amount and attorney's fees a person may recover for the unlawful destruction or disposal of a record of a public office, to establish a four-year statute of limitations for the commencement of a civil action for injunctive relief or to recover a forfeiture for such unlawful conduct, to require one-half of all forfeiture amounts recovered to be paid to the state for use by the state archives, to revise the Ohio Historical Society's procedure for selecting records of historical value before political subdivisions dispose of them, to allow the Attorney General to offer programs regarding the records retention procedure, and to move the date for meetings of a county microfilming board.

SB179 

LICENSE PLATE  (Wilson, J.)   To create the "Ohio Geology" license plate and to require the Ohio Geology Advisory Council to establish and administer a grant program utilizing the contributions that are paid by persons who obtain the license plate.

SB180 

LIQUOR PERMITS (Gillmor, K., Grendell, T.) To eliminate the restriction on the number of A-3a liquor permits that may be issued per county and to specify that new A-3a permits issued after the act's effective date are subject to local option election.

SB185 

SEX CRIMES  (Turner, N.)   To provide that there is no period of limitation for the prosecution of an offense of rape or sexual battery.

SB186 

LAKE ERIE WATERS  (Skindell, M.)   To establish a program for the regulation of withdrawals and consumptive uses of waters from the Lake Erie basin.   

SB187 

ROAD NAMING (Grendell, T.) To designate a portion of United States Route 322 within Geauga County only the "Chief Warrant Officer Christopher R. Thibodeau Memorial Highway."

SB188 

TAX CREDIT (Patton, T.) To allow a credit against the personal income tax or commercial activity tax for the installation of an alternative fuel facility.

SB189 

HEALTH CARE (Grendell, T.) To join the Health Care Compact.  

SB190

SB191

BESTIALITY  (Hughes, J., Wilson, J.)   To make engaging in an act of sexual bestiality a criminal offense.

SB192

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS  (Turner, N., Tavares, C.)   To include content on specified historical documents in the state academic standards and in the high school American history and government curriculum.   

SB193

SCRAP METAL SALES  (Seitz, B.)   To require scrap metal dealers to take and keep as part of the sales record a photograph of each person selling or giving an article to the dealer.   

SB194

COMPOUNDED MEDICATION  (Gillmor, K.)   Regarding the delivery of certain non-self-injectable and compounded medications and insurance coverage for orally administered cancer medications.   

SB195 

ROAD NAMING  (Hughes, J.)   To designate part of Interstate 71 in southern FranklinCounty as the Deputy Marty Martin Memorial Highway.

SB196    

BUSINESS PLAN LAW  (Wagoner, M.)   To make changes to Ohio's Business Opportunity Plan Law.    

SB197

COUNTY BUILDINGS  (Wagoner, M.)   To authorize a board of county commissioners of any county to enter into agreements for the sale and leaseback of county buildings   

SB198

MOTOR FUEL TESTING  (Tavares, C.)   To require the Department of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing program under which county auditors may conduct such testing.   

SB199

AWARENESS DAY  (Smith, S.)   To designate October 13 as Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day   

SB200

JOBS PROGRAM (Hughes, J.) To create the Edison Jobs Development Program within the Department of Development and to make an appropriation.

SB201

FAMILY PLANNING  (Jordan, K., Lehner, P.)   To prioritize the distribution of funds for family planning services.   
SB202

TRESPASSING  (Seitz, B.)   To specify the responsibility of a possessor of real property to a trespasser and the circumstances in which the possessor may be liable in a tort action for the death or injury of a trespasser.
SB 203

MISSING CHILDREN  (Cafaro, C., LaRose, F.)   To require a parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker of a child under the age of thirteen to report to a law enforcement agency within twenty-four hours after the child is missing, to require a parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker of a child above the age of twelve and under the age of eighteen to report to a law enforcement agency within forty-eight hours after the child is missing, to require a parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker to report to a law enforcement agency within one hour after the parent, legal guardian, custodian, or caretaker discovers that the child is deceased, to increase penalty for falsification to mislead a public official, and to specify that the above provisions are to be known as "Caylee's  

HOUSE BILLS

 

HB179 - VETERANS DAY (Murray, D.) To designate March 29 as "Vietnam Veterans' Day."  

HB180 - LICENSE PLATES (Schuring, K.) To create the "Massillon Tiger Football Booster Club" license plate.

HB181 - HOME FORECLOSURES (Celeste, T., Foley, M.) To require that notice of foreclosure and related sale of residential rental property be given to tenants at that property and to specify that a rental agreement for a residential property that is sold pursuant to a foreclosure action converts to a month-to-month rental agreement.

HB182 - SYRINGE EXCHANGE (Foley, M., Antonio, N.) To authorize the establishment of syringe exchange programs.
HB183 - LIQUOR PERMITS (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.

HB184 - AWARENESS MONTH  (Martin, J.)   To designate March as "Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month."

HB188 - CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION  (Batchelder, B.)   To establish the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission and to make an appropriation.

HB189 - FLAG DISPLAYS  (Coley, B., DeGeeter, T.)   To prohibit condominium associations, neighborhood associations, and landlords from restricting the display of blue star banners, gold star banners, and other service flags, and to prohibit landlords from restricting the display of the United States flag.

