H.B. 605 Summary

• Amends Ohio's overtime law to establish a minimum salary threshold of $913 per week for employees classified as exempt executive, administrative, or professional workers

• Beginning three years after enactment, the salary threshold adjusts annually to the fortieth percentile of weekly earnings of full-time nonhourly workers in the lowest wage census region, as determined by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Exempts certain professionals from overtime requirements unless paid hourly, including teachers, attorneys, physicians, dentists, and optometrists

• Allows employees classified as administrative or professional positions paid on a fee basis (rather than salary) to meet the threshold if their hourly rate multiplied by 40 equals the required minimum weekly salary

• Includes provisions authorizing state agencies to waive administrative fines for first-time paperwork violations by small businesses, with exceptions for serious violations