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Track 1,996 bills from the Ohio 2011 legislative session. 500 bills have passed. View Ohio House of Representatives and Senate legislation, sponsors, and voting records.
Bills (1996)
As Introduced
Sponsor: Lou Gentile
To authorize a licensed physician, chiropractor, or physical therapist from another state to provide services to an out-of-state athletic team and certain accompanying individuals when the team is participating in a sporting event in Ohio.
Sponsor: Ryan Smith
To repeal the competency certification currently required for renewal of a concealed handgun license; to revise the definition of "unloaded" that applies to the offense of "improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle" and the related vessel-based offense; to specify the authority of any person to store a firearm in the Statehouse Underground Parking Garage or the Riffe Center Parking Garage; and to simplify, through the use of new definitions, the law regarding concealed handgun licenses.
Sponsor: Gary Scherer
To qualify for a War Orphans Scholarship, children of military veterans who participated in an operation for which the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal was awarded, and 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, to provide for the reimbursement of certain school districts for deductions taken for certain Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarships, and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
With regard to concussions and head injuries in youth sports.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
To establish a registry for arson offenders.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
To exempt from municipal income tax the compensation paid to persons performing personal services for a political subdivision on its property when that property is annexed to a municipal corporation under the expedited type-II annexation proceeding unless the compensation is taxable because of the person's residency, and to permit a board of county commissioners to determine the times for and manner of holding elections for citizen members of the board of trustees of a new community organization.
Sponsor: John Adams
To designate March as "Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month."
Sponsor: Peter Beck
To require commercial nuisance wild animal control operators that provide nuisance wild animal removal or control services to be licensed by the Chief of the Division of Wildlife, to exempt residents of other states that own land in this state from having to obtain licenses and permits issued by the Division for hunting, trapping, or fishing under specified circumstances, to allow persons to hunt in commercial bird shooting preserves and wild animal hunting preserves without obtaining a hunting license or deer permit, as applicable, and to revise the rulemaking authority of the Director of Agriculture regarding anhydrous ammonia and other fertilizers.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To modify the call before you dig notification system.
Sponsor: Nicholas Celebrezze
, and to repeal Section 757.51 of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 129th General Assembly to impose a new tax on financial institutions, effective January 1, 2014, to provide that such institutions and dealers in intangibles are no longer subject to the corporation franchise tax or dealers in intangibles tax after 2013, to require dealers in intangibles that are not owned by a financial institution to pay the commercial activity tax after 2013 except for "small dollar lenders," which will become subject to the new financial institutions tax, to make changes to the law regarding commercial real estate broker liens, to require county auditors to account for the impact of police powers and other governmental actions in the valuation of real property, and to accelerate the application of provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 129th General Assembly affecting the valuation of real property.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To adopt the Ohio Legacy Trust Act; to modify certain property rights in the Ohio Trust Code; to require the recording of personal property transfers with the county recorder upon request; to regulate the temporary conveyance of trust real property for financing purposes; to grant probate courts concurrent jurisdiction with court of common pleas general divisions over certain actions involving the designation or removal of certain beneficiaries, title change involving joint and survivorship interests, alleged gifts, or the passing of assets upon death other than by will, intestate succession, or trust; to regulate the use and enforceability of certain loan covenants in nonrecourse commercial loan transactions; and to make certain changes in the exempt interests law, the fraudulent transfers law, the secured transactions recording law, and the rule against perpetuities.
Sponsor: Ryan Smith
To require claimants in asbestos tort actions to make certain disclosures pertaining to asbestos trust claims that have been submitted to asbestos trust entities for the purpose of compensating the claimant for asbestos exposure.
Sponsor: John Adams
To permit, for water-works and sewage disposal system companies, certain rate-calculation adjustments, to make changes regarding water and sewer infrastructure improvement surcharges, and to alter language regarding utility requirements for when rate increases may take effect in the absence of administrative action.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
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 the month following the month in which they are collected; to authorize a municipal, mayor's, or county court to require community service in lieu of costs if at the time of sentencing or any time after sentencing the court finds that the offender cannot pay costs; to authorize a municipal, mayor's, or county court to allow payment of costs in installments if at the time of sentencing or at any time after sentencing the court finds that the offender will not be able to pay costs in full when due; to raise the ceilings on the optional additional fees that a court of common pleas may charge to fund court computerization or computerization of the court clerk's office; to authorize use of the additional clerk's fees to fund technological advances in the clerk's office; to authorize new fees to fund computerization of or technological advances in the clerk's office; to ensure that after notice to the debtor and an opportunity to enter into an installment payment or community service agreement with the court neither the Registrar of Motor Vehicles nor any deputy registrar accepts any application for the registration or transfer of registration of a motor vehicle of a person who fails to pay any fine or costs imposed for offenses by a common pleas, municipal, mayor's, or county court; and to require a court in determining the sentence for a criminal offense to consider emotional, mental, or physical conditions traceable to an offender's military service that contributed to the offender's commission of the offense and to consider the offender's military service record.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To abolish a judgeship of the Youngstown Municipal Court; 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; and to provide that a conviction or guilty plea of the offense of driving a vehicle while writing, sending, or reading a text-based communication on a handheld electronic wireless communications device and a conviction or guilty plea of a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance for the same conduct are allied offenses of similar import and that an adjudication for the offense of a person who is less than 18 years of age from using, in any manner, an electronic wireless communications device while driving and an adjudication of a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance for the same conduct are allied offenses of similar import.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To authorize the Superintendent of Financial Institutions to issue a temporary mortgage loan originator license or temporary loan originator license to an out-of-state applicant who meets certain criteria, to make changes regarding derivative transactions by banks, and to make changes to the Uniform Commercial Funds Transfers law regarding remittance transfers.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
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.
Sponsor: Gary Scherer
, and to amend Section 707.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 129th General Assembly to revise the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction law; to allow certain community colleges to acquire, construct, and maintain housing and dining facilities; to expand the areas for which a municipal corporation in Stark County may use up to 5% of its water and sewer funds for sewage or water system extensions to include areas within a joint economic development district and areas within the municipal corporation's boundaries; to temporarily permit a school district to offer highest priority to purchase an athletic field to the current leaseholder; to permit a school district to sell or lease real property directly to a STEM school in certain circumstances; and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Jeffrey McClain
; and to amend Section 267.10.90 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly, as subsequently amended, to create a new academic performance rating system for public schools; to require an alternative rating system for community schools with dropout prevention and recovery programs; to create a new evaluation process for community school sponsors; to abolish the Ohio Accountability Task Force to make changes in the third grade reading guarantee; to modify the procedure for approving the opening of new Internet- or computer-based community schools; to make changes in the War Orphans Scholarship and Ohio National Guard Scholarship programs; and to make other changes to education laws.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
To alter the conditions under which a D-51 liquor permit may be issued, to make changes to the law governing the issuance of F-2 liquor permits, and to allow an F-2 liquor permit to be issued for the same location that an F-8 liquor permit is issued provided that certain criteria apply.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To authorize the Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors to issue courtesy licenses to allow funeral directors in bordering states to conduct limited funeral-related activities in Ohio; to permit embalmers and funeral directors to place their licenses on inactive status; to clarify that, upon the sale of the funeral home, the home may remain operating based upon a submission of a new license application to the Board; to permit out-of-state funeral directors without a license to work with licensed funeral directors during a declared disaster or emergency; to eliminate the requirement that funeral homes be the guarantor of the identity of decedents and instead require funeral homes to complete only visual identification of remains; to exempt certain records concerning individual and joint self insurance of political subdivisions from the public records law; and to authorize joint county department of job and family services employees and detention facility district employees to participate in a deferred compensation program.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To enact the "Jason Flatt Act" to require public schools to train staff in youth suicide awareness and prevention.
Sponsor: Debbie Phillips
To require automatic notice to victims of aggravated murder, murder, first, second, or third degree felony offenses of violence, or offenses punishable by a sentence of life imprisonment of certain prisoner or alleged juvenile offender release or transfer proceedings unless the victim has requested that the notice not be provided; to expand victim participation in parole hearings; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction 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 require that the Department, in cases in which a prosecuting attorney currently is notified that a Department prisoner is being considered for an early release or a specified type of transfer to a less restrictive setting, provide the prosecuting attorney and any law enforcement agency, upon request, with an institutional summary report prepared with respect to the prisoner; 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; to waive the notice by publication requirement for a change of name if the applicant submits proof that the publication would jeopardize the applicant's personal safety; to revise the sentencing options for fourth and fifth degree felonies; and to name the victim and family notification provisions Roberta's Law.
Sponsor: Timothy Derickson
To establish a statutory collaborative family law process to aid in the resolution of family law disputes, to clarify when an order of spousal support may be modified, and to clarify the circumstances under which a client's statements may compel an attorney to testify regarding attorney-client communications.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To authorize a $5,000 fine for assault when the victim is a hospital health care professional, health care worker, or security officer whom the offender knows or has reasonable cause to know is such a professional, worker, or officer, the victim is engaged in the performance of the victim's duties, and the hospital offers de-escalation or crisis intervention training; to increase the penalty for assault to a felony of the fifth degree when committed against any of the specified hospital personnel in the specified circumstances if the offender previously was convicted of a specified assault or homicide offense committed in those circumstances; to authorize a $5,000 fine for assault when the victim is a judge, magistrate, prosecutor, or court official or employee whom the offender knows or has reasonable cause to know is a judge, magistrate, prosecutor, or court official or employee and the victim is engaged in the performance of the victim's duties; to increase the penalty for assault to a felony of the fifth degree when committed against any of the specified justice system personnel in the specified circumstances if the offender previously was convicted of a specified assault or homicide offense committed against any of the specified justice system personnel in the specified circumstances; to include felony assault when committed against any of the specified hospital or justice system personnel in the specified circumstances within the community control presumption of the Felony Sentencing Law; to make clarifying changes in that presumption; and to authorize hospitals to post a warning sign indicating that abuse or assault of staff will not be tolerated and might result in a felony conviction.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To regulate the practice of Oriental medicine, to modify the laws governing the practice of acupuncture, and to revise certain laws governing the State Medical Board.
Sponsor: John Adams
To authorize certain licensing boards to require corrective action courses as a form of discipline for license holders, to establish professional licensing sanctions regarding the crime of human trafficking, 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, to abolish the Felony Sentence Appeal Cost Oversight Committee, to rename the "Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals" the "Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals," to modify the requirements for when the Ohio Supreme Court meets, to make changes to the law in relation to the sale of personal property on which there has been placed a lien by an owner of a self-service storage facility, to provide that a principal in a power of attorney may nominate a guardian of the principal's incompetent adult children, to remove the requirement that the operating agreement of a limited liability company may identify types or categories of activities that do not violate the duty of loyalty only if not manifestly unreasonable, to specify that the operating agreement of a limited liability company may not eliminate the duty of care but may prescribe the standards by which the duty is to be measured, to modify the restrictions on the operating agreement of a limited liability company with respect to the obligation of good faith and the duties of a manager, to make other clarifying changes to provisions contained in Sub. H.B. 48 and Sub. S.B. 117 of the 129th General Assembly, to expressly authorize a county to establish a program for prisoners in the county's correctional facility to work outside the facility, to make a conforming change related to Am. H.B. 63 of the 129th General Assembly, and to clarify the entity that prescribes forms under R.C. 2151.85.
Sponsor: Brian Hill
To adopt the Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
To designate the month of May as "Better Hearing and Speech Month."
Sponsor: Kevin Boyce
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, to authorize the conveyance of the water rights of certain state-owned real estate to the Wayne County Board of County Commissioners, and to authorize the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Richland County to the Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To require certain flags to be displayed at rest areas along the state's interstates and the Ohio Turnpike.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
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, to restrict the types of competitive events that qualify for state grants based on projected incremental increases in sales tax receipts, and to authorize townships to reimburse officers and employees for out-of-pocket insurance premiums attributable to coverage provided for their immediate dependents.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To designate May as "Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month" and to designate April 27 as "Emma 'Grandma' Gatewood Day."
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To establish conditions for the operation of certain specialized motor vehicles, including low-speed and under-speed vehicles, scooters, cab-enclosed motorcycles, and mini-trucks; to establish conditions for operation of a motorcycle with a temporary instruction permit; to prohibit motorcycle handlebars from being higher than the shoulders of the operator when the operator is seated in the operator's seat or saddle; to establish a motor scooter temporary instruction permit and license or endorsement; to prohibit a motor vehicle manufacturer, remanufacturer, or distributor from providing to a licensed motor vehicle dealer a motor vehicle that violates window tinting standards; to increase the penalty for installing nonconforming glass or other material; to establish civil liability for installing nonconforming glass or other material, including costs and attorney fees; to rename the Board of Motor Vehicle Collision Repair Registration as the Motor Vehicle Repair Board and to expand the jurisdiction of the Board to require persons who install motor vehicle window tint to register with the Board; to give the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas exclusive jurisdiction over motor vehicle repair registration violations; to impose a registration or license suspension up to 180 days on a registered motor vehicle repair facility or licensed motor vehicle dealer upon a second or subsequent violation for installing nonconforming glass or other material; to establish an exemption from the motor vehicle window tinting standards for vehicles used by law enforcement agencies under specified circumstances; and to make certain changes associated with the Political Subdivision Tort Liability Law.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To declare that Ohio is a "Purple Heart State."
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
To modify the laws governing physician assistants, to authorize certain nurses to determine and pronounce death under specified circumstances, and to revise the laws governing the professions of chemical dependency counseling and alcohol and other drug prevention.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Regarding responsibility for notifying patients that a physician's employment by a health care entity has been terminated.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To make changes to the law governing automobile insurance policies, to increase the minimum amounts required for valid proof of financial responsibility, to make it an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance to charge excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory premium rates in private passenger automobile insurance based solely on the insured's residence location, to reduce from two years to one year the minimum policy period for automobile insurance policies, to prohibit an automobile insurer from enforcing certain intrafamily exclusions, and to permit insurance companies to obtain a salvage certificate of title for a motor vehicle in certain circumstances when the insurance company does not have possession of the certificate of title.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To designate a number of memorial highways.
Sponsor: John Carney
To regulate certain dog breeding kennels and dog retailers.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
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 by at least ten per cent over the preceding year.
Sponsor: Philip Rose
To designate the month of September as "Craniofacial Acceptance Month."
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To designate October 13 as Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
Regarding enforcement powers of certain health care professional licensing boards, regulation of pain management clinics, limits on prescriber-furnished controlled substances, and classifications of certain controlled substances.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To designate November as "Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Awareness Month" and to require the Department of Health to include on its web site information regarding the syndrome.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To provide for the dissolution of a joint recreation district.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To designate the bridge spanning the Vermillion River, that is part of State Route 113, as the "Staff Sgt. James P. Hunter Memorial Bridge" and to designate a portion of State Route 800 in Harrison County as the "Trooper George Conn Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
To revise the law governing the State Teachers Retirement System.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To establish procedures and requirements for the establishment of marketing agreements for agricultural commodities and to revise the rule-making authority of the Director of Agriculture regarding fertilizers, specifically anhydrous ammonia.
Sponsor: Kevin Boyce
To revise the law governing the Public Employees Retirement System.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To revise the law governing the State Highway Patrol Retirement System.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To revise the law governing the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To revise the law governing the School Employees Retirement System.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
Honoring the Walsh Jesuit High School girls soccer team on winning the 2012 Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Frank LaRose
To establish the Veterans Home Task Force.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To transfer certain 9-1-1 authority to the Director of Public Safety and to the tax commissioner, to revise the amount and methods of collection and remittance of the wireless 9-1-1 charge for prepaid wireless services, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Rebecca A. Park for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Dave Burke
That is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2014, to continue amendments made by this act to that section; and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To require a public children services agency or private child placing agency that obtains temporary custody of a child to attempt to notify certain relatives of the child; to require a public children services agency to attempt to keep siblings together; to modify the putative father registry; to eliminate the automatic termination upon the expiration of one year of a power of attorney or caretaker authorization affidavit that gives care of a child to a grandparent; to allow a grandparent to seek custody of a child if the child's parent, guardian, or custodian seeks to terminate a power of attorney or caretaker authorization affidavit; to require a public children services agency to file a missing child report if a child in its custody is or may be missing; to authorize a public children services agency to provide care for a child in the home of a qualified nonrelative of the child; to require the Department of Job and Family Services to develop recommendations for the implementation of a subsidized relative guardianship program; to authorize the State Board of Education to issue one-year, renewable instructional assistant permits for qualified individuals to provide services to children under the Autism Scholarship Program; to make other changes in the administration of the Autism Scholarship Program; and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
On that date, to contingently revise the 9-1-1 law, to expressly incorporate changes in the Internal Revenue Code since March 7, 2011, into Ohio law, to extend the existing commercial activity tax exemption for "qualified distribution centers" to include precious metal refineries in the Appalachian region, thereby exempting suppliers of unrefined metals to such a refinery from the tax to the extent that the refinery ships the refined metals outside Ohio, to permit, for a limited time, the abatement of unpaid property taxes, penalties, and interest owed on property owned by a municipal corporation that would have been tax exempt except for a failure to comply with certain tax-exemption procedures, to contingently make an appropriation, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To require the Department of Veterans Services to contact and assist Gold Star families in the process of having a highway or bridge named in honor of a family member who died while serving in the United States armed forces.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To establish procedures regarding the participation of pharmacies, retailers, and the Attorney General in electronically tracking pseudoephedrine and ephedrine product sales through a national exchange; to specify that certain classes of compounds and individual compounds are schedule I controlled substances; to create the offenses of trafficking in and possession of controlled substance analogs; and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: David Hall
Honoring Representative Casey Kozlowski for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Lorraine M. Fende for her service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To allow a municipal corporation to bring an action in municipal court, rather than only in the environmental division of a municipal court, to foreclose an existing lien upon a blighted parcel located in the municipal corporation provided that no other foreclosure action affecting the parcel is being actively prosecuted.
Sponsor: Bill Patmon
To require a levying officer to conduct the sale of foreclosed real property within twenty-two business days after the date of the judgment of foreclosure.
Sponsor: Bill Patmon
Honoring Jennifer E. Woodring for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Kenny Yuko for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring The Ohio State University football team on its perfect 2012 season.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Thomas L. Sherman for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Terri Meese Bierdeman on her retirement from STRS.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Marion Local High School football team as the 2012 Division VI State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring Brett Popke as Industrial Truck Driver of the Year.
Sponsor: Dennis Murray
Honoring Representative Danny R. Bubp for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Coldwater High School football team as the 2012 Division V State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring Representative Craig Newbold for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Ted Celeste for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Jay P. Goyal for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Gary Strain as the 2012 All-Ohio Division VI Offensive Co-Player of the Year in football.
Sponsor: Anthony DeVitis
Honoring Representative Nancy J. Garland for her service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Walsh Jesuit High School girls soccer team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
Honoring Representative Mark D. Okey for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Bruce W. Goodwin for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Matt Adorni as a 2012 All-Ohio Division VI Co-Coach of the Year in football.
Sponsor: Anthony DeVitis
Honoring the Clinton-Massie High School football team on placing first in the 2012 Division IV State Championship tournament.
Sponsor: Clifford Rosenberger
Honoring the Marion Local High School girls volleyball team as the 2012 Division IV State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring Representative Dennis Murray for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Jarrod B. Martin for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
As Adopted by the House 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012Am. H. C. R. No. 21 Representatives Slesnick, Ramos
Sponsor: Stephen Slesnick
To require a mortgagee who is a plaintiff in a mortgage foreclosure action to keep the condition of certain real property in accordance with requirements of the state building and fire codes, and any applicable local codes, for the period of time between the judgment of foreclosure and the recording of the deed of the property.
Sponsor: Bill Patmon
Honoring Representative Joseph Uecker for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Randy Gardner for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Courtney Combs for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Nick Rutschilling for receiving the 2012 National FFA Swine Production Placement Proficiency Award.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring Tim McCarthy for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To rename certificates recognizing the delivery of a stillborn infant as certificates of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
Honoring Representative Dennis John Kucinich on his retirement as a member of the United States House of Representatives.
Sponsor: Bill Patmon
Honoring Representative Louis W. Blessing, Jr., for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To revise the penalties for violations of the Ohio Fire Code concerning nonresidential buildings.
Sponsor: Bill Patmon
Proposing to enact new Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
Sponsor: Thomas Sawyer
To honor the 511 African-American Ohioans who
Sponsor: Nina Turner
Honoring the St. Clairsville High School football team as the 2012 Division IV State runner-up.
Sponsor: Lou Gentile
To designate three memorial highways within Geauga County as "The Danny Parmertor Memorial Highway," "The Demetrius C. Hewlin Memorial Highway," and the "Russell King, Jr., Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Matthew Lynch
To expand the offenses of menacing by stalking and telecommunications harassment and to prohibit a person from knowingly causing another person to believe that the offender will cause physical harm or mental or emotional distress to a member of the other person's immediate family.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To honor the 511 African-American Ohioans who
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
To designate October 15 as "Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day."
Sponsor: Edna Brown
Honoring the Marion Local High School football team on winning the 2012 Division VI State Championship.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring the Dublin Jerome High School girls tennis team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring the Archbishop Moeller High School football team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: William Seitz
Honoring Senator Mark Wagoner for outstanding service to the Ohio Senate.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring First Presbyterian Church of Waterville on its One Hundred Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Honoring Donna G. Pusecker for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Honoring the Dublin Jerome High School girls golf team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Nick Rutschilling as the winner of the 2012 National FFA Swine Production Placement Proficiency Award.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To make changes to the statute authorizing injunctive relief and liquidated damages to compensate for harm caused by the destruction of public records, and to designate the Act as "The Public Corruption Prosecution Act."
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
Honoring Mitch Trubisky as the 2012 Mr. Football for Ohio.
Sponsor: John Eklund
To create the Ohio Health Insurance Oversight Board and to require that external reviews of adverse determinations be conducted by a panel of three clinical peers appointed by the Board.
Sponsor: Peggy Lehner
Honoring the Summit Country Day School boys soccer team on winning the 2012 Division III State Championship.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
Honoring John and Jane Moyer on receiving the 2012 FirstLight HomeCare Franchisee of the Year Award.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
To create the Ohio bond bank to assist political subdivisions with borrowing and with the acquisition of property by acting as a financing conduit.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
Honoring the Bishop Fenwick High School girls soccer team on winning the 2012 Division III State Championship.
Sponsor: William Coley
Honoring the Kenton Ridge High School marching band on being selected to perform at the 2012 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Sponsor: Christopher Widener
To authorize the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Richland County to the Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society.
Sponsor: Frank LaRose
To add to and clarify the powers of a receiver and to provide a procedure for a receiver's sale of real property.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To express the General Assembly's support of
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
To revise rule-making and rule review procedures.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To revise the law governing the professions of chemical dependency counseling and alcohol and other drug prevention and to remove wheelchairs from nursing facilities' Medicaid direct care costs.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
Relative to travel allowance.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Coldwater High School football team as the 2012 Division V State Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
As Introduced 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. J. R. No. 7 Representative Goyal
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
To permit the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to investigate criminal activity involving the operation of a scheme of chance under the Gambling Law, to require the Attorney General to adopt rules describing certain prohibited schemes of chance that use an electronic device to reveal the results, and to make other changes related to schemes of chance.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To require a physician interpreting a mammogram who determines that the patient has dense breast tissue to specify this in the mammography report sent to the patient.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To memorialize the Congress of the United States to
Sponsor: Dave Burke
To specify licensing and continuing education requirements for insurance agents involved in selling, soliciting, or negotiating sickness and accident insurance through a health benefit exchange.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
With respect to a school district's withholding or transfer to another district or school of the records of a child who is alleged or adjudicated an abused, neglected, or dependent child.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To modify the call before you dig notification system.
Sponsor: William Coley
To modify counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist licensing law; to provide certain professional rights to such licensees; and to permit the Department of Developmental Disabilities to conduct assessments of residents of intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities, for the first quarter of calendar year 2013.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
Honoring Urban Meyer for his outstanding coaching accomplishments.
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
Honoring the Clinton-Massie High School football team as the 2012 Division IV State Champion.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
Honoring The Ohio State University football team on its undefeated season.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To require a court in determining the sentence for a criminal offense to consider emotional, mental, or physical conditions traceable to an offender's military service that contributed to the offender's commission of the offense and to consider the offender's military service record.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To revise the laws governing the practice of psychology.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
To authorize the Director of Transportation to enter into an agreement or contract with any entity to establish a traveler information program to provide real-time traffic conditions and travel time information at no cost to the traveler, to require motor vehicle operators to take certain actions upon approaching a highway maintenance vehicle, and to modify the standard for determining the amount of the performance and payment bonds for certain Department of Transportation contracts.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring The Ohio State University marching band on receiving national online attention.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
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 and to provide that a conviction or guilty plea of the offense of driving a vehicle while writing, sending, or reading a text-based communication on a handheld electronic wireless communications device and a conviction or guilty plea of a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance for the same conduct are allied offenses of similar import and that an adjudication for the offense of a person who is less than 18 years of age from using, in any manner, an electronic wireless communications device while driving and an adjudication of a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance for the same conduct are allied offenses of similar import.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
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.
Sponsor: Ryan Smith
To divide the New Markets Tax Credit program into the New Markets Revitalization Tax Credit program, with an annual credit cap of $15 million, and the New Markets Expansion Tax Credit program, with an annual credit cap of $35 million, and to specify separate standards and application procedures for each program.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring Cheryl Roberto for her years of service to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To adopt the Adena Pipe as the official artifact of the state.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Bishop Watterson High School field hockey team as the 2012 State runner-up.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To establish a minimum school year for school districts, STEM schools, and chartered nonpublic schools based on hours, rather than days, of instruction.
Sponsor: John Adams
To authorize a joint board of county commissioners to conduct proceedings regarding existing joint county ditches via teleconference or video conference.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
Honoring the City of Grandview Heights Finance Department on receiving an Auditor of State Award with Distinction.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To require the court clerk to promptly give written notice to the county sheriff and chief law enforcement officer of the political subdivision in which a person accused of an offense of violence will reside as a condition of bail if the offense was not committed in that political subdivision and to require the Adult Parole Authority to give similar notice to the chief law enforcement officer of the political subdivision in which an inmate who served a prison term for an offense of violence and is on parole or post-release control establishes a residence if not the political subdivision in which that offense was committed.
Sponsor: Jay Hottinger
To require that rules governing maternity units, newborn care nurseries, and maternity homes include certain provisions pertaining to the authority to make decisions regarding the transfer of patients to other facilities.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Rick Stretch for having the 2012 World Nite Hunt champion coonhound.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
Honoring Richard H. Collins on the dedication of the Findlay Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol in his name.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To authorize a board of county commissioners of any county to enter into agreements for the sale and leaseback of all or portions of county buildings, and to authorize a township to reimburse an officer or employee for out-of-pocket premiums attributable to insurance coverage provided for the immediate dependents of the officer or employee.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Honoring the City of Westerville as a 2012 Healthy Ohio-Healthy Community.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring Lucille Mayer as a member of the James A. Garfield Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To urge the Congress of the United States to take
Sponsor: Daniel Ramos
Honoring the Franklin High School cheerleading squad as the 2012 OASSA Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
Honoring the Bishop Fenwick High School girls soccer team as the 2012 Division III State Champion.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
Honoring Carole Morbitzer as the 2013 Ohio Teacher of the Year.
Sponsor: Michael Stinziano
Honoring the late Perry B. Jackson as a member of the James A. Garfield Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To recognize November 2012 as Personal Health Care
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring Richard R. Hollington, Jr. as a member of the James A. Garfield Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Perrysburg High School girls soccer team on winning the 2012 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: Randall Gardner
To increase from more than 100 to more than 1,000 the population necessary for a municipal corporation other than a municipal corporation located on an island in Lake Erie to have a mayor's court.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 373 Senator Niehaus
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring the Logan County Braves Special Olympics softball team as the 2012 Division IV State Champion.
Sponsor: Dorothy Pelanda
Honoring John Glenn on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Friendship 7.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Jacquelyn Crow as a 2012 Division I State Cross Country Champion.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
Honoring Jack Lint as a 2012 USA Track and Field National Junior Olympic Champion.
Sponsor: Andrew Brenner
Honoring Representative Todd A. Snitchler for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Sandusky County Special Olympics softball team as the 2012 Division III State Champion.
Sponsor: Rex Damschroder
Recognizing December 1, 2012, as World AIDS Day.
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Recognizing the Honorable Ralph M. Hall on the unveiling of his official portrait.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To authorize the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Richland County to the Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society.
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
In memory of Alex A. Boudreaux.
Sponsor: Carlton Weddington
To encourage the permanent establishment of
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
Honoring the Coldwater High School girls bowling team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring the Princeton Media Network on winning two Philo T. Farnsworth awards at the Alliance for Community Video Central States Regional Conference.
Sponsor: Connie Pillich
Honoring Hannah Wexner and Andrea Ballinger as the 2012 Division II State Champions in girls doubles tennis.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To request the Congress of the United States to
Sponsor: Teresa Fedor
Honoring Ryan Hawks as a 2012 world archery champion.
Sponsor: Clifford Rosenberger
Honoring Nick Altenbach as a 2012 Eastern Conference Finals Drag Racing Champion.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring Ian Whitaker on receiving the Boy Scouts of America Heroism Medal.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
Honoring Sarah Kanney as the 2012 Division III State Cross Country Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring The Ohio State University on the Ninetieth Anniversary of Ohio Stadium.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring the U.S. Marine Corps on its Centennial in aviation.
Sponsor: Peter Beck
Honoring A. Malachi Mixon III as a member of the James A. Garfield Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Upper Arlington High School boys water polo team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Lexi Aughenbaugh on winning the 3,200-meter run at the 2012 Division IState Track and Field Championships.
Sponsor: Barbara Sears
Honoring Gracie Fusco as Miss American Sweetheart 2012 and USA National Preteen 2012.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
Honoring the late Lillian W. Burke as a member of the James A. Garfield Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Deborah Turner as the 2012 CEAO Teacher of the Year.
Sponsor: Bill Hayes
In memory of the Reverend Michael M. DeBose.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
That is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2014, to continue amendments made by this act to that section; and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
Regarding the Ohio Cancer Incidence Surveillance System.
Sponsor: Kenny Yuko
Honoring Carol Fitzsimons as a 2012 Transplant Games of America medalist.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
Honoring the Lebanon High School drumline on winning the 2012 WGI Scholastic A World Championship.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
Honoring the Arlington High School girls basketball team as the 2012 Division IV State Champion.
Sponsor: Robert Sprague
To recognize November 2012 as Personal Health Care
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To prohibit the operation of a motor vehicle on or onto any location that is temporarily covered by a rise in water level and to impose on an offender a financial sanction of up to $2,000 for the cost of the person's rescue, payable to the person's rescuer.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
Honoring the Columbus Academy field hockey team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To require certain health care professionals to wear, when providing direct patient care, an identification card, badge, or similar device that includes a photograph of the professional and specifies the license held by the professional and to make certain changes regarding advertising for health care services.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
Honoring Andrea Ballinger as a 2012 Division II State Girls Doubles Tennis Champion.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring the Perrysburg High School girls soccer team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Honoring Horizon Science Academy Columbus High School on being selected as a 2012 National Blue Ribbon School.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To revise the Ethics Law.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To require the Medicaid program and to authorize health care insurers to provide coverage of telehealth services.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
To prohibit governmental authorities outside Ohio from financing various kinds of capital projects in Ohio without the consent of local authorities or the Director of Development Services.
Sponsor: Ron Amstutz
Honoring Hannah Wexner as a 2012 Division II State Girls Doubles Tennis Champion.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To require licensure of residential construction contractors and to create the Residential Builders' and Maintenance and Alteration Contractors' Licensing Board to regulate the licensure and performance of residential construction contractors.
Sponsor: Bill Patmon
Relative to travel allowance.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To prioritize the distribution of funds for family planning services.
Sponsor: John Adams
To recognize the importance of Ohio's county fairs
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To encourage the Ohio Department of Health to
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
To authorize the Director of Rehabilitation and Correction to implement a program to improve prisoners' access to psychotropic drugs and a program authorizing the provision of medical and behavioral health care to prisoners through telecommunication methods.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Connie Gardner as an American women's record holder in long distance running.
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
Honoring Paula Athey on her retirement.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To provide for the Ohio General Assembly to meet in
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Connie B. Seaburn on her retirement.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To specify that income tax revenue generated within a joint economic development zone (JEDZ) may be used for the purposes of any party to the JEDZ agreement including contracting townships.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
In memory of Sergeant First Class Bobby Lee Estle.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
Honoring Deborah Turner as the 2012 CEAO Teacher of the Year.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
Honoring the City of Dublin on being named a World Festival and Event City.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To add to and clarify the powers of a receiver and to provide a procedure for a receiver's sale of real property.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring Cameron Willis as the 2012 Division II State Champion in boys golf.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
In memory of the Honorable Dana A. Deshler.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the St. Francis DeSales High School baseball team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Mike Duffey
Honoring Miguel Cepeda as a 2012 Division I State Boys Doubles Tennis Champion.
Sponsor: Peter Beck
Honoring The Brew Kettle Production Works on winning a gold, silver, and bronze medal at the 2012 International Beer Fest.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Honoring the John Sells Middle School Moderately Confused FIRST LEGO League team as the 2012 FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation Award co-recipient.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the City of Chardon on its Two Hundredth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Matthew Lynch
Honoring the St. Francis DeSales High School boys lacrosse team as the 2012 Division II Lacrosse State Champion.
Sponsor: Mike Duffey
Honoring Erik Kynard as a 2012 Olympic silver medalist.
Sponsor: Matthew Szollosi
Honoring Dwight Radcliff on his retirement as the Pickaway County Sheriff.
Sponsor: Gary Scherer
Honoring Cassidy McCullough as the 2012 Division III State 300-meter low hurdles champion.
Sponsor: Jack Cera
Honoring the late Judge Lillian Walker Burke for lifetime achievement.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Colton Buffington as the 2012 Division I State Singles Tennis Champion.
Sponsor: Nan Baker
Honoring the Kent State University women's indoor track and field team as the 2012 Mid-American Conference Champion.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Honoring the School Employees Retirement System of Ohio on its Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Luke Tsai as a 2012 Division I State Boys Doubles Tennis Champion.
Sponsor: Peter Beck
Honoring Asbury North United Methodist Church on its Sesquicentennial.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the St. Edward High School boys outdoor track and field team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Honoring Madison Martin as a 2012 Division I State Swimming Champion.
Sponsor: Gerald Stebelton
Honoring the Kent State University men's golf team on winning the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Honoring Jesse Oxley as the 2012 OHSAA Division III State Pole Vault Champion.
Sponsor: Gerald Stebelton
Honoring Ameryst Alston as the 2012 Ms. Basketball for Ohio.
Sponsor: Stephen Slesnick
Honoring John Adams on being named the 2011 ODRC Parole Officer of the Year.
Sponsor: Bill Hayes
Honoring the Kent State University baseball team on winning the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Honoring Morgan Estes as the 2012 Division I State Pole Vault Champion.
Sponsor: Anthony DeVitis
Honoring Chardon Township on its Bicentennial.
Sponsor: Matthew Lynch
In memory of Corporal Nicholas Olivas.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the St. Edward High School rugby team as the 2012 State Champion.
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Honoring Sarah Kanney as the 2012 Division II State 1600-meter run champion.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring Valley Vineyards for its success at the 2012 Finger Lakes International Wine Competition.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
Honoring Arison Boswell as a 2012 National Champion in Karate.
Sponsor: Jarrod Martin
Honoring Catholic Charities, Diocese of Cleveland on its Centennial.
Sponsor: Bill Patmon
To eliminate the authority of the Director of Budget and Management and the Director of Transportation in regard to Ohio Turnpike-related outsourcing contracts and to require the Ohio Turnpike Commission to hold public hearings on the issue of outsourcing the Ohio Turnpike.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
Honoring Hannah Fleck as the 2012 Division II State 800-meter run champion.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring the Kent State University women's golf team as the 2012 Mid-American Conference Champion.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Honoring the Little Miami High School Women's Chorale on winning a silver medal at the 2012 World Choir Games.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
In memory of Jason Gresko.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring New Vision Television of Youngstown on receiving the 2012 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award.
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
Honoring the Kent State University women's outdoor track and field team as the 2012 Mid-American Conference Champion.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Honoring Destinee Gause as a 2012 Division I State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring Brittany Lawson as a 2012 Irish Cup Grand Champion and a National Champion in Karate.
Sponsor: Jarrod Martin
Honoring the Solon Middle School chess team as the 2012 State Champion.
Sponsor: Marlene Anielski
Honoring Kayla Harrison on winning a gold medal in judo at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
Sponsor: Timothy Derickson
Honoring Tyler Cobb on winning the Ohio Athletic Committee and Ourway state championships.
Sponsor: Matthew Szollosi
Honoring the Solon High School chess team as the 2012 State Champion.
Sponsor: Marlene Anielski
Honoring Wayne County on its Two Hundredth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Ron Amstutz
Honoring Donovan Robertson as a 2012 Division I State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Honoring Brittany Beeghley as a 2012 State Bowling Champion.
Sponsor: Gerald Stebelton
Honoring the Tribune Chronicle on its Bicentennial.
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
Honoring the Medina High School girls lacrosse team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Anthony Shivers on winning the 2012 Division II State Championship in the discus.
Sponsor: Craig Newbold
Honoring Brannon Kidder on winning three 2012 Division I State Track and Field Championship titles.
Sponsor: Gerald Stebelton
Honoring Karrington Pettiford-Winters as a 2012 Division I State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring Dylan Dyke as the 2012 OHSAA Division II State Shot Put Champion.