HB190 - OFFICIAL YOUTH NOVEL  (Winburn, R.)   To adopt the book M.C. Higgins, the Great, authored by Virginia Hamilton, as the official youth literature novel of the state and to designate Virginia Hamilton as the official youth literature author of the state.

HB191 - SCHOOL YEAR  (Hayes, B.)   To establish a minimum school year for school districts, STEM schools, and chartered nonpublic schools based on hours, rather than days, of instruction and to prohibit public schools from being open for instruction prior to Labor Day or after Memorial Day except in specified circumstances.   

HB192 - NEW COMMUNITY AUTHORITY  (Coley, B.)   To modify the New Community Authority Law.

HB193 - VETERAN GROUP TAXES  (Uecker, J.)   To eliminate the rental income limit that is a condition for the veterans' organization property tax exemption.

HB194 - ELECTION LAW  (Mecklenborg, R., Blessing, L.)   To revise the Election Law.

HB195 - SKILL BASED GAMES  (Anielski, M., Baker, N.)   To provide licensing of skill-based amusement machine operators and distributors and sweepstakes terminal device operators and distributors and to make changes to bingo and other gambling law.   

HB197 - CLERK FINANCES  (Slesnick, S.)   To require that all moneys collected by the clerk of a municipal or county court be paid to the appropriate person, fund, or entity on or before the twentieth day of each month, to permit a municipal or county court to collect unpaid court costs, fees, or fines from an obligor's state income tax refund, to require the Auditor of State to create and maintain a chart detailing the distribution of court costs, fees, and fines collected by municipal and county court clerks, to create the Committee on Court Costs, andto ensure that neither the Registrar nor any deputy registrar accepts any application for the issuance or renewal of a driver's license, commercial driver's license, or temporary instruction permit, or for the registration or transfer of registration of a motor vehicle of a person who fails to pay court costs imposed for offenses by a municipal mayor's, or county court.    

HB198 - PROPERTY TAX COMPLAINTS  (Coley, B.)   To permit property tax complaints to be initiated only by the property owner.  

HB199 - STATE BUDGET LIMIT  (Beck, P.)   To prohibit the Governor from proposing and the General Assembly from enacting a state budget with aggregate general revenue fund appropriations that exceed ninety-five per cent of the total money received in aggregate revenue.

HB200 - CAPITAL GAINS DEDUCTION  (Beck, P.)   To allow an income tax deduction of up to ten thousand dollars for net capital gains   

HB201 - RECOVERY AUDITS  (Rosenberger, C., Beck, P.)   To require the Auditor of State to perform recovery audits for overpayments made to vendors by certain state agencies and to permit the Auditor to contract with independent audit consultants to conduct those audits. 

HB202 - RETIREMENT BENEFITS  (Hollington, R.)   To limit the retirement benefit of a re-employed retiree of a public retirement system and eliminate the deferred retirement option plan in the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund and State Highway Patrol Retirement System

HB203 - RECALL ELECTIONS  (Hagan, C., Foley, M.)   To establish a process for recalling statewide elected officials and members of the General Assembly. 

HB204 - ADVANCED ENERGY  (Foley, M.)   To reimpose the Advanced Energy Fund revenue rider on retail electric distribution service rates and to clarify how Advanced Energy Fund grant amounts are to be determined. 

HB205 - COMMUNITY SCHOOLS  (Derickson, T.)   To permit the establishment of hybrid community schools that provide both remote technology-based and classroom-based instruction. 

HB206 - COMMUNITY POLICING  (Stinziano, M.)   To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to community policing efforts and to grant a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxpayers who donate to community safety programs. 

HB208 - BULLYING  (Stinziano, M., Antonio, N.)   To require that school anti-bullying policies prohibit harassment, intimidation, or bullying that is based on any actual or perceived trait or characteristic of a student. 

HB209 - PUBLIC DEPOSITORIES  (Adams, R.)   To permit a political subdivision, upon the deposit of public moneys with an eligible public depository, to arrange for the public depository to redeposit those moneys with other federally insured banks and savings and loan associations in accordance with specified conditions. 

HB210 - LEVY TAX CREDIT  (Ramos, D.)   to grant an income tax credit for contributions to school district tax levy campaign committees

HB211 - HISTORY CURRICULUM  (Adams, J.)   to include content on specified historical documents in the state academic standards and in the high school  

American history and government curriculum. 

HB212 - ADOPTION PLACEMENT  (Grossman, C.)   To extend to legal custodians the exemption from certain adoptive placement requirements. 

HB213 - TURNPIKE RETENTION  (Gerberry, R.)   To prohibit the sale, lease, or other disposition of the Ohio Turnpike.   

HB214 - MEDICAL MARIJUANA  (Yuko, K., Hagan, R.)   Regarding the medical use of cannabis. 

HB215 - AWARENESS DAY (Dovilla, M.) To designate the fifteenth day of June as "Elder Abuse Awareness Day." 

