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OH HB247

Bill

Status

Passed

3/22/2013

Primary Sponsor

Brian Hill

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Origin

House of Representatives

129th General Assembly (2011-2012)

AI Summary

  • Authorizes licensing boards to require corrective action courses as disciplinary action against license holders and establishes immediate license suspension for any licensee convicted of human trafficking in violation of R.C. 2905.32.

  • Allows courts to cancel uncollectible amounts owed to the court, permits sentencing courts to waive or modify prosecution costs, and abolishes the Felony Sentence Appeal Cost Oversight Committee.

  • Renames "Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals" to "Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals" and modifies Ohio Supreme Court meeting requirements from a fixed annual date to meetings throughout the year as determined by the court.

  • Clarifies limited liability company operating agreements may identify activities not violating duty of loyalty without the "manifestly unreasonable" requirement, eliminates the duty of care but allows standards to be prescribed, and permits counties to establish prisoner work programs outside correctional facilities.

  • Modifies self-service storage facility lien enforcement procedures to include motor vehicles and watercrafts, allows principals in powers of attorney to nominate guardians for incompetent adult children, and allows guardians ad litem to serve as attorneys for minors in abortion notification waiver cases.

Legislative Description

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.

Court costs-waive/modify/suspend/cancel uncollectible amounts

Last Action

Effective Date

3/22/2013

Full Bill Text

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