Sponsor: Clifford Rosenberger
To designate a portion of State Route 619 within the municipal corporation of Barberton as the "Staff Sergeant Howard E. Woodford Medal of Honor Recipient Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Thomas Sawyer
To exempt from sales and use taxes the sale or use of investment metal bullion and coins.
Sponsor: Kris Jordan
To revise the laws governing income taxes imposed by municipal corporations.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
In memory of Dr. Richard Dale Ruppert.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Honoring Jessica Porvasnik as the 2012 Division I State Champion in girls golf.
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
To urge Congress to pass the "Federal Reserve
Sponsor: Kris Jordan
To establish a Joint Committee on Government Efficiency that, on or before August 1, 2014, must issue a report recommending the elimination or consolidation of state agencies and proposing an income tax rate reduction corresponding to the savings projected from its recommendations.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
To permit the Division of Securities to order the payment of administrative assessments and investigatory costs, and to issue consent orders, for violations of the Securities Law and to make other changes to that Law relative to the preparation and auditing of financial statements.
Sponsor: Gerald Stebelton
To prohibit a professional sports team for whom a sports facility was constructed using public funds from entering into a contract that prohibits the broadcast of the sports team's games based upon the number of tickets sold.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To modify Ohio civil rights laws related to employment and the statute of limitations for other specified claims against an employer.
Sponsor: William Coley
To require operators and pipeline companies to disclose the country in which oil country tubular goods steel products were manufactured.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To include pervasive developmental disorders in the mental health insurance parity law.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To authorize county recorders to issue veterans identification cards.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To include pervasive developmental disorders in the mental health insurance parity law.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
Honoring the City of Greenville as one of Ohio's Best Hometowns.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
To protect the rights of children before and during custodial interrogations.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To revise the requirements concerning an oil and gas permit application, an oil and gas well completion record, designation of trade secret protection for chemicals used to drill or stimulate an oil and gas well, and disclosure of chemical information to a medical professional, to require an owner to report all chemicals brought to a well site, and to make other changes in the Oil and Gas Law.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
Honoring Columbus Castings on its One Hundred Tenth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Honoring St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite on its One Hundredth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
To revise the required setback distance of a well from an occupied dwelling and to establish oil and brine storage tank requirements.
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
Honoring Eric Vendel for outstanding service to LSC.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To revise the requirements concerning an oil and gas permit application, an oil and gas well completion record, designation of trade secret protection for chemicals used to drill or stimulate an oil and gas well, and disclosure of chemical information to a medical professional, to require an owner to report all chemicals brought to a well site, and to make other changes in the Oil and Gas Law.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To revise the management of municipal school districts and community schools located within municipal school districts; to permit the establishment of a Municipal School District Transformation Alliance; to expand the offense of bribery to cover directors, officers, and employees of the Alliance; and to authorize municipal school districts to levy property taxes the revenue from which may be shared with partnering community schools.
Sponsor: Nicholas Celebrezze
To make changes to the laws governing local governments, to expressly define "residential property" for the purpose of the existing limitation on tax exemption for such property under the tax increment financing law, to modify the requirements of arresting authorities and courts regarding venereal disease testing of individuals accused of certain offenses, to modify the manner in which funds are allocated from the Ohio Legal Aid Fund, to modify the deadline for the certification to the ballot of the major political parties' candidates for president and vice-president for the November 6, 2012, general election, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To change the law regarding a County Recorder's release of a veteran's record of discharge, to modify the duties of the Director of Veterans Services with respect to publishing information about Veterans Services offices, to modify the composition of the Veterans Advisory Committee, to grant in-state tuition for nonresident spouses and dependents of veterans who served on active duty and are deceased, to allow extra credit to military veterans and reserve component members on state civil service examinations, to provide for the reemployment of nonteaching school employees following military service in accordance with federal law, to extend the period of time within which persons serving in the Ohio National Guard may meet continuing education requirements for occupational licenses and renew their licenses, to require that workers' compensation claims of members of the organized militia be determined in accordance with applicable line of duty regulations, to require landlords to observe the rights of tenants who are service members under federal law, to modify the order of priority in which veterans may participate in job training programs, to permit but not require the use of armories by patriotic and national organizations, to update references in the Revised Code to federal statutes relating to the National Guard, to conform the Ohio Code of Military Justice to the United States Code of Military Justice, and to make other changes to the Ohio Code of Military Justice.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
To rename the Department of Development the "Development Services Agency"; to establish the Office of TourismOhio within the Development Services Agency, create the TourismOhio Advisory Board, and establish a pilot program to test a new funding mechanism for the state's travel and tourism marketing; to modify the operation of JobsOhio, including by requiring annual ethics training, ethical conduct statements, and the development of a gift policy; to makes changes to the Capital Access Loan Program Fund and to allow transfers to the Capital Access Loan Program Fund from the Minority Business Enterprise Loan Fund; to provide for projects that were started prior to receiving a tax credit from the Ohio Tax Credit Authority; to modify reporting requirements under the Voluntary Action Program; to require the Director of Development Services to administer federal funds received for Brownfields revitalization purposes; to terminate the Water and Sewer Commission; to terminate the Development Financing Advisory Council; to require the Director of Development Services to make certain information available to the public with respect to each project for which state-funded financial assistance is awarded by the Development Services Agency; to expand eligibility for the historic rehabilitation tax credit; to establish an annual debt service limitation on project financing obligations issued for certain economic development programs; and to increase the membership of the Third Frontier Commission.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
And to amend Section 5 of Am. Sub. H.B. 86 of the 129th General Assembly to exclude most juvenile proceedings and adjudications from criminal records checks; to ensure that persons sentenced to confinement receive credit for time served in juvenile facilities; to expand eligibility for the sealing of criminal records and to eliminate the prohibition of the sealing of juvenile records in certain cases; to make the use or possession with purpose to use drug paraphernalia with marihuana a minor misdemeanor; to provide that a court's failure to warn an offender at sentencing about the possibility that the court may order community service if the offender fails to pay the costs of prosecution does not negate or limit the authority of the court to so order community service; to permit an individual subject to civil sanctions as a result of a conviction of or plea of guilty to a criminal offense to file a petition for relief from the sanctions and establish a procedure for the review of such petitions; to permit the court of common pleas of the individual's county of residence to issue a certificate of qualification for employment; to permit decision-makers to consider on a case-by-case basis whether to grant or deny the issuance or restoration of an occupational license or employment opportunity to an offender who has been issued such a certificate regardless of the offender's possession of the certificate and without reconsidering or rejecting any finding made by the issuing court; to provide for the revocation of a certificate of qualification for employment; to increase from eighteen to twenty-one the age at which certain offenders may be held in places not authorized for the confinement of children; to increase the juvenile court's jurisdiction over certain specified cases solely for the purpose of detaining a person while the person's case is heard in adult court; to create a process by which a prosecutor may file a motion in juvenile court to request that a person be held in a place other than those specified for the placement for children while the person's case is heard in adult court; to amend the law governing child support; to modify the penalty for driving under suspension if the suspension was imposed as part of the penalty for certain violations that do not directly involve the operation of a motor vehicle; to make changes in certain other driver's license suspension provisions; to require the Department of Public Safety to study the advisability and feasibility of a one-time amnesty program for drivers who have not paid fees or fines owed by them for motor vehicle offenses and driver's license suspensions; to define the terms moral turpitude and disqualifying offense as applied to certain employment; to provide for criminal records checks and a license issuance restriction regarding applicants for a trainee license for a profession or occupation; to require the Casino Control Commission to notify each applicant for a license from the Commission who is denied the license of the reasons for the denial and to provide an annual report to the General Assembly and Governor that specifies the number of license applications denied in the year and the reasons for the denial; to add an ex-offender appointed by the Director of Rehabilitation and Correction to the Ex-offender Reentry Coalition; to increase the time limit for a prosecutor to file a motion in juvenile court that objects to the imposition of a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence; to prohibit competency attainment reports and juvenile bindover evaluation reports from including details of the alleged offense as reported by the child; to require juvenile bindover evaluation reports to be completed within forty-five days unless an extension is granted; to require the Department of Youth Services to develop minimum standards for training of juvenile offender probation officers; to extend the deadline for the Ohio Interagency Task Force on Mental Health and Juvenile Justice to issue a report of its findings and recommendations; to revise the penalties for certain fifth degree felony drug offenses to generally favor not imposing a prison term; to permit the judges of the various courts of the state that supervise a concurrent supervision offender to authorize the chief probation officer to manage concurrent supervision offenders; to expand the availability of the probation improvement and incentive grants to municipal and county courts; to transfer control of the transitional control program from the Adult Parole Authority to the Division of Parole and Community Services; to amend the penalty for failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer; to eliminate the requirement that a court sentencing a felony offender provide notice of possible eligibility for earning days of credit; and to prohibit the preclusion of individuals from obtaining or renewing certain licenses, certifications, or permits due to any past criminal history unless the individual had committed a crime of moral turpitude or a disqualifying offense.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To prohibit designing, building, constructing, fabricating, modifying, or altering a vehicle to create or add a hidden compartment with the intent to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance, prohibit operating, possessing, or using a vehicle with a hidden compartment with knowledge that the hidden compartment is used or intended to be used to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance, and prohibit a person who has committed a first or second degree felony violation of aggravated trafficking in drugs from operating, possessing, or using a vehicle with a hidden compartment.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To shorten the period of limitations for actions upon a contract in writing.
Sponsor: Gary Scherer
To permit a judge to elect to order the Registrar of Motor Vehicles not to suspend the probationary driver's license, restricted license, or temporary instruction permit of certain juvenile repeat traffic violators, to require the Director of Public Safety to establish standards for advanced juvenile driver improvement programs, and to transfer authority to establish standards for juvenile driver improvement programs from the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to the Director of Public Safety.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To make changes to Ohio's Business Opportunity Plan Law.
Sponsor: Gary Scherer
To create the Cybersecurity, Education, and Economic Development Council.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
To make changes to the law governing scrap metal dealers and bulk merchandise dealers.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To increase the number of miles a school district board may authorize its motor vehicles for out-of-state travel.
Sponsor: John Adams
To modify the Agricultural Linked Deposit Program with respect to the maximum amount the Treasurer of State may invest in agricultural linked deposits, the interest rate at which loans are made under the Program, and the maximum loan amount.
Sponsor: Philip Rose
To permit a county budget commission to authorize voluntary audits of county offices and make nonbinding recommendations regarding proposed county tax levies and budgets.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To establish conditions for watercraft safety inspections.
Sponsor: John Adams
To generally prohibit a person from having a firearm on privately owned land or premises unless the person owns, controls, or resides on or in the land or premises, has permission of the owner or person who controls the land or premises and, if the land or premises is rental property, of the tenant when required, or is the tenant with respect to those premises.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
To designate a portion of State Route 676 in Washington County as the "U.S. Army Specialist Allen Nolan Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Andy Thompson
In memory of the Honorable Dana A. Deshler.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Colton Buffington on winning the 2012 Division I State Championship in boys singles tennis.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
Honoring the Ross High School Alpha Technologies team as the 2012 SAGE World Cup runner-up.
Sponsor: William Coley
To revise the law governing type B family day-care homes on January 1, 2014.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To restrict a person's ability to require, solicit, mail, and publicly display social security numbers.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To require insurance providers to cover human papillomavirus screenings and vaccines.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To require that every proceeding before any court of record be recorded by an audio electronic recording device and that the recording be made available immediately following the proceeding to any party to the proceeding and, except to the extent that the recording is a record to which public access is restricted by court rule or statute, to any other person, and to request the Supreme Court to amend the court rules it has adopted to include in those Rules provisions that correspond to the bill's requirements.
Sponsor: Sandra Williams
To require that employees of food service operations be trained in performing the Heimlich maneuver.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To designate a portion of State Route 10 in Lorain County as the "Master Sergeant Adam F. Benjamin Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring Jacob Wukie as a 2012 Olympic silver medalist.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Honoring Centenary United Methodist Church on its One Hundred Twelfth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Honoring Maggie Feng as a silver medalist at the 2012 Pan-American Youth Chess Championship.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
In memory of Neil Armstrong.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Theta Phi Alpha Fraternity on its Centennial.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
Regarding the sale of real property by school districts.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Abby Johnston as a 2012 Summer Olympics silver medalist.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Huron High School on its One Hundred Twenty-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
To memorialize the Congress of the United States to
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
Honoring Kathy Grant on her retirement from state service.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring Sheriff Dwight Radcliff on his retirement.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
Relative to travel allowance.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To specify that a nonprofit corporation, the principal purpose of which is operating a halfway house, community-based correctional facility, or other venue offering rehabilitative residential programming to criminal offenders is presumed to be a charitable institution exempt from property taxation.
Sponsor: William Seitz
To require school districts to allow alternative summer meal sponsors to use school facilities to provide food service for summer intervention services regardless of financial reasons if at least half of the students are federally eligible for free lunches, to allow the distribution and consumption of meals on a school bus, and to create a healthy food license for child day-care centers and school child programs.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To designate the first week in October as "Nonviolence Week."
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To require the Director of Commerce to keep a list of Ohio call centers, or facilities or operating units within a call center, that transfer or relocate to a foreign country, to prohibit call centers operating in a foreign country from receiving state funds, and to require call center employees to disclose their location to United States consumers if the call center is operating in a foreign country and transfer a consumer to a United States call center upon request.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To prohibit certain indemnity agreements in motor vehicle carrier transportation contracts.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To make changes to the energy and natural resources laws and related programs of the state.
Sponsor: Ryan Smith
To create a Tax Expenditure Review Committee for the purpose of reviewing existing and proposed tax expenditures.
Sponsor: John Adams
To provide that an individual's statutory priority to decide whether or not to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment for the individual's relative is forfeited if the individual is charged with felonious assault or aggravated assault resulting in the relative being in a terminal condition from the physical harm suffered.
Sponsor: Terry Boose
To designate June as "Ohio Wines Month" and to allow certain agency liquor stores to sell beer, wine, or mixed beverages for on- and off-premises consumption.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
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, and to specify that it is the intent of the General Assembly to declare that the American Law Institute's finalized "Restatement Third of Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm" does not constitute the public policy of the state of Ohio and to codify the current law of Ohio regarding the duties owed to trespassers by those who own, occupy, or control premises.
Sponsor: Gary Scherer
To authorize employers who meet certain wage and other requirements to receive a job creation tax credit for the employment of home-based employees and to require the Director of Development to issue a report on the credit after six years.
Sponsor: Matthew Lynch
To make changes to the laws governing the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes in the state and to the laws governing public accounting firm peer review.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To revise requirements governing background investigations for purposes of the Solid, Hazardous, and Infectious Wastes Law.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To change the composition of certain metropolitan housing authorities.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To make changes to the law regulating fraternal benefit societies, the laws regulating insurance company investments, and the law regulating adverse benefit determinations.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To establish licensure requirements for genetic counselors, to modify certain laws governing the State Medical Board, and to create a visiting clinical professional development certificate for certain physicians who are not licensed in Ohio.
Sponsor: Anthony DeVitis
To designate March 2013 as "Ohio Medal of Honor Month."
Sponsor: Ronald Gerberry
To establish requirements governing the possession of dangerous wild animals and restricted snakes.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To designate the week in which Labor Day occurs each year as "Ohio Coal Miners Week."
Sponsor: Terry Boose
To generally prohibit any person from knowingly conducting any transaction of public funds to the benefit of any campaign committee, political action committee, legislative campaign fund, political party, campaign fund, political committee, separate segregated fund, or candidate.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
To revise the laws governing environmental protection.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring the Northmont High School Academic Challenge team on winning the 2012 National History Bowl.
Sponsor: Peter Beck
Honoring the Versailles High School girls track and field team on winning the 2012 Division III State Championship.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring Karena Fulks as the 2012 OHSAA Division II State Long Jump Champion.
Sponsor: Ryan Smith
Honoring the Lakewood High School girls rugby team as the 2012 State Champion.
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Recognizing Robert M. Chiaramonte on Heritage Hall being dedicated in his honor.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Wheelersburg High School baseball team as the 2012 Division III State Champion.
Sponsor: Terry Johnson
To amend Section 753.25 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly, to correct the legal property description in a previously authorized conveyance of state-owned real estate, to authorize the Governor to execute the necessary deeds for the conveyance of thirteen state properties, to authorize the Ohio Historical Society to execute a deed conveying state-owned real estate to the United States, to authorize the Director of Administrative Services to execute an easement granting to the City of Cambridge a perpetual interest in real estate associated with an existing water supply line at the Cambridge Developmental Center, to authorize the Governor to execute a deed for property in Montgomery County previously conveyed by the state to release all rights of reversion, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring Dr. Bobby D. Moser as he retires from The Ohio State University.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Sam Prakel as a 2012 Division III State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring Summitville Tiles, Inc. on its Centennial Anniversary.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Ohio Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association on its Ninetieth Anniversary.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Henke Winery as a 2012 Ohio Wine Competition Champion.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To establish mandatory training for used motor vehicle dealers.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
In memory of Marc J. Titus.
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
To create the SiteOhio certification program within the Department of Development to certify and market eligible commercial, industrial, and manufacturing sites and facilities.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To permit Ohio banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, and credit unions to charge the same or lower rates or amounts of interest, fees, or other charges under a revolving credit agreement that the respective out-of-state financial institutions may charge Ohio revolving credit customers.
Sponsor: William Coley
To establish a program for the issuance of permits for the withdrawal and consumptive use of waters from the Lake Erie basin and to establish other requirements related to the implementation of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
Honoring Jacob Blankenship on winning the 2012 OHSAA Division I State Championship in the pole vault.
Sponsor: Nancy Garland
In memory of Cheryl Winkler.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
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.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To prohibit driving a vehicle while writing, sending, or reading a text-based communication on a handheld electronic wireless communications device and to establish the violation as a secondary traffic offense; to prohibit a person who is less than 18 years of age from using, in any manner, an electronic wireless communications device while driving; and to require driver education courses to include instruction in the dangers of texting while driving.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
Honoring the Isabelle Ridgway Care Center on its Centennial.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To enhance support and services for veterans at state institutions of higher education and to require each institution to develop a policy for awarding academic credit to veterans for training received while in the military.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
Honoring Dr. Bobby D. Moser on his retirement from The Ohio State University.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring Richard H. Bloedel on his retirement from the Ohio Legislative Service Commission.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring Kenzie Conrad as the 2012 MaxPreps National Softball Player of the Year.
Sponsor: Gayle Manning
To establish minimum hours during which absent voter's ballots must be available for use in person and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To designate memorial interchanges and a memorial pedestrian bridge in Huron County.
Sponsor: Dennis Murray
To require the Governor to participate in House Question Times.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To authorize the issuance of an enhanced driver's license, enhanced commercial driver's license, and enhanced identification card to facilitate land and sea border crossings between the United States and Canada and Mexico, pursuant to an agreement with the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To designate a portion of State Route 101 between the municipal corporations of Castalia and Sandusky only, as the "Sfc. Charles L. Adkins Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Dennis Murray
To designate a portion of U.S. 250, in the municipal corporation of Sandusky only, as the "Specialist Charles E. Odums II Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Dennis Murray
Honoring the St. Edward High School rugby team on winning the 2012 State and Midwest championships.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To require the Department of Taxation to provide taxpayers the option of receiving their income tax refund in the form of a prepaid debit card.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
Honoring Jeffrey Feltman on being named under secretary general for political affairs for the United Nations.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
Honoring the 251st Cyber Engineering Installation Group of the Ohio Air National Guard as the top nonflying unit of the Air National Guard.
Sponsor: Christopher Widener
Honoring Natalie Hershberger as a Junior Olympic Champion in tae kwon do.
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
Honoring Hayden Starcher for heroism.
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
Honoring Douglas Andrews on his retirement as executive director of BENHA.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To permit authorized paramedics to administer immunizations for influenza to firefighters or emergency medical technicians.
Sponsor: Anthony DeVitis
To codify federal restrictions on local zoning of amateur station antenna structures thereby preserving amateur radio service communications as a Homeland Security resource and to place the burden of proof for compliance on the zoning authority.
Sponsor: John Adams
By Sections 2 and 4 of Am. Sub. H.B. 194 of the 129th General Assembly, and to repeal Sections 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Am. Sub. H.B. 194 of the 129th General Assembly, to continue in operation the provisions of the Election Law currently in effect.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To designate a portion of the State Route 4 bypass in Butler County as the "Terry Dean Garrison Memorial Bypass."
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To provide an income tax deduction for the value of any prize or award won by a taxpayer in athletic competition in the Olympic Games.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
Honoring Jim Piazza as the ESPN High School National Coach of the Year.
Sponsor: Gayle Manning
To establish a new default formula for determining the share allocated to each subdivision from a county's Local Government Fund distribution.
Sponsor: William Seitz
Honoring Kayla Harrison as a 2012 Summer Olympics gold medalist in judo.
Sponsor: William Coley
To provide a two-day sales tax "holiday" each August during which sales of back-to-school clothing, school supplies, computers, and computer accessories are exempt from sales and use taxes.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
Relating to the verification of a person's immigration status by a peace officer or law enforcement agency.
Sponsor: John Adams
To designate May as "Pediatric Stroke Awareness Month."
Sponsor: Matthew Lynch
To authorize grants to an employer that moves operations into a previously vacant facility and increases payroll by hiring and employing employees at the facility.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To exempt amateur boxing, kick boxing, karate, or wrestling events that benefit a charitable organization conducted under the supervision of the fraternal order of police of Ohio, the Ohio association of professional firefighters, or the Northern Ohio Fire Fighters from regulation by the Ohio Athletics Commission.
Sponsor: Joseph Schiavoni
To provide for the taking of a DNA sample from a person who is charged with a felony but not arrested for the offense or whose DNA sample related to a felony offense was not taken when required and to provide for a court order, upon the person's request, requiring the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to seal DNA specimens, records, and profiles taken from a person when the person is found not guilty, the charges are dismissed with prejudice, or the charges are dismissed without prejudice and the statute of limitations has expired.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring the City of Cuyahoga Falls on its Two Hundredth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Frank LaRose
Honoring the Marblehead Bank on its One Hundred Fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
To permit, for a limited time, the abatement of unpaid property taxes, penalties, and interest owed on property owned by a municipal corporation that would have been tax exempt except for a failure to comply with certain tax-exemption procedures and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Nina Turner
Honoring Walter Celley on receiving the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
To specify new criteria for the Buy Ohio Law.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To prohibit an employee of a public or nonpublic school or institution of higher education from engaging in sexual conduct with a minor who is enrolled in or attends that public or nonpublic school or who is enrolled in or attends that institution of higher education and is also enrolled in or attends a public or nonpublic school.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
Honoring the St. Francis DeSales High School baseball team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To remove a word from the Revised Code that may be perceived as derogatory toward veterans.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
Honoring Trisha Whatley for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring Lisa Siefker for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring Grove City on its One Hundred Sixtieth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
In memory of Harley E. Rouda, Sr.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Resch's Bakery on its Centennial.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Honoring the Moeller High School baseball team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To designate April 27 as "Emma 'Grandma' Gatewood Day."
Sponsor: Edna Brown
Honoring Christ Episcopal Church on its One Hundred Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
To prohibit the sale or manufacture of certain products containing bisphenol-A.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To require that employees in certain health care and other facilities be notified of bed bug or lice infestations.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
And to amend sections 205.30, 205.39.10, and 205.39.30 of Sub. H.B. 482 of the 129th General Assembly to limit state university overload fees and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To include cogeneration technology using waste or byproduct gas from an air contaminant source as a renewable energy resource.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
Honoring the St. Vincent-St. Mary High School girls track and field team as the Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Frank LaRose
Honoring Jack Nicklaus for his outstanding achievements as a professional golfer.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Springfield High School on receiving a 2012 Jefferson Award for Public Service.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Honoring St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church on its One Hundred Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Frank LaRose
Honoring Alex Obendorf as a 2012 Division I State Diving Champion.
Sponsor: Frank LaRose
Honoring the Twinsburg High School girls basketball team on winning the 2012 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: Frank LaRose
To require the court clerk to promptly give written notice to the county sheriff and chief law enforcement officer of the political subdivision in which a person accused of an offense of violence will reside as a condition of bail if the offense was not committed in that political subdivision and to require the Adult Parole Authority to give similar notice to the chief law enforcement officer of the political subdivision in which an inmate who served a prison term for an offense of violence and is on parole or post-release control establishes a residence if not the political subdivision in which that offense was committed.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
In memory of Deputy Sheriff Tim Mace.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To require free hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses, permits, and stamps for veterans.
Sponsor: Vernon Sykes
In memory of Staff Sergeant Robert A. Massarelli.
Sponsor: William Coley
Honoring the Hoover High School softball team on winning the 2012 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: Scott Oelslager
Honoring Joe Mankovecky as the 2012 Division II State high jump champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Matt Rowland on winning the 2012 Division II OHSAA Championship in the pole vault.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Honoring the Oakwood High School Academic Decathlon team on winning the 2012 Division III Academic Decathlon National Competition.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
Honoring Standard Register on its Centennial.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
To allow suppliers and consumers to enter into a Right to Cure agreement.
Sponsor: John Adams
To make capital appropriations and make changes related to the laws governing capital projects.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
To create the "Ohio Geology" license plate, 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, to eliminate the provision in the Special Vehicle Law that permits owners of certain off-highway motorcycles and all-purpose vehicles to register the motorcycles and vehicles by presenting affidavits of ownership rather than certificates of title, to relocate the portion of State Route 170 designated as the "Cpl. Kenneth Tyler Butler Memorial Highway," and to require the Director of Transportation to establish the business logo sign program and its fees by rule.
Sponsor: Mary Matheney
To require certain condominium association managers to hold a real estate broker's license, to make changes to the board meetings, record retention, and budget procedure requirements of the Condominium Law, and to establish the creation of a registry of condominium developments and the Ohio Condominium Dispute Resolution Board.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
Honoring the Upper Arlington High School boys lacrosse team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring the Midmark Corporation as a 2012 Edison Award recipient.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
To make changes to Ohio's Uniform Commercial Code and to provide that the Joint Legislative Ethics Committee is the appropriate ethics commission for matters relating to the public member appointees to the Constitutional Modernization Commission.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring the St. Francis DeSales High School boys lacrosse team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring the Upper Arlington High School boys tennis team as the 2012 Ohio Tennis Coaches Association Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To modify the laws governing the Intrastate Mutual Aid Compact, the volunteer database of the Department of Health and the Emergency Management Agency, to address the transmittal of certain data to the National Emergency Medical Services Information System and to revise ambulance staffing requirements.
Sponsor: Mary Matheney
To establish requirements and procedures governing propagating and hunting captive deer and to revise the law governing wild animal hunting preserves.
Sponsor: Brian Hill
To revise the law for new STEM school proposals, to establish a temporary STEM subcommittee to consider and approve proposals through July 31, 2012, to modify the Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities Bond Retirement Fund, and to make capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2014.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To include content on specified historical documents in the state academic standards and in the high school American history and government curriculum.
Sponsor: Louis Terhar
Honoring the Medina High School girls 4x800-meter relay team as the 2012 OHSAA Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
That is scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2012, to continue amendments made by this act to that section.
Sponsor: Timothy Derickson
To require the Attorney General annually to publish statistical data on human trafficking cases in Ohio, to provide for peace officer training and public awareness programs relative to human trafficking, to authorize a juvenile court to hold a delinquent child complaint in abeyance pending the child's completion of diversion actions if the alleged delinquent child is charged with prostitution-related conduct or is a victim of trafficking in persons, to ensure that minor victims of trafficking in persons are not prohibited from receiving awards from the Victims of Crime Fund, to increase the penalties for trafficking in persons and obstruction of justice, to prohibit a person from soliciting another to engage in sexual conduct with the offender when the other person is sixteen or seventeen years of age and a victim of trafficking in persons, to increase the penalty for procuring in certain circumstances, to require offenders convicted of promoting prostitution or of trafficking in persons under certain circumstances to register as sex offenders, to authorize a person convicted of or adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a prostitution-related offense or act to apply for expungement of the record of conviction or adjudication if the person's participation in the offense or act was a result of being a victim of human trafficking, to recommend that agencies that grant licenses for trades or professions require training related to human trafficking, to require the Division of Criminal Justice Services to create and make available a poster that provides information regarding the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, to create the Victims of Human Trafficking Fund, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
Honoring the 179th Airlift Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard on being recognized by the National Guard Association of the United States.
Sponsor: Kris Jordan
To require the development and operation of state-wide data centers, to authorize the issuance of securities to fund the data centers, and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Kirk Schuring
Honoring Alexandra "Lexi" Aughenbaugh as a 2012 Division I State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
To authorize the State Library Board to establish library districts for association libraries, to make other changes to the law governing the organization, governance, and operation of public libraries, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To classify as residents of the state for higher education purposes individuals who are not citizens or permanent legal residents of the United States if they meet certain eligibility requirements.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To establish a nonrefundable commercial activity tax credit for companies involved in horizontal well drilling or related oil and gas production services that hire Ohio residents who have completed a federally registered apprenticeship program.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
To exempt under certain circumstances a parent or a person acting in loco parentis from the prohibition of the interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications.
Sponsor: Kevin Boyce
To prohibit sex-selection abortions.
Sponsor: John Adams
To permit charitable organizations to conduct not-for-profit quarter auctions.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To designate Central State University as Ohio's 1890
Sponsor: Tracy Heard
To require registration and establish laws governing the practices of air conveyance system cleaning servicers.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To require the State Board of Education to recommend performance standards for dropout programs operated by school districts.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To urge Congress to enact the Stop Invasive Species
Sponsor: Nan Baker
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 290 Senator Faber
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To urge the Congress of the United States to take
Sponsor: Timothy Derickson
To create a special license plate for a person with a disability that limits or impairs the ability to walk and also is a veteran of the armed forces of the United States.
Sponsor: Connie Pillich
To urge the Congress of the United States and the
Sponsor: Clifford Rosenberger
Honoring the Dunbar High School track and field team on winning the 2012 OHSAA Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
To require the boards of trustees of state universities and the Northeast Ohio Medical University to adopt a resolution to grant or not grant to student members voting power and the authority to attend executive sessions.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Meghan Vogel as a 2012 Division III State Track and Field Champion and for exemplary sportsmanship.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Tom McNutt on his retirement from NBC4.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring the Minster High School baseball team on winning the 2012 Division IV State Championship.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Kenzie Conrad as the 2011-2012 Gatorade Ohio Softball Player of the Year.
Sponsor: Gayle Manning
To require the Auditor of State to adopt rules to solicit comparative data from local governments and school districts and to make that information available to the public.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
Honoring the Clintonville Academy robotics team as the 2012 FIRST Tech Challenge World runner-up.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring the Keystone High School softball team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Gayle Manning
To memorialize the President and Congress of the
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Honoring the Versailles High School girls track and field team as the 2012 Division III State Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To revise the management of municipal school districts and community schools located within municipal school districts; to permit the establishment of a Municipal School District Transformation Alliance; to expand the offense of bribery to cover directors, officers, and employees of the Alliance; and to authorize municipal school districts to levy property taxes the revenue from which may be shared with partnering community schools.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring the Troy branch of the UPS Store as the 2012 Mail Innovation Award recipient.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
To designate September 10 as "Gift of Life Hero Day."
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
Honoring Samuel Prakel for winning two Division II State Championships in track and field.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Candice Miller for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To authorize a court to inform the victim of any of certain offenses, without waiting for the victim's request, of the results of a court-ordered HIV test of the person accused of the offense.
Sponsor: John Adams
That are scheduled to take effect October 1, 2012, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date; to make operating and other appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
, to amend Section 3 of Sub. H.B. 277 of the 129th General Assembly, and to repeal Section 4 of Sub. H.B. 277 of the 129th General Assembly to make changes to the law regarding video lottery terminals, casino gaming, bingo and instant bingo, and horse racing, to establish a moratorium on new establishments conducting sweepstakes by sweepstakes terminal devices, to make appropriations, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To create the Statewide Blue Alert Program.
Sponsor: Terry Boose
To designate the ninth day of July as "Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Day."
Sponsor: Joseph Schiavoni
To allow the Attorney General to investigate the offenses of unauthorized use of property and telecommunications fraud and to modify the penalties for telecommunications fraud.
Sponsor: Anthony DeVitis
To modify the authority of certain advanced practice nurses to prescribe schedule II controlled substances and to authorize the Board of Nursing to take disciplinary actions for self-administration of schedule I controlled substances.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
Honoring C.J. Smith as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Dorothy Pelanda
Honoring the St. Charles Preparatory School JETS team as the 2011 Division III National Champion.
Sponsor: Tracy Heard
Honoring William J. Bauer II on being named the 2012 ODRC Correction Officer of the Year.
Sponsor: Ryan Smith
Honoring the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 on its Sesquicentennial.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Debby Hutras on her retirement from state service.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Lebanon High School drumline on being named National Champions.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
Honoring the Mason High School marching band on being presented with the 2011 Sudler Shield by the John Philip Sousa Foundation.
Sponsor: Peter Beck
Honoring the Fort Hamilton District of the Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts of America on its Centennial.
Sponsor: Margaret Conditt
Honoring the Warren G. Harding High School Quiz Bowl team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
Honoring Nilyshia Johnson as a 2012 Heinz Ketchup Creativity Contest winner.
Sponsor: Joseph Schiavoni
To adopt the Transfer of Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
Honoring the Lebanon High School Air Force Junior ROTC drill team as the 2011-2012 State Champion.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
Honoring the City of Findlay on its Two Hundredth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Robert Sprague
Honoring Deborah DeHaan on her retirement from the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Dr. David P. Keseg on receiving the 2012 Michael Keys Copass Award.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring Randy Bailey as the 2011 National Citizens Police Academy Coordinator of the Year.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring the St. Charles Preparatory School robotics team as the 2012 Rookie All-Star Award recipient.
Sponsor: Tracy Heard
Honoring Richard W. Durst on his retirement from Baldwin-Wallace College.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Honoring the Mount Vernon YMCA Rockets junior cheerleading squad as a 2012 All-Star Cheerleading Champion.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
Honoring the Thomas Worthington High School boys 4x400-meter indoor relay team on winning the 2012 Division I State Indoor Track Championship.
Sponsor: Mike Duffey
Honoring the Olmsted Falls High School academic team as the 2012 Ohio Academic Competition State Champion.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
In memory of Corporal Nicholas Olivas.
Sponsor: William Coley
To require governmental agencies and persons that own or license computerized data containing personal information to report security breaches to the Attorney General and to require the Attorney General to establish a searchable database of the reports that is accessible by the public.
Sponsor: Roland Winburn
To require the Department of Education to solicit from school districts and educational service centers regular studies of the time spent by occupational and physical therapists on certain activities and to use the studies to determine appropriate workloads.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
Honoring Max Kan as the 2012 Division II State Singles Tennis Champion.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To specify that the offense of intimidation of an attorney, victim, or witness in a criminal case also applies to delinquency cases and to attempts to influence, intimidate, or hinder a witness to a criminal or delinquent act regardless of whether an action or proceeding is pending.
Sponsor: John Carney
To include algaculture in the laws governing agriculture, in the definition of "agriculture" for purposes of the laws governing county and township zoning, and in the laws governing current agricultural use valuation; to exclude from zoning restrictions the production from certain feedstocks of biodiesel, biomass energy, electric or heat energy, and biologically derived methane gas; to include that production in the laws governing current agricultural use valuation; to provide for the establishment of best management practices for that production under the Concentrated Animal Feeding Facilities Law; to establish the Legislative Task Force to Study Anaerobic Digesters for Agricultural Use and Application in the State; and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Dave Burke
To designate March as "Macular Degeneration Awareness Month."
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
Honoring Berkwood M. Farmer on his retirement from Wright State University.
Sponsor: Christopher Widener
Honoring the Sylvania Southview High School Cougarettes as the 2012 OASSA Pom and Jazz Champion.
Sponsor: Barbara Sears
To allow an individual on active military duty, while on leave or furlough, to hunt deer or wild turkey without procuring a deer or wild turkey permit.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To prohibit any person from storing or leaving a firearm in the person's residence unless the firearm is secured in safe storage or rendered inoperable by a tamper-resistant lock or other safety device if the person knows or reasonably should know that a minor is able to gain access to the firearm and to provide criminal penalties if a minor gains unauthorized access to a firearm not so stored or rendered inoperable.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
Honoring U-CO Industries, Inc. as a top Honda supplier.
Sponsor: Dorothy Pelanda
In memory of Sergeant J.P. Huling.
Sponsor: Margaret Conditt
Honoring the Polaris Career Center culinary team as the 2012 ProStart Invitational State Champion.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Honoring Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School as a 2012 GRAMMY Signature School.
Sponsor: Tracy Heard
Honoring General Donald J. Hoffman on his retirement from the United States Air Force.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To regulate certificates of insurance prepared or issued as evidence of property or casualty insurance coverage.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Dr. Marsha S. Bordner on her retirement as president of Terra State Community College.
Sponsor: Rex Damschroder
Honoring Alexandra Aughenbaugh on winning the 2012 Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Indoor State Championship in the 3200-meter run.
Sponsor: Barbara Sears
Honoring Kate Peterson Abiad on setting a new record for career wins at Cleveland State University.
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Honoring the Fairborn High School senior flag line as the 2012 State Champion.
Sponsor: Jarrod Martin
Honoring Janet C. Wolfenbarger as the first female four-star general of the United States Air Force.
Sponsor: Jarrod Martin
Honoring the Polaris Career Center restaurant management team as the 2012 ProStart Invitational State Champion.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Regarding the provision of complementary or alternative health services.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring K. Michael Benz on his retirement from the United Way of Greater Cleveland.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To create the SharedWork Ohio Program.