HB216 - JUDGE ASSIGNMENT (Patmon, B.) To require that cases in a multi-judge municipal or county court or a multi-judge division of a court of common pleas be randomly assigned to the judges of the court or division. 

HB217 - BREAST RECONSTRUCTION (Patmon, B.) To require a hospital to provide information regarding breast reconstruction to a patient before obtaining the patient's consent for a mastectomy, lymph node dissection, or lumpectomy
HB218 - DRUG COVERAGE (Hottinger, J.) To use the compendia adopted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to determine whether an insurer may exclude coverage for off-label drug usage. 

HB219 - SCHOOL CREDIT (McClain, J.) To permit public school students to attend and receive credit for released time courses in religious instruction conducted off school property during regular school hours. 

HB220 - REFUNDABLE CAT CREDIT (Beck, P., Baker, N.) To allow a refundable commercial activity tax credit for investment losses recognized by foreign entrepreneur investors who invest in certain projects in Ohio.

HB221 - BOARDING SCHOOLS (Mecklenborg, R., Driehaus, D.) To permit the establishment of public college-preparatory boarding schools for at-risk students to be operated by private nonprofit entities and to establish the College-Preparatory Boarding School Facilities Program. 

HB222 - DEBT SETTLEMENT LICENSURE (Mecklenborg, R.) To require the licensure of, and otherwise regulate, providers of debt settlement services. 

HB223 - EMERGENCY SERVICES  (Patmon, B.)   To require certification of emergency service telecommunicators and modify training requirements.

HB224 - OVERSEAS VOTING  (Dovilla, M., Stinziano, M.)   To permit uniformed services and overseas voters to request and receive absent voter's ballot applications and absent voter's ballots by electronic mail or internet delivery, to specify that a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot submitted by such a person may be used as the person's voter registration form and absent voter's ballot, to establish emergency election procedures for such persons involved in armed conflicts, troop mobilizations, or other emergencies, and to add daughters-in-law and sons-in-law to the list of family members who may request an absent voter's ballot on behalf of a uniformed services or overseas voter. 

HB225 - COUNTY AUDITOR REVIEWS  (Peterson, B., Landis, A.)   To vest in county auditors responsibility for reviewing and approving property tax exemption applications for some publicly owned property, to authorize county auditors and boards of township trustees to adopt a direct deposit payroll policy, and to authorize counties to increase the amount credited to "rainy day" reserve balance accounts to one-sixth of the expenditures made in the preceding fiscal year from the fund in which the reserve balance account is established. 

HB226 - POLICE DOGS  (Sprague, R.)   To allow a police dog to accompany its handler in places to which the general public is invited.

HB227 - STEM TAX CREDIT  (Goyal, J.)   To grant an income tax credit to individuals who earn degrees in science, technology, engineering, or math-based fields of study and to authorize municipal corporations to grant a credit to individuals qualifying for the state credit. 

HB228 - LICENSE PLATE  (Goyal, J.)   To create Power Squadron license plates. 

HB229 - AGRICULTURE LAWS  (Buchy, J.)   To revise the laws governing agriculture. 

HB230 - EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS  (Williams, S.)   To prohibit employers from including on an employment application any question concerning whether an applicant has pleaded guilty to or been convicted of a felony.

HB231 - LAKE ERIE WATERS  (Wachtmann, L.)   To establish a program for the issuance of permits for the withdrawal and consumptive use of waters from the Lake Erie basin.

HB232 - COUNTY FACILITIES REVIEWS  (Letson, T., O'Brien, S.)   To expand the authority of a county facilities review board to include any facility where an adult ward of the probate court resides or receives services among the institutions subject to its review.

HB233 - SCHOOL BUS ADS  (Letson, T., Huffman, M.)   To authorize school districts to sell commercial advertising space on school buses. 

HB234 - EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS (DeGeeter, T.) To authorize a nonchartered municipal corporation to establish a community emergency response team within the public safety department of the municipal corporation.   

