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OH HB225
Bill
Status
3/22/2012
Primary Sponsor
John Eklund
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AI Summary
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Authorizes county auditors to review and approve property tax exemption applications for certain publicly owned property (federal property, public roads, state/political subdivision improvements, and university properties), shifting some responsibility from the tax commissioner.
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Enables municipal corporations, counties, and townships to adopt direct deposit payroll policies requiring employees to provide banking information for compensation deposits, and permits townships to offer deferred compensation plans and health/wellness benefit programs to officers and employees.
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Allows regional councils of government to operate 9-1-1 public safety answering points and permits Hocking, Ross, and Vinton counties to establish a pilot joint county department of job and family services.
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Increases reserve balance account limits for counties and townships from 5% to one-sixth of prior fiscal year expenditures, prohibits centralized purchasing using Real Estate Assessment Fund moneys, and allows electronic filing of tax complaints and requests for proposals.
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Modifies New Community Authority law to extend deadlines for establishment from 2012 to three years after bill enactment, reduce minimum lease terms from 75 to 40 years in certain cases, and allow property vesting with townships or developers upon dissolution.
Legislative Description
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.
Tax exemption applications-review/direct deposit payroll/rainy day accounts
Last Action
Effective Date
3/22/2012