Sponsor: Gary Scherer
Honoring William Frautschy as a grand national, national, and state handwriting champion.
Sponsor: Lou Gentile
Honoring the Aladdin Shriners on Tabloid Day, May 26, 2012.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Jerrie Mock as the first female aviator to fly solo around the world.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Honoring the Ohio Military Hall of Fame on the occasion of its 2012 induction ceremony.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
And to amend Section 5 of Am. Sub. H.B. 86 of the 129th General Assembly, to exclude most juvenile proceedings and adjudications from criminal records checks; to ensure that persons sentenced to confinement receive credit for time served in juvenile facilities; to expand eligibility for the sealing of criminal records and to eliminate the prohibition of the sealing of juvenile records in certain cases; to make the use or possession with purpose to use drug paraphernalia with marihuana a minor misdemeanor; to provide that a court's failure to warn an offender at sentencing about the possibility that the court may order community service if the offender fails to pay the costs of prosecution does not negate or limit the authority of the court to so order community service; to permit an individual subject to civil sanctions as a result of a conviction of or plea of guilty to a criminal offense to file a petition for relief from the sanctions and establish a procedure for the review of such petitions; to permit the court of common pleas of the individual's county of residence to issue a certificate of qualification for employment; to permit decision-makers to consider on a case-by-case basis whether to grant or deny the issuance or restoration of an occupational license or employment opportunity to an offender who has been issued such a certificate regardless of the offender's possession of the certificate and without reconsidering or rejecting any finding made by the issuing court; to provide for the revocation of a certificate of qualification for employment; to increase from eighteen to twenty-one the age at which certain offenders may be held in places not authorized for the confinement of children; to increase the juvenile court's jurisdiction over certain specified cases solely for the purpose of detaining a person while the person's case is heard in adult court; to create a process by which a prosecutor may file a motion in juvenile court to request that a person be held in a place other than those specified for the placement for children while the person's case is heard in adult court; to amend the law governing child support; to modify the penalty for driving under suspension if the suspension was imposed as part of the penalty for certain violations that do not directly involve the operation of a motor vehicle; to make changes in certain other driver's license suspension provisions; to require the Department of Public Safety to study the advisability and feasibility of a one-time amnesty program for drivers who have not paid fees or fines owed by them for motor vehicle offenses and driver's license suspensions; to define the terms moral turpitude and disqualifying offense as applied to certain employment; to provide for criminal records checks and a license issuance restriction regarding applicants for a trainee license for a profession or occupation; to require the Casino Control Commission to notify each applicant for a license from the Commission who is denied the license of the reasons for the denial and to provide an annual report to the General Assembly and Governor that specifies the number of license applications denied in the year and the reasons for the denial; to add an ex-offender appointed by the Director of Rehabilitation and Correction to the Ex-offender Reentry Coalition; to increase the time limit for a prosecutor to file a motion in juvenile court that objects to the imposition of a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence; to prohibit competency attainment reports and juvenile bindover evaluation reports from including details of the alleged offense as reported by the child; to require juvenile bindover evaluation reports to be completed within forty-five days unless an extension is granted; to require the Department of Youth Services to develop minimum standards for training of juvenile offender probation officers; to extend the deadline for the Ohio Interagency Task Force on Mental Health and Juvenile Justice to issue a report of its findings and recommendations; to revise the penalties for certain fifth degree felony drug offenses to generally favor not imposing a prison term; to permit the judges of the various courts of the state that supervise a concurrent supervision offender to authorize the chief probation officer to manage concurrent supervision offenders; to expand the availability of the probation improvement and incentive grants to municipal and county courts; to transfer control of the transitional control program from the Adult Parole Authority to the Division of Parole and Community Services; to amend the penalty for failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer; to eliminate the requirement that a court sentencing a felony offender provide notice of possible eligibility for earning days of credit; and to prohibit the preclusion of individuals from obtaining or renewing certain licenses, certifications, or permits due to any past criminal history unless the individual had committed a crime of moral turpitude or a disqualifying offense.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To honor and commemorate veterans of the Vietnam War
Sponsor: Peter Beck
Honoring Tom Culbertson on his retirement as the executive director of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center.
Sponsor: Dave Burke
To abolish the Sandusky County County Court, to create the Sandusky County Municipal Court, to provide that the judge of the Sandusky County Municipal Court shall be nominated by petition, to designate the clerk of courts of Sandusky County the clerk of the Sandusky County Municipal Court, to abolish the Trumbull County County Court, to create the Trumbull County Municipal Court, to create a full-time judgeship for the Trumbull County Municipal Court, and to provide that the judge be nominated by petition and elected in 2017 for a six-year term.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To permit persons who quit work to accompany the person's spouse on a military transfer to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To make various changes to the administration of the investment tax credit and the venture capital loan loss tax credit, including the increase of the maximum amount of the investment tax credit and the venture capital loan loss tax credit and the elimination of the Industrial Technology and Enterprise Advisory Councils.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To amend the Child Support Laws.
Sponsor: John Adams
To urge the Administration of President Barack Obama
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Honoring the Northmont High School Academic Challenge team on winning first place at the ONN State Brain Game and National History Bowl competitions.
Sponsor: Peggy Lehner
To authorize a board of county commissioners and a board of township trustees to order removal of vegetation on private property that blocks or otherwise interferes with the sight lines of motorists traveling on county or township roads, to authorize a board of township trustees to require certain ditches or culverts located in the township to be cleaned, and to require notice to be given to abutting landowners before the trimming or removal of certain vegetation growing in or encroaching onto the right-of-way of county or township roads.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To recognize the 2012 World Choir Games in
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To urge the Congress of the United States to
Sponsor: Terry Johnson
To prohibit employers, employment agencies, personnel placement services, and labor organizations from requiring an applicant or employee to provide access to private electronic accounts of the applicant or employee.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
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.
Sponsor: John Adams
To abolish the Trumbull County County Court, to create the Trumbull County Municipal Court, and to provide that the judge of the Trumbull County Municipal Court be nominated by petition.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To require operators and pipeline companies to disclose the country in which oil country tubular goods steel products were manufactured.
Sponsor: Al Landis
As Introduced 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. C. R. No. 50 Representative Hagan, R.
Sponsor: Robert Hagan
To urge the Congress of the United States to adopt
Sponsor: Andy Thompson
To make various changes to the administration of the New Markets tax credit, including the acceleration of the receipt of New Markets tax credit installments, allowing community development entities to make credit-eligible investments in a low-income community business that derives 15% or more of its annual revenue from renting or selling real estate, eliminating the requirement to calculate adjusted purchase price of investments in calculating the amount of the credit, permitting entities to identify qualifying equity investments from any community development entity, and clarifying that the maximum allowable credit for each investor is $1 million.
Sponsor: Peter Beck
To urge the Congress of the United States to
Sponsor: Michael Stinziano
That are scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2012, to make changes to the laws governing the civil commitment of and treatment provided to mentally ill persons.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To grant civil immunity to physicians who report a patient's use of a drug of abuse or other condition not involving such use to specified persons or entities, to exclude the making of those reports from the grounds for disciplinary action against physicians, and to apply the civil immunity of physicians who report to an employer in the business of public transportation an employee's use of a drug of abuse or other condition not involving such use to any violation of a patient's privacy rights.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
Honoring John W. Garland on his retirement as president of Central State University.
Sponsor: Christopher Widener
Honoring the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 on its One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To designate the third week of July as "Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Awareness Week."
Sponsor: John Eklund
Honoring Gracie Long as a 2012 Division I State Swimming Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To designate the fifteenth day of June as "Elder Abuse Awareness Day."
Sponsor: Peter Beck
Honoring Andrea Cottrell as a 2012 Division II State Swimming Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To exempt certain plans and measurements relating to household or small flow on-site sewage treatment systems from the Professional Engineers and Surveyors Law, and to authorize the use of the enforcement provisions of the Household and Small Flow On-site Sewage Treatment Systems Law to enforce existing rules governing household sewage disposal systems until those rules are superseded by rules that are required to be adopted under that Law.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To establish the Governor's Award for Environmental Stewardship to be awarded annually to the company or person involved in the oil and gas industry that best represented wise environmental stewardship during the previous one-year period.
Sponsor: William Coley
To abolish the Trumbull County County Court, to create the Trumbull County Municipal Court, and to provide that the judge of the Trumbull County Municipal Court be nominated by petition.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
To enact the "Fair and Acceptable Income Required (FAIR) Act" and to revise the enforcement of the prohibitions against discrimination in the payment of wages.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To specifically prohibit an owner, manager, or employee of a kennel of dogs from committing cruel treatment of a companion animal, to give a prosecutor who prosecutes an owner, manager, or employee of a kennel of dogs who commits cruel treatment of a companion animal discretion in prosecuting the owner, manager, or employee for the offense, to remove certain language regarding the negligent treatment of companion animals, and to revise the definition of "cruelty," "torment," and "torture" in the Humane Societies Law.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To remove pit bulls from the definition of "vicious dog" in state law, to establish a process by which owners, keepers, or harborers of dogs that have been designated as nuisance, dangerous, or vicious may appeal that designation, to define a "nuisance dog," to change the definitions of a "dangerous dog" and a "vicious dog," to require the owner of a dangerous dog to obtain a dangerous dog registration certificate, to prohibit certain felons from owning dogs under certain conditions, and to change the penalties involving ownership of nuisance, dangerous, and vicious dogs.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To make changes to the Cosmetology Licensing Law and to change the method by which state agencies send notice of a party's right to a hearing under the Administrative Procedure Act.
Sponsor: John Adams
Regarding the regulation of chemical tanning applications and the use of tanning services by individuals under 18 years of age.
Sponsor: Peggy Lehner
To extend to legal custodians the exemption from certain adoptive placement requirements.
Sponsor: John Eklund
To provide for the remediation of real property on which an illegal methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory has been discovered.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To modernize the language of, to reorganize, and to remove obsolete provisions from the jury service law.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To establish inspection and repair standards for wheelchair lifts installed on vehicles used for pupil transportation.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
Honoring Andrea Cambern for outstanding service to WBNS-TV.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to the Ohio Breast and Cervical Cancer Project.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To adopt the Revised Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act and to revise the merger and consolidation provisions of the Nonprofit Corporation Law.
Sponsor: John Eklund
Honoring Ronnie Bolden as a 2012 Division II State Swimming Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring the City of Findlay on its Bicentennial.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To regulate certificates of insurance prepared or issued as evidence of property or casualty insurance coverage.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring William J. Bauer II as the 2012 ODRC Correction Officer of the Year.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
Honoring Ryan Starcher on being named to the Music for All Bands of America Honor Band.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
To designate Central State University as Ohio's 1890
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To urge the United States Congress and the United
Sponsor: Jarrod Martin
And to amend Section 229.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly to create the Kids and Communities First Grant Program and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To create certain special license plates.
Sponsor: Gary Scherer
To prohibit a physician from performing an abortion on a pregnant woman by decapitation of a fetus.
Sponsor: Jarrod Martin
To urge the Congress of the United States to pass S.
Sponsor: Debbie Phillips
Applying for an amendments convention under Article V
Sponsor: Daniel Ramos
To change the definition of "appraisal" for purposes of the Real Estate Appraiser Licensing Law, to make changes to the exceptions to licensure under that law, and to regulate appraisal management companies.
Sponsor: Ross McGregor
To change the composition of certain metropolitan housing authorities.
Sponsor: William Coley
To generally impose an additional court cost of $100 for a felony or misdemeanor in cases in which a person is convicted of a sexually oriented offense; to require the deposit of the additional court cost into the Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund administered by the Attorney General; to fund rape crisis centers out of the Fund; to increase to $50 for a felony and $15 for a misdemeanor the additional court cost that is charged to fund the Reparations Fund; and to add a representative of rape crisis centers as a member of the State Victims Assistance Advisory Committee.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To modify the school district reimbursement schedule for the loss of revenue from the tangible personal property tax phase-out.
Sponsor: Connie Pillich
To require the Governor to issue an official notice of the death of an Ohio resident killed by hostile fire as a member of the United States armed forces or the National Guard and to order the lowering of flags on the day of the person's funeral.
Sponsor: Connie Pillich
To prohibit a health plan issuer from considering gender when determining premium rates.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
To establish the Ohio Service Corps Intern Program, and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To extend the time during which local governments may enter into enterprise zone agreements to October 15, 2013.
Sponsor: William Coley
To designate September 23 as "Hereditary Hemochromatosis Awareness Day."
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To specify individuals who are permitted to recommend and fit hearing aids and to prohibit specified sales of hearing aids via mail.
Sponsor: Kenny Yuko
To increase the maximum total amount of tax credits allowed per year for completion of motion pictures certified as tax credit-eligible productions.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To prohibit motorcycle handlebars from being higher than the shoulders of the operator when the operator is seated in the operator's seat or saddle.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
As Reported by the House Veterans Affairs Committee 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. C. R. No. 42 Representative Grossman
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
To create the "Combat Action Ribbon" license plate.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To provide that residential and familial information of a probation officer is not a public record, to increase the penalties for certain offenses when a judge, magistrate, or prosecutor is the victim, to prohibit a person from threatening a judge, magistrate, or prosecutor, and to make the killing of a judge, magistrate, or prosecutor an aggravating circumstance for the imposition of the death penalty for aggravated murder.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Relative to the election of Kevin L. Boyce to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Carlton Weddington of the 27th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 253 Senator Faber
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To urge the United States Army Corps of Engineers to
Sponsor: Al Landis
In memory of Sergeant John Patrick Huling.
Sponsor: William Coley
To require the licensure of, and otherwise regulate, providers of debt settlement services.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
Honoring the Miami University synchronized skating team on winning the 2012 U.S. National championship.
Sponsor: William Coley
To authorize the Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation to create a web site to help link energy companies with trained workers.
Sponsor: Nan Baker
To prescribe the circumstances in which an individual who is injured or contracts an occupational disease in the course of and arising out of participation in a learn to earn program receives compensation under the Workers' Compensation Law or under Unemployment Compensation Law.
Sponsor: Nan Baker
To make changes to the composition and responsibilities of the State Workforce Policy Board and to the One-stop System of workforce development.
Sponsor: John Adams
To allow a board of township trustees to reduce the percentage or term of a property tax exemption granted to a business under a tax increment financing agreement if the business fails to create the number of new jobs the business agreed to create in the agreement.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To authorize a political subdivision to enact and enforce health and safety standards for oil and gas drilling and exploration, and to revise the setback requirements in the Oil and Gas Law.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
Honoring Emma McLaughlin as the 2012 Ohio "Doodle 4 Google" winner.
Sponsor: Troy Balderson
To revise the law governing Ohio's registered apprenticeship program.
Sponsor: John Adams
To enact the "Jessica Logan Act" regarding public schools' policies prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying and to qualify certain homeschooled students for in-state tuition at state institutions of higher education.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To require the Auditor of State to establish a fraud-reporting system for residents and public employees to file anonymous complaints of fraud and misuse of public funds by public offices or officials.
Sponsor: Terry Blair
To make changes to the law governing corporations including dissenting shareholders, the dissolution of a corporation, rights to indemnification or advancement of expenses, directors' fiduciary duties, and recording of corporate mortgages, to make changes to the law governing limited liability companies including the contents of an operating agreement of a limited liability company, the effect of a member's withdrawal from a limited liability company, the standards of conduct and duties of a member of a limited liability company, and the judicial dissolution of a limited liability company, and to specify the rights of an assignee of a member of a limited liability company.
Sponsor: John Eklund
Honoring Dr. Mark H. Erickson on his retirement as president of Wittenberg University.
Sponsor: Ross McGregor
Honoring Jordan Cowell as a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To authorize the Third Frontier Commission to award grants related to the establishment and operation of data centers and the development of a high speed fiber optic network in the state, and to authorize a kilowatt-hour excise tax reduction for electric distribution companies supplying such centers at a discounted rate.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To increase the maximum total amount of tax credits allowed per year for completion of motion pictures certified as tax credit-eligible productions.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring Dr. Mark H. Erickson on his retirement from Wittenberg University.
Sponsor: Christopher Widener
To make changes to the licensing and records requirements, exemptions, penalties, and other provisions of the Precious Metal Dealers Law and to limit the amount precious metal dealers may charge the true owner of stolen property when restoring that property to the true owner.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Mimmo Lytle as a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To require the Director of Health to develop protocols regarding the authority to administer, deliver, distribute, or dispense drugs during certain public health emergencies.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Cade Mansfield on winning a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To increase the time limit for a prosecutor to file a motion in juvenile court that objects to the imposition of a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence; to prohibit competency attainment reports and juvenile bindover evaluation reports from including details of the alleged offense as reported by the child; to require juvenile bindover evaluation reports to be completed within forty-five days unless an extention is granted; to require the Department of Youth Services to develop minimum standards for training of juvenile offender probation officers; to extend the deadline for the Ohio Interagency Task Force on Mental Health and Juvenile Justice to issue a report of its findings and recommendations; to revise the penalties for certain fifth degree felony drug offenses to generally favor not imposing a prison term; to remove the prohibition for a convicted sex offender to possess a photograph of the offender's victim while the offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense; to remove the prohibition for a child-victim offender to possess a photograph of any minor child while the child-victim offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense; to permit the judges of the various courts of the state that supervise a concurrent supervision offender to authorize the chief probation officer to manage concurrent supervision offenders; to remove the prohibition on the arrest, charging, or conviction of a person for speeding based on a peace officer's unaided visual estimation of the speed of the vehicle; to expand the availability of the probation improvement and incentive grants to municipal and county courts; to specify that the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and Adult Parole Authority shall not be held civilly liable for any claims arising out of a certificate of achievement and employability; to transfer control of the transitional control program from the Adult Parole Authority to the Division of Parole and Community Services; to require courts and agencies to expunge the record of a juvenile's conviction in adult court if the case is transferred back to juvenile court; to modify the definition of stated prison term relative to a risk reduction sentence; to increase the percentage of the amount appropriated to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction that may be used for nonresidential services; to amend the penalty for failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer; to eliminate the requirement that a court sentencing a felony offender provide notice of possible eligibility for earning days of credit; revises the procedures under the mechanism for the possible release of certain Department of Rehabilitation and Correction prisoners who serve 80% of their stated prison term; and to require a sentencing court to determine the days of credit an offender receives for time served in relation to the offense and provide for the correction of errors in the determination.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To urge the Congress of the United States to maintain
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
To establish education programs and continuing education requirements for the fiscal officers of townships and municipal corporations, to establish procedures for removing those fiscal officers, county treasurers, and county auditors from office, and to create fiscal accountability requirements for public schools, counties, municipal corporations, and townships.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
Honoring Luke Kern as a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Champion
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To establish education programs and continuing education requirements for the fiscal officers of townships and municipal corporations, to establish procedures for removing those fiscal officers, county treasurers, and county auditors from office, and to create fiscal accountability requirements for public schools, counties, municipal corporations, and townships.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To designate the last day of February as "Rare Disease Day."
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
Jacob Resor, Jr. William J. Dickson James M. Canfield William H. Chatfield John W. Hartwell Alexander Neave David A. James
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To require the lessee of an oil and gas lease to provide to the lessor monthly oil and gas production statements, to specify the minimum information that must be included in a monthly statement, and to establish procedures and requirements in accordance with which a lessor may conduct an audit of the lessee's records and documents related to production or post-production costs under the lease.
Sponsor: Mark Okey
Honoring the Paul L. Dunbar High School boys indoor track and field team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Clayton Luckie
Honoring the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Sponsor: Marlene Anielski
Recognizing the Governor's Thirty-second Annual Holocaust Commemoration, April 17, 2012.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Dunbar High School boys basketball team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Clayton Luckie
Honoring the Reverend Cornell Carter on his installation as pastor of Second Baptist Church of Medina.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Jack Pohlmann as a 2012 Division I State Swimming Champion.
Sponsor: Jarrod Martin
Honoring the City Club of Cleveland on the One Hundredth Anniversary of its founding.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Zane State College on receiving the 2012 Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Student Success Leadership Award.
Sponsor: Brian Hill
Honoring Thomas McLaughlin as a Division III State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Debbie Phillips
Honoring the Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School girls indoor track and field team as the 2012 Division II/III State Champion.
Sponsor: Clayton Luckie
Honoring Dave Grohl for his outstanding accomplishments in the music industry.
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
Honoring Chris Moore as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Rex Damschroder
Honoring the Ohio University men's basketball team on winning the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship.
Sponsor: Debbie Phillips
Honoring the Hathaway Brown High School girls basketball team on winning the 2012 Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Armond Budish
Honoring the Oakwood High School Academic Decathlon team as the 2012 State Champion.
Sponsor: James Butler
Honoring Dr. William W. Wagner on being named the 2012 Ohio Principal of the Year.
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Honoring the Horizon Science Academy chess team as the 2011 11th Grade State Champion.
Sponsor: Bill Patmon
Honoring Logan Bauer on winning the 2012 Division II State Diving Championship.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Matt Meadows as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
Honoring Nick Tavanello on winning a 2012 Division I State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Wright State University on being included on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction.
Sponsor: Jarrod Martin
Honoring Erik Risolvato as a 2012 OHSAA Division II State Swimming Champion.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
Honoring the Coldwater High School boys bowling team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring the Athletic Club of Columbus on its Centennial.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Nate Skonieczny as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
Honoring Josh Quallen as a 2012 Division II State Swimming Champion.
Sponsor: Clifford Rosenberger
In memory of Sergeant First Class Shawn Hannon.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
Honoring the Beavercreek High School boys 200-yard medley relay team as a 2012 Division I State Swimming Champion.
Sponsor: Jarrod Martin
Honoring the Pickerington High School Central boys basketball team on winning the 2012 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: Gerald Stebelton
Honoring the Biery Cheese Company on its national championship cheese.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
Honoring Nate Tomasello as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
Honoring Alec Bailey as a 2012 OYWA State Champion.
Sponsor: Anthony DeVitis
Honoring Curtis Miller on winning a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
Honoring Kate Peterson Abiad on setting a new record for career wins at Cleveland State University.
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Honoring the Miami University synchronized skating team as the 2012 U.S. National Champion.
Sponsor: Timothy Derickson
To increase the penalties related to operating a motor vehicle on the wrong side of an interstate freeway.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
On July 1, 2012; to rename the Department of Development the "Development Services Agency"; to establish the Office of TourismOhio within the Development Services Agency, create the TourismOhio Advisory Board, and establish a pilot program to test a new funding mechanism for the state's travel and tourism marketing; to modify the operation of JobsOhio; to makes changes to the Capital Access Loan Program Fund and to allow transfers to the Capital Access Loan Program Fund from the Minority Business Enterprise Loan Fund; to provide for projects that were started prior to receiving a tax credit from the Ohio Tax Credit Authority; to modify reporting requirements under the Voluntary Action Program; to require the Director of Development Services to administer federal funds received for Brownfields revitalization purposes; to terminate the Water and Sewer Commission; to terminate the Development Financing Advisory Council as of July 1, 2012; and to increase the membership of the Third Frontier Commission.
Sponsor: John Adams
In memory of the Reverend Michael M. DeBose.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
Relative to travel allowance.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Relative to the election of Gary K. Scherer to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Bob Peterson of the 85th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Holly Miller as a 2012 Gospel's Got Talent winner.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
To allow extra credit to military veterans and reserve component members on state civil service examinations, to provide for the reemployment of nonteaching school employees following military service in accordance with federal law, to extend the period of time within which persons serving in the Ohio National Guard may meet continuing education requirements for occupational licenses and renew their licenses, to require landlords to observe the rights of tenants who are service members under federal law, to modify the order of priority in which veterans may participate in job training programs, to permit but not require the use of armories by patriotic and national organizations, to update references in the Revised Code to federal statutes relating to the National Guard, to conform the Ohio Code of Military Justice to the United States Code of Military Justice, and to make other changes to the Ohio Code of Military Justice.
Sponsor: Peter Stautberg
Honoring the Ohio University men's basketball team as the 2012 Mid-American Conference Champion.
Sponsor: Troy Balderson
To allow extra credit to military veterans and reserve component members on state civil service examinations, to provide for the reemployment of nonteaching school employees following military service in accordance with federal law, to extend the period of time within which persons serving in the Ohio National Guard may meet continuing education requirements for occupational licenses and renew their licenses, to require that workers' compensation claims of members of the organized militia be determined in accordance with applicable line of duty regulations, to require landlords to observe the rights of tenants who are service members under federal law, to modify the order of priority in which veterans may participate in job training programs, to permit but not require the use of armories by patriotic and national organizations, to update references in the Revised Code to federal statutes relating to the National Guard, to conform the Ohio Code of Military Justice to the United States Code of Military Justice, and to make other changes to the Ohio Code of Military Justice.
Sponsor: William Coley
Honoring the Dunbar High School indoor track and field team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
Honoring the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team as the 2012 State Champion.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
Honoring the Columbus Africentric Early College High School girls basketball team as the 2012 Division III State Champion.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Relative to the election of Marilyn Slaby to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Lynn Slaby of the 41st House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Carolyn Sowa on winning the 2012 Ohio VFW Voice of Democracy speech contest.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
To make changes in certain provisions relating to road signs and traffic signals for purposes of the Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To require the imposition of a ten-year prison term upon a person who discharges a firearm while committing an offense and causes injury or death to a child.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To establish a test to determine whether an individual providing services for or on behalf of certain motor transportation companies is considered an employee under Ohio's Overtime, Workers' Compensation, and Unemployment Compensation Laws.
Sponsor: Ross McGregor
Relative to the election of Ryan Smith to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Phil Rose of the 87th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To require public schools to install metal detectors in all classroom buildings unless they obtain a waiver from the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Sponsor: Bill Patmon
Honoring the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders on the Seventieth Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Issac Jordan as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring the Ridgemont High School FFA on receiving the national Model of Innovation in Chapter Development Award.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
Honoring the Coldwater High School boys bowling team as the 2012 OHSAA State Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To require physicians to take certain actions before and after issuing prescriptions for drugs intended to treat symptoms of erectile dysfunction.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
Honoring Ryan Taylor as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Drew Lovejoy as a 2012 All Ireland Irish Dance Competition champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Micah Jordan as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring the Graham High School wrestling team on winning the 2012 Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Relative to the election of Matt Lynch to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Mary Matheney of the 98th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Coldwater High School girls bowling team as the 2012 OHSAA State Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Bo Jordan as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To permit a motor vehicle salvage dealer or scrap metal processing facility to obtain a salvage certificate of title to a junk motor vehicle under certain circumstances, to permit salvage motor vehicle auctions and pools to auction and sell salvage motor vehicles to persons other than motor vehicle salvage dealers, to permit a person whose acquisition and disposal of salvage motor vehicles is incidental to the person's primary business to sell salvage motor vehicles at retail to or through a salvage motor vehicle auction or pool, to require salvage motor vehicle auctions and pools to keep an electronic record of all sales of salvage motor vehicles, and to make other changes in the motor vehicle salvage dealer law.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To urge the Congress of the United States to maintain
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
To make changes to Ohio's Workers' Compensation Law.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring the Pickerington High School Central boys basketball team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
To authorize the Director of Rehabilitation and Correction to implement a program to improve prisoners' access to psychotropic drugs and a program authorizing the provision of medical and behavioral health care to prisoners through telecommunication methods.
Sponsor: William Seitz
To allow the Administrator of Workers' Compensation to pay for specified medical benefits during an earlier time frame, to require a workers' compensation claimant that refuses or unreasonably delays treatment without good cause to forfeit compensation and benefits during the time period of refusal or delay, to make changes to the health partnership program, and to make other changes to the Workers' Compensation Law.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring the Dunbar High School boys basketball team on winning the 2012 Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
To eliminate the declaration of material assistance/nonassistance questionnaire.
Sponsor: Rex Damschroder
To statutorily allow the Bureau of Workers' Compensation to summarily suspend a provider's certification to participate in the Health Partnership Program, to specify procedures for that suspension, and to exempt documents, reports, and evidence pertaining to a workers' compensation fraud investigation from the Public Records Law.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Representative Todd McKenney for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Philip H. Rose for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Lou Gentile for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Jim Zehringer for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Lynn C. Slaby for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Bill Coley for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Bob Peterson for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Mary Brigid Matheney for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Bill Coley for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Troy Balderson for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Richard Hollington for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative Timothy DeGeeter for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Cliff Hite for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Peggy B. Lehner for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Representative John Carey for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To amend Section 753.25 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly to correct the legal property description in a previously authorized conveyance of state-owned real estate, to authorize the Governor to execute the necessary deeds for the conveyance of thirteen state properties, to authorize the Ohio Historical Society to execute a deed conveying state-owned real estate to the United States, and to authorize the Director of Administrative Services to execute an easement granting to the City of Cambridge a perpetual interest in real estate associated with an existing water supply line at the Cambridge Developmental Center.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
To designate United States Route number 42 within the municipal corporation of Mason in Warren County the "Warren County Veterans Highway."
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Regarding lease agreements.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
Honoring the City of Oberlin as one of America's Best Intergenerational Communities.
Sponsor: Gayle Manning
To authorize the Director of Budget and Management to arrange for the sale of prepaid insurance premium tax certificates to insurers in exchange for offsets against future tax payments and use revenue so generated on projects to increase efficiency or reduce costs of state or local government.
Sponsor: William Coley
To revise the management of municipal school districts and community schools located within municipal school districts; to require municipal school districts and unions to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement as if no previous agreement existed for one bargaining cycle; to permit the establishment of a Municipal School District Transformation Alliance; to expand the offense of bribery to cover directors, officers, and employees of the Alliance; and to authorize municipal school districts to levy property taxes the revenue from which may be shared with qualifying community schools.
Sponsor: Nina Turner
To revise the management of municipal school districts and community schools located within municipal school districts; to require municipal school districts and unions to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement as if no previous agreement existed for one bargaining cycle; to permit the establishment of a Municipal School District Transformation Alliance; to expand the offense of bribery to cover directors, officers, and employees of the Alliance; and to authorize municipal school districts to levy property taxes the revenue from which may be shared with qualifying community schools.
Sponsor: Sandra Williams
To create a small claims division of the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals, to allow for parties to file a notice of appeal to the Board by facsimile or electronic transmission using electronic mail, to require the Board to establish a case management schedule for appeals, and to authorize the Tax Commissioner to expedite and issue a final determination for residential property value appeals with written consent of the parties.
Sponsor: Ron Amstutz
To authorize the Board of County Commissioners of Knox County to establish the Centerburg Library as a county free public library and, if the authority is exercised, to require the Knox County Court of Common Pleas to appoint a board of library trustees for the library.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
To revise the method for calculating school district equity rankings for classroom facilities assistance and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
To eliminate the power of taxing authorities to propose a replacement property tax levy.
Sponsor: Jarrod Martin
To prohibit a health insurer from reimbursing dental providers based upon a fee schedule if the dental services provided are not covered by any contract or participating provider agreement between the health insurer and the dental provider.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To authorize an income tax withholding credit for a manufacturer that expands production or that restarts production at an idle facility.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To prohibit illegal and unauthorized aliens from receiving compensation and certain benefits under Ohio's Workers' Compensation Law.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
To designate March 30 as "Vietnam Veterans' Day," and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To reassert the principles of federalism found
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
To authorize a fee on the recycling of brine from oil and gas operations to benefit local governments.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To designate State Route 78 in Monroe, Noble, Morgan, and Athens Counties as the "78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry Highway."
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To declare the month of June as "Ohio Wines Month."
Sponsor: Ron Young
To designate the interchange of State Route 15 and State Route 37 in Hancock County as the "Patrolman David L. Sterner Memorial Interchange."
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To authorize prosecuting attorneys to demand a jury trial in a felony case, notwithstanding a defendant's waiver of trial by jury and over a defendant's objection.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To designate March 2012 as Professional Social Work
Sponsor: Michael Stinziano
To require publication of legislative committee testimony on the General Assembly's web site.
Sponsor: Bruce Goodwin
To require wells in urbanized areas to comply with zoning requirements, to revise the setback distances of a well from an occupied dwelling, to require the disclosure of all chemicals and substances used in hydraulic fracturing, to eliminate mandatory pooling, to apply the Consumer Sales Practices Act to lease agreements for the exploration for or development of oil and gas on residential property, to require a surety bond for an injection well, to make other changes in the Oil and Gas Law, and to make appropriations to support oil and gas training programs, including employee training grants to oil or gas well owners.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To designate the month of March 2012 as "Skilled
Sponsor: Richard Adams
Honoring Riley Shaw on winning a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: Bob Peterson
To provide for the licensing and regulation of sweepstakes terminal device operators, vendors, and key employees.
Sponsor: Joseph Schiavoni
To provide that a person is not criminally or civilly liable for trespassing on certain abandoned land, blighted parcels, or similar places of public amusement if the person enters or remains on the land or parcel to remediate it and knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the land or parcel is in one of those categories; to provide the property owner with immunity from liability to a person who enters or remains on the land or parcel in those circumstances subject to the statute governing liability to trespassers; and to provide that a person who enters or remains on the land or parcel in those circumstances is not entitled to any reimbursement for any cost of the remediation unless agreed to by the property owner.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To support the construction of the New International
Sponsor: Terry Boose
Honoring Donovan Robertson on setting a national indoor record for the 60-meter hurdles.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
In memory of Thomas P. Gilmartin.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Sylvania Northview High School hockey team on winning the 2012 OHSAA State Championship.
Sponsor: Barbara Sears
To urge Congress to support the provision of
Sponsor: Dave Burke
In memory of Paul Parks Mechling.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Ohio University speech and debate team as the 2012 State and National Champion.
Sponsor: Debbie Phillips
Honoring Sammy Gross as a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Armond Budish
Honoring Mehvish Safdar as the 2011 Division I State Singles Tennis Champion.
Sponsor: Connie Pillich
Honoring the Columbus Rotary Club on its One Hundredth Anniversary.
Sponsor: John Carney
Honoring Curtis Miller as a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To prohibit a health insurer from reimbursing dental providers based upon a fee schedule if the dental services provided are not covered by any contract or participating provider agreement between the health insurer and the dental provider.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
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.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To establish additional requirements governing wells that are drilled into the Marcellus shale formation or a deeper formation, to establish requirements governing oil and gas land professionals, including the registration of such professionals and the creation of disclosure forms that must be presented to a prospective lessor of oil and gas mineral rights and to a prospective seller of mineral rights, and to make other changes in the Oil and Gas Law.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
Honoring Mark Martin as a 2012 Division I State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Honoring Brent Fickel as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Honoring Dean Heil on winning a 2012 Division I State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
To designate a portion of State Route 44 within Stark County as the "First Lt. Ashley White Stumpf Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To make volunteer coaches engaged by recreational youth athletics organizations or entities and game officials certified by interscholastic athletic regulatory organizations or associations subject to mandatory criminal records checks, to prohibit for a minimum of five years after the individual's release from imprisonment imposed as a result of the offense or a minimum of five years after sentencing if the individual was not imprisoned the use of a coach or the certification of an individual as a game official who has been convicted of specified offenses, and to revise the immunity from civil liability for an act or omission of a volunteer who has been subject to a criminal records check.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To provide a five per cent bid preference for state contracts to a business owned by veterans and to authorize a personal income and commercial activity tax credit for a business that hires and employs a veteran for at least one year.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
Honoring Alex Obendorf on winning a 2012 Division I State Swimming and Diving Championship.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
To designate a portion of State Route 264 in Hamilton County as the "Sergeant David Kreuter Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To urge the Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Sponsor: Dave Burke
Honoring Amon Roy Daniels as a 2012 Division I State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Andrew Brenner
To designate a portion of State Route 800 in Harrison County as the "Trooper George Conn Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
In memory of George E. Terwilleger.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To specify requirements for obtaining and renewing a clinical research faculty certificate and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
Honoring Brittany Lawson as a state and national Karate champion.
Sponsor: Jarrod Martin
Honoring Samuel Prakel on being selected as the 2011-2012 Gatorade Ohio Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring the St. Ignatius High School boys soccer team on winning the 2011 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: Marlene Anielski
Honoring Jordan Marshall as a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Richard Adams
Honoring Dick Reynolds on his retirement from Otterbein University.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Authorizing Ohio Hi-Y Youth in Government to use the Ohio House Chambers to conduct its 2012 model legislature.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Dave Schmackers as the 2012 International Bowhunting Organization World Indoor Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring Robert Lanthorn as the 2012 Kids Voting USA Educator of the Year.
Sponsor: Michael Stinziano
Honoring Harrison Dillard on the Sixtieth Anniversary of winning two gold medals in the 1952 Olympics.
Sponsor: Kenny Yuko
Honoring the Kent State University wrestling team as a 2011 Mid-American Conference regular-season champion.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Honoring the St. Ignatius High School football team as the 2011 Division I State Champions.
Sponsor: Marlene Anielski
Honoring Ann's Raspberry Farm and Specialty Crops on being presented with two 2012 Good Food Awards.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
Honoring the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. on its Centennial.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring B.J. Toal as a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Richard Adams
And to amend Sections 261.10 and 261.20.93 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly regarding the Local Government Innovation Program and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: John Eklund
To specify dyslexia as a specific learning disability and to require a pilot project to provide early screening and intervention services for children with risk factors for dyslexia.
Sponsor: Troy Balderson
To adopt the Uniform Power of Attorney Act; to modify a trustee's duties with respect to life insurance policies, specify a trustee's power to distribute trust principal in further trust, provide for the titling of assets in trust form, permit some but not all of specified parties to enter into a private settlement agreement, and make other changes in the Trust Code; to modify the anti-lapse provisions regarding wills and adopt anti-lapse provisions applicable to trusts; to provide a mechanism for a probate court to order a person who suffers from alcohol and other drug abuse to undergo treatment; and to provide a procedure for the construction or modification of a trust that refers to the federal estate tax, generation-skipping transfer tax, or Ohio estate tax.