HB235 - IDENTITY INTIMIDATION (Stinziano, M.) To rename the offense of ethnic intimidation identity intimidation and to prohibit a person from committing identity intimidation because of the victim's ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability
HB236 - HIGHWAY NAMING  (Hagan, C.)   To designate a portion of United States Route 30 within Stark County only as the "Staff Sgt. Kevin J. Kessler Memorial Highway."
HB237 - STATE PRISON SALES  (Gerberry, R., Hagan, R.)   To bar the sale of any state correctional facility without prior enactment by the General Assembly of an act that authorizes and approves the sale. 
HB238 - PETROLEUM REPORTS  (Gerberry, R., Hagan, R.)   To require refiners and wholesalers of petroleum products to submit monthly reports to the Director of Commerce regarding petroleum products shipped into, used in, and exported from this state and to create the Gasoline Practices Oversight Commission for the period ending December 31, 2013.
HB239 - RETIREMENT EXEMPTION  (Stautberg, P.)   To exempt retirement pay related to service in the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service. 
HB240  - FOOD COUNCIL  (Weddington, C., Amstutz, R.)   To create the Ohio Sustainable Food Advisory Council to address program and policy considerations regarding the development of a sustainable food economy in Ohio.   
HB241 - POLICE DOGS (Phillips, D., Sprague, R.) To provide access to places of public accommodation for police dogs
HB242  - SCHOLARSHIP TAX CREDITS (Brenner, A., Patmon, B.) To authorize nonrefundable tax credits for donations to nonprofit entities providing scholarships to low-income students enrolling in chartered nonpublic schools.   
HB243 - LIQUOR PERMITS (Kozlowski, C., Young, R.) To eliminate the restriction on the number of A-3a liquor permits that may be issued per county and to specify that new A-3a permits issued after the act's effective date are subject to local option election. 
HB244 - EMS FLU SHOTS (Gonzales, A., Roegner, K.) To permit authorized paramedics to administer immunizations for influenza to firefighters or emergency medical technicians.
HB245 - AWARENESS MONTH (Yuko, K.) To designate September as "Pain Awareness Month."  
HB246 - REVERSE AUCTIONS (Roegner, K.) To authorize political subdivisions to purchase by reverse auction certain services and supplies that they are currently prohibited from purchasing by reverse auction. 
HB247 - COURT COSTS (Butler, J.) To authorize a court to cancel claims for uncollectible amounts due the court, to authorize a sentencing court to waive, suspend, or modify payment of the costs of prosecution, to define "case" in connection with the imposition of costs in a criminal case, and to abolish the Felony Sentence Appeal Cost Oversight Committee. 
HB248 - AWARENESS DAY (Boyd, B.) To designate October 13 as Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. 
HB249 - INMATE EXAMS (Boyd, B.) To require health-trained personnel to perform a medical, dental, and mental health screening on each inmate upon arrival at a jail, to establish procedures that health-trained personnel must follow if an inmate is taking xanax, ativan, valium, or any other benzodiazepine, and to provide that the sheriff ensure that health-trained personnel responsible for medical, dental, and mental health screening be trained as to symptoms and consequences of withdrawal from addictive drugs. 
HB250 - ELECTRONICS INSURANCE (Hackett, B.) To establish requirements and procedures for issuing portable electronics insurance. 
HB251 - ORIENTAL MEDICINE (Schuring, K.) To regulate the practice of Oriental medicine and to modify the laws governing the practice of acupuncture. 
HB252 - IMMIGRATION STATUS  (Young, R.)   To require a prosecuting attorney to ask the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States to verify or ascertain the immigration status of an offender who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony, to require a prosecuting attorney if the INS informs the prosecutor that the offender is an illegal alien to notify the alleged felon's employer, the Department of Job and Family Services, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, and the Secretary of State, to make illegal aliens ineligible for certain state public benefits, and to prohibit the Registrar of Motor Vehicles from issuing a driver's license to an alleged felon with respect to whom a prosecuting attorney has given the Registrar the above notice and require the Registrar to cancel any driver's licenses issued to such an alleged felon.
HB253 - PARENTAL RIGHTS (Weddington, C., Young, R.) To ensure that court orders and decrees that allocate parental rights and responsibilities with respect to the care of and access to children provide for equality between the parents except where clear and convincing evidence shows that equal legal and physical access would be harmful to the children.

HB254 - TAX CREDITS (Gentile, L.) To authorize an income tax withholding credit for a manufacturer that expands production or that restarts production at an idle facility  and to enact section 
HB255 - SCHOOL BREAKFASTS (Gonzales, A.) To require school districts and community schools to establish school breakfast programs in academic emergency buildings and to make other changes regarding school breakfast programs. 
HB256 - CONCEALED WEAPONS  (Adams, J.)   To authorize a person to carry a concealed handgun without obtaining a license to the same extent as if the person had obtained such a license, except on liquor permit premises, if the person qualifies for a concealed carry license and is legally permitted to purchase a handgun; to remove the requirements that a concealed carry licensee must be carrying the license in order to carry a concealed handgun, must inform approaching law enforcement officers that the person has a license and is carrying the handgun when the person is carrying a concealed handgun, and must submit a new or renewed competency certification when renewing the license; to eliminate as premises in which a concealed carry licensee may not carry a concealed handgun public or private institutions of higher education, places of worship, day-care centers and homes, and government buildings other than schools, courthouses, law enforcement offices, and correctional facilities; to replace the prohibitions that apply only to a concealed carry licensee who is carrying a handgun in a motor vehicle with a prohibition against a licensee who is in a motor vehicle that is stopped by a law enforcement officer knowingly menacing or threatening an officer with a loaded handgun or knowingly pointing a loaded handgun at an officer; to remove the in plain sight or secure encasement criterion that a concealed carry licensee must satisfy to legally possess a handgun in a motor vehicle; and to require a sheriff who issues a renewed concealed carry license to return the expired license to the licensee or destroy it. 

