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HB1 BIENNIAL BUDGET (SYKES, V) To make appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2011 for the operation of state programs.
  Current Status:    7/17/2009 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, eff. 7/17/09 appropriations; other sections subject to referendum 10/16/09
 
HB2 TRANSPORTATION BUDGET (UJVAGI, P) Make appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2011.
  Current Status:    4/1/2009 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, eff. 4/1/2009 - (13 vetoes)
 
HB3 MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES (FOLEY, M) To address the current mortgage foreclosure crisis.
  Current Status:    1/12/2010 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)
 
HB6 MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION (PATTEN, M) To authorize refundable nontransferable credits against the corporation franchise tax or income tax for production of motion pictures in Ohio.
  Current Status:    3/10/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
 
HB15 WORKERS' COMPENSATION BUDGET (SYKES, V) Create Deputy Inspector General for Bureau of Workers' Compensation and Industrial Commission Fund; to make appropriations for the Workers' Compensation biennial budget.
  Current Status:    6/30/2009 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, Eff. 6/30/2009 (some secs. different dates)
 
HB16 INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION BUDGET-INTERIM BUDGET (SYKES, V) Make appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2011, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of Commission programs.- Interim Budget
  Current Status:    6/30/2009 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, Eff. 6/30/2009 (some secs. different dates)
 
HB20 VETERANS (STEBELTON, G) Eliminate requirement that a veteran be a resident of Ohio to qualify to receive the veterans preference on civil service examinations.
  Current Status:    2/24/2009 - House Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing)
 
HB22 BULK DATA (FENDE, L) Authorize public offices to limit the number of bulk data requests, impose charges to cover the actual costs associated with bulk data requests, and charge for the cost of redacting certain information.
  Current Status:    2/25/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
 
HB24 TRANSITION FUNDS (BATCHELDER, W) To permit individuals elected or appointed to state office to establish transition funds to receive donations and to make expenditures for transition activities and inaugural celebrations
  Current Status:    2/18/2009 - Referred to Committee House Elections and Ethics
 
HB29 PROHIBIT SEXUAL CONDUCT HUMAN CORPSE (MALLORY, D) To prohibit engaging in sexual conduct with a human corpse.
  Current Status:    5/13/2009 - House Criminal Justice, (Fourth Hearing)
 
HB30 PERS (COMBS, C) Require analysis of each proposed retirement incentive plan for PERS members and to prohibit a member who participates in such a retirement incentive plan from being re-employed by the same employer.
  Current Status:    6/10/2009 - House Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Securities, (First Hearing)
 
HB32 MUNICIPAL PARK IMPROVEMENTS (RUHL, M) Increase the competitive bidding threshold for contracts entered into by a board of park trustees for certain municipal park improvements.
  Current Status:    5/25/2010 - House Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing)
 
HB37 COMPETITIVE BIDDING (DYER, S) Require DAS to maintain a web site database including apparent low bidders who failed to be awarded a contract because they were found not to be "responsible."
  Current Status:    3/24/2009 - House Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)
 
HB41 LOTTERY PROFITS (GERBERRY, R) To require that a portion of lottery profits be distributed annually on a per pupil basis to public and chartered nonpublic schools.
  Current Status:    5/19/2009 - House Education, (Third Hearing)
 
HB46 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (UJVAGI, P) Permit persons who quit work to accompany the person's spouse on a military transfer to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits.
  Current Status:    5/18/2010 - Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor, (Second Hearing)
 
HB48 UNIFORMED SERVICES SPOUSE (UJVAGI, P) Provide two weeks of leave for any employee who is the spouse or parent of a member of the uniformed services who is called to active duty or is injured, wounded, or hospitalized while serving in a combat zone.
  Current Status:    4/2/2010 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, some sections eff, 4/2/10; other sections eff. 7/2/10
 
HB49 WATER/SEWER RATES (UJVAGI, P) Authorize a board of county commissioners or a board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district to offer discounts to persons sixty-five year of age or older.
  Current Status:    5/13/2009 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (First Hearing)
 
HB53 REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITIES (GARDNER, R) Create additional procedure for subdivisions to join a regional transit authority that levies a property tax and that includes a county having a population of at least 400,000 and allow member to withdraw.
  Current Status:    11/18/2009 - House Transportation and Infrastructure, (First Hearing)
 
HB58 MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS (MCGREGOR, R) Require Auditor of State to establish a fraud-reporting system for residents and public employees to file anonymous complaints of fraud and misuse of public funds by public offices or officials.
  Current Status:    5/6/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
 