Sponsor: Louis Terhar
To vest in county auditors responsibility for reviewing and approving property tax exemption applications for some publicly owned property, to authorize legislative authorities of municipal corporations, county auditors, and boards of township trustees to adopt a direct deposit payroll policy, to clarify that a board of township trustees may offer deferred compensation plans or programs to the township's officers and employees, to authorize regional councils of government to operate a 9-1-1 public safety answering point, to authorize counties and townships 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, to authorize the Hocking, Ross, and Vinton Counties' boards of county commissioners to form a pilot joint county department of job and family services, to modify state and county investment authority law, to prohibit centralized-services purchases using moneys from the Real Estate Assessment Fund, to exempt funds subject to the Tax Commissioner's rules governing expenditures from the Real Estate Assessment Fund from county quarterly spending plans, to limit the involvement of county officers and their responsibilities in intergovernmental shared services agreements, to authorize county contracting authorities to give notice of requests for proposals and receive proposals through a secure electronic system, to permit tax complaints to be filed electronically, to authorize a county or township to offer any qualified benefit available under a cafeteria plan, and to offer a health and wellness benefit program, to its officers and employees, and to make changes to the New Community Authority Law.
Sponsor: John Eklund
To establish requirements and procedures for issuing portable electronics insurance and to revise the order of distribution of claims from an insurer's estate as it relates to interest on the claim.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To establish standards for the securitization of costs for electric distribution utilities.
Sponsor: John Eklund
To prohibit qualified health plans from providing coverage for certain abortions.
Sponsor: John Eklund
And to amend Section 309.30.70 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly regarding quality incentive payments and quality bonuses paid to nursing facilities under the Medicaid program.
Sponsor: William Coley
To revise certain provisions of the Liquor Law.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To permit the Treasurer of State or 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, savings banks, and savings and loan associations in accordance with specified conditions, to remove the one-year maturity limitation for certificates of deposit with respect to interim deposits, to alter the authority of the Treasurer of State to invest interim money in certificates of deposit, and to require public depositories to provide certain information to political subdivisions.
Sponsor: Terry Boose
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 209 Senator Faber
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring the Upper Arlington High School girls swimming and diving team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Relative to the appointment of Bob Peterson, to fill
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To designate the month of March 2012 as "Skilled
Sponsor: Christopher Widener
To generally impose an additional court cost of $100 for a felony or misdemeanor in cases in which a person is convicted of a sexually oriented offense; to require the deposit of the additional court cost into the Rape Crisis Program Trust Fund administered by the Attorney General; to fund rape crisis centers out of the Fund; to increase to $50 for a felony and $15 for a misdemeanor the additional court cost that is charged to fund the Reparations Fund; and to add a representative of rape crisis centers as a member of the State Victims Assistance Advisory Committee.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
Honoring the Findlay High School We the People team on winning the 2012 We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution State Championship.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To recognize March 15, 2012, as "Women and HIV/AIDS
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
To urge the United States Army Corps of Engineers to
Sponsor: Lou Gentile
Honoring Aaron Craft as a Capital One 2012 Academic All-American and the 2012 All-Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Year.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
Honoring the Sylvania Northview High School hockey team as the 2012 OHSAA State Champion.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Honoring Senator David T. Daniels for his exemplary service to the Ohio Senate.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To change the age at which an individual may make a political contribution, to reduce the amount of political contributions that may be made by a contributor, and to similarly reduce the amount of contributions that political entities may accept.
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
Honoring Nick Tavanello on winning the 2012 Division I State Wrestling Championship in the 285-pound weight class.
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
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.
Sponsor: Dorothy Pelanda
Authorizing the use of the Ohio Senate Chambers by the Junior State of America and The Junior Statesmen Foundation on April 28, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and April 29, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
With respect to offering school district property to state universities.
Sponsor: Thomas Sawyer
To establish requirements governing the possession of dangerous wild animals and restricted snakes.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To urge the United States Department of Commerce to
Sponsor: Michael Stinziano
Recognizing Women's History Month in Ohio, March 2012.
Sponsor: Nancy Garland
To require a background check of an applicant for an injection well, to establish recycling and treatment requirements for wastewater from oil and gas drilling and production operations, to revise the procedures and requirements governing the application for and issuance of a permit for a well to inject such wastewater, to establish an additional fee on that injection, and to establish requirements governing ground water monitoring related to that injection.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
That is scheduled to take effect June 1, 2013, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
Regarding the possible hazards of fetal exposure to the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA).
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
With respect to the right of the prosecution in a criminal or juvenile case to appeal the court's decision, order, or judgment.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To designate March thirtieth as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day."
Sponsor: John Adams
To exempt the state from participating in daylight savings time.
Sponsor: John Adams
To require physicians to take certain actions before and after issuing prescriptions for drugs intended to treat symptoms of erectile dysfunction.
Sponsor: Nina Turner
To require insurance providers to disclose to a funeral home personal information of an insured person who is deceased.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
Honoring Mack Pairan as one of Ohio's top youth volunteers for 2012.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To prohibit a manufactured home park operator from prohibiting an owner's display on the owner's lot of "for sale" or political signs.
Sponsor: John Adams
To require the Director of Transportation to establish the business logo sign program and its fees by rule.
Sponsor: Frank LaRose
To designate the bridge spanning the Ashtabula Gulf, located in the city of Ashtabula and being part of West 46th Street and State Route 84, as the "Clifford McClure Memorial Bridge."
Sponsor: Casey Kozlowski
To amend Section 757.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly to increase Local Government Fund distributions to equal, for the remaining months of fiscal year 2012, 3% over fiscal year 2011 levels and, for fiscal year 2013, 6% over fiscal year 2011 levels.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To provide that a property owner or a representative of a property owner who knowingly permits another person or persons to inhabit a property that the person knows to have been determined to be uninhabitable by a municipal, township, county, or state authority and the person or persons are killed as a proximate result of engaging in an activity that a reasonable person would engage in to alleviate the uninhabitable condition is guilty of negligent homicide.
Sponsor: Michael Stinziano
To prohibit well stimulation unless all methane gas released as a result of the proposed stimulation of the well is captured by the owner of the well or the owner's authorized representative and to revise other requirements governing well stimulation.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To require that employees and students at state institutions of higher education who work with children receive training in child abuse prevention.
Sponsor: Kenny Yuko
As Introduced 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. J. R. No. 5 Representatives Celeste, Duffey
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
To require joint conventions of the General Assembly held for the purpose of hearing the Governor's annual message on the condition of the state to be held in the Hall of the House of Representatives, and to authorize the Governor to deliver that message to the General Assembly via electronic transmission.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
Regarding enforcement powers of certain health care professional licensing boards, regulation of pain management clinics, limits on prescriber-furnished controlled substances, and classifications of certain controlled substances.
Sponsor: John Adams
To permit the trial of a corporation in absentia in a criminal proceeding in any trial court and in such a proceeding initiated by a complaint.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
As Introduced 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. J. R. No. 4 Senators Sawyer, LaRose
Sponsor: Thomas Sawyer
Honoring the Miami Trace High School FFA general livestock judging team on winning the 2011 FFA State General Livestock Judging Contest.
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
Honoring Claudia Saunders on being named the 2011-2012 Gatorade Ohio Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year.
Sponsor: Connie Pillich
Honoring the Milton-Union Public Library on its Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Richard Adams
Recognizing Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Month in Ohio, April 2012.
Sponsor: Kirk Schuring
Honoring Dr. Jay Martin as the 2011 NCAA Division III Coach of the Year in men's soccer.
Sponsor: Andrew Brenner
To require the Division of Liquor Control to refuse to issue, renew, or transfer the ownership or location of a retail liquor permit if the applicant has violated the liquor control laws.
Sponsor: Ron Amstutz
Honoring the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization on its One Hundred Twenty-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Kenny Yuko
Honoring Charles A. Penzone as the recipient of an ISBN Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sponsor: Andrew Brenner
Honoring Dena Wuebker as the 2011 Region IV National Teacher Mentor of the Year.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring Travis Wall as the 2011 NCAA Division III Player of the Year in men's soccer.
Sponsor: Andrew Brenner
Recognizing American Red Cross Month in Ohio, March 2012.
Sponsor: Robert Hackett
Honoring Brandon Bianco as the 2011 NCAA Assistant Coach of the Year for men's soccer.
Sponsor: Andrew Brenner
Honoring Aristotle L. Hutras on his retirement.
Sponsor: Kirk Schuring
Honoring the Ohio Wesleyan University men's soccer team on winning the 2011 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Championship.
Sponsor: Andrew Brenner
Honoring the Trotwood-Madison High School football team as the 2011 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Roland Winburn
To specify requirements for obtaining and renewing a clinical research faculty certificate and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To urge the President of the United States to direct
Sponsor: Peter Stautberg
To increase the speed limit on interstate freeways from 65 to 70 miles per hour for all vehicles.
Sponsor: John Adams
Recognizing March 4-10, 2012, as National Consumer Protection Week.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
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Sponsor: William Batchelder
To urge Congress to pass the "Jobs Through Growth
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
To establish certain exemptions, including permitting the withdrawal of services, for incumbent local exchange carriers determined to be fully competitive, and, regarding the provision of basic local exchange service, for other telephone companies operating in the same areas.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To modify the Agricultural Linked Deposit Program with respect to the maximum amount the Treasurer of State may invest in agricultural linked deposits, the interest rate at which loans are made under the Program, and the maximum loan amount.
Sponsor: Gary Scherer
To remove the requirement that certain telecommunications equipment used in direct marketing must be purchased by a direct marketing vendor in order for the equipment to be exempt from the sales tax.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To permit persons who quit work to accompany the person's spouse on a military transfer to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
To designate a portion of Interstate Route 71 within Wayne County the "Army 1st Lieutenant John Runkle Memorial Highway," a portion of United States Route 250 in Ashland County the "Sheriff's Lieutenant John P. Gisclon Memorial Highway," and a portion of State Route 179 in Ashland County the "Specialist Damon G. Winkleman Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: David Hall
As Offered 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. R. No. 275 Speaker Batchelder
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To designate a portion of United States Route 42 in Warren County as the "Sergeant Brian Dulle Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To promote enrollment for the veterans' compensation authorized in Section 2r of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, by enabling eligible veterans to identify themselves on the personal income tax return.
Sponsor: Mark Okey
To define "final discharge" for purposes of the law governing the sealing of criminal records when used in connection with an offender who was convicted of an offense involving misconduct in public office.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To allow townships to exempt from taxation property consisting of at least four residential units under a pre-existing tax increment financing resolution.
Sponsor: Peter Beck
To change the appointing process for the Inspector General, to clarify the offices over which the Inspector General has authority, and to prohibit partisan political activity by the Inspector General and employees in the office of the Inspector General.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To require the Director of Transportation to establish the business logo sign program and its fees by rule.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
To generally authorize a sheriff whose office is monitoring an offender or delinquent child pursuant to an electronic monitoring order or requirement of a court, the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, or the Department of Youth Services to charge the offender or delinquent child a fee for the monitoring.
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
To designate a portion of State Route 416 within Tuscarawas County the "Sgt. James L. Smith Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. J. R. No. 4 Speaker Batchelder
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To create a pilot program in the Department of Development to provide technical assistance to eligible businesses and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: John Adams
To establish state funding for job training related or ancillary to the oil and gas industry and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Troy Balderson
Honoring the City of Columbus on its Two Hundredth Anniversary
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To designate a portion of State Route 13 in Knox County as the "William Burgett Highway."
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
To authorize the establishment of syringe exchange programs.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To provide for an appraisal of the effectiveness of tax expenditures.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To include cogeneration technology using waste or byproduct gas from an air contaminant source as a renewable energy resource.
Sponsor: John Adams
To permit credit unions and farm credit system institutions to serve as public depositories under certain circumstances, to allow credit unions and farm credit system institutions to participate in the Capital Access Loan Program and the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program, and to offer community banks that hold a certain amount of public deposits a nonrefundable credit against the corporation franchise tax.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To authorize a pilot program for school districts in Montgomery County to operate certain for-profit activities.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
To designate in Stark County the "First Lt. Ashley White-Stumpf Memorial Highway," the "Sgt. Michael Barkey Memorial Highway," and the "Captain Daniel Stiles Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
To authorize one or more boards of county commissioners to contract with another board of county commissioners for the services of that county's coroner.
Sponsor: John Adams
To permit credit unions and farm credit system institutions to serve as public depositories under certain circumstances and to participate in the Capital Access Loan Program and the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
Regarding the practice of surgical technology in hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To prohibit an automobile insurer from enforcing an intrafamily exclusion in an accident where a member of the family dies.
Sponsor: William Seitz
To exempt source separated recyclable materials from the definition of "solid wastes" and to prohibit a solid waste management district from spending district money to purchase or operate assets for recycling purposes when two or more privately owned companies offer to provide or are providing recycling services for recyclable materials that are generated in the district.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To urge the President of the United States to direct
Sponsor: Dave Burke
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.
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
To provide that if a train will be carrying 80,000 pounds or more of hazardous materials, the railroad company must provide the train crew with a list of those hazardous materials at least ten hours prior to the train's scheduled departure time.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
Honoring Selena Pasadyn as a 2011 National Wendy's High School Heisman Award recipient.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Kent State University field hockey team as the 2010 Mid-American Conference Tournament Champion.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Honoring the Cleveland Municipal Court on its Centennial.
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Honoring First St. John Lutheran Church on its One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Teresa Fedor
Honoring the Marion Local High School football team on winning the 2011 Division VI State Championship.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring the Bishop Hartley High School girls volleyball team on winning the 2011 Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Tracy Heard
Honoring Bob Campbell as a 2011 NTPA Puller of the Year.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring the City of Columbus on its Bicentennial.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
Honoring the Norwayne High School football team as the 2011 Division IV State Champion.
Sponsor: Ron Amstutz
Honoring the Miami Trace High School FFA parliamentary procedure team on winning the 2011 FFA State Parliamentary Procedure Contest.
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
Honoring David Lee Wycuff on his retirement from CSRAB.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the USS Ohio (SSGN 726) on its Thirtieth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Clifford Rosenberger
Honoring the Wittenberg University women's volleyball team as the 2011 NCAA Division III Champion.
Sponsor: Ross McGregor
Honoring the Cincinnati LaSalle High School boys track and field team on winning the 2011 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: Louis Terhar
Honoring Wuebker Farms, LLC on being honored as a 2011 Pork Industry Environmental Steward.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring the St. Joseph Sylvania Middle School girls cross country team on winning the 2011 Middle School Athletic Association Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Barbara Sears
Honoring Steve Volk as the 2011 Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges U.S. Professor of the Year.
Sponsor: Daniel Ramos
Recognizing April 2012 as Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Month in Ohio.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring St. Mark's Lodge 7 of the Prince Hall Free and Accepted Masonson its One Hundred Sixtieth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Carlton Weddington
Honoring the McDonald High School boys cross country team on placing first at the 2011 Division III State Championship.
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
To prohibit automobile insurance policies that include uninsured and underinsured coverage from excluding coverage for family members solely on the basis of that relationship and from limiting or contradicting coverage requirements specified in law.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To require that a political subdivision other than a county exhaust its own assets to satisfy its contract or tort liability, before it may seek contribution out of the assets of the county or counties having territory within the political subdivision.
Sponsor: David Hall
Honoring the Warren County Child Support Enforcement Agency on being recognized by the ODJFS Office of Child Support.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
As Offered 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. R. No. 262 Speaker Batchelder
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Ohio Wesleyan University men's soccer team as the 2011 NCAA Division III Champion.
Sponsor: Kris Jordan
To designate a portion of Interstate Highway 70 in Belmont County the "Staff Sgt. Jesse Ault Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To authorize boards of township trustees to invest all or part of township interim funds in corporate bonds.
Sponsor: Peter Beck
To create a visiting clinical professional development certificate for certain physicians who are not licensed in Ohio.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To make changes in the law governing commercial drivers' licenses, including hazardous material endorsements, medical certification requirements, disqualifications, conviction records, and establishing texting while driving as a serious traffic violation, to exclude certain components from the prohibited length dimensions of specified types of vehicles, to revise the law governing self-sufficiency contracts established under the Ohio Works First program, to eliminate requirements that the Department of Job and Family Services employ, contract with, or designate only attorneys to make decisions in appeals regarding family services programs, to temporarily extend the look-back period from two years to three years for determining whether a state "on" indicator exists based on the total unemployment rate for purposes of state extended unemployment benefits, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To make engaging in an act of sexual bestiality a criminal offense.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to the Ohio Breast and Cervical Cancer Project.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring David Lee Wycuff on his retirement.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
As Offered 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. R. No. 258 Speaker Batchelder
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To replace the Council on Stroke Prevention and Education with the Stroke System of Care Task Force; to provide for state recognition of hospitals that are primary stroke centers; to require establishment of protocols for emergency triage, treatment, and transport of stroke patients; and to require the Department of Health to maintain a stroke data registry and a statewide system for stroke response and treatment.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To establish a process to appeal letters of admonishment issued by the State Board of Education.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
To increase the county competitive bidding and other procurement thresholds, to make other changes to the county competitive bidding law, and to eliminate the annual adoption of certain resolutions.
Sponsor: John Adams
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.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To designate a portion of State Route 52 in Scioto County as the "Boone Coleman Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Terry Johnson
To recognize the week of January 22 - 28, 2012 as
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Honoring the La Salle High School boys track and field team as the 2011 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: William Seitz
To recognize the week of January 22-28, 2012 as
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Authorizing the Western Ohio National Forensic League District to use the Ohio Senate Chambers for its Student Congress competition on March 17, 2012.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To repeal requirements that a concealed carry licensee inform an approaching law enforcement officer that the licensee is a licensee and is carrying a concealed handgun and keep the licensee's hands in plain sight after the officer begins approaching and until the officer leaves; to remove from a general requirement that a licensee stopped for a law enforcement purpose comply with lawful orders of a law enforcement officer a reference to orders to keep the licensee's hands in sight; to revise the definition of "unloaded" that applies to the offense of "improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle"; to repeal the concealed carry license suspension required for certain misdemeanor convictions of that offense; and to conform certain provisions to changes to that offense made by Sub. S.B. 17 of the 129th General Assembly.
Sponsor: John Adams
With respect to authority for concealed carry licensees to possess or store a handgun in a motor vehicle in the State Underground Parking Garage or in any parking garage or lot that is owned and operated by the Ohio Building Authority or is all or part of a state government facility.
Sponsor: John Adams
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Sponsor: William Batchelder
Authorizing Ohio Hi-Y Youth in Government to use the Ohio Senate Chambers on April 12-14, 2012.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To prohibit and provide a penalty for posting an advertisement of an employment position that discriminates on the basis of an individual's unemployment status.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
To revise the process for becoming a candidate for nomination for the office of President of the United States, to establish a separate primary election on June 12, 2012, for nominating candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States, candidates for the office of member of the United States House of Representatives, candidates for at-large delegate and alternate to the national convention of a major political party, and candidates for district delegate and alternate to the national convention of a major political party, to eliminate the August special election in 2012, to permit political subdivisions and taxing authorities to conduct a special election on the day of the June 12, 2012, primary election, and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To establish a moratorium until January 1, 2015, on the disposal by injection into an underground formation of brine and other waste substances associated with the exploration or development of oil and gas resources.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To designate September as "Mesothelioma Month" and November as "Lung Cancer Awareness Month."
Sponsor: Nancy Garland
To establish the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act regarding hospital services provided to victims of sexual assault.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To recognize the contributions of pregnancy resource
Sponsor: Bill Hayes
To eliminate the ability to conduct special elections in February and August.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To commend and honor the members of the United States
Sponsor: James Butler
To urge Congress to support the continued and
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Recognizing March 2012 as American Red Cross Month.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
To establish the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act regarding hospital services provided to victims of sexual assault.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To permit the Director of Transportation to designate portions of state highways as memorial highways in honor of each State Highway Patrol trooper who is or has been killed in the line of duty, and to designate a number of memorial highways.
Sponsor: Timothy Derickson
Regarding public pools, spas, and special use pools.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
To designate May as "ALS Awareness Month."
Sponsor: Joseph Schiavoni
To make changes relative to the Probate Code.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To designate May as "Substance Abuse Awareness and Education Month."
Sponsor: Nan Baker
To authorize stipends for student athletes attending public and private, nonprofit colleges and universities.
Sponsor: Clayton Luckie
To establish the Ohio Health Benefit Exchange Agency and to establish the Ohio Health Benefit Exchange Program consisting of an exchange for individual coverage and a Small Business Health Options Program.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
Honoring Wayne County on its Bicentennial.
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
Honoring the Norwayne High School football team on winning the 2011 Division IV State Championship.
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
To create a public campaign financing system for candidates for the office of chief justice or justice of the Supreme Court.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
Honoring Jackie Shafer on her retirement from OGT.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
, and to amend Sections 267.10, 267.30.30, 309.10, 309.60, 371.10, 371.40.50, 371.50.20, 379.10, 387.10, 387.20, and 757.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly to authorize programs and tax credits to encourage the hiring of unemployed individuals, to make changes to the Unemployment Compensation Law, to authorize grants and tax credits for the rehabilitation of distressed areas and the expansion of broadband connections to rural areas, to create a revolving loan fund and a bonding program for small businesses, to make changes to the Minority Business Bonding Program, and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To authorize a nonrefundable income tax credit for the purchase of a new home.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To designate a portion of State Route 172 in Stark County as the "U.S.M.C. Sgt. Daniel J. Patron Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Stephen Slesnick
To designate a portion of United States Route 50 within Ross County the "Lance Cpl. Aaron Reed Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
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.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To modify the laws governing physician assistants.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To establish the Ohio Health Benefit Exchange Agency and to establish the Ohio Health Benefit Exchange Program consisting of an exchange for individual coverage and a Small Business Health Options Program.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To expand the right of an institution of higher education to bring a civil action for damages caused by violations of athletic association or conference regulations.
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
Honoring the Thomas Worthington High School field hockey team on winning the 2011 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: Mike Duffey
Honoring Trooper Larry R. Bowman for outstanding service to our state and nation.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
In memory of William N. Taylor.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the St. Henry High School girls volleyball team as the 2011 Division IV State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
To require that all labor and services performed under any contract for goods or services paid for with state funds be performed within the United States, that all labor affected by state-funded economic development assistance be labor within the United States, and that all services performed as a result of such economic development assistance be performed within the United States.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
Honoring Allison Bates as the 2011 All-American Soap Box Derby Masters Division Champion.
Sponsor: Lynn Slaby
Honoring the Miami East High School girls volleyball team as the 2011 Division III State Champion.
Sponsor: Richard Adams
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 and to revise the external review process used by health plan issuers.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
To designate the Wilson brand football as the official state football.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To require the Director of Development to establish a youth summer jobs pledging initiative to increase access to summer employment opportunities for high school and college youth.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To authorize educational service centers to provide teacher professional development on dyslexia, to make changes regarding the relationship between educational service centers and their client school districts, to make changes to the operation of public college-preparatory boarding schools and the College-Preparatory Boarding School Facilities Program, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To designate February 20 as "John Glenn Friendship 7 Day" and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Connie Pillich
To make the clerk of courts of Miami County the clerk of the Miami County Municipal Court and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To designate a portion of State Route 264 in Hamilton County as the "Sergeant David Kreuter Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To require the written re-examination of holders of driver's licenses upon every renewal and the on-road re-examination of those holders upon every other renewal.
Sponsor: Robert Hagan
To require each hospital to establish a policy governing authentication of verbal medical orders.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
To establish, under certain circumstances, a grace period and prorated fees when a temporary resident applies for a nonrenewable driver's license.
Sponsor: William Seitz
To abolish the death penalty and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
Honoring the Strongsville High School girls soccer team on winning the 2011 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
, to repeal Sections 3 and 4 of Sub. H.B. 318 of the 129th General Assembly, and to repeal Sections 3, 6, and 7 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, to establish a single primary election on March 6, 2012, for the purpose of nominating all candidates for election in 2012, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
To designate a portion of Interstate Route 71 within Wayne County the "First Lieutenant John M. Runkle, Jr. Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To approve the Public Health Council's proposed
Sponsor: John Adams
As Offered 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. R. No. 239 Speaker Batchelder
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To designate a portion of State Route 41 in Adams County the "LCpl. Luke C. Scott Memorial Highway" and a portion of United States Route 62 in Brown County the "Pfc. Seth Blevins Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To provide notice to a long-term care facility when a Tier III or similar category sex offender/child-victim offender indicates an intent to reside in the facility or registers an address within the specified geographical notification area including the facility.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To authorize a joint board of county commissioners to conduct proceedings regarding existing joint county ditches via teleconference or video conference.
Sponsor: Randall Gardner
To specify that school districts and chartered nonpublic schools may excuse from high school physical education students who play rugby in a school club.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To make changes in certain provisions relating to road signs and traffic signals for purposes of the Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To establish standards for the securitization of costs for electric distribution utilities.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
As Adopted 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. R. No. 240 Speaker Batchelder
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To honor and commemorate veterans of the Vietnam War
Sponsor: Troy Balderson
To implement recommendations of the Ohio Legislative Commission on the Education and Preservation of State History.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To repeal Sections 3 and 4 of Sub. H.B. 318 of the 129th General Assembly and to repeal Sections 3, 6, and 7 of Sub. H.B. 319 of the 129th General Assembly 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, to establish a single primary election on May 22, 2012, for the purpose of nominating all candidates for election in 2012, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
To prohibit a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or juvenile court from placing an abused, neglected, or dependent child in an out-of-state residential facility that does not comply with Ohio policies regarding client rights, use of restraints and isolation or seclusion, agency reporting requirements, and behavior intervention and discipline policies.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To support the construction of the New International
Sponsor: Gayle Manning
To exempt from sales and use taxes the sale or use of investment metal bullion and coins.
Sponsor: John Adams
To change the date of the 2012 primary election to May 8, 2012, to specify a process for candidates to qualify for the ballot at that election, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
Honoring the Brunswick High School girls cross country team as the Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Laura Clemens for her outstanding service as clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Sam Prakel as the 2011 Division III State Boys Cross Country Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring the Kirtland High School football team as the 2011 Division V State Champion.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To authorize an income tax deduction for the otherwise taxable portion of a federal Pell grant or Ohio College Opportunity grant used to pay room and board for a post-secondary student, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Joseph Schiavoni
To approve the Public Health Council's proposed
Sponsor: Peggy Lehner
Honoring Mapleside Farms on being named America's Most Beautiful Farm.
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
Honoring Darryl Cloud as the recipient of the 2011 Robert E. Yaokum Award.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
Honoring the Oxford Mining Company, LLC, as the recipient of two Excellence in Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Awards.
Sponsor: Troy Balderson
Honoring the St. Francis DeSales High School girls soccer team as the 2011 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring the Worthington Christian High School boys soccer team as the 2011 Division III State Champion.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring the Bishop Hartley High School girls volleyball team as the 2011 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To establish a controlled substance testing requirement for members of the General Assembly.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To prohibit scrap metal dealers from purchasing or receiving copper plumbing pipe from any person other than a plumber and purchasing or receiving an air conditioning unit from any person other than a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning contractor.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
Honoring the late Lance Corporal Lucas C. Scott on receiving the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction.
Sponsor: Terry Johnson
To urge Congress to pass the "Short Sea Shipping Act
Sponsor: Casey Kozlowski
In memory of Carl Lindner, Jr.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the late Corporal Shawn D. Fannin on receiving the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction.
Sponsor: Terry Johnson
Honoring the Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School girls golf team on winning the 2011 Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Clayton Luckie
Honoring the late Staff Sergeant Shannon M. Smith on receiving the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction.
Sponsor: Dorothy Pelanda
Honoring the Strongsville High School girls soccer team as the 2011 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Honoring the late Sergeant Justin B. Allen on receiving the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction.
Sponsor: Terry Johnson
In memory of Gene Riegle.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring Brittany Atkinson as the 2011 Division III State Girls Cross Country Champion.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
To suspend, during the period of employment, the retirement benefit of a public retirement system retiree who returns to public employment.
Sponsor: Andy Thompson
Honoring Adam Paynter as a 2011 Ohio Wendy's High School Heisman Award recipient.
Sponsor: Jeffrey McClain
Honoring the Liberty Center High School girls cross country team as the 2011 Division III State Champion.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
Honoring the City of New Albany for excellence in financial reporting.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring Steven Weaver as a 2011 Division II State Cross Country Champion.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
Honoring the late Staff Sergeant Dennis J. Hansen on receiving the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction.
Sponsor: Dorothy Pelanda
Honoring the late Staff Sergeant David S. Spicer on receiving the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction.
Sponsor: Dorothy Pelanda
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.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 155 Senator Faber
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To grant student members of the boards of trustees of state universities and the Northeast Ohio Medical University voting power and the authority to attend executive sessions.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
In memory of First Lieutenant John M. Runkle, Jr.
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
Honoring Josh Thompson as the 2011 OHSAA Division II State Champion in the 110-meter hurdles.
Sponsor: Jason Wilson
Honoring the Chaminade-Julienne High School girls golf team as the 2011 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
Proposing to amend Sections 1b, 1c, and 1g of Article
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
Honoring the Lakota East High School baseball team as the 2011 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: William Coley
Honoring the late Chief Warrant Officer Herbert Roger Mills on the dedication of the H.R. Mills Drop Zone.
Sponsor: Frank LaRose
Honoring the Strasburg-Franklin High School softball team as the 2011 Division IV State Champion.
Sponsor: Jason Wilson
Honoring the Oxford Mining Company, LLC, as the recipient of two Excellence in Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Awards.
Sponsor: Troy Balderson
Honoring St. Paul's Episcopal Church on its One Hundred Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Honoring the Steubenville High School boys 4x200-meter relay team on winning the 2011 Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Jason Wilson
Honoring the Thomas Worthington High School field hockey team as the 2011 State Champion.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
In memory of Congressman Clarence E. Miller.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
Honoring the City of Westlake on its Bicentennial.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
In memory of Sergeant Dennis E. Kancler.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
Honoring the Rocky River High School girls fencing team on placing first in the 2011 Ohio High School State Championships.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
Honoring Kings Mills Elementary School as a 2011 National Blue Ribbon School.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To expand the "criminal mischief" prohibition that relates to the use of a computer contaminant, to increase the penalty for that offense when the offense involves a computer or a computer system, network, software, or program, and to create the offense of "criminal use of a computer."
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
Honoring the Catholic Central High School girls track and field team on winning the 2011 Division III State Championship.
Sponsor: Jason Wilson
In memory Sheriff James A. Karnes.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring the Catholic Central High School girls 4x200-meter relay team on winning the 2011 Division III State Championship.
Sponsor: Jason Wilson
Honoring the U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force on its twenty-five thousandth arrest.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
Honoring Brannon Kidder as a 2011 Division I State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
In memory of Carl Henry Lindner, Jr.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring Jerry Doerger on being inducted into the Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
Honoring Michael G. Morris on his retirement from AEP.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
In memory of Chief Warrant Officer Christopher Roy Thibodeau.
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
In memory of Dr. Frank W. Hale, Jr.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Honoring Teddi Maslowski as a 2011 Division III State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Jason Wilson
Honoring Springboro High School as a 2011 National Blue Ribbon School.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
Honoring Lieutenant Steven Helton as a 2011 President's Volunteer Service Gold Award winner.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
Honoring Rachel Muha as the winner of a national 2011 Jefferson Award and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Public Service.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To provide for the Ohio General Assembly to meet in
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To make changes to the law regulating pawnbrokers, including additional requirements for the recovery of leased property, extension of the property holding period for military service members and on purchased merchandise, and a requirement that pawnbrokers file a biennial report.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To increase to a felony of the fifth degree the penalty for committing assault against an Ohio transit system bus operator or maintenance worker or a contracted employee performing those services for an Ohio transit system.
Sponsor: Connie Pillich
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.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
Honoring Mike Amheiser as a 2011 American Pizza Champion.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
Honoring Senator Capri S. Cafaro on receiving the NIAF Youth Leadership Award.
Sponsor: Michael Stinziano
Honoring the Tecumseh Council of the Boy Scouts of America on being ranked first in the nation.
Sponsor: Dorothy Pelanda
Honoring the Reverend Dr. E. Theophilus Caviness on being inducted into the 2012 International Civil Rights Walk of Fame.
Sponsor: Bill Patmon
Honoring the late Sergeant First Class Douglas Dahill.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
Honoring Taylor Hahnert as Ohio's Best Bagger for 2011.
Sponsor: Andrew Brenner
Honoring David A. Eyerman on receiving the Ohio Fire Service Valor Award.
Sponsor: Tracy Heard
Honoring John M. Gonzales as a recipient of the 2011 Respected Advocate Award.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
In memory of Staff Sergeant Jamal Tirik Clay.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
To provide that "exploitation" under the adult protective services law includes action by any person, rather than only by a caretaker.
Sponsor: Mark Okey
And to amend Sections 261.10 and 261.20.93 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly regarding the Local Government Innovation Program and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: David Daniels
To allow suppliers and consumers to enter into a Right to Cure agreement.
Sponsor: William Coley
To revise the amount and methods of collection and remittance of the wireless 9-1-1 charge for prepaid wireless services.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To prohibit health insurers from excluding coverage for specified services for individuals diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
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.
Sponsor: John Adams
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. C. R. No. 22 Senators Niehaus, Cafaro
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To generally require the cancellation of an undocumented alien's driver's license and voter registration and the termination of any benefits the undocumented alien receives from programs administered or supervised by the Department of Job and Family Services, if the undocumented alien is arrested, identified as an undocumented alien by a federal fingerprint database, and has been issued a driver's license or provided a false or altered driver's license or another person's driver's license for identification at the time of arrest or processing.
Sponsor: John Adams
With respect to offering school district property to state universities.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
Honoring the Ohio Statehouse on the memorable occasion of its Sesquicentennial.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
On that date.
Sponsor: Peggy Lehner
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 149 Senator Faber
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To honor "Taps" on its sesquicentennial and urge all
Sponsor: Peter Beck
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.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
Relative to the appointment of John Eklund, to fill
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To allow an A-1 liquor permit holder to sell beer or beer products for personal consumption on the premises of the permit holder.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
Honoring the Ohio Judicial Center on being rededicated in the name of the late Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
To urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
To provide that the state certification for minority business enterprises satisfies any similar minority business certification requirement imposed by a political subdivision.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To encourage hospitals and freestanding birthing
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To increase the tobacco products excise tax rate and to add dissolvable tobacco products to the kinds of products subject to the tax.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To require the licensure of, and otherwise regulate, providers of debt settlement services.
Sponsor: David Daniels
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.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To make changes to the New Community Authority Law.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To create the Long-range Financial Outlook Council for the purpose of informing the public and the General Assembly about the financial status of the state by studying financial and other conditions and issuing an annual long-range financial outlook report.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Michael G. Morris on his retirement from AEP.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To designate a portion of State Route 84 in Lake County as the "Sgt. Mark T. Smykowski Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Ron Young
To repeal Sections 3, 4, and 5 of Sub. H.B. 318 of the 129th General Assembly to require all candidates for nomination to office in 2012 to appear on the ballot at the June 12, 2012, primary election, 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, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: John Carney
To establish requirements for contract carriers that transport railroad employees.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
Honoring Robert J. Joyce on his retirement from Westfield Group.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
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.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To prohibit the Ohio Turnpike Commission from increasing tolls before January 1, 2013, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Ronald Gerberry
To require railroads to allow a conductor or engineer to exercise court-ordered parenting time without terminating employment, reducing pay, or taking other similar action against the parent.
Sponsor: Ronald Gerberry
Applying for an Article V amendments convention.
Sponsor: Ron Maag
To establish requirements and procedures for issuing portable electronics insurance.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To specify that renewable energy resources do not have to be converted to electricity to receive renewable energy credits.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
Affirming support for local humane societies in their
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To amend section 4503.102 to require the Registrar of Motor Vehicles and all deputy registrars to accept credit and debit cards for transactions of more than ten dollars.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
In memory of Roger F. Dreyer.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Senator Capri S. Cafaro as the recipient of the 2011 NIAF Youth Leadership Award.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring John W. Barron for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
In memory of Staff Sergeant James Patrick Hunter.
Sponsor: Gayle Manning
In memory of Samuel T. Britton.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To revise the law governing uniformed services and overseas voters, to specify that voters who provide a Social Security Number for election purposes only are required to provide the last four digits of that number, to revise the process for casting provisional ballots for voters without identification, to eliminate online voter registration, to require absent voter's ballot statements to include the voter's printed name, to make technical corrections to the laws governing elections, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Peter Beck
Honoring Julia Shappert as the 2011 Miss Ohio American Teen.
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
In memory of Monsignor Kenneth Grimes.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
In memory of Carl Lindner, Jr.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To designate a portion of United States Route 322 within Geauga County only the "Chief Warrant Officer Christopher R. Thibodeau Memorial Highway," to designate a portion of Interstate Route 71 within Franklin County only the "Deputy Marty Martin Memorial Highway," to rename the "Heath Warner Memorial Highway" the "U.S.M.C. Pvt. Heath Warner Memorial Highway," to establish maximum wheel and axle load limits for vehicles subject to vehicle weight allowances, and to declare an emergency in regard to those sections establishing the maximum wheel and axle load limits.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
Honoring the Oregon Thunder girls basketball team as the 2011 AYBT National Champion.
Sponsor: Matthew Szollosi
Honoring WYTV as a 2011 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award recipient.
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
Honoring Sean Maloneyas the 2010 NRA-ILA Jay M. Littlefield Volunteer of the Year.