HB257 - LAKE ERIE WATER  (Murray, D.)   To establish a program for the regulation of withdrawals and consumptive uses of waters from the Lake Erie basin.   
HB258 - TAX EXEMPTION  (Grossman, C., Dovilla, M.)   To exempt from taxation for five years the earned income of an individual who obtains journeyperson status or a baccalaureate degree and works in Ohio, and to prohibit the Apprenticeship Council from adopting standards for apprenticeship ratios that are stricter than those requirements specified in the federal regulations governing apprenticeship programs and from discriminating against open or merit shops.   
HB259 - ALTERNATIVE HEALTH  (Adams, J., Yuko, K.)   Regarding the provision of complementary or alternative health services.   
HB260 - COCKFIGHTING  (Derickson, T.)   To revise the law governing cockfighting. 

HB261 - ENERGY TAX CREDIT  (McGregor, R.)   To allow a credit against the personal income tax or commercial activity tax for the installation of an alternative fuel facility. 

HB262 - HUMAN TRAFFICKING  (Fedor, T.)   To require that a minor who is a victim of trafficking in persons be provided with appropriate services, to require the Department of Job and Family Services to develop procedures for reuniting the minor with family members in the minor's country of origin or destination country, to require the Departments of Health and Mental Health to develop procedures for providing special physical and mental health care tailored to the minor's needs, to provide that a minor is not guilty of the crime of solicitation if the minor is a victim of trafficking in persons when the minor committed the act of solicitation, to require the Director of the Department of Commerce to create a poster that provides information regarding the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, to require owners or operators of specified establishments to conspicuously display that poster, and to require the Director of the Department of Transportation to conspicuously display that poster at rest areas.   
HB263 - GUN SALES  (Heard, T.)   To require that a gun show vendor obtain a criminal records check of a prospective firearm transferee at a gun show, to require that a federally licensed firearms dealer who obtains a criminal records check on behalf of a gun show vendor maintain a record of that check and report to law enforcement the name of any prospective transferee who may not legally receive or possess firearms, and to require a gun show promoter to post a notice of the records check requirement at the gun show in the form prescribed by the Attorney General.   
HB264 - SUNSET REVIEW  (Burke, D., Grossman, C.)   To implement the recommendations of the Sunset Review Committee by abolishing, terminating, transferring, or renewing various agencies and by reestablishing the Sunset Review Committee but postponing its operation until the 131st General Assembly, to terminate the operation of certain provisions of this act on December 31, 2016  
HB265 - JURY TRIALS  (Slaby, L., O'Brien, S.)   To authorize prosecuting attorneys to demand a jury trial in a criminal case, notwithstanding a defendant's waiver of trial by jury and over a defendant's objection.   
HB266 - VOTING (Stebelton, G.) To establish a process to permit an elector who is confined to a health care facility under isolation to vote with the assistance of bipartisan board of elections employees, and to permit the elector's facsimile signature, provided by the hospital, to be used for signature verification purposes.  
HB267- NONPROFITS (McKenney, T.) To adopt the Revised Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act and to revise the merger and consolidation provisions of the Nonprofit Corporation Law.   

HB268 - JURY SERVICE (Szollosi, M., Butler, J.) To modernize the language of, to reorganize, and to remove obsolete provisions from the jury service law. 
HB269 - DRIVER'S LICENSES (Dovilla, M.) To provide that a person who holds a current, valid driver's license from another state be required to pass only vision screening in order to be issued a driver's license.   

HB270 - LICENSE PLATE  (Williams, S.)   To create the "Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation" license plate.   

HB271 - WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION  (Antonio, N., Foley, M.)   To create the Ohio Works Progress Administration, and to require the General Revenue Fund surplus revenue to be used for operation of the Ohio Works Progress Administration.   

HB272 -STREET RACING  (Celeste, T., Ruhl, M.)   To increase the penalties for street racing and to create the offense of "street racing manslaughter."   
HB273 - DEVELOPMENT REPORTS  (Henne, M., Hagan, C.)   To require the Department of Development to report economic development award information to the General Assembly and the public and to remove the responsibility of the Attorney General to publish economic development award reports.   

HB274 - TRANSFER FEES  (Letson, T.)   To provide that a transfer fee for purposes of a transfer fee covenant does not include any payment required pursuant to a conservation easement or agricultural easement.   
HB275 - RIGHT TO CURE  (Young, R., Slaby, L.)   To allow suppliers and consumers to enter into a Right to Cure agreement.   
HB276 - AGRICULTURAL ZONING  (Buchy, J., Gentile, L.)   To include the production from certain feedstocks of biodiesel, biomass energy, electric or heat energy, and biologically derived methane gas in the definition of "agriculture" for purposes of the laws governing county zoning, township zoning, and current agricultural use valuation.   
HB277 - HORSE RACETRACKS  (Blessing, L., Gerberry, R.)   To permit a horse-racing permit holder who is eligible to become a video lottery sales agent to apply to the State Racing Commission to move its track to another location.   

HB278 - FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY  (Stebelton, G., Okey, M.)   To increase the minimum amounts required for valid proof of financial responsibility and to amend sections 4509.01, 4509.20, 4509.41, and 4509.51 of the Revised Code two years after the effective date of this act to increase again the minimum amounts required for valid proof of financial responsibility.   