HB61 ESTATE TAXES (HOTTINGER, J) Reduce the estate tax by increasing the credit amount, to authorize townships and municipal corporations, or electors thereof by initiative, to exempt from the estate tax any estate property located in the township.
  Current Status:    4/22/2009 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 
HB111 NONCHARTERED MUNICIPAL CORPORATION (DEGEETER, T) Reduce, from fifteen to ten, the minimum number of days for bidding when a nonchartered municipal corporation sells personal property by Internet auction.
  Current Status:    4/29/2009 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (First Hearing)
 
HB113 SCHOOL ENERGY MEASURES (FOLEY, M) To authorize school boards, for on-site renewable energy generation measures and in the same manner as for energy conservation measures, to enter into installment contracts subject to specified terms of payment.
  Current Status:    2/2/2010 - Senate Energy and Public Utilities, (First Hearing)
 
HB117 COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY TAX (JONES, S) To require 30% of commercial activity tax revenue to be used indefinitely for local government purposes.
  Current Status:    4/14/2009 - Referred to Committee House Ways and Means
 
HB120 LEGISLATIVE SERVICE COMMISSION (BATCHELDER, W) To establish the Legislative Budget Committee and the Legislative Budget Office of the Legislative Service Commission.
  Current Status:    5/13/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
 
HB143 TRAFFIC LAW PHOTO-MONITORING DEVICES (COMBS, C) To prohibit the use by the State Highway Patrol, counties, and townships of traffic law photo-monitoring devices.
  Current Status:    5/27/2009 - House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing)
 
HB144 TAX CREDIT-BACCALAUREATE DEGREE (GROSSMAN, C) To grant an income tax credit eliminating tax liability for five years for individuals who obtain a baccalaureate degree and who reside in Ohio.
  Current Status:    6/24/2009 - House Ways and Means, (First Hearing)
 
HB146 STATE EMPLOYEE HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN (HAGAN, R) To allow counties to participate in a state employee health insurance plan sponsored by the Department of Administrative Services.
  Current Status:    1/27/2010 - House Insurance, (Second Hearing)
 
HB153 REGIONAL WATER/SEWER DISTRICTS (YUKO, K) To authorize regional water and sewer districts to establish police departments.
  Current Status:    6/10/2009 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (Second Hearing)
 
HB159 UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE (SKINDELL, M) To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
  Current Status:    6/3/2009 - House HealthCare Access and Affordability, (First Hearing)
 
HB177 STRS INVESTMENT PERSONNEL (HUFFMAN, M) Provide that investment personnel of the State Teachers Retirement System may not receive performance-based bonuses or premiums in years of negative investment returns and to declare an emergency.
  Current Status:    6/2/2009 - House Aging and Disability Services, (First Hearing)
 
HB184 WORK ELIGIBILITY STATUS (COMBS, C) To require employers to register and participate in a status verification system to verify the work eligibility status of all new employees and to affirm their participation on their state income tax returns.
  Current Status:    6/24/2009 - House Judiciary, (Second Hearing)
 
HB210 G.A. 5% SALARY REDUCTIONS (MORGAN, S) To decrease by 5% the salaries of General Assembly members and of the statewide elected executive officers until certain increases occur in the Gross Domestic Product of Ohio.
  Current Status:    10/28/2009 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
 
HB218 PUBLIC UTILITY TANGIBLE TAX VALUATION (WINBURN, R) To modify the tax valuation of public utility tangible personal property used to generate electricity from renewable resources
  Current Status:    6/24/2009 - BILL AMENDED, House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
 
HB220 LOCAL GOVERNMENT PUBLIC NOTICE TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS (CHANDLER, K) To implement the recommendations of the Local Government Public Notice Task force by authorizing legal publication to be made in a newspaper of general circulation, eliminating certain publication and postal privilege requirements.
  Current Status:    6/3/2010 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs
 
HB223 DELINQUENT TAX AND ASSESSMENT COLLECTION FUND (LETSON, T) To temporarily authorize county treasurers and county prosecuting attorneys to designate that part of any surplus balance in the county’s Delinquent Tax and Assessment Collection Fund.
  Current Status:    11/4/2009 - House Local Government / Public Administration, (Fourth Hearing)
 
HB249 WORKERS' COMPENSATION RECORDS (HEARD, T) Clarify the method by which journalists may request Bureau of Workers' Compensation records for multiple claimants, add to the definition of "journalist," and allow person to solicit authority to represent claimant in claim.
  Current Status:    1/19/2010 - House Civil and Commercial Law, (Second Hearing)
 