Sponsor: Margaret Conditt
Honoring Wayne Webb on being inducted into the 2011 United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Michael Stinziano
To allow taxpayers to contribute an amount to the state through their income tax returns and designate how the state must use the contribution.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To redefine eligibility for issuance of a "Gold Star Family" license plate.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
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.
Sponsor: John Adams
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.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
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.
Sponsor: Dave Burke
To make changes to the New Community Authority Law.
Sponsor: William Coley
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.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
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.
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
To allow taxpayers to make contributions to the American Red Cross Ohio Disaster Response Readiness and Preparedness Fund through their income tax returns.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To repeal certain hospital performance reporting requirements.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To establish state board of education districts based on the 2011 plan of apportionment.
Sponsor: Thomas Sawyer
To revise the criminal laws governing post-viability abortions.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
In memory of Monsignor Kenneth Grimes.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
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.
Sponsor: William Seitz
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.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To make changes to the Casino Law, to make changes to skill-based amusement machine prizes, and 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, and to permit, under certain circumstances for two years, applications to conduct horse-racing meetings at locations where the meetings were not previously conducted.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To establish the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission.
Sponsor: Dennis Murray
To add synthetic cannabinoids commonly known as K2 or Spice to the list of Schedule I controlled substances, to prohibit the possession of Spice, to prohibit trafficking in Spice, to provide that if Spice is the drug involved in a violation of the offense of corrupting another with drugs the penalty for the violation will be the same as if marihuana was the drug involved in the offense, to add six synthetic derivatives of cathinone that have been found in bath salts to the list of Schedule I controlled substances, to define a "controlled substance analog" for purposes of the Controlled Substances Law, and to treat controlled substance analogs as Schedule I controlled substances, and to specify that the residential and familial information of probation officers and bailiffs is not a public record.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
To revise the laws governing agriculture.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
To exempt from property taxation the primary residences of military veterans who are 100% disabled from a service-connected disability.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
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.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
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 Troubled Asset Relief Program money and to establish a process for recalling statewide elected officials and members of the General Assembly.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
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.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
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.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To establish a waiver for the commercial driver's license skills test for drivers with military commercial motor vehicle experience.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To limit agreements to privatize state property, facilities, services, or functions.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To authorize county sheriffs to advertise foreclosure sales via a web site.
Sponsor: William Coley
As the "Act for Our Children's Future."
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To urge Congress to pass the "American Jobs Act of
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
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.
Sponsor: John Adams
To revise the coal mining laws regarding permit application, set-back, and alternative water treatment or supply requirements.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
To create the Oil and Gas Leasing Commission, to establish a procedure for leasing land owned or under the control of state agencies for oil and gas production in order to provide funding for capital costs for the agencies, and to exclude nature preserves from drilling.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
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.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
And to amend Section 3 of Am. Sub. H.B. 130 of the 127th General Assembly, to increase from $500 to $1,000 the threshold amount for determining increased penalties for theft-related offenses and for certain elements of "vandalism" and "engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity"; to increase by 50% the other threshold amounts for determining increased penalties for those offenses; to revise and clarify the law regarding prosecution of multiple theft, Medicaid fraud, workers' compensation fraud, and similar offenses and the valuation of property or services involved; to include workers' compensation fraud as a theft offense; to provide that if "nonsupport of dependents" is based on an abandonment of or failure to support a child or a person to whom a court order requires support and is a felony the sentencing court generally must first consider placing the offender on one or more community control sanctions; to eliminate the difference in criminal penalties for crack cocaine and powder cocaine; to revise some of the penalties for trafficking in marihuana or hashish, for possession of marihuana, cocaine, or hashish, and for all third degree felony drug offenses that currently have mandatory prison terms; to prohibit a convicted sex offender from possessing a photograph of the offender's victim while the offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense and to prohibit a child-victim offender from possessing a photograph of any minor child while the child-victim offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense; to revise procedures for notification of victims when violent offenders escape from the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction; to modify the number of Parole Board members required to conduct a full Board hearing; to limit a member of the Parole Board appointed after the bill's effective date who is not the Chairperson or a victim representative to two six-year terms; to revise the eligibility criteria for, and procedures governing, intervention in lieu of conviction; to revise the eligibility criteria for judicial release; to reduce the penalty for the offense of "escape" when it involves certain conduct by a person under supervised release by the Department; to revise the procedure for prisoners in state correctional institutions to earn days of credit for productive participation in specified prison programs and the number of days of credit that may be earned; to require judges who sentence an offender to a prison term to include in the sentence notice to the offender that the offender may be eligible to earn such days of credit; to require GPS monitoring of a prisoner placed on post-release control who was released early from prison due to earning 60 or more days of credit; to enact a new mechanism for the possible release with sentencing court approval of certain Department inmates who have served at least 80% of their prison term; to expand the membership of a county's local corrections planning board; to expand the authorization to transfer certain Ohio prisoners for pretrial confinement to a contiguous county in an adjoining state to also apply to postconviction confinement and confinement upon civil process; to make changes regarding halfway houses and community residential centers and authorize reentry centers; to provide for the establishment and operation of community alternative sentencing centers for misdemeanants sentenced directly to the centers under a community residential sanction or an OVI term of confinement not exceeding 60 days; to change the membership of the Ex-offender Reentry Coalition by reducing the number and functions of members from the Governor's office and adding the Director of Veterans Services; to remove judges from the membership of a corrections commission and instead have them form an advisory board; to require the Department to develop a reentry plan for each inmate committed to the Department who was not sentenced to a term of life without parole or a sentence of death and who is expected to be imprisoned for more than 30 days; to revise the procedures governing the Department's issuance of an inmate identification card upon an inmate's release and the use of such a card to obtain a state identification card; to authorize, instead of requiring, the Department to discontinue subsidy payment to a political subdivision that reduces local funding for corrections by the amount of a community-based corrections subsidy or that uses a subsidy for capital improvements; to adopt a single validated risk assessment tool to be used by courts at their option and by probation departments and the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to evaluate risk levels of offenders; to provide judges the option of risk reduction sentencing to allow for early release of certain prisoners who complete treatment and programming while incarcerated; to generally require offenders convicted of or pleading guilty to a felony of the fourth or fifth degree that is not a specified offense to serve community control sanctions when the conviction or plea did not occur in specified circumstances; to create the offense of trespass in a habitation of a person when any person other than an accomplice of the offender is present or likely to be present; to change the sentencing structure for felonies of the first degree and for felonies of the third degree that are not specified types of offenses; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to adopt specified types of standards regarding sentencing to community-based correctional facilities and community corrections programs; to reduce duplication of probation supervision resources; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to establish and administer the probation improvement grant and the probation incentive grant; to encourage a county and the Juvenile Court that serves the county to use the moneys in the county treasury's Felony Delinquent Care and Custody Fund to research-supported, outcome-based programs and services; to expand the circumstances in which a delinquent child committed to the Department of Youth Services may be granted a judicial release; to establish procedures for determining the competency to participate in the proceeding of a child who is the subject of a complaint alleging that the child is a delinquent child and procedures for a child to attain competency if the child is found to be incompetent; to establish an interagency task force to investigate and make recommendations on how to most effectively treat delinquent youth who suffer from serious mental illness or emotional and behavioral disorders; to establish a new mechanism, which may involve transfer back to a juvenile court, for determining the sanction for certain children who are convicted of a crime in criminal court after their case is transferred under a specified mandatory transfer provision; to revise the provision regarding commitment of a delinquent child to the Department of Youth Services for being complicit in the commission of an act by another that constitutes a firearm specification; to modify the required content of complaints alleging chronic or habitual truancy; to revise the time for notification of bail forfeiture proceedings regarding recognizance's; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to conduct a study of assaults by inmates; to modify the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Law based on the Ohio Supreme Court's decisions in State v. Foster and State v. Hodge; to prohibit the arrest, charging, or conviction of a person for speeding based on a peace officer's unaided visual estimation of the speed of the vehicle; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to thoroughly review the cases of all parole-eligible inmates who are sixty-five years of age or older; to authorize libraries, museums, archival institutions, and merchants to detain a suspected shoplifter, etc., to offer pretrial diversion and inform the suspect of other available options; to provide for certificates of achievement and employability for certain Department of Rehabilitation and Correction prisoners to be used by the recipient prisoner to generally obtain relief from mandatory civil impacts that would affect a potential job for which the prisoner trained; to prohibit a court from ordering a statutory change of name for a person convicted of identity fraud or having a duty to register under the SORN Law; and to revise certain provisions of the Crime Victims Reparations Law.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To require the Director of Environmental Protection to consider, to the extent allowable under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, specified factors before issuing NPDES permits for publicly owned sewerage systems, requiring and approving long-term control plans for wet weather discharges from publicly owned sewerage systems, and enforcing provisions of that Act as applied to publicly owned sewerage systems.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To allow an adult to be adopted if the adult is the child of the spouse of the adoption petitioner, is totally or permanently disabled, had established a kinship caregiver relationship with the petitioner, or was in a planned permanent living arrangement with a public children services or private child placing agency, and the adult consents to the adoption and to extend to a grandparent's spouse the exemption from certain adoptive placement requirements.
Sponsor: Carlton Weddington
To permit a concealed carry licensee to possess a firearm in a liquor permit premises, or an open air arena, for which a D permit has been issued if the licensee is not consuming beer or intoxicating liquor or under the influence of alcohol or a drug of abuse, to modify the offense of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle as it applies to concealed carry licensees, and to authorize the expungement of a prior conviction of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle that no longer would be a crime under the bill.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
To designate the offense of advertising or conducting a live musical performance or production in Ohio through the use of a false, deceptive, or misleading affiliation, connection, or association between a performing group and a recording group as an unfair or deceptive act or practice, to increase the civil penalty for violating a temporary restraining order preliminary injunction, or permanent injunction to restrain and prevent that act or practice, and to eliminate the duties of the attorney general regarding investigations of persons alleged to have committed that offense.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To make clear that the prosecuting attorney of a county is the legal adviser of all tax-supported public libraries.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
Recognizing October 2011as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Ohio.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Second Baptist Church on its One Hundred Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Honoring Senator Tim Grendell for outstanding service to the Ohio Senate.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring the Kent State University baseball teamas the 2011 MAC Tournament Champion.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Honoring the Kent State University women's golf teamon winning the 2011 Mid-American Conference Championship.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Recognizing the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11, September 11, 2011.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring Alice Barron being named the 2010 ODRC Parole Officer of the Year.
Sponsor: Al Landis
Honoring Dr. Larry G. McDougle on his retirement.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Honoring Matthew T. Schuler for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring Keith McNamarafor outstanding public service.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To revise the Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program and to establish the Parental Choice and Taxpayer Savings Scholarship Program.
Sponsor: John Adams
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Sponsor: William Batchelder
To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To establish, under certain circumstances, a grace period and prorated fees when a temporary resident applies for a nonrenewable driver's license.
Sponsor: Ron Young
To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
As the "Act for Our Children's Future."
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
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.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To limit copayments health insurers impose for physical therapy services and to make changes to the law governing health insurers and intermediary organizations.
Sponsor: Scott Oelslager
And to amend Section 247.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly to establish Congressional district boundaries for the state based on the 2010 decennial census of Ohio, to require boards of elections to notify electors of their new districts and new precincts for the 2012 primary election, and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Regarding the liability of owners of certain animals that are running at large.
Sponsor: Nan Baker
To designate various memorial highways and bridges and to create "Honor Our Fallen" license plates.
Sponsor: Terry Blair
To revise the requirements for staffing ambulances and the priorities for distributing grants for emergency medical services, and to specify additional titles to be used by emergency medical service personnel; and extends until December 15, 2015, a moratorium on issuing fireworks manufacturer and wholesaler licenses.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
To require the Ohio Judicial Conference periodically to adjust the dollar amounts specified in the general exemption statute, to provide consolidated references to Revised Code sections that establish costs and fees, other than attorney fees, in the courts of record of this state, to remove the provision specifying that an investigator appointed by the Auditor of State does not have the power and authority to carry a concealed weapon, to modify the penalties for certain offenses relating to the operation of motor vehicles, and to allow for a certificate of judgment to collect a financial reimbursement sanction in certain cases, the modification of a community control sanction, the substitution of a community control sanction for non-mandatory jail days, and the modification of a community service sentence by substituting a contribution to the local entity that funds the court.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To create the Office of Regional Services and Accountability in the Department of Education.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
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.
Sponsor: Mark Okey
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.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
To require the Department of Education to conduct a performance review of each chartered nonpublic school participating in the Educational Choice Scholarship Program.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
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.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To modify the journalist exception to the provision that makes concealed handgun license records confidential.
Sponsor: John Adams
To designate October as "Dyslexia Awareness Month."
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
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.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To require the Department of Administrative Services to make a high deductible health care plan available to state employees and state elected officials.
Sponsor: Brian Hill
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.
Sponsor: Ross McGregor
To establish Congressional district boundaries for the state based on the 2010 decennial census of Ohio.
Sponsor: Thomas Sawyer
Honoring the Way Public Library on its One Hundred Thirtieth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
To permit the Treasurer of State or 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, savings banks, and savings and loan associations in accordance with specified conditions, to remove the one-year maturity limitation for certificates of deposit with respect to interim deposits, to alter the authority of the Treasurer of State to invest interim money in certificates of deposit, and to require public depositories to provide certain information to political subdivisions.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To designate the bridge that will span the Cuyahoga River in Cuyahoga County and will be part of Interstate 90 and has an approximate scheduled completion date of late 2016 or early 2017 the "George V. Voinovich Bridge."
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To authorize property tax exemption for municipally owned facilities housing independent professional minor league baseball teams.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
As Reported by the House Judiciary and Ethics Committee 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. C. R. No. 7 Representative Letson
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
Relative to the election of Louis F. Terhar to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Robert P. Mecklenborg of the 30th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To create "Military Sacrifice" license plates.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
In memory of Clarence Ellsworth Miller, Jr.
Sponsor: Gerald Stebelton
Honoring Rita Haynes on her retirement as chief executive officer of Faith Community United Credit Union.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Dr. Peter V. Paul on receiving the 2010 Richard and Laura Kretschmer National Leadership Award in Hearing Impairment.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
To designate a portion of State Route 772 within Ross County the "Staff Sergeant Joshua Gire Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
In memory of Dale LeRoy Locker.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
In memory of Rocco J. Colonna.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
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.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
Honoring the Toledo Browns Senior Division flag football team on winning the 2011 State Championship.
Sponsor: Matthew Szollosi
Honoring the Oregon Junior Eagles 11U baseball team as the 2011 Nations 11U Select State Champion.
Sponsor: Matthew Szollosi
In memory of James D. Davis.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the St. Francis DeSales High School baseball team on winning the 2011 Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Andrew Brenner
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.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To make the elementary-level achievement assessments public records.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
Effective July 1, 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.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
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.
Sponsor: William Coley
To eliminate the exemption for community schools serving dropouts from the requirement to permanently close for poor academic performance.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To permit certain rate-calculation adjustments for natural gas companies, alter public notice requirements for rate cases, and, for natural gas companies, to make other regulatory changes concerning audits, alternative rate plans, and forecast reports, and allowing applications for natural gas company capital expenditure programs.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
In memory of Hubert Heard.
Sponsor: Tracy Heard
To limit the amount by which a state employee's salary or wage may be increased.
Sponsor: John Adams
To modify the laws governing the Intrastate Mutual Aid Compact.
Sponsor: John Carey
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.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To impose a temporary hiring freeze in state government until the state workforce is reduced by ten per cent.
Sponsor: John Adams
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.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
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.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
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.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
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.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
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.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
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.
Sponsor: Dave Burke
Honoring Solutions for Patient Safety as a National Quality Strategy best practice.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
To designate a portion of U.S. Route 62 in Stark County as the "U.S. Army Spc. Zachary Grass Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Kirk Schuring
Honoring Donovan Robertson as the 2010-2011 Gatorade Ohio Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
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.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
As Introduced 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. J. R. No. 2 Senator Coley
Sponsor: William Coley
To designate a portion of State Route 172 in Stark County as the "Lt. Jason S. Manse Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Kirk Schuring
To reduce the amount of sales tax due on the purchase or lease of a qualifying electric vehicle by up to $2,000.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
In memory of General Donn A. Starry
Sponsor: Frank LaRose
To add a representation of the Wright Brothers' first piloted airplane to the Coat of Arms and Great Seal of the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To reduce the amount of sales tax due on the purchase or lease of a qualifying electric vehicle by up to $2,000.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To designate a portion of State Route 104 within Ross County as the "David A. Gibson Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
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.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
To regulate the practice of art therapy.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To establish the "Yellow Dot" motor vehicle medical information program within the Department of Public Safety.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. C. R. No. 24 Speaker Batchelder
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Dick Kinzel on his retirement from Cedar Fair Entertainment Company.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
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.
Sponsor: Robert Hagan
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."
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
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.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To qualify Teach for America participants for a resident educator license.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
In memory of John J. Chester.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Relative to the election of Dorothy Liggett-Pelanda to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of David Burke of the 83rd House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Relative to the election of Brian D. Hill to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Troy Balderson of the 94th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Piqua Baptist Church on the occasion of its Centennial.
Sponsor: Bill Beagle
Honoring the Withrow University High School girls 800 sprint medley relay team as a 2011 New Balance Outdoor Nationals Champion.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To ban the taking or removal of oil or natural gas from and under the bed of Lake Erie.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To allow manufacturers of nonbeverage food products to purchase at wholesale beer and intoxicating liquor from A and B liquor permit holders.
Sponsor: Troy Balderson
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.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To provide protections for search and rescue dogs and to make changes to the law regarding emergency volunteers.
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
To prioritize the distribution of funds for family planning services.
Sponsor: Kris Jordan
To establish a program for the issuance of permits for the withdrawal and consumptive use of waters from the Lake Erie basin.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Miles Dunlap as the 2011 Division III State Champion in the 300-meter hurdles.
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
In memory of Private First Class Gustavo A. Rios-Ordonez.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
To create the Edison Jobs Development Program within the Department of Development and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
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."
Sponsor: Timothy DeGeeter
Honoring Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc. on receiving a 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award.
Sponsor: Debbie Phillips
Honoring the Columbus Academy girls lacrosse team as the 2011 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Nancy Garland
Honoring the McDonald High School boys track and field team as the 2011 Division III State Champion.
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
Honoring the City of Westlake on its Two Hundredth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Nan Baker
Honoring Charlotte Myers as a 2011 Division II State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Nancy Garland
Honoring Jen Bjelac on winning the 2011 Division II State Championship in the long jump.
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
To honor Ohio ancestors for the unrivaled
Sponsor: Terry Johnson
Relative to the appointment of David E. Burke, to fill
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To urge Congress to enact House Resolution 2070
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
Honoring the Hoover High School softball team as the 2011 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Kirk Schuring
Relative to the appointment of Troy Balderson, to fill
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Sheriff David Barber for receiving the 2011 Missing Children's Law Enforcement Award.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
Honoring Devin Smith as a 2011 Division I State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Kirk Schuring
Honoring the Hudson Middle School eighth-grade boys lacrosse team as the 2011 Ohio Middle School Lacrosse Association Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
In memory of Charles W. Whalen.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Jacob Blankenship as a 2011 OHSAA Division I State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Nancy Garland
Honoring Ali Tolich on winning the 2011 Division I State Championship in discus.
Sponsor: Ronald Gerberry
To designate a portion of United States Route 322 within Cleveland Heights the "Officer Thomas F. Patton II Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Carlton Weddington
To encourage local community emergency response teams
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
As Introduced 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 118 Senator Faber
Sponsor: Keith Faber
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.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
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.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
Honoring Senator Karen L. Gillmor for outstanding service to the Ohio Senate.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To authorize a board of county commissioners of any county to enter into agreements for the sale and leaseback of county buildings.
Sponsor: William Seitz
Honoring Senator Jimmy Stewart for outstanding service to the Ohio Senate.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
In memory of Private First Class Gustavo A. Rios-Ordonez.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To memorialize the Congress of the United States to
Sponsor: Dave Burke
To require the Department of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing program under which county auditors may conduct such testing.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To require the Department of Agriculture to establish a motor fuel quality testing program under which county auditors may conduct such testing.
Sponsor: Thomas Sawyer
To designate part of Interstate 71 in southern Franklin County as the "Deputy Marty Martin Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring The Courier on its One Hundred Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To increase the penalties for robbery, burglary, and breaking and entering when the offenses occur in or in the immediate vicinity of a pharmacy.
Sponsor: Kenny Yuko
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.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
Regarding the delivery of certain non-self-injectable and compounded medications and insurance coverage for orally administered cancer medications.
Sponsor: Scott Oelslager
To revise the Election Law.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
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.
Sponsor: Alicia Reece
On October 1, 2012; to make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013; and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of programs, including reforms for the efficient and effective operation of state and local government.
To make bestiality a criminal offense.
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
To include content on specified historical documents in the state academic standards and in the high school American history and government curriculum.
Sponsor: Nina Turner
To specify that an assault against a dog warden, deputy dog warden, humane agent, or animal control officer is a felony of the fifth degree.
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
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.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
On that date, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Margaret Conditt
To ratify, enact into law, and enter into as a party the Interstate Compact for Juveniles; to provide for certain entities and officials and assign certain responsibilities that relate to that Compact; to repeal the current Interstate Compact on Juveniles, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To generally prohibit an abortion of an unborn human individual with a detectable fetal heartbeat.
Sponsor: Margaret Conditt
To adopt provisions related to the employment of unauthorized aliens.
Sponsor: John Adams
To enact the Ohio Health Security Act to establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
, to amend Sections 343.10 and 512.90 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly, and to amend Sections 103.90, 105.43.10, 105.45.40, 105.45.70, and 105.49.80 of Sub. H.B. 462 of the 128th General Assembly, to make appropriations for programs related to transportation and public safety for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011 and ending June 30, 2013, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of those programs.
Sponsor: Nancy Garland
To adopt the revisions to the general provisions and documents of title portions of the Uniform Commercial Code that were recommended by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and to make related changes in the Uniform Commercial Code and the Revised Code.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
; and to repeal Section 265.70.70 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly and Section 9 of Sub. H.B. 318 of the 128th General Assembly to eliminate spending and reporting requirements related to the school funding system, to eliminate the prohibition on unit funding for gifted student services effective after fiscal year 2011, to eliminate the requirement that school districts offer all-day kindergarten, to eliminate the requirement that school districts annually set aside operating funds for textbooks and instructional materials, and to eliminate the requirement that school districts establish family and civic engagement teams except as required for implementation of federal "Race to the Top" grants.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
Honoring the St. Ignatius High School crew team as the 2011 Midwest Scholastic Rowing Champion.
Sponsor: Marlene Anielski
Honoring Robert M. Chiaramonte for his contributions to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Kent State University Precision Flight Team on winning the 2010 Loening Trophy.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
Honoring the Minster High School baseball team as the 2011 Division IV State Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Alex Aleman as a 2011 Division II State Champion in doubles tennis.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
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.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
Honoring Lou Konstan as a 2011 Division II State Champion in doubles tennis.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
Honoring the Woodridge High School boys 3,200-meter relay team on winning the 2011 Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Lynn Slaby
Honoring the Columbus Academy boys 4x800-meter relay team on winning the 2011 Division III State Championship.
Sponsor: Nancy Garland
Honoring the Poland Seminary High School softball team as the 2011 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Ronald Gerberry
Honoring Ellen Bryan on being selected as Miss Ohio 2011.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To designate State Route 235 within the municipal corporation of Fairborn the "Army Specialist Jesse Adam Snow Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
Regarding assistance for pregnancy prevention and hospital services for victims of sexual assault.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
Honoring Ellen Bryan as Miss Ohio 2011.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
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Sponsor: William Batchelder
To create the Water Access To Every Residence Task Force.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To provide certain professional licensing and certification rights to service members, spouses of service members, and veterans, and to eliminate the requirement that a veteran be a resident of Ohio to qualify to receive the veterans preference on civil service examinations.
Sponsor: Nancy Garland
To shorten the period of limitations for actions upon a contract in writing.
Sponsor: Margaret Conditt
To urge the selection committee of the Professional
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
To designate September as "Pain Awareness Month."
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To generally require electors who appear at a polling place to vote or who cast absent voter's ballots in person to provide photo identification, to establish a process for electors to receive free photo identification, to establish a process to permit electors with a religious objection to being photographed to vote, and to revise the information that must accompany a provisional ballot for that ballot to be eligible to be counted.
Sponsor: John Adams
Regarding assistance for pregnancy prevention and hospital services for victims of sexual assault.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To revise the penalties and sentencing provisions regarding violations of the cruelty to animals statutes and to include the protection of companion animals in temporary protection orders, domestic violence protection orders, anti-stalking protection orders, and related protection orders.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
To authorize the Department of Health to create the Lupus Education and Awareness Program.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
Honoring Logan Rowe as a 2011 Division II State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
To support the rights of Macedonians living in the
Sponsor: Kenny Yuko
Honoring Christina Blair as a 2011 Division II State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
In memory of Chief Warrant Officer Christopher R. Thibodeau.
Sponsor: Richard Hollington
Honoring Tsehaye Hiluf as a 2011 Division I State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring the Reynoldsburg High School girls track and field team as the 2011 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring Tyler Wolfe as a 2011 Division III State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
To approve the Department of Education's proposed
Sponsor: Terry Blair
To create the "Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Foundation" license plate.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
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.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
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.
Sponsor: John Adams
To eliminate the rental income limit that is a condition for the veterans' organization property tax exemption.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Steven Weaver as a 2011 Division II State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
To increase the penalties for street racing and to create the offense of "street racing manslaughter."
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
Honoring the Champion High School softball team as the 2011 Division III State Champion.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
Honoring Arthur Saunders for his service with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Lakota East High School baseball team on winning the 2011 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: Margaret Conditt
To exempt state surplus lines insurance from regulation in Ohio when Ohio is not the home state of the insured and to make other changes to the law regulating surplus lines insurance.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
Honoring American Legion Buckeye Girls State on its Sixty-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Dennis Murray
To join the Health Care Compact.
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
Honoring Tori Meyer on winning the 2011 OHSAA Division III State Championship in the pole vault.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
Proposing to enact Section 21 of Article I of the
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
Honoring the Twinsburg High School girls basketball team as the 2011 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Lynn Slaby
Honoring Old Firehouse Winery on receiving the Director's Choice Award.
Sponsor: Casey Kozlowski
Honoring the Solon Middle School Science Olympiad team as the 2011 National Champion.
Sponsor: Marlene Anielski
Honoring Kiedrowski's Simply Delicious Bakery as the 2011 Best Bakery in America.
Sponsor: Terry Boose
Honoring David Blue as the 2011 OHSLA Division I Coach of the Year.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
To designate October 13 as Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
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.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
Honoring the Kent State University women's track and field team on winning the 2011 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Championship.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
In memory of Specialist Adam S. Hamilton.
Sponsor: Thomas Sawyer
Honoring Emily Morris as a 2011 Division II State Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Robert Hackett
Honoring the Hudson High School boys lacrosse team as the 2011 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Kristina Roegner
Honoring Matthew Pfleger as a 2011 MAC Outdoor Track and Field Champion.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
As Introduced 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. C. R. No. 4 Senator Daniels
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring the Kent State University men's golf team as the 2011 Mid-American Conference Champion.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Honoring Madison Slovak as the 2011 Ohio USA Gymnastics All-Around State Champion.
Sponsor: Matthew Szollosi
Honoring Laurello Vineyards on receiving the Director's Choice Award.
Sponsor: Casey Kozlowski
Honoring Ferrante Winery on receiving the Director's Choice Award.
Sponsor: Casey Kozlowski
Honoring the Solon High School Science Olympiad team as the 2011 National Champion.
Sponsor: Marlene Anielski
To urge Congress to support the continued and
Sponsor: Barbara Sears
Honoring the Olmsted Falls High School academic team on winning the 2011 NAQT Ohio State Championship.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
In memory of Private First Class William Seth Blevins.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To establish a program for the regulation of withdrawals and consumptive uses of waters from the Lake Erie basin.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
To allow a credit against the personal income tax or commercial activity tax for the installation of an alternative fuel facility.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
In memory of Specialist Robert P. Hartwick.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
On that date, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: John Adams
Relative to travel allowance.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
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.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
To urge Congress to enact House Resolution 2070
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
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.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
Honoring Dr. Carol A. Cartwright on her retirement from Bowling Green State University.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
In memory of Specialist Michael B. Cook, Jr.
Sponsor: William Coley
To allow a credit against the personal income tax or commercial activity tax for the installation of an alternative fuel facility.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To revise the law governing cockfighting.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To designate the second full week of March as Ohio Agriculture Week.
Sponsor: Joseph Schiavoni
Honoring Shamrock Vineyard on winning three medals at the 2011 Finger Lakes International Wine Competition.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
To establish a program for the regulation of withdrawals and consumptive uses of waters from the Lake Erie basin.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To provide that there is no period of limitation for the prosecution of an offense of rape or sexual battery.
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
To urge the Administration of President Barack Obama
Sponsor: Andy Thompson
Regarding child custody and visitation rights of parents called to active military service and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Roland Winburn
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.
Sponsor: John Adams
To require an individual to file proof of successful completion of training with the county recorder prior to being appointed as a humane society agent and to require the revocation or suspension of an appointment under certain circumstances.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Olmsted Falls High School academic team as the 2011 NAQT Ohio State Champion.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
To authorize nonrefundable tax credits for authorized donations to projects of nonprofit entities and municipal agencies providing community services.
Sponsor: Nina Turner
Relative to the election of Margaret K.Conditt to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of William P. Coley of the 55th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Christopher Lysyj as a 2011 National Junior High Chess Champion.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
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.
Sponsor: Kenny Yuko
To exempt from closure certain community schools that enroll students receiving behavioral health services.
Sponsor: Nina Turner
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.
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
Honoring Dr. Carol A. Cartwright on her retirement from Bowling Green State University.
Sponsor: Randall Gardner
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.
Sponsor: Gerald Stebelton
To authorize an income tax withholding credit for a manufacturer that expands production or that restarts production at an idle facility.
Sponsor: Stephen Slesnick
To urge the Secretary of the United States Department
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To adopt a new business rule review procedure.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
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.
Sponsor: John Adams
In memory of Specialist Adam S. Hamilton.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
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.
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
Honoring American Legion Buckeye Boys State on its Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Randall Gardner
In memory of John W. Bowen.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To authorize political subdivisions to purchase by reverse auction certain services and supplies that they are currently prohibited from purchasing by reverse auction.
Sponsor: John Adams
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.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To require public high schools that receive federal school improvement grant moneys to establish student advisory committees.
Sponsor: Nina Turner
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.
Sponsor: William Seitz
To urge Congress to take certain actions regarding
Sponsor: Troy Balderson
To designate the Honor and Remember Flag as Ohio's
Sponsor: Joseph Uecker
Honoring The Ohio State University men's volleyball team as the 2011 NCAA Champion.
Sponsor: Carlton Weddington
Honoring the late Specialist Gerald R. Jenkins for outstanding military service.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
Honoring Michael Lybarger as a 2011 NCAA Division II Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
To authorize nonrefundable tax credits for donations to nonprofit entities providing scholarships to low-income students enrolling in chartered nonpublic schools.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring the St. Marys Memorial High School girls bowling team as the 2011 OHSAA State Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Orville Ray Timberlake on being named the 2011 Ohio DRC Correction Officer of the Year.
Sponsor: Terry Johnson
Honoring the late Sergeant Jesse M. Balthaser for outstanding military service.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Honoring Orville Ray Timberlake as the 2011 ODRC Correction Officer of the Year.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring Malaya Sherman as a 2011 American Cheer Power National Champion.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
Honoring the Franklin City School District as a
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
Honoring the YMCA Rockets cheerleading squad as the 2011 Cheer Power National Champion.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
Honoring Phyllis Szymanek as the Best-in-Show at the 2011 American Pie Council Crisco National Pie Championship.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
To provide access to places of public accommodation for police dogs.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
In memory of Sergeant First Class Bradley S. Hughes.
Sponsor: Kris Jordan
Honoring the La Salle High School boys basketball team on winning the 2011 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: William Seitz
Honoring Isaiah Villa as the 2011 Division IV, V, VI State Champion in power lifting in the 145-pound weight class.
Sponsor: Teresa Fedor
Honoring Senator Gary Cates for outstanding service to the Ohio Senate.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
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.
Sponsor: Ronald Gerberry
To create the "Massillon Tiger Football Booster Club" license plate.
Sponsor: Kirk Schuring
Honoring the Northeast Storm hockey club as the 2011 Ohio High School Club Hockey Champion.
Sponsor: John Carney
To honor President Barack Obama and the United States
Sponsor: Shirley Smith
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.
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
To urge the Congress of the United States to continue
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 82 Senator Faber
Sponsor: Keith Faber
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.
Sponsor: Gary Cates
Honoring Anthony Dodd as a 2011 Division IV-V-VI State Powerlifting Champion.
Sponsor: Matthew Szollosi
To require the inclusion of a bittering agent in engine coolant and antifreeze.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To prohibit manufactured homes park operators, condominium associations, neighborhood associations, and landlords from restricting the display of blue star banners, gold star banners, and other service flags, and to prohibit manufactured homes park operators and landlords from restricting the display of the United States flag.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring Canen Smith as a 2011 Division I-II-III State Powerlifting Champion.
Sponsor: Matthew Szollosi
Honoring Luke Powell as a 2011 Division I-II-III State Powerlifting Champion.
Sponsor: Matthew Szollosi
To create the Ohio Sustainable Food Advisory Council to address program and policy considerations regarding the development of a sustainable food economy in Ohio.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To designate a portion of United States Route 30 within Stark County only as the "Staff Sgt. Kevin J. Kessler Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Stephen Slesnick
To urge the Supreme Court of Ohio to name the Ohio
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
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.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To revise the Election Law.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Relative to the appointment of William P. Coley, II, to fill
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To establish and modify laws regarding the prevention of prescription drug abuse, to provide that certain county employees when separating from county service as a result of a transfer of the assets of a county hospital are not entitled to unused vacation leave from the county when the employee accepts employment with the acquiring entity and the entity assumes the unused vacation leave accrued to the employee's credit, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Joseph Schiavoni
Honoring the Shriners on Tabloid Day, May 20, 2011.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Solutions for Patient Safety on being named a 2011 National Quality Strategy best practice.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
Honoring Vincent Quevedo as a recipient of an International Artist of the Year Award at the 2010 Fashion Art Biennale.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
To authorize a nonchartered municipal corporation to establish a community emergency response team within the public safety department of the municipal corporation.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
Honoring J.R. Campbell as a recipient of an International Artist of the Year Award at the 2010 Fashion Art Biennale.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Honoring the Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics as the 2010 Outstanding Very Large Chapter.
Sponsor: Mike Duffey
Honoring the La Salle High School boys basketball team as the 2011 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Robery Mecklenborg
Honoring Dustin Kilgore as a 2011 NCAA Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
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.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To urge the United States Congress, the President of
Sponsor: Andy Thompson
Honoring the Kent State University men's basketball team as the 2011 Mid-American Conference Champion.
Sponsor: Kathleen Clyde
Recognizing the Governor's Thirty-first Annual Holocaust Commemoration, May 4, 2011.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring the St. Vincent - St. Mary High School boys basketball team on winning the 2011 Division II State Championship.
Sponsor: Thomas Sawyer
To authorize school districts to sell commercial advertising space on school buses.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To adopt the Legislative Code of Ethics for the
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To authorize school districts to sell commercial advertising space on school buses.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To commend and honor the United States Armed Forces,
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
In memory of Private First Class Zachary Steven Salmon.
Sponsor: William Seitz
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.
Sponsor: Robert Hagan
Honoring the Ohio Military Hall of Fame on its twelfth annual induction ceremony.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut on his exemplary service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Gary Cates
To create Power Squadron license plates.
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
Honoring Mariah Faith Reynolds as one of Ohio's top youth volunteers for 2011.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To expand the number of potential bidders for public works funded by a state agency and not discriminate in favor of or against labor organizations by requiring or prohibiting certain labor requirements as a condition of performing these public works, and to expand the potential number of bidders for public works conducted by a political subdivision of the state and not reward discrimination in favor of or against labor organizations by the appropriation of state funds for public works when a political subdivision discriminates by requiring or prohibiting certain labor requirements as a condition of performing public works.
Sponsor: John Adams
To make schools' implementation of body mass index screenings optional.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
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.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
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.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
Recognizing National Nurses Week, May 6-12, 2011.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring Erika Cybulskis for remarkable service to the Ohio General Assembly.
Sponsor: William Seitz
Honoring the Taft High School boys basketball team on winning the 2011 Division III State Championship.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To permit veterans, fraternal, and sporting organizations to conduct charitable electronic instant bingo.
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
To establish a program for the issuance of permits for the withdrawal and consumptive use of waters from the Lake Erie basin.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To permit a concealed carry licensee to possess a firearm in any liquor permit premises, or any 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.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring the Ottoville High School cheerleading squad on winning the 2011 OASSA Division IV State Championship.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
To allow a police dog to accompany its handler in places to which the general public is invited.
Sponsor: Robert Sprague
Honoring the Shriners Hospitals for Children on their service to children.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
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.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To require certification of emergency service telecommunicators and modify training requirements.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To designate the third week of July as "Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Awareness Week."
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
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.
Sponsor: John Adams
To allow a refundable commercial activity tax credit for investment losses recognized by foreign entrepreneur investors who invest in certain projects in Ohio.
Sponsor: John Adams
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.
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
To require the licensure of, and otherwise regulate, providers of debt settlement services.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Honoring the Hocking Chiefs Special Olympics basketball team as the 2011 Division IV State Champion.