HB279 - CHILD CUSTODY  (Grossman, C., Driehaus, D.)   To expand the class of persons who may execute a caretaker authorization affidavit or be designated as attorney in fact under a power of attorney for the purpose of exercising authority over the care, custody, and control of a child and to enhance Ohio's policies regarding kinship caregivers.   
HB280 -  SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS (Dovilla, M., Wachtmann, L.) To authorize the administrators of the Ohio National Guard Scholarship Program and the Ohio War Orphans Scholarship Program to apply for, and receive and accept, grants, and to receive and accept gifts, bequests, and contributions, from public and private sources. 
HB281 - PREGNANCY PREVENTION (Antonio, N.) Regarding assistance for pregnancy prevention and hospital services for victims of sexual assault.   

HB282 - ROAD NAMING  (Martin, J.)   To designate State Route 235 within the municipal corporation of Fairborn the "Army Specialist Jesse Adam Snow Memorial Highway."   

HB283 - DRIVER'S LICENSES  (Grossman, C.)   To require each person under eighteen years of age applying for a driver's license to complete a first-aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training course.   

HB284 - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS  (Gonzales, A., Letson, T.)   To modify the laws governing physician assistants.   
HB288 -  EMT IMMUNITY  (Combs, C.)   To grant an emergency medical technician who is providing volunteer medical assistance to a county, township, or municipal SWAT team at the SWAT team's request the same civil immunity granted to a political subdivision employee and to permit such an emergency medical technician to carry a firearm onto, or possess a firearm on, lands and premises during the time that the technician is providing such medical assistance.   
HB289 - BESTIALITY  (Goyal, J.)   To make bestiality a criminal offense.   
HB290 - DOG WARDEN ASSAULT  (Garland, N.)   To specify that an assault against a dog warden, deputy dog warden, human agent, or animal control officer is a felony of the fifth degree. 
HB291 - ELECTION LAWS  (Stinziano, M.)   To restore local control to Ohio's election process and increase voter participation by permitting an individual who wishes to vote by absent voter's ballots to request those ballots via electronic mail, through the internet, if internet delivery is offered by a board of elections or the Secretary of State, by permitting a board of elections to mail unsolicited applications for absent voter's ballots, and by requiring the General Assembly to appropriate funds, and requiring the Secretary of State to reimburse boards, for cost incurred in an even-numbered year.   

HB292 - GENETIC COUNSELORS  (Gonzales, A.)   Regarding licensure of genetic counselors.  

HB293 - PHARMACY CRIMES  (Stinziano, M.)   To increase the penalties for robbery, burglary, and breaking and entering when the offenses occur in or in the immediate vicinity of a pharmacy. 
HB294 - PUBLIC RECORDS  (Celeste, T., Goyal, J.)   To prohibit the Legislative Service Commission staff, when preparing a legislative document, from communicating with outside parties without a member of the General Assembly or General Assembly staff present and to make communications between such parties and Legislative Service Commission staff public records.   

HB295 - BINGO (Ruhl, M.) To remove the prohibition that an agricultural society must not permit, during, for one week before, or for three days after a fair, a charitable organization to conduct games of chance or bingo on the fairground.   

HB296 - ASSOCIATE DEGREES (Barnes, J.) To require the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents to establish standards and protocols for approving career-technical planning districts to award associate degrees.   

HB297 - MOTOR FUEL TESTING (Weddington, C., Fende, L.) To require the Department of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing program under which county auditors may conduct such testing.  

HB298 - FAMILY PLANNING (Roegner, K., Rosenberger, C.) To prioritize the distribution of funds for family planning services.   
HB299 - MISSING CHILDREN (Stinziano, M., Anielski, M.) To require a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child under the age of sixteen to report to a law enforcement agency within twenty-four hours after the child is missing or within one hour after the parent, legal guardian, or custodian discovers that the child is deceased, to increase penalty for falsification to mislead a public official, and to specify that the above provisions are to be known as "Caylee's Law."   
HB300 - SEARCH & RESCUE DOGS  (Goyal, J., Ruhl, M.)   To provide protections for search and rescue dogs and to make changes to the law regarding emergency volunteers.   
HB301  - MISSING CHILDREN  (Hottinger, J.)   To require a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child under the age of thirteen to report to a law enforcement agency within twenty-four hours after the child is missing or the parent, legal guardian, or custodian discovers that the child is deceased.       
HB302 - MIAMI COUNTY COURTS (Adams, R.) To make the clerk of courts of MiamiCounty the clerk of the Miami County Municipal Court and to declare an emergency.

HB303 - HEALTH CARE WORKERS (Schuring, K.) To revise the law governing nurses, medication aides, dialysis technicians, and certified community health workers. 
HB304 - LAKE ERIE DRILLING (Antonio, N.) To ban the taking or removal of oil or natural gas from and under the bed of Lake Erie.       
HB305 - UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS (Murray, D.) To prohibit disqualifying an individual from receiving unemployment compensation benefits solely because that individual is seeking only part-time employment, to allow an individual to receive training extension benefits under specified conditions, to create the Unemployment Modernization Review Committee, and to make an appropriation.    

