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OH HB529
Bill
Status
5/1/2012
Primary Sponsor
Courtney Combs
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AI Summary
HB 529 Summary
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Requires continuing education for county auditors (24 hours per term), county treasurers (26 hours pre-office plus 24 hours biennial), township fiscal officers (24 hours per term), and municipal fiscal officers (24 hours per term), with ethics and substance abuse training components.
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Establishes removal procedures for county auditors, county treasurers, and township fiscal officers through court complaints with jury trial options, including nine-juror verdicts for removal and four-year post-removal public office bans.
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Creates professional indemnity insurance restrictions preventing purchase of such policies for fiscal officers who fail to complete required continuing education courses.
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Mandates notification and funding suspension procedures when school districts, community schools, STEM schools, or college-preparatory boarding schools are declared unauditable, with automatic fund release upon audit completion.
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Increases criminal penalties for dereliction of duty by fiscal officers from second-degree misdemeanor to fifth-degree felony and bars convicted fiscal officers from holding public office for four years.
Legislative Description
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.
Local governtment fisc-training/removal of fiscal officers/accountability
Last Action
To Local Government
5/1/2012