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.

• September 29 through October 2 - NFRW Biennial Convention, Kansas City, Missouri

• October 21, 2011 - Fall OFRW Board meeting, Embassy Suites, Dublin, Ohio

• October 22, 2011 - Fall Conference, Embassy Suites, Dublin, Ohio

Legislative Day Event to be announced