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • September 15 -- Cardinal Event at Ohio Governor's State Residence --  1-3 p.m. - light refreshments. Admittance by prior arrangement only. For further information, please contact Joanne Arndt by clicking  HERE.
  • October 22, 2011 - Fall Conference, Embassy Suites, Dublin, Ohio

Legislative Day Event to be announced

 

March 2011

 Political Education

IN THIS ISSUE

SENATE BILLS INTRODUCED

NEWS TIDBITS

HOUSE BILLS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Dear OFRW Members & Friends:

 

This has been an incredible first couple of months in 2011. As you will see from this newsletter, I was not able to get my normal summary and sponsor information, so I looked each missing bill up and made up a title with a link to that bill. So, you will have to go to the individual bills. Please note, if any are wrong, all you have to do is change the last one to three numbers and the right one will pop up.

 

This different format was very interesting for me. As I glanced down the long lists of just titles of bills, it struck me just how many areas of our lives government wants to control. Does anyone else see this, or am I the only one?

 

We were fortunate enough this month to be in Columbus to attend Governor Kasich's Town Hall meeting - SB 5 protesters and all!!! I still can't figure out what the significance was of the woman protestor dressed in viking garb.  

 

One of the best things was when I went to the 30th floor of Riffe Center and walked into the reception room and heard the lady answer the phone, "Governor Kasich's Office." I wanted to jump up and down and say "YES!"

 

I could have waited to receive notice of more bills, but wanted to get this out as the next couple of months are really going to get busy for me. Please note that I put all this work into this summary for you so that you can act on the bills.

 

Recently, I attended a meeting where the elected official explained just how much influence one letter or one phone call or one face to face conversation from a constituent had on his decision making.  Take advantage of the information contained in this briefing and call or write your elected officials.  If you just read this and do nothing, then I have wasted my time and yours. This is your opportunity to make a difference.

 

Sharon C. Gingerich

 

 

INTRODUCED IN THE SENATE

 (As you know, many of these have already been voted on and/or enacted. I did not have any Senate bills in the last newsletter, so I wanted to include them all in this one)

 

SB 1 - JOBSOHIO  (Wagoner)   To authorize the Governor to create JobsOhio, a nonprofit economic development corporation.

 

SB 2 - SMALL BUSINESS RULES  (Hughes)   To adopt a new small business rule review procedure

 

SB 3 - RETIREMENT SYSTEMS  (Faber)   To formally state the General Assembly's intent to make changes to the laws governing the state retirement systems as necessary to modernize, update, and improve the actuarial soundness of the systems

 

SB 4 - PERFORMANCE AUDITS  (Schaffer)   To require performance auditing by the Auditor of State of a minimum of four state agencies each biennium, to establish the Leverage for Efficiency, Accountability, and Performance Fund, and to make an appropriation.

 

SB 5 - COLLECTIVE BARGAINING  (Jones)   To formally state the General Assembly's intentions to revise the collective bargaining law.

 

SB 6 - JOB TAX CREDITS  (Patton)   To authorize a refundable job retention tax credit.

 

SB 7 - TAX LAWS  (Obhof)   To expressly incorporate changes in the Internal Revenue Code since December 15, 2010, into Ohio law, and to declare an emergency.

 

SB 8 - ABORTION CONSENT  (Grendell, Gillmor)   To revise the procedures governing a hearing by which a court may permit a pregnant minor to consent to an abortion or by which a court may give judicial consent for a pregnant minor to have an abortion and to require a court to make its findings with respect to such a hearing by clear and convincing evidence

 

SB 9 - ALL-DAY KINDERGARTEN  (Manning)   To eliminate the requirement that school districts offer all-day kindergarten and to allow public schools to continue charging tuition for all-day kindergarten

 

SB 10 -  CRIMINAL LAWS  (Seitz, Smith)  

  

SB 11 - GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS  (Cafaro)   To enact the Common Sense Regulation Act to improve state agency regulatory processes, especially as they relate to small businesses, to require state departments to develop customer service training programs, and to require the Director of Environmental Protection to provide environmental regulatory compliance assistance to small businesses.

 

SB 12 - SMALL BUSINESS  (Kearney)   To generally require that state agencies set aside a certain amount of purchases for which only small business enterprises may compete.

 

SB 13 - UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS  (Schiavoni)   To allow an individual to receive unemployment compensation benefits for unemployment related to domestic abuse or compelling family circumstances, to allow an individual to receive unemployment training extension benefits under specified conditions, and to create the Unemployment Modernization Review Task Force

 

SB 14 - MORTGAGE SERVICERS  (Skindell)   To require registration of residential mortgage servicers, to regulate residential mortgage servicers, and to adopt civil and criminal penalties for violations of the bill's provisions

 

SB 15 - DROPOUT PROGRAMS  (Turner)   To require the State Board of Education to recommend performance standards for dropout programs operated by school districts.

 

SB 16 - ESTATE TAX LIABILITY  (Wilson)   To exempt from the gross estate the value of real property subject to agricultural or conservation easements for the purpose of calculating a decedent's estate tax liability.

 

SB 17 - CONCEALED WEAPONS  (Schaffer)   To permit a concealed carry licensee to possess a firearm in liquor permit premises, or an open air arena, for which a D permit has been issued if the licensee is not consuming liquor or under the influence of alcohol or a drug of abuse and to modify the offense of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle as it applies to concealed carry licensees.