HB250 VIDEO LOTTERY TERMINALS (BLESSING, L) To require the State Lottery Commission to establish licensing procedures for video lottery sales agents that are horse-racing permit holders and authorize them to conduct lotteries that provide immediate prize determinations.
  Current Status:    3/10/2010 - House State Government, (Fourth Hearing)
 
HB255 VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS (BALDERSON, T) To allow a $400 income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
  Current Status:    11/4/2009 - House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
 
HCR22 INCOME TAX WITHHOLDING SCHEDULES (MANDEL, J) To memorialize Congress to withdraw application of the new federal income tax withholding schedules to pensioners,
  Current Status:    5/6/2009 - Referred to Committee House Aging and Disability Services
 
HCR25 CAP AND TRADE LEGISLATION (JORDAN, K) To urge the Congress of the United States to refuse to enact cap and trade legislation that would negatively impact Americans.
  Current Status:    6/17/2009 - Referred to Committee House Public Utilities
 
HJR1 COMPENSATION FOR VETERANS (PRYOR, R) To provide compensation to veterans of the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq conflicts.
  Current Status:    2/19/2009 - House Veterans Affairs, (First Hearing)
 
HR58 PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS (YUKO, K) To urge state agencies to use project labor agreements in public improvement projects.
  Current Status:    11/17/2009 - REPORTED OUT, House Commerce and Labor, (Third Hearing)
 
SB1 BUILDING OHIO JOBS PART II (HUGHES, J) Allocates the remaining $340 million of targeted investments identified last session as part of the $1.57 billion bipartisan economic stimulus package.
  Current Status:    3/5/2009 - Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
 
SB2 FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING (CAREY, JR., J) Provide for the distribution of moneys received by the state from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by making appropriations and to declare an emergency.
  Current Status:    3/18/2009 - Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
 
SB4 PERFORMANCE AUDITS FOR REGULATORY AGENCIES (SCHAFFER, T) Conduct performance audits of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Health.
  Current Status:    2/2/2010 - Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
 
SB7 FRAUD REPORTING SYSTEM (WAGONER, M) Establish a fraud-reporting system for residents and public employees to file anonymous complaints of fraud and misuse of public funds by public offices or officials.
  Current Status:    4/14/2010 - House State Government, (First Hearing)
 
SB15 HEALTH CARE POLICIES (MILLER, D) To prohibit discrimination in health care policies, contracts, and agreements in the coverage provided for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses and substance abuse or addiction conditions.
  Current Status:    3/31/2009 - Senate Health, Human Services and Aging, (First Hearing)
 
SB16 CREDIT CARD MARKETING (PATTON, T) To prohibit credit card marketing activities on the grounds of state institutions of higher education.
  Current Status:    9/22/2009 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (First Hearing)
 
SB17 COMPENSATORY TIME OFF (COUGHLIN, K) To afford to private sector employers the option to offer and to employees the option to accrue and use compensatory time off.
  Current Status:    5/6/2009 - Senate Committee recommends passage, Vote 8-3
 
SB18 ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS (GIBBS, B) To require the proceeds of fines paid by certain political subdivisions under environmental laws to be expended by the state in the county that incurred the fine and require proceeds deposited in GRF.
  Current Status:    3/3/2009 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (Second Hearing)
 
SB19 THOROUGH AND EFFICIENT EDUCATION (STEWART, J) To establish a bipartisan committee to recommend a system that pays one hundred per cent of the actual cost of a thorough and efficient education.
  Current Status:    2/17/2009 - Senate Education, (First Hearing)
 
SB20 MILITARY SERVICE (CAREY, JR., J) To permit state employees to receive longevity and vacation credit for prior military service.
  Current Status:    10/13/2009 - REPORTED OUT, Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs, (Third Hearing)
 
SB21 CONVICTED FELONS (TURNER, N) To create a tax credit for the employment of individuals who have previously been convicted of felonies.
  Current Status:    2/12/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
 
SB23 LANDLORDS (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.
  Current Status:    9/30/2009 - Senate Judiciary - Civil Justice, (Second Hearing)
 
SB25 MEDICAL EXPENSES-TAXATION (SCHAFFER, T) To increase the amount of unreimbursed medical expenses that an individual may deduct in computing Ohio income tax.
  Current Status:    2/18/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
 
SB26 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (SCHAFFER, T) To require municipal corporations with more than $100 million in annual income tax collections to provide a tax credit to nonresident taxpayers.
  Current Status:    11/18/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Third Hearing)
 