Sponsor: Bill Hayes
Recognizing National Nurses Week, May 6-12, 2011.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring the St. Edward High School wrestling team as the OHSAA 2011 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Honoring the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team as the 2011 State Champion.
Sponsor: Marlene Anielski
Recognizing Women's History Month in Ohio, March 2011.
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Honoring The Call and Post on its Ninety-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring David Martin on being named the Big Brother of the Year by the Ohio Big Brothers Big Sisters State Association.
Sponsor: Alicia Reece
Honoring the Governor's Thirty-first Annual Holocaust Commemoration,May 4, 2011.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To permit non-Civil Service school district boards to terminate positions of district transportation employees for reasons of economy and efficiency and to contract with independent agents to provide transportation services as long as certain conditions are satisfied.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring the Miami University hockey team as the 2011 CCHA Tournament Champion.
Sponsor: Timothy Derickson
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.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
In memory of Officer Andrew S. Dunn.
Sponsor: Dennis Murray
Honoring The University of Toledo women's basketball team as the 2011 Women's National Invitational Tournament Champion.
Sponsor: Michael Ashford
Honoring the Ohio Military Hall of Fame on the occasion of its 2011 induction ceremony.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Mark R. Shanahan for his exemplary service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: John Carney
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.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To declare that a water resource 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.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
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.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To require generally that siblings in the custody of a public children services agency be placed together.
Sponsor: Gary Cates
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.
Sponsor: Robert Hagan
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.
Sponsor: Bill Patmon
And Sections 371.10, 371.20.80, and 371.40.90 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly and Section 105.45.20 of Sub. H.B. 462 of the 128th General Assembly to rename the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy as the Northeast Ohio Medical University and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
Declaring May 2011 as Aviation Awareness Month in
Sponsor: Jason Wilson
To authorize the use of traffic signs warning of the presence of a child with a disability.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To designate the portion of Interstate 77 located within the city of Broadview Heights as the "Senior Airman Alecia Good Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
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.
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
To request the Commissioners of the United States
Sponsor: Nina Turner
To designate a portion of Pearl Road within Cuyahoga County as the "Lance Corporal David Mendez Ruiz Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
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.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To grant an income tax credit for contributions to school district tax levy campaign committees.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To include content on specified historical documents in the state academic standards and in the high school American history and government curriculum.
Sponsor: Al Landis
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.
Sponsor: Shirley Smith
To urge the selection committee of the Professional
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
Regarding the medical use of cannabis.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To prohibit the sale, lease, or other disposition of the Ohio Turnpike.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To extend from 36 months to 60 months the period over which permanency incentive payments may be made to a child's kinship caregiver.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To allow the Administrator of Workers' Compensation to waive criteria certain public employers must satisfy to become self-insuring employers; to require bills for medical and vocational rehabilitation services in claims that are ultimately denied to be paid from the Surplus Fund Account under specified circumstances; to make other changes to the Workers' Compensation Law; to provide for termination of the disability benefit of a state retirement system member convicted of certain felonies committed while serving in a position of honor, trust, or profit; to make appropriations for the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and for the Workers' Compensation Council for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013; and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of the Bureau's and the Council's programs.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To make appropriations for the Industrial Commission for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2013, and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of Commission programs.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Recognizing Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Month in Ohio, April 2011.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring Mimmo Lytle on winning a 2011 Division III State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: Bruce Goodwin
Honoring Michael Meldon on winning two 2011 Division I State swimming championships.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Honoring the Graham High School wrestling team as the 2011 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
In memory of Thomas Patton II.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring Jordan Moxley as a 2011 Division II State Swimming Champion.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
Recognizing the International Year of Chemistry, 2011.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
Honoring the late Jesse Owens on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of his 1936 Olympic performance.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Honoring the Magnificat High School girls cross country team on winning the 2010 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: Nan Baker
Honoring The Ohio State University men's basketball team on winning the 2011 Big Ten Conference regular-season and tournament championships.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Tyler Heminger as the 2011 Division III State Wrestling Champion in the 119-pound weight class.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
Honoring Coach Sarah Catlin on being named the 2010 United States Coach of the Year.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
Honoring the Ohio Military Hall of Fame on its twelfth annual induction ceremony.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Recognizing April 2011 as Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Month in Ohio.
Sponsor: Kirk Schuring
Honoring the late Jesse Owens on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of his 1936 Olympic performance.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Katie Joseph as a 2011 Division II State Swimming Champion.
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
Honoring the Anna High School girls basketball team on winning the 2011 Division III State Championship.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To express opposition to the revocation of the 2008
Sponsor: Al Landis
Honoring The University of Toledo women's basketball team on winning the 2011 Women's National Invitation Tournament Championship.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To urge the Administrator of the United States
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To memorialize the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, and the United States Congress to end the ban on women serving in combat and to make other provisions regarding the training, equipment, and assignment policy for women in the armed services.
Sponsor: Connie Pillich
Honoring Teddy Osborn on earning all one hundred twenty-nine merit badges.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
Honoring the Taft High School boys basketball team as the 2011 Division III State Champion.
Sponsor: Dale Mallory
Honoring Johnny Matacic for winning a 2011 Division III State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: Ronald Gerberry
Honoring The Phillis Wheatley Association on its One Hundredth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Nina Turner
Honoring the Canal Winchester High School cheerleading squad as the 2011 OASSA Division II State Mount Champion.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team on winning the 2011 State Championship.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
Honoring the Notre Dame College wrestling team as the 2011 NAIA Champion.
Honoring Riley Shaw as a 2011 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
Honoring the Little Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Home on its One Hundred Twenty-fifth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Matthew Szollosi
Honoring Aaron Craft as the 2011 Big Ten Conference Sixth Man of the Year.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
Honoring the St. Ursula Academy field hockey team as the 2010 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
In memory of the Honorable Francis E. Sweeney, Sr.
Sponsor: Nickie Antonio
Honoring the Independence High School boys cross country team on placing first at the 2010 Division III State Championship.
Sponsor: Marlene Anielski
Honoring the Archbishop Hoban High School Mock Trial team as the 2011 State Champion.
Sponsor: Lynn Slaby
Honoring The Ohio State University women's basketball team on winning the 2011 Big Ten Tournament Championship.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Trent Tobin as the 2010 Junior Poles World Champion.
Sponsor: Kris Jordan
Honoring The Ohio State University men's basketball team on an exemplary 2010-2011 season.
Sponsor: Carlton Weddington
Honoring the Hawken School girls swimming and diving team as the 2011 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
Honoring Michael Brajdic as the 2010 Division II State Boys Cross Country Champion.
Sponsor: Nan Baker
Honoring the University School swim team as the 2011 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Marlene Anielski
In memory of Staff Sergeant Joshua Gire.
Sponsor: David Daniels
Regarding child custody and visitation rights of parents called to active military service.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring Hunter Stieber for winning a 2011 Division III State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: Terry Boose
Recognizing 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Recognizing the S.S. Willis B. Boyer on its One Hundredth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
Honoring the Genoa Christian Academy boys basketball team on winning the 2011 Ohio Christian School Athletic Association Championship.
Sponsor: Kris Jordan
Honoring The Ohio State University women's basketball team as the 2011 Big Ten Conference Champion.
Sponsor: Carlton Weddington
To limit recovery of rate-case expenses for certain water-works and sewage disposal system companies.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring Travis McIntosh on winning a 2011 Division II State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
Honoring Cam Tessari for winning a 2011 Division III State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: Terry Boose
Honoring Sam Decker as a 2011 Division II State Swimming Champion.
Sponsor: Anne Gonzales
Honoring the Ohio National Road Association on its observance of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Historic National Road.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Honoring Chris Phillips for winning a 2011 Division III State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: Terry Boose
Honoring Dean Heil as a 2011 Division I State Wrestling Champion.
Sponsor: Michael Dovilla
Honoring Ethan Hayes on winning a 2011 Division III State Wrestling Championship.
Sponsor: Michael Henne
Authorizing Ohio Hi-Y Youth in Government to use the Ohio House Chambers to conduct its 2011 Model Legislature.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the St. Vincent - St. Mary High School boys basketball team as the 2011 Division II State Champion.
Sponsor: Vernon Sykes
Honoring Steve Stone as the 2011 Ohio Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year.
Sponsor: Debbie Phillips
To permit the establishment of hybrid community schools that provide both remote technology-based and classroom-based instruction.
Sponsor: John Adams
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.
Sponsor: Michael Stinziano
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.
Sponsor: Kenny Yuko
To revise the membership, staffing, and duties of the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
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.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To repeal the estate tax for the estates of individuals dying on or after January 1, 2013.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To designate the bridge that will span the Cuyahoga River in Cuyahoga County and will be part of Interstate 90 and has an approximate scheduled completion date of late 2016 or early 2017 the "George V. Voinovich Bridge."
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To authorize nonrefundable tax credits for donations to nonprofit entities providing scholarships to low-income students enrolling in chartered nonpublic schools.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To express the General Assembly's support of the
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To urge the Administrator of the United States
Sponsor: Dale Mallory
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.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To establish a process for recalling statewide elected officials and members of the General Assembly.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
Designating Primary Immunodeficiency Awareness Month
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
To excuse up to five, instead of three, calamity days for the 2010-2011 school year, to broaden schools' authority to make up calamity days by lengthening remaining days in the school year, to waive the number of hours a community school is closed for a public calamity if it meets certain requirements, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Christina Hagan
To specify that the residential and familial information of probation officers and bailiffs is not a public record; 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.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To request the Congressional Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to approve the replacement of Ohio's statue of Governor William Allen in the National Statuary Hall Collection with a statue of Thomas Edison.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To modify the New Community Authority Law.
Sponsor: William Coley
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.
Sponsor: John Adams
To permit property tax complaints to be initiated only by the property owner.
Sponsor: John Adams
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.
Sponsor: Richard Hollington
To require municipal corporations with more than $100 million in annual income tax collections to provide a tax credit to nonresident taxpayers.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
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.
Sponsor: John Adams
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.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To allow an income tax deduction of up to ten thousand dollars for net capital gains.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
To provide certain professional licensing and certification rights to service members, spouses of service members, and veterans, and to eliminate the civil service employee exemption from counselor and social worker licensure and certification requirements.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To allow taxpayers to make contributions to the American Red Cross Ohio Disaster Response Readiness and Preparedness Fund through their income tax returns.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
To allow a credit against the personal income tax for amounts spent by teachers for instructional materials.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
As Adopted by the House 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. C. R. No. 4 Representative Rosenberger
Sponsor: Clifford Rosenberger
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.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
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.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To revise the criminal laws governing post-viability abortions.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
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.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To permit the establishment of a community school to serve adults of school age who are incarcerated or who have been released from the custody of the Department of Youth Services and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To provide authority for the implementation of a decentralized motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program through June 30, 2017.
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
To require performance audits of most state agencies, to loan funds to state agencies and local public offices to pay for performance audits, and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Connie Pillich
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.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
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.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To revise the coal mining laws regarding permit application and set-back requirements.
Sponsor: Jimmy Stewart
To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to the Alzheimer's Association.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To make various changes to laws concerning public employees, including collective bargaining, salary schedules and compensation, layoff procedures, and leave.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To require the inclusion of a bittering agent in engine coolant and antifreeze.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To make changes to the law regarding preapproval of and payment for health care services.
Sponsor: Scott Oelslager
To designate March 29 as "Vietnam Veterans' Day."
Sponsor: John Adams
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.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
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.
Sponsor: Sandra Williams
To allow emergency personnel in public safety vehicles to report traffic law violations under certain circumstances.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To permit the surviving spouse of a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Silver Star, Bronze Star, or Purple Heart who was issued or was eligible to be issued the specified license plates to retain the license plates or obtain such license plates until the death or remarriage of the surviving spouse.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To permit the Ohio Children's Trust Fund to obtain public and private funds for the purpose of child abuse and child neglect prevention.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To provide authority for the implementation of a decentralized motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program through June 30, 2017.
Sponsor: John Adams
To limit the magnitude of change orders on public improvements required to be competitively bid.
Sponsor: John Adams
To designate a portion of State Route 104 within Ross County as the "David A. Gibson Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Jon Peterson
To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to the Ohio Historical Society.
Sponsor: Timothy DeGeeter
Declaring March 2011 as Brain Injury Awareness Month in Ohio.
Sponsor: Michael Stinziano
To require the Superintendent of Insurance to post on the Department of Insurance's web site premium rates that are filed with the Superintendent by health insurers.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To prohibit human cloning, the creation, transportation, or receipt of a human-animal hybrid, the transfer of a nonhuman embryo into a human womb, and the transfer of a human embryo into a nonhuman womb.
Sponsor: John Adams
To make schools' implementation of body mass index screenings optional.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
Proposing to enact Section 21 of Article I of the
Sponsor: Ron Maag
To exempt specified entities that operate a fair and hold a license issued under the Vehicle Parks Law from complying with the requirements of that license during the time period when the preparation for, operation of, and dismantling of the fair occurs.
Sponsor: Jimmy Stewart
To replace the Educational Choice and the Cleveland scholarship programs with the Parental Choice and Taxpayer Savings Scholarship Program and to establish the Special Education Scholarship Program.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To revise the laws governing issuance of certain professional licenses.
Sponsor: Robert Hagan
To enact the "Jessica Logan Act" to require that public school bullying policies prohibit bullying by electronic means and address certain acts that occur off school property and to require staff training on the bullying policy.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To qualify Teach for America participants for a resident educator license.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To require the State Board of Emergency Medical Services to notify EMS and firefighter personnel in writing when their certifications are due for renewal.
Sponsor: John Carey
To require that the Ohio eLicense Center web site include information submitted by certain health professionals to their licensing boards regarding the characteristics of their professional practices.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To grant qualified civil immunity to a physician, physician assistant, dentist, or optometrist who provides emergency medical, dental, or optometric services, first-aid treatment, or other emergency professional care in compliance with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act or as a result of a disaster and to a certified nurse-midwife, certified nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, or registered nurse who provides emergency services, first-aid treatment, or other emergency professional care as a result of a disaster and to provide that these provisions do not apply to wrongful death actions.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To increase the number of signatures required on, and to revise the process for filing, a nominating petition for election as a judge of the Hamilton County Municipal Court and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To establish the Career Training Workforce Development Grant Program and to allocate a portion of casino license fees to finance the program.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To exclude property taxes and assessments from the calculation of net profit from the proceeds of the sale of instant bingo for veterans, fraternal, and sporting organizations and to clarify that no charitable organization is required to pay property taxes on a premises leased from another person to conduct bingo.
Sponsor: Bruce Goodwin
To generally authorize political subdivisions to enter into agreements to perform services for one another and to authorize a regional council of governments to enter into unit price contracts related to buildings on behalf of member political subdivisions.
Sponsor: William Seitz
To add six synthetic derivatives of cathinone that have been found in bath salts to the list of Schedule I controlled substances.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To establish standards for physician designations by health care insurers.
Sponsor: Scott Oelslager
To permit the establishment of a community school to serve adults of school age who are incarcerated or who have been released from the custody of the Department of Youth Services and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: John Adams
Relative to travel allowance.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Permitting the use of the Ohio Senate Chambers by The Ohio Junior State of America and The Junior Statesmen Foundation on April 29, 2011, from 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. and May 1, 2011, from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To increase the penalty for assault to a felony of the fourth degree when the victim is a health care professional, health care worker, or security officer of a hospital who is engaged in the performance of the individual's duties.
Sponsor: Robert Hagan
To create the Commission to Study the Sale of the State Lottery.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To abolish the death penalty and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
To urge the President of the United States and the
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To enact the "Jessica Logan Act" to require that public school bullying policies prohibit bullying by electronic means and address certain acts that occur off school property and to require staff training on the bullying policy.
Sponsor: Ronald Gerberry
To change the education and experience requirements necessary for eligibility to be a candidate for the office of sheriff.
Sponsor: Ronald Gerberry
To revise the types of costs included in determining nursing facilities' Medicaid reimbursement rates.
Sponsor: John Adams
Regarding the assignment of circulating nurses in hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities.
Sponsor: Robert Hagan
Honoring Ann's Raspberry Farm and Specialty Crops on receiving two 2011 Good Food Awards.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
To authorize the Department of Transportation to enter into public-private partnership agreements.
Sponsor: Ross McGregor
To create an additional procedure for subdivisions to join a regional transit authority that levies a property tax and that includes a county having a population of at least 400,000 and to allow a subdivision that is a member of such a regional transit authority to withdraw from the authority.
Sponsor: Randall Gardner
To grant a state earned income tax credit equal to a percentage of the federal earned income tax credit.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To exempt from income taxation any gains from the sale of Ohio property used in a trade or business and held for at least two years.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To eliminate fees paid to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for the transportation of certain radioactive wastes and radioactive materials.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
And to repeal Section 265.70.70 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly and Section 9 of Sub. H.B. 318 of the 128th General Assembly to eliminate the requirement that school districts offer all-day kindergarten and to allow public schools to continue charging tuition for all-day kindergarten.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To require the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to disqualify the holder of a commercial driver's license from operating a commercial motor vehicle upon a municipal OVI conviction and to eliminate the waiver provision for restricted commercial driver's licenses for farm-related service industries.
Sponsor: Carlton Weddington
Honoring Sarah Catlin as the 2010 United States Coach of the Year in high school field hockey.
Sponsor: Peter Stautberg
To prohibit the Division of Liquor Control from issuing a retail liquor permit or entering into an agency liquor contract if the permit location or liquor agency store is proposed to be located within one thousand feet from a school, church, library, public playground, or township park.
Sponsor: Sandra Williams
To include the survivors of probation officers killed in the line of duty among those eligible to receive benefits from the Ohio Public Safety Officers Death Benefit Fund.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
Honoring the St. Ursula Academy field hockey team as the 2010 OHSAA State Champion.
Sponsor: Peter Stautberg
Honoring Eric D. Fingerhut for his outstanding service as chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To provide for termination of the disability benefit of a state retirement system member convicted of certain felonies committed while serving in a position of honor, trust, or profit and to specify that the residential and familial information of probation officers and bailiffs is not a public record.
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
To create "ListenFirst" panels, to repeal Sections 1, 2, and 3 of this act, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
To create the Oil and Gas Leasing Board and to establish a procedure by which the Board may enter into leases for oil and gas production on land owned or under the control of a state agency for the purpose of providing funding for capital and operating costs for the agency.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Dr. Kenneth A. Yowell on his retirement.
Sponsor: Richard Adams
To increase the penalty for assault to a felony of the fourth degree when the victim is a health care professional, health care worker, or security officer of a hospital who is engaged in the performance of the individual's duties.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
To modify the authority of certain advanced practice nurses to prescribe schedule II controlled substances.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To create an online small business resource center on the Department of Development's internet web site.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To expressly incorporate changes in the Internal Revenue Code since December 15, 2010, into Ohio law, to authorize a refundable job retention tax credit, to temporarily extend the look-back period from two years to three years for determining whether a state "on" indicator exists based on the total unemployment rate for purposes of state extended unemployment benefits, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Robert Sprague
To require the President and Minority Leader of the Senate and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives to determine the hours of operation for the Ohio Statehouse and to establish policies for the management of, and access to, the building.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To create a generally uniform definition of employee for specified labor laws and to create a uniform standard to determine whether an individual performing services for an employer is an employee of that employer.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
Honoring The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center as one of America's top cancer research facilities.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring the Sandridge Food Corporation on receiving a 2011 Edison Center Award for Excellence.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Relative to the election of Christina Hagan to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Todd Snitchler of the 50th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To create a generally uniform definition of employee for specified labor laws and to create a uniform standard to determine whether an individual performing services for an employer is an employee of that employer.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To designate the bridge spanning the Ashtabula Gulf, located in the city of Ashtabula and being part of West 46th Street and State Route 84, as the "Clifford McClure Memorial Bridge."
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
As Adopted by the House 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012H. C. R. No. 5 Representative Blessing
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To prohibit a law enforcement agency from making available to the general public on the internet a motor vehicle accident report that contains a minor's personal information without redacting or encrypting the personal information.
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
To designate the portion of United States Route 322 within the municipal corporation of Orwell located in Ashtabula County, as the "Sgt. Kurt D. Schamberg Orwell Veterans Highway."
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
To add six synthetic derivatives of cathinone that have been found in bath salts to the list of Schedule I controlled substances.
Sponsor: Clayton Luckie
To reduce the income tax rate on capital gains reinvested in Ohio-based investments.
Sponsor: John Adams
To establish and modify laws regarding the prevention of prescription drug abuse and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: David Daniels
To establish the Bed Bug Awareness, Education, and Prevention Program and to require boards of health to adopt vermin control policies under which bedbug infestations are treated in the same manner as other infestations and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To give private sector employers the option to offer and employees the option to accrue and use compensatory time off in lieu of monetary overtime compensation and to narrow the class of full-time township employees for whom the employer must provide, on a uniform basis, health insurance coverage.
Sponsor: John Adams
To require a court imposing sentence for certain drug possession offenses to take into consideration that the offender was seeking medical assistance for the offender or another person for a drug-related overdose and that evidence related to the offense was obtained as a result of seeking that assistance.
Sponsor: Timothy DeGeeter
To provide that when a person submits an application to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles or a deputy registrar for a new or renewal driver's license, commercial driver's license, temporary instruction permit, motorcycle operator's license or endorsement, or identification card, the individual must be furnished with a next of kin information form on which the individual may list information for inclusion in the next of kin database of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
Sponsor: Cheryl Grossman
Declaring February 2011 as Career and Technical
Sponsor: Christopher Widener
To prohibit employers from using a consumer report or investigative consumer report for employment purposes.
Sponsor: Robert Hagan
To require direct certification of students for free school meal benefits at least five times each school year.
Sponsor: John Adams
To establish a $15 contribution for issuance of the Prince Hall Freemason special license plate, to be used by the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio for scholarship purposes.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To create the Infrastructure Protection Center within the Division of Homeland Security of the Department of Public Safety.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
To establish an academic campus of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine at Cleveland State University.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To exempt state surplus lines insurance from regulation in Ohio when Ohio is not the home state of the insured and to make other changes to the law regulating surplus lines insurance.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Honoring Jim Laipply for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
Honoring The University of Akron men's soccer team on winning the 2010 National Championship.
Sponsor: Vernon Sykes
Honoring the St. Ignatius High School boys soccer team as the 2010 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To require performance audits of most state agencies, to loan funds to state agencies and local public offices to pay for performance audits, and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Timothy Derickson
In memory of Specialist Nathan B. Carse.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To designate United States Route 33 between Nelsonville and Athens in Athens County the "Captain Robert C. Hess Jr. – Veterans Highway."
Sponsor: Jimmy Stewart
Permitting the use of the Ohio Senate Chambers by the Western Ohio National Forensic League on March 19, 2011.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
Authorizing Ohio Hi-Y Youth in Government to use the Ohio Senate Chambers to conduct its 2011 model legislature.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To provide for increased penalties when a person violates the motor vehicle traffic law assured clear distance ahead provision or commits a failure to yield the right-of-way offense that results in serious physical harm or death to another person.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
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; to prohibit school districts from declaring it impractical to transport nonpublic or community school students solely on days scheduled by the student's school to make up calamity days; and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Relative to travel allowance.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Designating Peace Corps Day in Ohio,March 1, 2011.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To adopt the children's book Lentil as the official children's book of the state and to designate its author, Robert McCloskey, as the official children's book author of the state.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To designate one bridge that is part of State Route 821 near the village of Caldwell in Noble County the "Sampson Harris Memorial Bridge" and to designate another bridge located on that state route, also near Caldwell, the "Freeman C. Thompson Memorial Bridge."
Sponsor: Jimmy Stewart
To prohibit human cloning, the creation, transportation, or receipt of a human-animal hybrid, the transfer of a nonhuman embryo into a human womb, and the transfer of a human embryo into a nonhuman womb.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To require a community water system's annual report to its customers to include information concerning the amount of water lost by the system during the transmission of water between the source waters utilized by the system to the consumers serviced by the system.
Sponsor: Jimmy Stewart
To codify federal restrictions on local zoning of amateur station antenna structures thereby preserving amateur radio service communications as a Homeland Security resource.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To exclude manufacturers and distributors of wine and distributors of beer from regulation as food processing establishments under the Pure Food and Drug Law.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
To prohibit state agencies from requiring or prohibiting certain labor requirements as a condition of performing public works and to prohibit the appropriation of state funds for public works when political subdivisions require or prohibit certain labor requirements.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
To direct the Attorney General to pursue a memorandum of agreement that permits the enforcement of federal immigration laws in this state by law enforcement officers.
Sponsor: Jimmy Stewart
To enact "The Taxpayer's Right to Know Act," specifying that records of public-private partnerships that perform or assist with state functions are public records, and that such entities must conduct official business in open meetings.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To designate the portion of Interstate 480 located within Garfield Heights in Cuyahoga County the "Corporal Brad Anthony Davis Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
And Sections 371.10, 371.20.80, and 371.40.90 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly and Section 105.45.20 of Sub. H.B. 462 of the 128th General Assembly to rename the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy as the Northeast Ohio Medical University.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To require the director of commerce to provide the office of budget and management with the proper data file to withhold from an unclaimed funds payment for any legal amount in an agreement to compensate a registered finder and to pay that amount directly to the finder and to make other changes in the Unclaimed Funds Law.
Sponsor: Jay Goyal
To implement recommendations of the Unified Long-Term Care Budget Workgroup.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
Regarding the regulation of chemical tanning applications and the use of tanning services by individuals under 18 years of age.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To require parents of students enrolled in school districts rated continuous improvement or lower to attend a parent-teacher conference.
Sponsor: Robert Hagan
To authorize an income tax deduction for small business owners' reinvestment of undistributed profits in business property, employee training, or research and development.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To gradually increase to 20,000 the number of Educational Choice Scholarships awarded annually.
Sponsor: John Adams
To authorize the Governor to form a nonprofit corporation that would perform such state economic development functions as directed by law and pursuant to a contract with the Department of Development, and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Jim Buchy
To repeal the estate tax for the estates of individuals dying on or after January 1, 2013.
Sponsor: John Adams
In memory of Specialist Nathan B. Carse.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
Recognizing John A. Boehner as the 61st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Sponsor: Gary Cates
Honoring the Hardin Northern FFA rural soils judging team as the 2010 Ohio FFA Rural Soils Judging Contest winner.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
Honoring the City of London on its Bicentennial.
Sponsor: Christopher Widener
Honoring the Ridgemont High School FFA Chapter as the Number One chapter in the nation for 2010.
Sponsor: Cliff Hite
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.
Sponsor: Edna Brown
To allow an employee who is a victim of domestic violence to take unpaid leave for purposes relating to the incident of domestic violence, to allow an employee who is a victim of domestic violence to file a civil action against that employee's employer if the employer terminates the employee as a result of the employee taking unpaid leave for purposes relating to the incident of domestic violence, to allow a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence to terminate a rental agreement or have the tenant's name removed from the rental agreement under certain circumstances, to require a landlord of a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence or menacing by stalking to change the lock to the dwelling unit where the tenant resides under certain circumstances, to require a metropolitan housing authority to transfer a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence or menacing by stalking if the tenant requests such a transfer and provides the metropolitan housing authority with certain specified information, and to prohibit a county, municipal corporation, township, or law enforcement agency of such a political subdivision from charging any victim of domestic violence a fee for assisting the victim.
Sponsor: Robert Hagan
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.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
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.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To enable members of the armed services and the Ohio National Guard to terminate a rental agreement when the member receives military orders to deploy or for a permanent change of station.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
Regarding prescription drug marketing disclosures.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To require that motor vehicles carry only one license plate, to be displayed on the rear of the vehicle.
Sponsor: John Adams
To ban the taking or removal of oil or natural gas from and under the bed of Lake Erie.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
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.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To provide for a six-year trial period in which taxpayers may include a limited number of the taxpayer's employees who work from home and whose rate of pay is at least three times the federal minimum wage as employees employed in the project for purposes of the job creation and retention credits if the recipient of the credit provides a specified level of capital investment, and to require the Director of Development to issue a report at the end of the six-year period.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To reduce temporarily salaries of General Assembly members by up to ten per cent.
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
Honoring Aaron D. Crooks for outstanding service to the Ohio Senate.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To establish an address confidentiality program for individuals who reasonably believe that they are in danger of being threatened or physically harmed by another person, to exclude the residential and familial information of a federal law enforcement officer from the definition of a public record, to include federal law enforcement officers among the protected individuals who are authorized to request a public office other than the county auditor to redact the person's address from any record made available to the general public on the internet, and to include those officers among the protected individuals who may request the county auditor to replace the person's name with the person's initials on the general tax list and duplicate.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To specify that the restriction against offenders convicted of a sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense establishing or occupying a residence near school, preschool, or child day-care premises generally applies regardless of when the offense was committed or the offender began living in the residence, to provide an exemption from the ban for offenders who occupy residential premises they or their spouse own at the time of occupancy and also owned prior to the ban's effective date, and to specify that a registration requirement for children adjudicated delinquent for a sexually oriented offense and classified a juvenile offender registrant applies regardless of when the offense was committed.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To reduce the maximum effective income tax rate applicable to unearned income of persons age 70 1/2 years or older to 1%, beginning in 2013.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To request the members of the United States Congress
Sponsor: Sean O'Brien
To permit the establishment of public college-preparatory boarding schools for at-risk students to be operated by private nonprofit entities.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To establish a drug testing requirement for adults who apply for need-based programs that provide cash assistance, medical assistance, housing assistance, food assistance, or energy assistance.
Sponsor: Timothy Schaffer
To prohibit a minor, by use of a telecommunications device or other means, from knowingly creating, receiving, exchanging, sending, or possessing a photograph or other material showing a minor in a state of nudity.
Sponsor: Gary Cates
Honoring The University of Akron men's soccer team as the 2010 National Champion.
Sponsor: Thomas Sawyer
Honoring Nathan Aichele for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring Mark Evan Seifarth on his retirement from the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To impose the same criminal penalties for assaulting a resident participating in a uniformed law enforcement volunteer program as are imposed for assaulting a peace officer.
Sponsor: Dale Mallory
To make clear that the prosecuting attorney of a county is the legal adviser of all tax-supported public libraries.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To adopt a new small business rule review process.
Sponsor: John Adams
To designate the portion of United States Route 50 within Vinton County the "Ryan Seitz Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
In memory of Donald R. Fraser.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To eliminate the limit on the number of Educational Choice scholarships and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To limit recovery of rate-case expenses for certain water-works and sewage disposal system companies.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To designate a portion of United States Route 50 within Highland County the "Pfc. Zachary Gullett Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Edna Brown
Recognizing February 6, 2011, as Ronald Reagan Day.
Sponsor: John Adams
To give private sector employers the option to offer and employees the option to accrue and use compensatory time off in lieu of monetary overtime compensation.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To designate State Route 73 within Clinton County only the "Sgt. Steven Conover - Veterans Memorial Highway" and State Route 729 within Clinton County only the "Lance Cpl. Brett Wightman - Veterans Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Edna Brown
Honoring Jean Miller Latimer on her One Hundredth Birthday.
Sponsor: Timothy Grendell
To designate State Route 73 within Clinton County only as the "Sgt. Steven Conover - Veterans Memorial Highway" and to designate State Route 729 within Clinton County only as the "Lance Cpl. Brett Wightman - Veterans Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
Honoring Becky Minger as the 2010 Miss Ohio.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
To designate a portion of United States Route 50 within Highland County the "Pfc. Zachary Gullett Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
Relative to the election of Robert Cole Sprague to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Cliff Hite of the 76th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring Drew Lovejoy on placing first in the 14-15 age group at the 2010 All Ireland Irish Dance Competition.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Honoring The Ohio State University football teamon winning a 2010 Big Ten Conference Co-Championship.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To require performance budgeting by most state agencies.
Sponsor: John Adams
To prescribe the applicability of federal regulations adopted by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to certain motor vehicles.
Sponsor: John Adams
Honoring The Ohio State University football team on winning the 2011 Sugar Bowl.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Honoring the City of Brecksville on its Bicentennial.
Sponsor: Thomas Patton
To prohibit requiring an individual to obtain or maintain health insurance.
Sponsor: John Adams
To create a tax credit for the employment of individuals who have been convicted of felonies.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
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.
Sponsor: Joseph Schiavoni
To create the Ohio Council to Reform Behavioral Health Care.
Sponsor: John Adams
To prohibit a convicted sex offender from possessing a photograph of the offender's victim while the offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense and to prohibit a child-victim offender from possessing a photograph of any minor child while the child-victim offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
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.
Sponsor: Jason Wilson
To require certain health care professionals to complete instruction in cultural competency.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To require earnest money for the purchase of residential real estate to be deposited in an interest-bearing account to be used to fund foreclosure prevention programs.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
Four years after the effective date of that section.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To provide that a terminally ill individual with an anticipated life expectancy of five years or less who is on a waiting list for the PACE program or a Medicaid waiver program providing home and community-based services is to have priority over other individuals on such a waiting list.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To prevent the issuance or transfer of a retail liquor permit if the place for which the permit is sought is so situated that it will substantially and adversely affect the normal, orderly conduct of a nursing home or childcare center and to prevent issuing or transferring the location of a retail liquor permit if the number of existing permits in the neighborhood is such that the issuance or transfer would be detrimental to and interfere with public morals, safety, or welfare.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To create the Ohio Bed Bug Infestation Task Force to study bed bug infestation in Ohio.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To require that any privately run non-Ohio agency, home, school, camp, institution, or other entity or residential facility to which Ohio abused, neglected, dependent, unruly, or delinquent children are committed comply with the same standards that are applicable to in-state agencies, homes, schools, camps, institutions, or other entities or residential facilities.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
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.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To prohibit an insurer's use of a credit score, credit history, or credit report in fixing a premium rate for, or the terms and conditions of, an insurance policy, or in determining whether to issue, continue, or renew an insurance policy.
Sponsor: Clayton Luckie
To expressly incorporate changes in the Internal Revenue Code since December 15, 2010, into Ohio law, and to declare an emergency.
Sponsor: Larry Obhof
To authorize a refundable job retention tax credit.
Sponsor: Kevin Bacon
Regarding insurance and Medicaid coverage of telemedicine services.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To prohibit health insurers from denying payment for a service during or after the performance of the service if the insurer provided prior written authorization for the service.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To specify that the Ohio prompt payment law applies to payment of claims by Medicaid managed care organizations.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
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.
Sponsor: Michael Skindell
To authorize an income tax credit for residential landlords who improve a rental unit's energy efficiency.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To request the Supreme Court to amend Rule 68 of the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure regarding offers of judgment.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
Regarding the state retirement systems.
Sponsor: Lynn Wachtmann
To add synthetic cannabinoids commonly known as K2 or Spice to the list of Schedule I controlled substances.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Relative to treatment for certain drug offenders and to make an appropriation.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To increase the membership of county boards of developmental disabilities.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To double the fine for a speeding violation that occurs in a school zone during restricted hours.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To authorize the Governor to create JobsOhio, a nonprofit economic development corporation.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
To prohibit the use of a sample ballot as campaign materials if the ballot would mislead voters into believing a candidate has received a party endorsement.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To qualify for the War Orphans Scholarship children of military veterans who served in Grenada during the intervention.
Sponsor: John Adams
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.
Sponsor: Capri Cafaro
To designate a portion of United States Route 62 in Knox County as the "Army Staff Sgt. Shamus O. Goare Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To prohibit a minor, by use of a telecommunications device, from knowingly sharing, exchanging, sending, or posting a photograph, video, or other material that shows a minor in a state of nudity and to define a state of nudity for purposes of this prohibition, to limit the offense of "illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented material or performance" to acts committed by persons 18 years of age or older, and to prohibit a minor from committing by means other than a telecommunications device delinquent acts that would be the offense of "illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented material or performance" if committed by an adult.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
As Introduced 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. C. R. No. 3 Senators Schiavoni, Seitz
Sponsor: Joseph Schiavoni
To amend Senate Rules 20, 21, 27, 35, 37, 40, 42, 53,
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To generally require that state agencies set aside a certain amount of purchases for which only small business enterprises may compete.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To require the Director of Environmental Protection to consider, to the extent allowable under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, specified factors before issuing NPDES permits for sewerage systems, requiring and approving long-term control plans for wet weather discharges from sewerage systems, and enforcing provisions of that Act as applied to sewerage systems.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To require certain insurers that provide coverage for cancer chemotherapy treatment to provide coverage for certain prescribed, orally administered anticancer medication on a basis no less favorable than intravenously administered or injected cancer medications that are covered under the policy.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To allow an income tax deduction for amounts spent by teachers for instructional materials.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To increase from $500 to $1,000 the threshold amount for determining increased penalties for theft-related offenses and for certain elements of "vandalism" and "engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity"; to increase by 50% the other threshold amounts for determining increased penalties for those offenses; to revise and clarify the law regarding prosecution of multiple theft, Medicaid fraud, workers' compensation fraud, and similar offenses and the valuation of property or services involved; to include workers' compensation fraud as a theft offense; to provide that if "nonsupport of dependents" is based on an abandonment of or failure to support a child or a person to whom a court order requires support and is a felony the sentencing court generally must first consider placing the offender on one or more community control sanctions; to eliminate the difference in criminal penalties for crack cocaine and powder cocaine; to revise some of the penalties for trafficking in marihuana or hashish and for possession of marihuana, cocaine, or hashish; to revise procedures for notification of victims when violent offenders escape from the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction; to modify the number of Parole Board members required to conduct a full Board hearing; to limit a member of the Parole Board who is not the Chairperson or a victim representative to two six-year terms; to revise the eligibility criteria for, and procedures governing, intervention in lieu of conviction; to revise the eligibility criteria for judicial release; to reduce the penalty for the offense of "escape" when it involves certain conduct by a person under supervised release by the Department; to revise the procedure for prisoners in state correctional institutions to earn days of credit for productive participation in specified prison programs and the number of days of credit that may be earned; to require GPS monitoring of a prisoner placed on post-release control who was released early from prison due to earning 60 or more days of credit; to enact a new mechanism for the possible release with sentencing court approval of certain Department inmates who have served at least 85% of their prison term; to expand the membership of a county's local corrections planning board; to expand the authorization to transfer certain Ohio prisoners for pretrial confinement to a contiguous county in an adjoining state to also apply to postconviction confinement and confinement upon civil process; to make changes regarding halfway houses and community residential centers and authorize reentry centers; to allow placement in a skilled nursing facility for care of an inmate who is released on indefinite parole due to being in imminent danger of death, medically incapacitated, or terminally ill; to provide for the establishment and operation of community alternative sentencing centers for misdemeanants sentenced directly to the centers under a community residential sanction or an OVI term of confinement not exceeding 30 days; to change the membership of the Ex-offender Reentry Coalition by reducing the number and functions of members from the Governor's office and adding the Director of Veterans Services; to remove judges from the membership of a corrections commission and instead have them form an advisory board; to require the Department to develop a reentry plan for each inmate committed to the Department who was not sentenced to a term of life without parole or a sentence of death and who is expected to be imprisoned for more than 30 days; to revise the procedures governing the Department's issuance of an inmate identification card upon an inmate's release and the use of such a card to obtain a state identification card; to authorize, instead of require, the Department to discontinue subsidy payment to a political subdivision that reduces local funding for corrections by the amount of a community-based corrections subsidy or that uses a subsidy for capital improvements; to require the Department, together with the Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, to develop an implementation plan related to funding through the federal Second Chance Act related to community reentry of offenders; and to specify that the report and recommendations of the Council of State Governments' Justice Reinvestment in Ohio Study is to be considered in the bill.