 

SB 18 - CALAMITY DAYS  (Grendell)   To excuse up to five, instead of three, school calamity days for the 2010-2011 school year; to modify the manner in which schools may make up excess calamity days; and to declare an emergency.

 

SB 19 - LICENSE SUSPENSIONS

SB 20 - DISABILITY TERMINATION FOR FELONS

SB 21 - STATUE

SB 22 - WATER POLLUTION CONTROL

SB 23 - PACE

SB 24 - FAMILY STABILITY COMMISSION

SB 25 - MEDICAID PAYMENTS

SB 26 - LAB SERVICES

SB 27 - SMOKING BAN

SB 28 - TELEMEDICINE SERVICES

SB 29 - SPEEDING FINES

SB 30 - DISCRIMINATION

SB 31 - INSURANCE COVERAGE

SB 32 - TRIO PROGRAMS

SB 33 - BALLOT ISSUE

SB 34 - CREDIT SCORE

SB 35 - CELL PHONE USE

SB 36 - TRAFFIC VIOLATION REPORTING

SB 37 - NAME DESIGNATIONS 

SB 38 - MONTH DESIGNATION

SB 39 - BED BUGS

SB 40 - MONTH DESIGNATION

SB 41 - COUNTY DD BOARD MEMBERSHIP

SB 42 - RACIAL PROFILING

SB 43 - REAL ESTATE

SB 44 - CHILD VICTIM PROTECTION

SB 45 - INCOME TAX DEDUCTIONS

SB 46 - INCOME TAX DEDUCTIONS

SB 47 - TAX CREDITS

SB 48 - LANGUAGE STANDARDS

SB 49 - LIQUOR LICENSING PROHIBITIONS

SB 50 - RENTAL UNITS

SB 51 - SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION

SB 52 - SUPREME COURT RULINGS

SB 53 - INTIMIDATION

SB 54 - COMPLIANCE STANDARDS

SB 55 - HEALTH INSURANCE PROHIBITIONS

SB 56 - ADULT PAROLE

SB 57 - CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES

SB 58 - FELON TAX CREDITS

SB 59 - DRUG OFFENDERS

SB 60 - COMPETENCY

 

SB 61 - GUN LAWS  (Wilson)   To conform the restoration of civil firearm rights with federal law and U.S. Supreme Court case law; to eliminate the prohibition against persons with certain misdemeanor drug offense convictions acquiring or possessing firearms or dangerous ordnance; and to allow restoration of civil firearm rights for firearms that are dangerous ordnance.

 

SB 62 - WAGE COMPENSATION

SB 63 - HIGHWAY DESIGNATION

SB 64 - HIGHWAY DESIGNATION

SB 65 - EDUCATIONAL CHOICE

SB 66 - SEXTING

 SB 67 - BOARDING SCHOOLS

SB 68 - RESTRICTIONS ON OFFENDERS

SB 69 - DRUG TESTING FOR WELFARE RECIPIENTS

SB 70 - ARSON

SB 71 - TAX EXEMPTIONS

SB 72 - POST VIABILITY ABORTIONS

 

 

SB 73 - ALCOHOL SALES  (Manning)   To allow manufacturers of nonbeverage food products to purchase at wholesale beer and intoxicating liquor from A and B liquor permit holders.

 

SB 74 - LEGISLATIVE PAY  (Wilson)   To reduce temporarily salaries of General Assembly members by up to ten per cent.

 

SB 75 - ELECTRIC HOMES  (Patton)   To restore discounts for customers using electricity to heat their homes and for electric, load-management programs, to specify that these discounts run with the land and may be transferred, to provide for refunds to customers whose rate discounts were modified or discontinued, and to declare an emergency.

 

SB 76 - SEX OFFENDERS (Skindell) To prohibit a court from ordering a statutory change of name for a person who has committed identity fraud or who must register under the SORN Law for having committed a sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense.

 

SB 77 - BICYCLE HELMETS (Skindell) To require bicycle operators and passengers under 18 years of age to wear protective helmets when the bicycle is operated on a roadway and to establish the Bicycle Safety Fund to be used by the Department of Public Safety to assist low-income families in the purchase of bicycle helmets

 

SB 78  - LAKE ERIE DRILLING (Skindell) To ban the taking or removal of oil or natural gas from and under the bed of Lake Erie

 

SB 79 - PRESCRIPTION DRUG MARKETING (Skindell) Regarding prescription drug marketing disclosures

 

SB 80 - ROAD NAMING (Cates, Hughes) To designate a portion of United States Route 322 within Cleveland Heights the "Officer Thomas F. Patton II Memorial Highway

 

SB 81 - EDUCATOR LICENSES (Cates) To qualify Teach for America participants for a resident educator license

 

SB 82 - COLLEGE ENROLLMENTS (Cates) To prohibit a state university from enrolling certain undergraduate students whose parents are not covered by life insurance policies designated for the students' education and to require the Department of Administrative Services to contract for such a policy to cover uninsured parents