SB32 HYBRID VEHICLE PURCHASE (TURNER, N) To create a nonrefundable tax credit for individuals who purchase a new hybrid vehicle.
  Current Status:    2/12/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
 
SB34 HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAMS (MILLER, D) To create a health insurance program that allows municipal corporations, small employers, and nonprofit corporations or associations to purchase for their employees the same policies provided to state employees.
  Current Status:    3/31/2009 - Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)
 
SB40 TEACHING MATERIALS (SCHAFFER, T) Allow credit against personal income tax for amounts spent by teachers for instructional materials.
  Current Status:    11/18/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
 
SB44 PROPERTY OWNERS (MILLER, D) Require county auditors to make reasonable efforts to identify property owners wrongfully receiving the 2.5% property tax rollback,
  Current Status:    2/25/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
 
SB53 RESIDENTIAL FORECLOSURE TRACKING SYSTEM (MILLER, D) Require Director of Commerce to establish a residential foreclosure tracking system and prepare an annual report on residential foreclosure filings and sales in each county.
  Current Status:    3/10/2009 - Senate Finance and Financial Institutions, (Third Hearing)
 
SB85 WATER-POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS (STEWART, J) Authorize certain political subdivisions to contract for engineering, repair, sustainability, water quality management, and maintenance of a water storage tank through a professional service contract under specified conditions.
  Current Status:    3/31/2010 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR, eff. 6/30/2010
 
SB88 MILITARY LEAVE (FEDOR, T) Grant annual military leave of up to 768 hours to firefighters and other public employees who do not work a traditional workweek and to entitle these employees to use such leave to cover a work shift used to perform military service.
  Current Status:    4/21/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor
 
SB90 VACANT HOMES-TAXATION (SEITZ, B) Authorize local governments to exempt homes that have been vacant for at least twelve months from non-school district property taxation for up to three years when purchased by an owner-occupant.
  Current Status:    1/27/2010 - REPORTED OUT, Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Fifth Hearing)
 
SB99 COUNTY GOVERMENT (GRENDELL, T) Permit alternate form of county government in a county having a population of 1.2 million or more to have a oounty council, an elected fiscal officer, appointed county engineer, county information officer, coroner, and sheriff.
  Current Status:    4/21/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs
 
SB100 HOUSEHOLD SEWAGE TREATMENT (GRENDELL, T) Revise the Household Sewage and Small Flow On-Site Sewage Treatment Systems Law, establish Household Sewage Treatment System Revolving Loan Program, to make appropriations, and to declare an emergency.
  Current Status:    5/20/2009 - Senate Environment and Natural Resources, (Fourth Hearing)
 
SB104 MILITARY LEAVE-PUBLIC EMPLOYEES (FABER, K) Grant annual military leave of up to 408 hours to firefighters and public employees who do not work a traditional 40 hour workweek and allow them to use leave to cover an entire work shift any part of which was used for military service.
  Current Status:    6/3/2010 - SB104 is now part of HB449
 
SB109 REAL PROPERTY TAXATION (GIBBS, B) To exempt from real property taxation the value of single-family residential property owned by a developer or builder until the developer or builder transfers possession or title.
  Current Status:    6/17/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (Third Hearing)
 
SB111 PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX LOSSES (STEWART, J) To make permanent the temporary reimbursements for local government and school district tangible personal property tax losses.
  Current Status:    5/6/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
 
SB129 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' BARGAINING LAW (STRAHORN, F) To eliminate an exemption from the Public Employees' Collective Bargaining Law for specified educational employees.
  Current Status:    9/22/2009 - Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor, (First Hearing)
 
SB148 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS DEFICIT (TURNER, N) To authorize municipal corporations to have a deficit in special funds under certain circumstances.
  Current Status:    11/18/2009 - Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development, (First Hearing)
 
SCR10 TAX WITHHOLDING SCHEDULES (STEWART, J) To memorialize the Congress, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Internal Revenue Service to withdraw application of the new federal income tax withholding schedules to pensioners.
  Current Status:    4/29/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development
 
SJR2 HEALTH CARE LAWS (COUGHLIN, K) To prohibit the General Assembly from enacting certain laws regarding health care.
  Current Status:    9/22/2009 - Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor, (Third Hearing)
 
SJR3 REAL PROPERTY TAXES (COUGHLIN, K) To limit increases in the taxable value of real property to two per cent per year.
  Current Status:    3/10/2009 - Referred to Committee Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development