Sponsor: William Seitz
To specify that discrimination by an employer against any person because of the person's credit history is an unlawful discriminatory practice under the Ohio Civil Rights Law.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To establish language standards for signs containing the international symbol of access.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To require an operator of a halfway house or community residential center to notify the Adult Parole Authority when a resident who is under the Authority's supervisory authority leaves the facility without permission, cannot be located, or does not return to the facility at the time required from a scheduled appointment or work assignment; to require notice to the Adult Parole Authority before a halfway house or community residential center may evict a resident who is under the Authority's supervisory authority; and to require the Division of Parole and Community Services to annually review the licensure standards for halfway houses and community residential centers.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To allow an income tax deduction for amounts spent by law enforcement officials for items used in furtherance of official law enforcement activities.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To include in the offense of ethnic intimidation the commission of specified offenses by reason of disability of the victim.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To prohibit providers of clinical laboratory services from inducing physicians to refer patients in exchange for remuneration and from placing laboratory personnel in physician offices.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To require the Office of Budget and Management to maintain a web site showing capital project appropriations and reappropriations and to submit a biennial report to the General Assembly.
Sponsor: John Adams
Relative to the appointment of Cliff Hite, to fill
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To require a provisional ballot to be remade and counted for the offices, questions, and issues for which the provisional voter was eligible to vote, if the election official assisting that provisional voter failed to direct the provisional voter to the correct precinct, and to revise the portion of the provisional ballot affirmation required to be completed by the election official.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
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.
Sponsor: Shannon Jones
To clarify that SORN Law definitions of sexually oriented offenses, child-victim oriented offenses, tier classifications, public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants, and related terms include the specified offenses regardless of when they were committed and to provide for court reclassification of offenders and delinquent children who committed their sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense prior to January 1, 2008, and had SORN Law duties based on that offense into one of the tier classifications of the current SORN Law.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To require the Department of Transportation to survey each school district, community school, and STEM school regarding transportation safety and alternative transportation options for students living within two miles of school.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To create the Ohio Official Prescription Program and to require prescribers and pharmacists to obtain information from the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To authorize a commercial activity tax credit for underserved community grocery stores.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
To prohibit smoking in a motor vehicle in which a child under six years of age is a passenger.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To prohibit an insurer's use of a credit score, credit history, or credit report in fixing a premium rate for, or the terms and conditions of, an insurance policy, or in determining whether to issue, continue, or renew an insurance policy.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To specify that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice that is within the jurisdiction of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission for any law enforcement agency or officer in Ohio to engage in racial profiling; to require the Commission to compile data from law enforcement agencies regarding routine or spontaneous investigatory activities of the agencies' officers and analyze the data for significantly significant disparities related to the race, ethnicity, national origin, or gender of the subjects of the activities; to provide for Commission access to LEADS to obtain the data and require law enforcement agencies to enter the data on LEADS; and to require law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy designed to eliminate racial profiling by the agency and its officers and to cease existing practices by the agency and its officers that permit or encourage racial profiling.
Sponsor: Eric Kearney
Relative to the appointment of Larry Obhof, to fill
Sponsor: Keith Faber
To prohibit driving a vehicle while using a handheld or manually operated mobile communication device and to establish the violation as a secondary traffic offense.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
To make an appropriation for the provision of state matching funds for federal TRIO programs at Ohio institutions of higher education for FY 2011 and FY 2012.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 16 Senator Faber
Sponsor: Keith Faber
In memory of the Honorable Clifford F. Brown.
Sponsor: Dennis Murray
Recognizing Give Kids a Smile Day in Ohio, February 4, 2011.
Sponsor: Stephen Slesnick
Recognizing February 6, 2011, as Ronald Reagan Day.
Sponsor: Kris Jordan
Honoring the Louisville High School boys cross country team as the 2010 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Todd Snitchler
Honoring the Elder High School boys volleyball team as the 2010 OHSBVA State Champion.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
Honoring Henke Winery as the 2010 Ohio Wine Competition Best of Show for red wine.
Sponsor: Denise Driehaus
To request the Congressional Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to approve the replacement of Ohio's statue of Governor William Allen in the National Statuary Hall Collection with a statue of Thomas Edison.
Sponsor: Ted Celeste
To designate a portion of State Route 103 within Wyandot County the "Trooper Andrew C. Baldridge Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To permit the trial of a corporation in absentia in a criminal proceeding initiated by complaint and relative to residential foreclosure actions.
Sponsor: Mike Foley
To regulate independent expenditures by corporations, labor organizations, and entities the primary purpose of which are to accept corporate or labor organization funds for use in making independent expenditures and to prohibit contributions made for the purpose of influencing a ballot issue from being made to or accepted by an entity that is not subject to campaign finance reporting requirements.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To designate Interstate Route 75 as the "Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Trail."
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
Be transmitted to the treasurer of the municipal corporation and used to pay the compensation of counsel appointed to represent indigent defendants.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To specify the form of financial statements and to include administrative assessments and other remedies as a remedy for a violation of the Ohio Securities Act.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To extend to a grandparent's spouse the exemption from certain adoptive placement requirements.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Regarding annual reports about certain employers of public assistance recipients.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To require a municipal utility supplying surplus electricity to nonresidents to provide written notice of termination one year before terminating the service.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To prohibit a minor, by use of a telecommunications device or other means, from knowingly creating, receiving, exchanging, sending, or possessing a photograph or other material showing a minor in a state of nudity.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
Honoring the City of London on its Two Hundredth Anniversary.
Sponsor: Robert Hackett
Recognizing the Honorable Yvette McGee Brown as the first female African American Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Honoring the Delphos St. John's High School football team as the 2010 Division VI State Champion.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
Honoring the Bishop Watterson High School football team on winning the 2010 Division III State Championship.
Sponsor: John Carney
To impose the same criminal penalties for assaulting a school security guard as are imposed for assaulting a school teacher.
Sponsor: Clayton Luckie
Honoring the St. Ursula Academy volleyball team on winning the 2010 Division I State Championship.
Sponsor: Matthew Szollosi
To make the Ohio Turnpike Commission responsible for major maintenance and repair and replacement of grade separations at intersections of any turnpike project with county and township roads.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
In memory of Stanley Eugene Tolliver, Sr.
Sponsor: Shirley Smith
To create the Small Business Working Capital Loan Program.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
Honoring Senator Ray Miller for twenty-four years of dedicated service to the Ohio Legislature.
Sponsor: Tracy Heard
To designate a portion of United States Route 20 in Ridgefield Township and the Village of Monroeville as the "Army Private Jason L. Sparks Memorial Highway."
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Honoring the Adena Mansion and Gardens on its national accreditation.
Sponsor: David Daniels
To increase the annual and aggregate limit on the amount of tax credits the Ohio Venture Capital Authority may authorize.
Sponsor: Barbara Boyd
To make changes to laws regarding proprietary schools.
Sponsor: Clayton Luckie
Honoring Trent Tobin as the 2010 world champion in junior poles.
Sponsor: Margaret Ruhl
Honoring the Upper Arlington High School girls tennis team as the 2010 Division I State Champion.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
Recognizing the Honorable Maureen O'Connor as the first female chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
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.
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To require that a registrant under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law who does not have a fixed residence address provide a detailed description of the places at which the registrant intends to stay upon initial registration and, if the registrant is a Tier III registrant, a predator, or in another specified category, be monitored by an active global positioning system device until the registrant acquires a fixed residence address.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
Honoring Niki Flower as the 2010 Division I State Singles runner up in girls tennis.
Sponsor: Jim Hughes
To require the classroom and behind-the-wheel instruction that is given to minors in driver education courses to include instruction on the proper driving techniques that noncommercial motor vehicle operators should utilize in order to share the roadway with large commercial motor vehicles safely.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To exclude the residential and familial information of a federal law enforcement officer from the definition of a public record, to include federal law enforcement officers among the protected individuals who are authorized to request a public office other than the county auditor to redact the person's address from any record made available to the general public on the internet, and to include those officers among the protected individuals who may request the county auditor to replace the person's name with the person's initials on the general tax list and duplicate.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To require a mandatory prison term for sexual battery, expand the offense of sexual imposition, and require a mandatory prison term or jail term for unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, gross sexual imposition, importuning, and endangering children under specified circumstances involving a victim who is a minor or student and an offender who is a person in authority with respect to the victim.
Sponsor: Courtney Combs
To designate State Route 619 within the village of Hartville in Stark County the "Sgt. 1st Class Daniel B. Crabtree Memorial Road."
Sponsor: Danny Bubp
To establish local entertainment districts in municipal corporations or unincorporated areas of counties of specified populations for the purpose of the issuance of D-1, D-2, and D-5 liquor permits under specified conditions and to create the T-1 permit.
Sponsor: Ronald Gerberry
To eliminate personal liability for probate and juvenile judges for the default, malfeasance, or nonfeasance of any appointee or employee.
Sponsor: Thomas Letson
Honoring Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on its Sesquicentennial.
Sponsor: Mark Wagoner
In memory of Corporal Jacob A. Tate.
Sponsor: Charleta Tavares
Honoring Brittney Colvin for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Sponsor: Tom Niehaus
To require county recorders to complete continuing education requirements.
Sponsor: Ronald Gerberry
To establish new requirements concerning services, providers, third-party liability, and reports for the Medicaid program.
Sponsor: Barbara Sears
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2010-2011S. R. No. 6 Senator Faber
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Relative to the election of James Butler to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Peggy Lehner of the 37th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To prohibit state departments and agencies from implementing or enforcing a provision of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act without meeting certain conditions.
Sponsor: John Adams
To prohibit a person from being arrested, charged, or convicted for speeding on a public street, highway, private road, or driveway based on a peace officer's unaided visual estimation of the speed of a motor vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar.
Sponsor: Barbara Sears
To increase the sales and use tax prompt remittance discount and to authorize a discount for prompt remittance of income tax withholding.
Sponsor: Terry Blair
And to repeal Section 3 of Am. Sub. S.B. 20 of the 120th General Assembly, as subsequently amended, to eliminate the financial responsibility random verification program of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
Generally to require deputy registrars to accept debit cards by automated teller machines, and to allow deputy registrars to accept debit cards and credit cards by other means, for all state-related transactions they process.
Sponsor: Matt Huffman
Relative to the appointment of Peggy B. Lehner,
Sponsor: Keith Faber
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 5 Senator Faber
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Relative to the election of Richard R. Hollington, Jr. to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the failure of member-elect Timothy J. Grendell of the 98th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To revise the criminal laws governing post-viability abortions.
Sponsor: Lorraine Fende
To adopt Rules of the House of Representatives for
Sponsor: Randall Gardner
To authorize a $2,400 income tax withholding credit for an employer that hires and employs a previously unemployed individual.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Relative to the election of Jim Buchy to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of James Zehringer of the 77th House District.
Sponsor: William Batchelder
To require the Director of Job and Family Services to seek federal approval to create a premium assistance component of the Medicaid program.
Sponsor: Barbara Sears
To authorize refundable tax credits through 2017 for the completion of a voluntary action to remediate a contaminated site and for the return of such sites to productive use, and to exempt persons through 2017 who have been issued covenants not to sue under the Voluntary Action Program from certain fees and penalties for one year after the issuance of such a covenant.
Sponsor: John Adams
To require supportive resolutions from affected local governments to name highways by statute, to allow local governments to erect appropriate markers naming highways, and to prohibit the use of state funds to erect new markers naming state highways.
Sponsor: Barbara Sears
Relative to a committee to wait upon the Governor to let him know the 129th General Assembly is in session. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Relative to the inauguration of the Governor. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO
Sponsor: William Batchelder
Relative to the election of the assistant minority leader, the minority whip, and the assistant minority whip for the 129th General Assembly of Ohio.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
To provide for the offering of the pledge of allegiance to the flag by the members of the House of Representatives at the opening session of each week.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Relative to the election of officials of the House of Representatives and empowering the Chief Administrative Officer to sign vouchers.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Relative to mileage reimbursement.
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Relative to certain letters to be signed by the Speaker of the House on behalf of the House and sent to persons or groups in lieu of any resolutions on the subject.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Relative to the election of the majority floor leader, the assistant majority floor leader, the majority whip, and the assistant majority whip for the 129th General Assembly of Ohio.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Relative to the election of the minority leader for the 129th General Assembly of Ohio.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Relative to the salaries of the officials and
Sponsor: Keith Faber
Relative to attendance at conferences and meetings.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Relative to the appointment and salaries of the officials and employees of the House of Representatives.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
Relative to employment and compensation of employees of the House of Representatives preparatory to and during House organization.
Sponsor: Louis Blessing
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, and to repeal Section 757.51 of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 129th General Assembly to impose a new tax on financial institutions, effective January 1, 2014, to provide that such institutions and dealers in intangibles are no longer subject to the corporation franchise tax or dealers in intangibles tax after 2013, to require dealers in intangibles that are not owned by a financial institution to pay the commercial activity tax after 2013 except for "small dollar lenders," which will become subject to the new financial institutions tax, to make changes to the law regarding commercial real estate broker liens, to require county auditors to account for the impact of police powers and other governmental actions in the valuation of real property, and to accelerate the application of provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 129th General Assembly affecting the valuation of real property.
To qualify for a War Orphans Scholarship, children of military veterans who participated in an operation for which the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal was awarded, and 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, to provide for the reimbursement of certain school districts for deductions taken for certain Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarships, and to make an appropriation.
With regard to concussions and head injuries in youth sports.
To require claimants in asbestos tort actions to make certain disclosures pertaining to asbestos trust claims that have been submitted to asbestos trust entities for the purpose of compensating the claimant for asbestos exposure.
To authorize a licensed physician, chiropractor, or physical therapist from another state to provide services to an out-of-state athletic team and certain accompanying individuals when the team is participating in a sporting event in Ohio.
To adopt the Ohio Legacy Trust Act; to modify certain property rights in the Ohio Trust Code; to require the recording of personal property transfers with the county recorder upon request; to regulate the temporary conveyance of trust real property for financing purposes; to grant probate courts concurrent jurisdiction with court of common pleas general divisions over certain actions involving the designation or removal of certain beneficiaries, title change involving joint and survivorship interests, alleged gifts, or the passing of assets upon death other than by will, intestate succession, or trust; to regulate the use and enforceability of certain loan covenants in nonrecourse commercial loan transactions; and to make certain changes in the exempt interests law, the fraudulent transfers law, the secured transactions recording law, and the rule against perpetuities.
To designate March as "Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month."
To exempt from municipal income tax the compensation paid to persons performing personal services for a political subdivision on its property when that property is annexed to a municipal corporation under the expedited type-II annexation proceeding unless the compensation is taxable because of the person's residency, and to permit a board of county commissioners to determine the times for and manner of holding elections for citizen members of the board of trustees of a new community organization.
To modify the call before you dig notification system.
To require commercial nuisance wild animal control operators that provide nuisance wild animal removal or control services to be licensed by the Chief of the Division of Wildlife, to exempt residents of other states that own land in this state from having to obtain licenses and permits issued by the Division for hunting, trapping, or fishing under specified circumstances, to allow persons to hunt in commercial bird shooting preserves and wild animal hunting preserves without obtaining a hunting license or deer permit, as applicable, and to revise the rulemaking authority of the Director of Agriculture regarding anhydrous ammonia and other fertilizers.
To permit, for water-works and sewage disposal system companies, certain rate-calculation adjustments, to make changes regarding water and sewer infrastructure improvement surcharges, and to alter language regarding utility requirements for when rate increases may take effect in the absence of administrative action.
To repeal the competency certification currently required for renewal of a concealed handgun license; to revise the definition of "unloaded" that applies to the offense of "improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle" and the related vessel-based offense; to specify the authority of any person to store a firearm in the Statehouse Underground Parking Garage or the Riffe Center Parking Garage; and to simplify, through the use of new definitions, the law regarding concealed handgun licenses.
To establish a registry for arson offenders.
To abolish a judgeship of the Youngstown Municipal Court; 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; and to provide that a conviction or guilty plea of the offense of driving a vehicle while writing, sending, or reading a text-based communication on a handheld electronic wireless communications device and a conviction or guilty plea of a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance for the same conduct are allied offenses of similar import and that an adjudication for the offense of a person who is less than 18 years of age from using, in any manner, an electronic wireless communications device while driving and an adjudication of a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance for the same conduct are allied offenses of similar import.
To designate the month of May as "Better Hearing and Speech Month."
To authorize the Superintendent of Financial Institutions to issue a temporary mortgage loan originator license or temporary loan originator license to an out-of-state applicant who meets certain criteria, to make changes regarding derivative transactions by banks, and to make changes to the Uniform Commercial Funds Transfers law regarding remittance transfers.
Regarding responsibility for notifying patients that a physician's employment by a health care entity has been terminated.
, and to amend Section 707.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 487 of the 129th General Assembly to revise the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction law; to allow certain community colleges to acquire, construct, and maintain housing and dining facilities; to expand the areas for which a municipal corporation in Stark County may use up to 5% of its water and sewer funds for sewage or water system extensions to include areas within a joint economic development district and areas within the municipal corporation's boundaries; to temporarily permit a school district to offer highest priority to purchase an athletic field to the current leaseholder; to permit a school district to sell or lease real property directly to a STEM school in certain circumstances; and to make an appropriation.
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.
To authorize certain licensing boards to require corrective action courses as a form of discipline for license holders, to establish professional licensing sanctions regarding the crime of human trafficking, 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, to abolish the Felony Sentence Appeal Cost Oversight Committee, to rename the "Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals" the "Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals," to modify the requirements for when the Ohio Supreme Court meets, to make changes to the law in relation to the sale of personal property on which there has been placed a lien by an owner of a self-service storage facility, to provide that a principal in a power of attorney may nominate a guardian of the principal's incompetent adult children, to remove the requirement that the operating agreement of a limited liability company may identify types or categories of activities that do not violate the duty of loyalty only if not manifestly unreasonable, to specify that the operating agreement of a limited liability company may not eliminate the duty of care but may prescribe the standards by which the duty is to be measured, to modify the restrictions on the operating agreement of a limited liability company with respect to the obligation of good faith and the duties of a manager, to make other clarifying changes to provisions contained in Sub. H.B. 48 and Sub. S.B. 117 of the 129th General Assembly, to expressly authorize a county to establish a program for prisoners in the county's correctional facility to work outside the facility, to make a conforming change related to Am. H.B. 63 of the 129th General Assembly, and to clarify the entity that prescribes forms under R.C. 2151.85.
To designate a number of memorial highways.
To authorize the Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors to issue courtesy licenses to allow funeral directors in bordering states to conduct limited funeral-related activities in Ohio; to permit embalmers and funeral directors to place their licenses on inactive status; to clarify that, upon the sale of the funeral home, the home may remain operating based upon a submission of a new license application to the Board; to permit out-of-state funeral directors without a license to work with licensed funeral directors during a declared disaster or emergency; to eliminate the requirement that funeral homes be the guarantor of the identity of decedents and instead require funeral homes to complete only visual identification of remains; to exempt certain records concerning individual and joint self insurance of political subdivisions from the public records law; and to authorize joint county department of job and family services employees and detention facility district employees to participate in a deferred compensation program.
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 the month following the month in which they are collected; to authorize a municipal, mayor's, or county court to require community service in lieu of costs if at the time of sentencing or any time after sentencing the court finds that the offender cannot pay costs; to authorize a municipal, mayor's, or county court to allow payment of costs in installments if at the time of sentencing or at any time after sentencing the court finds that the offender will not be able to pay costs in full when due; to raise the ceilings on the optional additional fees that a court of common pleas may charge to fund court computerization or computerization of the court clerk's office; to authorize use of the additional clerk's fees to fund technological advances in the clerk's office; to authorize new fees to fund computerization of or technological advances in the clerk's office; to ensure that after notice to the debtor and an opportunity to enter into an installment payment or community service agreement with the court neither the Registrar of Motor Vehicles nor any deputy registrar accepts any application for the registration or transfer of registration of a motor vehicle of a person who fails to pay any fine or costs imposed for offenses by a common pleas, municipal, mayor's, or county court; and to require a court in determining the sentence for a criminal offense to consider emotional, mental, or physical conditions traceable to an offender's military service that contributed to the offender's commission of the offense and to consider the offender's military service record.
To alter the conditions under which a D-51 liquor permit may be issued, to make changes to the law governing the issuance of F-2 liquor permits, and to allow an F-2 liquor permit to be issued for the same location that an F-8 liquor permit is issued provided that certain criteria apply.
To establish conditions for the operation of certain specialized motor vehicles, including low-speed and under-speed vehicles, scooters, cab-enclosed motorcycles, and mini-trucks; to establish conditions for operation of a motorcycle with a temporary instruction permit; to prohibit motorcycle handlebars from being higher than the shoulders of the operator when the operator is seated in the operator's seat or saddle; to establish a motor scooter temporary instruction permit and license or endorsement; to prohibit a motor vehicle manufacturer, remanufacturer, or distributor from providing to a licensed motor vehicle dealer a motor vehicle that violates window tinting standards; to increase the penalty for installing nonconforming glass or other material; to establish civil liability for installing nonconforming glass or other material, including costs and attorney fees; to rename the Board of Motor Vehicle Collision Repair Registration as the Motor Vehicle Repair Board and to expand the jurisdiction of the Board to require persons who install motor vehicle window tint to register with the Board; to give the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas exclusive jurisdiction over motor vehicle repair registration violations; to impose a registration or license suspension up to 180 days on a registered motor vehicle repair facility or licensed motor vehicle dealer upon a second or subsequent violation for installing nonconforming glass or other material; to establish an exemption from the motor vehicle window tinting standards for vehicles used by law enforcement agencies under specified circumstances; and to make certain changes associated with the Political Subdivision Tort Liability Law.
To modify the laws governing physician assistants, to authorize certain nurses to determine and pronounce death under specified circumstances, and to revise the laws governing the professions of chemical dependency counseling and alcohol and other drug prevention.
To adopt the Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act.
; and to amend Section 267.10.90 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly, as subsequently amended, to create a new academic performance rating system for public schools; to require an alternative rating system for community schools with dropout prevention and recovery programs; to create a new evaluation process for community school sponsors; to abolish the Ohio Accountability Task Force to make changes in the third grade reading guarantee; to modify the procedure for approving the opening of new Internet- or computer-based community schools; to make changes in the War Orphans Scholarship and Ohio National Guard Scholarship programs; and to make other changes to education laws.
To declare that Ohio is a "Purple Heart State."
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, to restrict the types of competitive events that qualify for state grants based on projected incremental increases in sales tax receipts, and to authorize townships to reimburse officers and employees for out-of-pocket insurance premiums attributable to coverage provided for their immediate dependents.
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, to authorize the conveyance of the water rights of certain state-owned real estate to the Wayne County Board of County Commissioners, and to authorize the conveyance of state-owned real estate in Richland County to the Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society.
To regulate the practice of Oriental medicine, to modify the laws governing the practice of acupuncture, and to revise certain laws governing the State Medical Board.
To establish a statutory collaborative family law process to aid in the resolution of family law disputes, to clarify when an order of spousal support may be modified, and to clarify the circumstances under which a client's statements may compel an attorney to testify regarding attorney-client communications.
To authorize a $5,000 fine for assault when the victim is a hospital health care professional, health care worker, or security officer whom the offender knows or has reasonable cause to know is such a professional, worker, or officer, the victim is engaged in the performance of the victim's duties, and the hospital offers de-escalation or crisis intervention training; to increase the penalty for assault to a felony of the fifth degree when committed against any of the specified hospital personnel in the specified circumstances if the offender previously was convicted of a specified assault or homicide offense committed in those circumstances; to authorize a $5,000 fine for assault when the victim is a judge, magistrate, prosecutor, or court official or employee whom the offender knows or has reasonable cause to know is a judge, magistrate, prosecutor, or court official or employee and the victim is engaged in the performance of the victim's duties; to increase the penalty for assault to a felony of the fifth degree when committed against any of the specified justice system personnel in the specified circumstances if the offender previously was convicted of a specified assault or homicide offense committed against any of the specified justice system personnel in the specified circumstances; to include felony assault when committed against any of the specified hospital or justice system personnel in the specified circumstances within the community control presumption of the Felony Sentencing Law; to make clarifying changes in that presumption; and to authorize hospitals to post a warning sign indicating that abuse or assault of staff will not be tolerated and might result in a felony conviction.
To designate May as "Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month" and to designate April 27 as "Emma 'Grandma' Gatewood Day."
To require automatic notice to victims of aggravated murder, murder, first, second, or third degree felony offenses of violence, or offenses punishable by a sentence of life imprisonment of certain prisoner or alleged juvenile offender release or transfer proceedings unless the victim has requested that the notice not be provided; to expand victim participation in parole hearings; to require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction 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 require that the Department, in cases in which a prosecuting attorney currently is notified that a Department prisoner is being considered for an early release or a specified type of transfer to a less restrictive setting, provide the prosecuting attorney and any law enforcement agency, upon request, with an institutional summary report prepared with respect to the prisoner; 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; to waive the notice by publication requirement for a change of name if the applicant submits proof that the publication would jeopardize the applicant's personal safety; to revise the sentencing options for fourth and fifth degree felonies; and to name the victim and family notification provisions Roberta's Law.
To make changes to the law governing automobile insurance policies, to increase the minimum amounts required for valid proof of financial responsibility, to make it an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance to charge excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory premium rates in private passenger automobile insurance based solely on the insured's residence location, to reduce from two years to one year the minimum policy period for automobile insurance policies, to prohibit an automobile insurer from enforcing certain intrafamily exclusions, and to permit insurance companies to obtain a salvage certificate of title for a motor vehicle in certain circumstances when the insurance company does not have possession of the certificate of title.
To enact the "Jason Flatt Act" to require public schools to train staff in youth suicide awareness and prevention.
To require certain flags to be displayed at rest areas along the state's interstates and the Ohio Turnpike.
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 by at least ten per cent over the preceding year.
Regarding enforcement powers of certain health care professional licensing boards, regulation of pain management clinics, limits on prescriber-furnished controlled substances, and classifications of certain controlled substances.
To provide for the dissolution of a joint recreation district.
To designate October 13 as Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
To designate the month of September as "Craniofacial Acceptance Month."
To regulate certain dog breeding kennels and dog retailers.
To designate November as "Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Awareness Month" and to require the Department of Health to include on its web site information regarding the syndrome.
To designate the bridge spanning the Vermillion River, that is part of State Route 113, as the "Staff Sgt. James P. Hunter Memorial Bridge" and to designate a portion of State Route 800 in Harrison County as the "Trooper George Conn Memorial Highway."
To revise the law governing the State Highway Patrol Retirement System.
To revise the law governing the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund.
To revise the law governing the School Employees Retirement System.
To establish procedures and requirements for the establishment of marketing agreements for agricultural commodities and to revise the rule-making authority of the Director of Agriculture regarding fertilizers, specifically anhydrous ammonia.
To revise the law governing the Public Employees Retirement System.
To revise the law governing the State Teachers Retirement System.
That is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2014, to continue amendments made by this act to that section; and to declare an emergency.
Honoring the Walsh Jesuit High School girls soccer team on winning the 2012 Division II State Championship.
On that date, to contingently revise the 9-1-1 law, to expressly incorporate changes in the Internal Revenue Code since March 7, 2011, into Ohio law, to extend the existing commercial activity tax exemption for "qualified distribution centers" to include precious metal refineries in the Appalachian region, thereby exempting suppliers of unrefined metals to such a refinery from the tax to the extent that the refinery ships the refined metals outside Ohio, to permit, for a limited time, the abatement of unpaid property taxes, penalties, and interest owed on property owned by a municipal corporation that would have been tax exempt except for a failure to comply with certain tax-exemption procedures, to contingently make an appropriation, and to declare an emergency.
To transfer certain 9-1-1 authority to the Director of Public Safety and to the tax commissioner, to revise the amount and methods of collection and remittance of the wireless 9-1-1 charge for prepaid wireless services, and to declare an emergency.
To require a public children services agency or private child placing agency that obtains temporary custody of a child to attempt to notify certain relatives of the child; to require a public children services agency to attempt to keep siblings together; to modify the putative father registry; to eliminate the automatic termination upon the expiration of one year of a power of attorney or caretaker authorization affidavit that gives care of a child to a grandparent; to allow a grandparent to seek custody of a child if the child's parent, guardian, or custodian seeks to terminate a power of attorney or caretaker authorization affidavit; to require a public children services agency to file a missing child report if a child in its custody is or may be missing; to authorize a public children services agency to provide care for a child in the home of a qualified nonrelative of the child; to require the Department of Job and Family Services to develop recommendations for the implementation of a subsidized relative guardianship program; to authorize the State Board of Education to issue one-year, renewable instructional assistant permits for qualified individuals to provide services to children under the Autism Scholarship Program; to make other changes in the administration of the Autism Scholarship Program; and to declare an emergency.
To establish procedures regarding the participation of pharmacies, retailers, and the Attorney General in electronically tracking pseudoephedrine and ephedrine product sales through a national exchange; to specify that certain classes of compounds and individual compounds are schedule I controlled substances; to create the offenses of trafficking in and possession of controlled substance analogs; and to declare an emergency.
Honoring Rebecca A. Park for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Honoring Representative Dennis Murray for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring the Clinton-Massie High School football team on placing first in the 2012 Division IV State Championship tournament.
Honoring Brett Popke as Industrial Truck Driver of the Year.
Honoring Representative Mark D. Okey for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring the Marion Local High School football team as the 2012 Division VI State Champion.
Honoring Representative Nancy J. Garland for her service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring Representative Jay P. Goyal for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring Representative Randy Gardner for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring Gary Strain as the 2012 All-Ohio Division VI Offensive Co-Player of the Year in football.
Honoring Representative Danny R. Bubp for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring Thomas L. Sherman for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Honoring Terri Meese Bierdeman on her retirement from STRS.
Honoring Representative Jarrod B. Martin for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring Nick Rutschilling for receiving the 2012 National FFA Swine Production Placement Proficiency Award.
Honoring Representative Courtney Combs for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring Representative Ted Celeste for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring Tim McCarthy for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Honoring Representative Dennis John Kucinich on his retirement as a member of the United States House of Representatives.
Honoring The Ohio State University football team on its perfect 2012 season.
Honoring Representative Casey Kozlowski for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring Representative Lorraine M. Fende for her service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring the Marion Local High School girls volleyball team as the 2012 Division IV State Champion.
Honoring the Coldwater High School football team as the 2012 Division V State Champion.
Honoring Matt Adorni as a 2012 All-Ohio Division VI Co-Coach of the Year in football.
Honoring Representative Kenny Yuko for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring Jennifer E. Woodring for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Honoring Representative Joseph Uecker for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring the Walsh Jesuit High School girls soccer team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Honoring Representative Louis W. Blessing, Jr., for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring Representative Bruce W. Goodwin for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring Representative Craig Newbold for his service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
To honor the 511 African-American Ohioans who
Honoring the St. Clairsville High School football team as the 2012 Division IV State runner-up.
Honoring Donna G. Pusecker for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Honoring Mitch Trubisky as the 2012 Mr. Football for Ohio.
To honor the 511 African-American Ohioans who
Honoring the Summit Country Day School boys soccer team on winning the 2012 Division III State Championship.
Honoring the Dublin Jerome High School girls tennis team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Honoring the Archbishop Moeller High School football team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Relative to travel allowance.
Honoring Senator Mark Wagoner for outstanding service to the Ohio Senate.
Honoring Nick Rutschilling as the winner of the 2012 National FFA Swine Production Placement Proficiency Award.
Honoring the Kenton Ridge High School marching band on being selected to perform at the 2012 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Honoring the Dublin Jerome High School girls golf team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Honoring the Bishop Fenwick High School girls soccer team on winning the 2012 Division III State Championship.
Honoring the Coldwater High School football team as the 2012 Division V State Champion.
Honoring First Presbyterian Church of Waterville on its One Hundred Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Honoring John and Jane Moyer on receiving the 2012 FirstLight HomeCare Franchisee of the Year Award.
Honoring the Marion Local High School football team on winning the 2012 Division VI State Championship.
Honoring Urban Meyer for his outstanding coaching accomplishments.
Honoring The Ohio State University marching band on receiving national online attention.
Honoring the Clinton-Massie High School football team as the 2012 Division IV State Champion.
Honoring The Ohio State University football team on its undefeated season.
Honoring Cheryl Roberto for her years of service to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Honoring the Bishop Watterson High School field hockey team as the 2012 State runner-up.
Honoring the City of Grandview Heights Finance Department on receiving an Auditor of State Award with Distinction.
Honoring Lucille Mayer as a member of the James A. Garfield Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Honoring the Perrysburg High School girls soccer team on winning the 2012 Division I State Championship.
Honoring Jack Lint as a 2012 USA Track and Field National Junior Olympic Champion.
Honoring the Bishop Fenwick High School girls soccer team as the 2012 Division III State Champion.
Honoring the late Perry B. Jackson as a member of the James A. Garfield Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Honoring Jacquelyn Crow as a 2012 Division I State Cross Country Champion.
Honoring Richard H. Collins on the dedication of the Findlay Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol in his name.
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 373 Senator Niehaus
Honoring Richard R. Hollington, Jr. as a member of the James A. Garfield Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Honoring John Glenn on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Friendship 7.
Honoring the Logan County Braves Special Olympics softball team as the 2012 Division IV State Champion.
Honoring the Franklin High School cheerleading squad as the 2012 OASSA Division II State Champion.
Honoring the City of Westerville as a 2012 Healthy Ohio-Healthy Community.
Honoring Rick Stretch for having the 2012 World Nite Hunt champion coonhound.
Honoring Carole Morbitzer as the 2013 Ohio Teacher of the Year.
Honoring the late Lillian W. Burke as a member of the James A. Garfield Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Honoring the U.S. Marine Corps on its Centennial in aviation.
Honoring Nick Altenbach as a 2012 Eastern Conference Finals Drag Racing Champion.
Honoring Ryan Hawks as a 2012 world archery champion.
Honoring the Upper Arlington High School boys water polo team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Honoring the Coldwater High School girls bowling team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Honoring Carol Fitzsimons as a 2012 Transplant Games of America medalist.
In memory of the Reverend Michael M. DeBose.
Honoring Deborah Turner as the 2012 CEAO Teacher of the Year.
Honoring Gracie Fusco as Miss American Sweetheart 2012 and USA National Preteen 2012.
Honoring Lexi Aughenbaugh on winning the 3,200-meter run at the 2012 Division IState Track and Field Championships.
To request the Congress of the United States to
Honoring Hannah Wexner and Andrea Ballinger as the 2012 Division II State Champions in girls doubles tennis.
In memory of Alex A. Boudreaux.
Honoring A. Malachi Mixon III as a member of the James A. Garfield Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Honoring The Ohio State University on the Ninetieth Anniversary of Ohio Stadium.
Honoring Sarah Kanney as the 2012 Division III State Cross Country Champion.
Honoring the Princeton Media Network on winning two Philo T. Farnsworth awards at the Alliance for Community Video Central States Regional Conference.
Honoring Ian Whitaker on receiving the Boy Scouts of America Heroism Medal.
Recognizing the Honorable Ralph M. Hall on the unveiling of his official portrait.
Recognizing December 1, 2012, as World AIDS Day.
Honoring the Lebanon High School drumline on winning the 2012 WGI Scholastic A World Championship.
Honoring the Sandusky County Special Olympics softball team as the 2012 Division III State Champion.
Honoring the Arlington High School girls basketball team as the 2012 Division IV State Champion.
Honoring Representative Todd A. Snitchler for outstanding service to the Ohio House of Representatives.
Honoring the Perrysburg High School girls soccer team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Honoring Horizon Science Academy Columbus High School on being selected as a 2012 National Blue Ribbon School.
Honoring the Columbus Academy field hockey team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Honoring Hannah Wexner as a 2012 Division II State Girls Doubles Tennis Champion.
Honoring Andrea Ballinger as a 2012 Division II State Girls Doubles Tennis Champion.
Relative to travel allowance.
To recognize the importance of Ohio's county fairs
Honoring Paula Athey on her retirement.
Honoring Connie Gardner as an American women's record holder in long distance running.
Honoring Connie B. Seaburn on her retirement.
Honoring Cameron Willis as the 2012 Division II State Champion in boys golf.
Honoring Deborah Turner as the 2012 CEAO Teacher of the Year.
Honoring the City of Dublin on being named a World Festival and Event City.
In memory of Sergeant First Class Bobby Lee Estle.
Honoring the City of Chardon on its Two Hundredth Anniversary.
Honoring the John Sells Middle School Moderately Confused FIRST LEGO League team as the 2012 FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation Award co-recipient.
Honoring The Brew Kettle Production Works on winning a gold, silver, and bronze medal at the 2012 International Beer Fest.
Honoring Miguel Cepeda as a 2012 Division I State Boys Doubles Tennis Champion.
Honoring the St. Francis DeSales High School baseball team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
In memory of the Honorable Dana A. Deshler.
Honoring Brittany Beeghley as a 2012 State Bowling Champion.
Honoring Anthony Shivers on winning the 2012 Division II State Championship in the discus.
Honoring Tyler Cobb on winning the Ohio Athletic Committee and Ourway state championships.
Honoring Brittany Lawson as a 2012 Irish Cup Grand Champion and a National Champion in Karate.
Honoring Destinee Gause as a 2012 Division I State Track and Field Champion.
Honoring New Vision Television of Youngstown on receiving the 2012 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award.
In memory of Jason Gresko.
Honoring the Little Miami High School Women's Chorale on winning a silver medal at the 2012 World Choir Games.
Honoring the Kent State University women's indoor track and field team as the 2012 Mid-American Conference Champion.
Honoring the Kent State University women's golf team as the 2012 Mid-American Conference Champion.
Honoring Hannah Fleck as the 2012 Division II State 800-meter run champion.
Honoring Catholic Charities, Diocese of Cleveland on its Centennial.
Honoring Arison Boswell as a 2012 National Champion in Karate.
Honoring Valley Vineyards for its success at the 2012 Finger Lakes International Wine Competition.
Honoring Sarah Kanney as the 2012 Division II State 1600-meter run champion.
Honoring the St. Edward High School rugby team as the 2012 State Champion.
Honoring Brannon Kidder on winning three 2012 Division I State Track and Field Championship titles.
Honoring Morgan Estes as the 2012 Division I State Pole Vault Champion.
Honoring Chardon Township on its Bicentennial.
Honoring the Kent State University baseball team on winning the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship.
Honoring Kayla Harrison on winning a gold medal in judo at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
Honoring John Adams on being named the 2011 ODRC Parole Officer of the Year.
In memory of Corporal Nicholas Olivas.
Honoring Ameryst Alston as the 2012 Ms. Basketball for Ohio.
Honoring Jesse Oxley as the 2012 OHSAA Division III State Pole Vault Champion.
Honoring the Kent State University men's golf team on winning the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship.
Honoring the Solon High School chess team as the 2012 State Champion.
Honoring Madison Martin as a 2012 Division I State Swimming Champion.
Honoring the Solon Middle School chess team as the 2012 State Champion.
Honoring the St. Edward High School boys outdoor track and field team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Honoring the Kent State University women's outdoor track and field team as the 2012 Mid-American Conference Champion.
Honoring the Tribune Chronicle on its Bicentennial.
Honoring Asbury North United Methodist Church on its Sesquicentennial.
Honoring Luke Tsai as a 2012 Division I State Boys Doubles Tennis Champion.
Honoring the School Employees Retirement System of Ohio on its Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Honoring Dylan Dyke as the 2012 OHSAA Division II State Shot Put Champion.
Honoring Colton Buffington as the 2012 Division I State Singles Tennis Champion.
Honoring the Medina High School girls lacrosse team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Honoring the late Judge Lillian Walker Burke for lifetime achievement.
Honoring Karrington Pettiford-Winters as a 2012 Division I State Track and Field Champion.
Honoring Cassidy McCullough as the 2012 Division III State 300-meter low hurdles champion.
Honoring Wayne County on its Two Hundredth Anniversary.
Honoring Donovan Robertson as a 2012 Division I State Track and Field Champion.
Honoring Dwight Radcliff on his retirement as the Pickaway County Sheriff.
Honoring Erik Kynard as a 2012 Olympic silver medalist.
Honoring the St. Francis DeSales High School boys lacrosse team as the 2012 Division II Lacrosse State Champion.
Honoring Jessica Porvasnik as the 2012 Division I State Champion in girls golf.
In memory of Dr. Richard Dale Ruppert.
Honoring the City of Greenville as one of Ohio's Best Hometowns.
Honoring Eric Vendel for outstanding service to LSC.
Honoring St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite on its One Hundredth Anniversary.
Honoring Columbus Castings on its One Hundred Tenth Anniversary.
To revise the management of municipal school districts and community schools located within municipal school districts; to permit the establishment of a Municipal School District Transformation Alliance; to expand the offense of bribery to cover directors, officers, and employees of the Alliance; and to authorize municipal school districts to levy property taxes the revenue from which may be shared with partnering community schools.
To rename the Department of Development the "Development Services Agency"; to establish the Office of TourismOhio within the Development Services Agency, create the TourismOhio Advisory Board, and establish a pilot program to test a new funding mechanism for the state's travel and tourism marketing; to modify the operation of JobsOhio, including by requiring annual ethics training, ethical conduct statements, and the development of a gift policy; to makes changes to the Capital Access Loan Program Fund and to allow transfers to the Capital Access Loan Program Fund from the Minority Business Enterprise Loan Fund; to provide for projects that were started prior to receiving a tax credit from the Ohio Tax Credit Authority; to modify reporting requirements under the Voluntary Action Program; to require the Director of Development Services to administer federal funds received for Brownfields revitalization purposes; to terminate the Water and Sewer Commission; to terminate the Development Financing Advisory Council; to require the Director of Development Services to make certain information available to the public with respect to each project for which state-funded financial assistance is awarded by the Development Services Agency; to expand eligibility for the historic rehabilitation tax credit; to establish an annual debt service limitation on project financing obligations issued for certain economic development programs; and to increase the membership of the Third Frontier Commission.
To make changes to the law governing scrap metal dealers and bulk merchandise dealers.
To permit a judge to elect to order the Registrar of Motor Vehicles not to suspend the probationary driver's license, restricted license, or temporary instruction permit of certain juvenile repeat traffic violators, to require the Director of Public Safety to establish standards for advanced juvenile driver improvement programs, and to transfer authority to establish standards for juvenile driver improvement programs from the Registrar of Motor Vehicles to the Director of Public Safety.
To create the Cybersecurity, Education, and Economic Development Council.
To modify the Agricultural Linked Deposit Program with respect to the maximum amount the Treasurer of State may invest in agricultural linked deposits, the interest rate at which loans are made under the Program, and the maximum loan amount.
To prohibit designing, building, constructing, fabricating, modifying, or altering a vehicle to create or add a hidden compartment with the intent to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance, prohibit operating, possessing, or using a vehicle with a hidden compartment with knowledge that the hidden compartment is used or intended to be used to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance, and prohibit a person who has committed a first or second degree felony violation of aggravated trafficking in drugs from operating, possessing, or using a vehicle with a hidden compartment.
To make changes to the laws governing local governments, to expressly define "residential property" for the purpose of the existing limitation on tax exemption for such property under the tax increment financing law, to modify the requirements of arresting authorities and courts regarding venereal disease testing of individuals accused of certain offenses, to modify the manner in which funds are allocated from the Ohio Legal Aid Fund, to modify the deadline for the certification to the ballot of the major political parties' candidates for president and vice-president for the November 6, 2012, general election, and to declare an emergency.
And to amend Section 5 of Am. Sub. H.B. 86 of the 129th General Assembly to exclude most juvenile proceedings and adjudications from criminal records checks; to ensure that persons sentenced to confinement receive credit for time served in juvenile facilities; to expand eligibility for the sealing of criminal records and to eliminate the prohibition of the sealing of juvenile records in certain cases; to make the use or possession with purpose to use drug paraphernalia with marihuana a minor misdemeanor; to provide that a court's failure to warn an offender at sentencing about the possibility that the court may order community service if the offender fails to pay the costs of prosecution does not negate or limit the authority of the court to so order community service; to permit an individual subject to civil sanctions as a result of a conviction of or plea of guilty to a criminal offense to file a petition for relief from the sanctions and establish a procedure for the review of such petitions; to permit the court of common pleas of the individual's county of residence to issue a certificate of qualification for employment; to permit decision-makers to consider on a case-by-case basis whether to grant or deny the issuance or restoration of an occupational license or employment opportunity to an offender who has been issued such a certificate regardless of the offender's possession of the certificate and without reconsidering or rejecting any finding made by the issuing court; to provide for the revocation of a certificate of qualification for employment; to increase from eighteen to twenty-one the age at which certain offenders may be held in places not authorized for the confinement of children; to increase the juvenile court's jurisdiction over certain specified cases solely for the purpose of detaining a person while the person's case is heard in adult court; to create a process by which a prosecutor may file a motion in juvenile court to request that a person be held in a place other than those specified for the placement for children while the person's case is heard in adult court; to amend the law governing child support; to modify the penalty for driving under suspension if the suspension was imposed as part of the penalty for certain violations that do not directly involve the operation of a motor vehicle; to make changes in certain other driver's license suspension provisions; to require the Department of Public Safety to study the advisability and feasibility of a one-time amnesty program for drivers who have not paid fees or fines owed by them for motor vehicle offenses and driver's license suspensions; to define the terms moral turpitude and disqualifying offense as applied to certain employment; to provide for criminal records checks and a license issuance restriction regarding applicants for a trainee license for a profession or occupation; to require the Casino Control Commission to notify each applicant for a license from the Commission who is denied the license of the reasons for the denial and to provide an annual report to the General Assembly and Governor that specifies the number of license applications denied in the year and the reasons for the denial; to add an ex-offender appointed by the Director of Rehabilitation and Correction to the Ex-offender Reentry Coalition; to increase the time limit for a prosecutor to file a motion in juvenile court that objects to the imposition of a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence; to prohibit competency attainment reports and juvenile bindover evaluation reports from including details of the alleged offense as reported by the child; to require juvenile bindover evaluation reports to be completed within forty-five days unless an extension is granted; to require the Department of Youth Services to develop minimum standards for training of juvenile offender probation officers; to extend the deadline for the Ohio Interagency Task Force on Mental Health and Juvenile Justice to issue a report of its findings and recommendations; to revise the penalties for certain fifth degree felony drug offenses to generally favor not imposing a prison term; to permit the judges of the various courts of the state that supervise a concurrent supervision offender to authorize the chief probation officer to manage concurrent supervision offenders; to expand the availability of the probation improvement and incentive grants to municipal and county courts; to transfer control of the transitional control program from the Adult Parole Authority to the Division of Parole and Community Services; to amend the penalty for failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer; to eliminate the requirement that a court sentencing a felony offender provide notice of possible eligibility for earning days of credit; and to prohibit the preclusion of individuals from obtaining or renewing certain licenses, certifications, or permits due to any past criminal history unless the individual had committed a crime of moral turpitude or a disqualifying offense.
To make changes to Ohio's Business Opportunity Plan Law.
To change the law regarding a County Recorder's release of a veteran's record of discharge, to modify the duties of the Director of Veterans Services with respect to publishing information about Veterans Services offices, to modify the composition of the Veterans Advisory Committee, to grant in-state tuition for nonresident spouses and dependents of veterans who served on active duty and are deceased, to allow extra credit to military veterans and reserve component members on state civil service examinations, to provide for the reemployment of nonteaching school employees following military service in accordance with federal law, to extend the period of time within which persons serving in the Ohio National Guard may meet continuing education requirements for occupational licenses and renew their licenses, to require that workers' compensation claims of members of the organized militia be determined in accordance with applicable line of duty regulations, to require landlords to observe the rights of tenants who are service members under federal law, to modify the order of priority in which veterans may participate in job training programs, to permit but not require the use of armories by patriotic and national organizations, to update references in the Revised Code to federal statutes relating to the National Guard, to conform the Ohio Code of Military Justice to the United States Code of Military Justice, and to make other changes to the Ohio Code of Military Justice.
To increase the number of miles a school district board may authorize its motor vehicles for out-of-state travel.
To shorten the period of limitations for actions upon a contract in writing.
Honoring the Ross High School Alpha Technologies team as the 2012 SAGE World Cup runner-up.
Honoring Colton Buffington on winning the 2012 Division I State Championship in boys singles tennis.
In memory of the Honorable Dana A. Deshler.
To revise the law governing type B family day-care homes on January 1, 2014.
Honoring Jacob Wukie as a 2012 Olympic silver medalist.
Honoring Centenary United Methodist Church on its One Hundred Twelfth Anniversary.
Honoring Theta Phi Alpha Fraternity on its Centennial.
Honoring Maggie Feng as a silver medalist at the 2012 Pan-American Youth Chess Championship.
Honoring Sheriff Dwight Radcliff on his retirement.
Honoring Kathy Grant on her retirement from state service.
Relative to travel allowance.
In memory of Neil Armstrong.
Honoring Huron High School on its One Hundred Twenty-fifth Anniversary.
Honoring Abby Johnston as a 2012 Summer Olympics silver medalist.
To make changes to the energy and natural resources laws and related programs of the state.
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, and to specify that it is the intent of the General Assembly to declare that the American Law Institute's finalized "Restatement Third of Torts: Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm" does not constitute the public policy of the state of Ohio and to codify the current law of Ohio regarding the duties owed to trespassers by those who own, occupy, or control premises.
To make changes to the law regulating fraternal benefit societies, the laws regulating insurance company investments, and the law regulating adverse benefit determinations.
To designate June as "Ohio Wines Month" and to allow certain agency liquor stores to sell beer, wine, or mixed beverages for on- and off-premises consumption.
To make changes to the laws governing the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes in the state and to the laws governing public accounting firm peer review.
To establish licensure requirements for genetic counselors, to modify certain laws governing the State Medical Board, and to create a visiting clinical professional development certificate for certain physicians who are not licensed in Ohio.
To revise requirements governing background investigations for purposes of the Solid, Hazardous, and Infectious Wastes Law.
To authorize employers who meet certain wage and other requirements to receive a job creation tax credit for the employment of home-based employees and to require the Director of Development to issue a report on the credit after six years.
To change the composition of certain metropolitan housing authorities.
To generally prohibit any person from knowingly conducting any transaction of public funds to the benefit of any campaign committee, political action committee, legislative campaign fund, political party, campaign fund, political committee, separate segregated fund, or candidate.
To establish requirements governing the possession of dangerous wild animals and restricted snakes.
To designate the week in which Labor Day occurs each year as "Ohio Coal Miners Week."
To revise the laws governing environmental protection.
Honoring the Lakewood High School girls rugby team as the 2012 State Champion.
Honoring Dr. Bobby D. Moser as he retires from The Ohio State University.
To establish mandatory training for used motor vehicle dealers.
Honoring the Versailles High School girls track and field team on winning the 2012 Division III State Championship.
To permit Ohio banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, and credit unions to charge the same or lower rates or amounts of interest, fees, or other charges under a revolving credit agreement that the respective out-of-state financial institutions may charge Ohio revolving credit customers.
Honoring the Wheelersburg High School baseball team as the 2012 Division III State Champion.
Honoring Jacob Blankenship on winning the 2012 OHSAA Division I State Championship in the pole vault.
Honoring Sam Prakel as a 2012 Division III State Track and Field Champion.
Honoring Summitville Tiles, Inc. on its Centennial Anniversary.
To amend Section 753.25 of Am. Sub. H.B. 153 of the 129th General Assembly, to correct the legal property description in a previously authorized conveyance of state-owned real estate, to authorize the Governor to execute the necessary deeds for the conveyance of thirteen state properties, to authorize the Ohio Historical Society to execute a deed conveying state-owned real estate to the United States, to authorize the Director of Administrative Services to execute an easement granting to the City of Cambridge a perpetual interest in real estate associated with an existing water supply line at the Cambridge Developmental Center, to authorize the Governor to execute a deed for property in Montgomery County previously conveyed by the state to release all rights of reversion, and to declare an emergency.
In memory of Cheryl Winkler.
Honoring the Ohio Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association on its Ninetieth Anniversary.
Honoring Henke Winery as a 2012 Ohio Wine Competition Champion.
To establish a program for the issuance of permits for the withdrawal and consumptive use of waters from the Lake Erie basin and to establish other requirements related to the implementation of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact.
In memory of Marc J. Titus.
Honoring the Northmont High School Academic Challenge team on winning the 2012 National History Bowl.
To create the SiteOhio certification program within the Department of Development to certify and market eligible commercial, industrial, and manufacturing sites and facilities.
Honoring Karena Fulks as the 2012 OHSAA Division II State Long Jump Champion.
Recognizing Robert M. Chiaramonte on Heritage Hall being dedicated in his honor.
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.
To prohibit driving a vehicle while writing, sending, or reading a text-based communication on a handheld electronic wireless communications device and to establish the violation as a secondary traffic offense; to prohibit a person who is less than 18 years of age from using, in any manner, an electronic wireless communications device while driving; and to require driver education courses to include instruction in the dangers of texting while driving.
Honoring the Isabelle Ridgway Care Center on its Centennial.
Honoring Dr. Bobby D. Moser on his retirement from The Ohio State University.
Honoring Richard H. Bloedel on his retirement from the Ohio Legislative Service Commission.
Honoring Kenzie Conrad as the 2012 MaxPreps National Softball Player of the Year.
Honoring the St. Edward High School rugby team on winning the 2012 State and Midwest championships.
Honoring Jeffrey Feltman on being named under secretary general for political affairs for the United Nations.
Honoring Douglas Andrews on his retirement as executive director of BENHA.
Honoring Hayden Starcher for heroism.
Honoring Natalie Hershberger as a Junior Olympic Champion in tae kwon do.
Honoring the 251st Cyber Engineering Installation Group of the Ohio Air National Guard as the top nonflying unit of the Air National Guard.
To codify federal restrictions on local zoning of amateur station antenna structures thereby preserving amateur radio service communications as a Homeland Security resource and to place the burden of proof for compliance on the zoning authority.
To permit authorized paramedics to administer immunizations for influenza to firefighters or emergency medical technicians.
By Sections 2 and 4 of Am. Sub. H.B. 194 of the 129th General Assembly, and to repeal Sections 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Am. Sub. H.B. 194 of the 129th General Assembly, to continue in operation the provisions of the Election Law currently in effect.
Honoring Kayla Harrison as a 2012 Summer Olympics gold medalist in judo.
Honoring Jim Piazza as the ESPN High School National Coach of the Year.
To designate May as "Pediatric Stroke Awareness Month."
To exempt amateur boxing, kick boxing, karate, or wrestling events that benefit a charitable organization conducted under the supervision of the fraternal order of police of Ohio, the Ohio association of professional firefighters, or the Northern Ohio Fire Fighters from regulation by the Ohio Athletics Commission.
To authorize grants to an employer that moves operations into a previously vacant facility and increases payroll by hiring and employing employees at the facility.
To provide for the taking of a DNA sample from a person who is charged with a felony but not arrested for the offense or whose DNA sample related to a felony offense was not taken when required and to provide for a court order, upon the person's request, requiring the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to seal DNA specimens, records, and profiles taken from a person when the person is found not guilty, the charges are dismissed with prejudice, or the charges are dismissed without prejudice and the statute of limitations has expired.
Honoring the Marblehead Bank on its One Hundred Fifth Anniversary.
Honoring the City of Cuyahoga Falls on its Two Hundredth Anniversary.
Honoring Walter Celley on receiving the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Honoring the St. Francis DeSales High School baseball team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
In memory of Harley E. Rouda, Sr.
Honoring Trisha Whatley for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Honoring Grove City on its One Hundred Sixtieth Anniversary.
Honoring Lisa Siefker for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Honoring the Moeller High School baseball team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Honoring Resch's Bakery on its Centennial.
Honoring Christ Episcopal Church on its One Hundred Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
To include cogeneration technology using waste or byproduct gas from an air contaminant source as a renewable energy resource.
Honoring Springfield High School on receiving a 2012 Jefferson Award for Public Service.
Honoring Jack Nicklaus for his outstanding achievements as a professional golfer.
Honoring St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church on its One Hundred Seventy-fifth Anniversary.
Honoring the St. Vincent-St. Mary High School girls track and field team as the Division II State Champion.
Honoring Alex Obendorf as a 2012 Division I State Diving Champion.
Honoring the Twinsburg High School girls basketball team on winning the 2012 Division I State Championship.
In memory of Staff Sergeant Robert A. Massarelli.
In memory of Deputy Sheriff Tim Mace.
Honoring the Oakwood High School Academic Decathlon team on winning the 2012 Division III Academic Decathlon National Competition.
To allow suppliers and consumers to enter into a Right to Cure agreement.
To make changes to Ohio's Uniform Commercial Code and to provide that the Joint Legislative Ethics Committee is the appropriate ethics commission for matters relating to the public member appointees to the Constitutional Modernization Commission.
To create the "Ohio Geology" license plate, 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, to eliminate the provision in the Special Vehicle Law that permits owners of certain off-highway motorcycles and all-purpose vehicles to register the motorcycles and vehicles by presenting affidavits of ownership rather than certificates of title, to relocate the portion of State Route 170 designated as the "Cpl. Kenneth Tyler Butler Memorial Highway," and to require the Director of Transportation to establish the business logo sign program and its fees by rule.
Honoring Matt Rowland on winning the 2012 Division II OHSAA Championship in the pole vault.
To make capital appropriations and make changes related to the laws governing capital projects.
To modify the laws governing the Intrastate Mutual Aid Compact, the volunteer database of the Department of Health and the Emergency Management Agency, to address the transmittal of certain data to the National Emergency Medical Services Information System and to revise ambulance staffing requirements.
Honoring the Hoover High School softball team on winning the 2012 Division I State Championship.
Honoring the Upper Arlington High School boys lacrosse team as the 2012 Division I State Champion.
Honoring Standard Register on its Centennial.
Honoring Joe Mankovecky as the 2012 Division II State high jump champion.
Honoring the Midmark Corporation as a 2012 Edison Award recipient.
Honoring the St. Francis DeSales High School boys lacrosse team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Honoring the Upper Arlington High School boys tennis team as the 2012 Ohio Tennis Coaches Association Champion.
To include content on specified historical documents in the state academic standards and in the high school American history and government curriculum.
To establish requirements and procedures governing propagating and hunting captive deer and to revise the law governing wild animal hunting preserves.
To revise the law for new STEM school proposals, to establish a temporary STEM subcommittee to consider and approve proposals through July 31, 2012, to modify the Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities Bond Retirement Fund, and to make capital reappropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2014.
Honoring Alexandra "Lexi" Aughenbaugh as a 2012 Division I State Track and Field Champion.
To require the Attorney General annually to publish statistical data on human trafficking cases in Ohio, to provide for peace officer training and public awareness programs relative to human trafficking, to authorize a juvenile court to hold a delinquent child complaint in abeyance pending the child's completion of diversion actions if the alleged delinquent child is charged with prostitution-related conduct or is a victim of trafficking in persons, to ensure that minor victims of trafficking in persons are not prohibited from receiving awards from the Victims of Crime Fund, to increase the penalties for trafficking in persons and obstruction of justice, to prohibit a person from soliciting another to engage in sexual conduct with the offender when the other person is sixteen or seventeen years of age and a victim of trafficking in persons, to increase the penalty for procuring in certain circumstances, to require offenders convicted of promoting prostitution or of trafficking in persons under certain circumstances to register as sex offenders, to authorize a person convicted of or adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a prostitution-related offense or act to apply for expungement of the record of conviction or adjudication if the person's participation in the offense or act was a result of being a victim of human trafficking, to recommend that agencies that grant licenses for trades or professions require training related to human trafficking, to require the Division of Criminal Justice Services to create and make available a poster that provides information regarding the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, to create the Victims of Human Trafficking Fund, and to declare an emergency.
Honoring the Medina High School girls 4x800-meter relay team as the 2012 OHSAA Division I State Champion.
Honoring the 179th Airlift Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard on being recognized by the National Guard Association of the United States.
To authorize the State Library Board to establish library districts for association libraries, to make other changes to the law governing the organization, governance, and operation of public libraries, and to declare an emergency.
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 290 Senator Faber
Honoring Candice Miller for outstanding service to the State of Ohio.
Honoring Kenzie Conrad as the 2011-2012 Gatorade Ohio Softball Player of the Year.
Honoring the Troy branch of the UPS Store as the 2012 Mail Innovation Award recipient.
Honoring Tom McNutt on his retirement from NBC4.
Honoring Meghan Vogel as a 2012 Division III State Track and Field Champion and for exemplary sportsmanship.
Honoring the Dunbar High School track and field team on winning the 2012 OHSAA Division II State Championship.
Honoring the Keystone High School softball team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Honoring the Clintonville Academy robotics team as the 2012 FIRST Tech Challenge World runner-up.
To memorialize the President and Congress of the
Honoring Samuel Prakel for winning two Division II State Championships in track and field.
Honoring the Versailles High School girls track and field team as the 2012 Division III State Champion.
Honoring the Minster High School baseball team on winning the 2012 Division IV State Championship.
That are scheduled to take effect October 1, 2012, to continue the provisions of this act on and after that effective date; to make operating and other appropriations and to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
, to amend Section 3 of Sub. H.B. 277 of the 129th General Assembly, and to repeal Section 4 of Sub. H.B. 277 of the 129th General Assembly to make changes to the law regarding video lottery terminals, casino gaming, bingo and instant bingo, and horse racing, to establish a moratorium on new establishments conducting sweepstakes by sweepstakes terminal devices, to make appropriations, and to declare an emergency.
To create the Statewide Blue Alert Program.
To allow the Attorney General to investigate the offenses of unauthorized use of property and telecommunications fraud and to modify the penalties for telecommunications fraud.
To modify the authority of certain advanced practice nurses to prescribe schedule II controlled substances and to authorize the Board of Nursing to take disciplinary actions for self-administration of schedule I controlled substances.
To designate the ninth day of July as "Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Day."
Honoring the Fort Hamilton District of the Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts of America on its Centennial.
Honoring the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 on its Sesquicentennial.
Honoring William J. Bauer II on being named the 2012 ODRC Correction Officer of the Year.
Honoring the Mason High School marching band on being presented with the 2011 Sudler Shield by the John Philip Sousa Foundation.
Honoring the Lebanon High School drumline on being named National Champions.
Honoring Debby Hutras on her retirement from state service.
Honoring the St. Charles Preparatory School JETS team as the 2011 Division III National Champion.
Honoring the Olmsted Falls High School academic team as the 2012 Ohio Academic Competition State Champion.
Honoring the Thomas Worthington High School boys 4x400-meter indoor relay team on winning the 2012 Division I State Indoor Track Championship.
Honoring the Mount Vernon YMCA Rockets junior cheerleading squad as a 2012 All-Star Cheerleading Champion.
Honoring Richard W. Durst on his retirement from Baldwin-Wallace College.
Honoring the St. Charles Preparatory School robotics team as the 2012 Rookie All-Star Award recipient.
Honoring C.J. Smith as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Honoring Dr. David P. Keseg on receiving the 2012 Michael Keys Copass Award.
Honoring Randy Bailey as the 2011 National Citizens Police Academy Coordinator of the Year.
Honoring Deborah DeHaan on her retirement from the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education.
Honoring the City of Findlay on its Two Hundredth Anniversary.
Honoring the Lebanon High School Air Force Junior ROTC drill team as the 2011-2012 State Champion.
Honoring Nilyshia Johnson as a 2012 Heinz Ketchup Creativity Contest winner.
Honoring the Warren G. Harding High School Quiz Bowl team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Honoring Max Kan as the 2012 Division II State Singles Tennis Champion.
In memory of Corporal Nicholas Olivas.
To include algaculture in the laws governing agriculture, in the definition of "agriculture" for purposes of the laws governing county and township zoning, and in the laws governing current agricultural use valuation; to exclude from zoning restrictions the production from certain feedstocks of biodiesel, biomass energy, electric or heat energy, and biologically derived methane gas; to include that production in the laws governing current agricultural use valuation; to provide for the establishment of best management practices for that production under the Concentrated Animal Feeding Facilities Law; to establish the Legislative Task Force to Study Anaerobic Digesters for Agricultural Use and Application in the State; and to declare an emergency.
To specify that the offense of intimidation of an attorney, victim, or witness in a criminal case also applies to delinquency cases and to attempts to influence, intimidate, or hinder a witness to a criminal or delinquent act regardless of whether an action or proceeding is pending.
To designate March as "Macular Degeneration Awareness Month."
Honoring Berkwood M. Farmer on his retirement from Wright State University.
Honoring the Polaris Career Center culinary team as the 2012 ProStart Invitational State Champion.
Honoring Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School as a 2012 GRAMMY Signature School.
Honoring General Donald J. Hoffman on his retirement from the United States Air Force.
In memory of Sergeant J.P. Huling.
Honoring the Fairborn High School senior flag line as the 2012 State Champion.
Honoring Dr. Marsha S. Bordner on her retirement as president of Terra State Community College.
Honoring Alexandra Aughenbaugh on winning the 2012 Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Indoor State Championship in the 3200-meter run.
Honoring Kate Peterson Abiad on setting a new record for career wins at Cleveland State University.
Honoring Janet C. Wolfenbarger as the first female four-star general of the United States Air Force.
Honoring the Polaris Career Center restaurant management team as the 2012 ProStart Invitational State Champion.
Honoring the Sylvania Southview High School Cougarettes as the 2012 OASSA Pom and Jazz Champion.
Honoring U-CO Industries, Inc. as a top Honda supplier.
Honoring the Ohio Military Hall of Fame on the occasion of its 2012 induction ceremony.
Honoring Jerrie Mock as the first female aviator to fly solo around the world.
Honoring K. Michael Benz on his retirement from the United Way of Greater Cleveland.
Honoring William Frautschy as a grand national, national, and state handwriting champion.
Honoring the Aladdin Shriners on Tabloid Day, May 26, 2012.
To urge the Administration of President Barack Obama
Honoring Tom Culbertson on his retirement as the executive director of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center.
Honoring the Northmont High School Academic Challenge team on winning first place at the ONN State Brain Game and National History Bowl competitions.
To extend to legal custodians the exemption from certain adoptive placement requirements.
To designate the fifteenth day of June as "Elder Abuse Awareness Day."
To adopt the Revised Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act and to revise the merger and consolidation provisions of the Nonprofit Corporation Law.
To modernize the language of, to reorganize, and to remove obsolete provisions from the jury service law.
To remove pit bulls from the definition of "vicious dog" in state law, to establish a process by which owners, keepers, or harborers of dogs that have been designated as nuisance, dangerous, or vicious may appeal that designation, to define a "nuisance dog," to change the definitions of a "dangerous dog" and a "vicious dog," to require the owner of a dangerous dog to obtain a dangerous dog registration certificate, to prohibit certain felons from owning dogs under certain conditions, and to change the penalties involving ownership of nuisance, dangerous, and vicious dogs.
Honoring Andrea Cottrell as a 2012 Division II State Swimming Champion.
Honoring Gracie Long as a 2012 Division I State Swimming Champion.
To exempt certain plans and measurements relating to household or small flow on-site sewage treatment systems from the Professional Engineers and Surveyors Law, and to authorize the use of the enforcement provisions of the Household and Small Flow On-site Sewage Treatment Systems Law to enforce existing rules governing household sewage disposal systems until those rules are superseded by rules that are required to be adopted under that Law.
Honoring the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 on its One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary.
Honoring John W. Garland on his retirement as president of Central State University.
Honoring Ronnie Bolden as a 2012 Division II State Swimming Champion.
Honoring Andrea Cambern for outstanding service to WBNS-TV.
To designate the third week of July as "Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Awareness Week."
Honoring William J. Bauer II as the 2012 ODRC Correction Officer of the Year.
Honoring the City of Findlay on its Bicentennial.
Honoring Ryan Starcher on being named to the Music for All Bands of America Honor Band.
In memory of Sergeant John Patrick Huling.
Relative to the election of Kevin L. Boyce to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Carlton Weddington of the 27th House District.
As Adopted by the Senate 129th General AssemblyRegular Session2011-2012S. R. No. 253 Senator Faber
Honoring Emma McLaughlin as the 2012 Ohio "Doodle 4 Google" winner.
Honoring the Miami University synchronized skating team on winning the 2012 U.S. National championship.
To require the Auditor of State to establish a fraud-reporting system for residents and public employees to file anonymous complaints of fraud and misuse of public funds by public offices or officials.
To enact the "Jessica Logan Act" regarding public schools' policies prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying and to qualify certain homeschooled students for in-state tuition at state institutions of higher education.
To make changes to the law governing corporations including dissenting shareholders, the dissolution of a corporation, rights to indemnification or advancement of expenses, directors' fiduciary duties, and recording of corporate mortgages, to make changes to the law governing limited liability companies including the contents of an operating agreement of a limited liability company, the effect of a member's withdrawal from a limited liability company, the standards of conduct and duties of a member of a limited liability company, and the judicial dissolution of a limited liability company, and to specify the rights of an assignee of a member of a limited liability company.
Honoring Dr. Mark H. Erickson on his retirement as president of Wittenberg University.
Honoring Jordan Cowell as a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Champion.
Honoring Luke Kern as a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Champion
Honoring Dr. Mark H. Erickson on his retirement from Wittenberg University.
Honoring Cade Mansfield on winning a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Championship.
Honoring Mimmo Lytle as a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Champion.
Honoring the Biery Cheese Company on its national championship cheese.
Honoring Nate Tomasello as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Honoring Erik Risolvato as a 2012 OHSAA Division II State Swimming Champion.
Honoring Nick Tavanello on winning a 2012 Division I State Wrestling Championship.
Honoring Matt Meadows as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Honoring Logan Bauer on winning the 2012 Division II State Diving Championship.
Honoring the Horizon Science Academy chess team as the 2011 11th Grade State Champion.
Honoring the Hathaway Brown High School girls basketball team on winning the 2012 Division II State Championship.
Honoring Dr. William W. Wagner on being named the 2012 Ohio Principal of the Year.
Honoring the Paul L. Dunbar High School boys indoor track and field team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Honoring the Oakwood High School Academic Decathlon team as the 2012 State Champion.
Honoring the Ohio University men's basketball team on winning the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship.
Honoring Chris Moore as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Honoring Dave Grohl for his outstanding accomplishments in the music industry.
Honoring the Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School girls indoor track and field team as the 2012 Division II/III State Champion.
Honoring Thomas McLaughlin as a Division III State Wrestling Champion.
Honoring Zane State College on receiving the 2012 Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Student Success Leadership Award.
Honoring the City Club of Cleveland on the One Hundredth Anniversary of its founding.
Honoring Jack Pohlmann as a 2012 Division I State Swimming Champion.
Honoring the Reverend Cornell Carter on his installation as pastor of Second Baptist Church of Medina.
Honoring the Dunbar High School boys basketball team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Recognizing the Governor's Thirty-second Annual Holocaust Commemoration, April 17, 2012.
Honoring the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Honoring Wright State University on being included on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction.
Honoring the Athletic Club of Columbus on its Centennial.
Honoring the Coldwater High School boys bowling team on winning the 2012 State Championship.
Honoring Nate Skonieczny as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Honoring the Beavercreek High School boys 200-yard medley relay team as a 2012 Division I State Swimming Champion.
Honoring Josh Quallen as a 2012 Division II State Swimming Champion.
In memory of Sergeant First Class Shawn Hannon.
Honoring the Pickerington High School Central boys basketball team on winning the 2012 Division I State Championship.
Honoring the Miami University synchronized skating team as the 2012 U.S. National Champion.
Honoring Kate Peterson Abiad on setting a new record for career wins at Cleveland State University.
Honoring Alec Bailey as a 2012 OYWA State Champion.
Honoring Curtis Miller on winning a 2012 Division III State Wrestling Championship.
In memory of the Reverend Michael M. DeBose.
Relative to the election of Gary K. Scherer to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Bob Peterson of the 85th House District.
Relative to travel allowance.
Honoring Holly Miller as a 2012 Gospel's Got Talent winner.
Honoring the Columbus Africentric Early College High School girls basketball team as the 2012 Division III State Champion.
Honoring the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team as the 2012 State Champion.
Honoring the Dunbar High School indoor track and field team as the 2012 Division II State Champion.
Honoring Carolyn Sowa on winning the 2012 Ohio VFW Voice of Democracy speech contest.
Relative to the election of Marilyn Slaby to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Lynn Slaby of the 41st House District.
Honoring the Ohio University men's basketball team as the 2012 Mid-American Conference Champion.
To make changes in certain provisions relating to road signs and traffic signals for purposes of the Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
Honoring Micah Jordan as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Honoring Issac Jordan as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Honoring the Coldwater High School girls bowling team as the 2012 OHSAA State Champion.
Honoring the Ridgemont High School FFA on receiving the national Model of Innovation in Chapter Development Award.
Honoring Drew Lovejoy as a 2012 All Ireland Irish Dance Competition champion.
Honoring Ryan Taylor as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Honoring the Coldwater High School boys bowling team as the 2012 OHSAA State Champion.
Honoring Bo Jordan as a 2012 Division II State Wrestling Champion.
Relative to the election of Ryan Smith to fill the vacancy in the membership of the House of Representatives created by the resignation of Phil Rose of the 87th House District.